Texas Governor, Fearing USA Gov Invasion, Orders State Guard To Monitor US Military Games In State

Imagine that the United States military is conducting a training exercise in the state where you reside—something that happens continuously throughout the year to various sizes and scales—as our brave soldiers, sailors and Marines work hard to prepare to proficiently execute their jobs.

Now, imagine that the governor of a state—someone so riddled with paranoia and a profound sense of self and state importance that he is capable of concluding that these training exercises might, in reality, be a ‘cover’ for a military invasion of his state by the federal government—assigns his State Guard the critical task of “keeping an eye” on the U.S. military lest they commence their invasion.

If you find this scenario beyond your imagination and little more than the stuff of novels, welcome to the world of the sane and rational.

However, should you find this scenario—involving the federal government utilizing a Trojan Horse maneuver by shipping out a bunch of American military to invade and take control of an American state by pretending to stage war games—to be remotely worthy of fear and loathing, then welcome to the world of…Texas.

Responding to conspiracy theorists jamming the Internet with their fears that the military exercise, dubbed “Jade Helm 15”, is nothing more than a ruse designed to hide the true intentions of the federal government—the invasion of Texas—Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday ordered the Texas State Guard to carefully monitor the military training exercise—looking for signs that the military is planning to confiscate Texans’ guns or impose martial law.

Seriously…the Governor of Texas really did this.

While I suppose even state governors can suffer from extreme paranoia, especially when that paranoia plays well with the base, it is difficult to imagine that such an elected official would have so little confidence in our military troops as to believe that they would participate in the invasion of an American state.

“Jade Helm 15” is scheduled to take place over seven American states, including Texas, beginning in July, and will run for three months. According to the Army, the locations for the games were chosen to simulate the terrain and topography of certain foreign combat zones—a plan that, apparently, makes sense to the six states who are not concerned that the federal government is coming to invade their state…but not so much to the head of the Texas government.

The entire brouhuha began with the on-line publication of a map to be used in the military war games that identified the seven states where the games would be conducted. Included among them are Texas, Utah and parts of California which are designated as “hostile” territories for the military exercise.

The set-up was too good to resist for the conspiracy theorists that spend their time imagining the worst of our government and the President. They immediately took to the Internet with their notion that what was being presented to the public as “war games” was actually a plan for a real-life invasion of those territories by the federal government.

Members of the public grew so upset by the suggestion that Obama was coming to take physical and legal control of Texas that more than two hundred people packed a meeting room in Bastrop County, Texas, where they grilled a U.S. Army commander over what his true intentions were with respect to the great State of Texas. Not only was the gathering concerned about a mass taking of their guns and the imposition of martial law, it is reported that there were concerns that the military was going to import actual ISIL fighters to the State of Texas. This is how an Army commander had to spend his day because our military officers have nothing better to do than deal with such ridiculous concerns on the part of a public who , apparently, have little concern for or understanding of what these military leaders really do to keep all Americans—including Texans—safe.

Governor Abbott explained his actions stating, “It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed. By monitoring the Operation on a continual basis, the State Guard will facilitate communications between my office and the commanders of the Operation to ensure that adequate measures are in place to protect Texans.”

You read that correctly. Governor Abbott feels that he must put adequate measures in place to protect Texans from the federal government and from their fellow Americans in the armed forces who will be participating in the war games being held in their state.

Considering that the federal government sends more of my tax money to Texas that it gets back from Texans, I think it is time to reconsider what the state’s last governor, Rick Perry, once had to say. “Texas is a unique place. When we came into the Union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that. We got a great Union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it, but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may come out of that.”

If Governor Abbott is so frightened by the federal government and his fellow Americans who serve the nation’s military—the very same people who will be pumping hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars into the economy of his state when they come for the military exercises—Abbott should heed the words of his predecessor.

Secede…please…we will somehow manage to get along without you.

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