Jade Helm: 15

How is it, people raised their children to be such mindless, hateful, unthinking, uncaring, violent, sheeple?

Unable to think & reason for themselves, unable to know what is moral, just, & ethical?

Obviously there is a lack of Critical Thinking skills.....

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Jade Helm Military Problem, Not Solution

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 18:34

The U.S. military’s Jade Helm 15 super drill kicked off today by apparently deploying a military mind- and information-control weapon involving internet outage for millions of Americans, as it does in other countries when it first attacks, adding to the national and global problem, not solution. In fact, virtually all “military solutions” are the problem, stated a leading human rights defender since the 1960s at one of his nationally accaimed workshops last week. The workshop one week before Jade Helm 15 began, focused on U.S.’s Endless War, also title of the facilitator’s most recent essay.

Jade Helm Super Drill Training for the Problem

Troops participating in Jade Helm 15 training exercises that began in Texas today are “just following orders,” adding to global suffering through inhumane imperialist control weapons and tactics. They are told that by doing so, they are ensuring national security. In response, Texans and others readied to fight back. They organized a counter Jade Helm initiative, calling on citizens to rally to the cause, rifles in hand.

“Choose humane, sustainable ways for TRUE Security,” urged Glen Anderson. Before scoffing at his notion, contemplate it a moment and read further here. Anderson has worked consistently for many issues related to peace, social & economic justice, and nonviolence since the 1960s. Anderson skillfully engages workshop attendees, encouraging them to think creatively. He organizes at the grassroots level. One must admit that the “pick up your gun” solution is hardly considered creative – be it by military troops, the militia or vigilante.

“In our daily lives, we know better than to think violence solves problems, but at the national level, the U.S. government routinely threatens and uses military violence all over the world. So do its citizens at home. “Pick up your gun and fight,” has nearly become standard operating procedure for problem solving in the nation’s communities. This has been seen in response to Jade Helm 15. Texas militias with guns in hands have rallied to defend their state from Jade Helm.

Anderson says in his essay:

Militarizing our culture can happen when massive amounts of fear are injected into it – fear of Communists, fear of foreigners, fear of Muslims, fear of terrorists, fear of dark-skinned Americans, fear of homeless people, etc.  General Douglas MacArthur said this on May 15, 1951:  “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

“If we were to ask the public whether they want peace, nearly everyone would say yes. But violence and war have become so “normalized” that many people think war is the way to achieve peace,” he said, adding, “In fact, another passerby at today’s peace vigil told us exactly that.”

Secrecy about Jade Helm exercises has been so tight, citizens have naturally responded intensively. “The anxieties seemed to reach a boiling point in April at a meeting of the Bastrop County Commissioners Court, where a military spokesman was peppered with questions about the operation’s true purpose,” the texas Tribune reported Wednesday. Jade Helm secrecy then prompted a mainly right-wing conspiracy frenzy. Its leaders claim it’s for training troops on geographical terrain they will encounter overseas. Nevertheless, some speculate Jade Helm 15 is not only for violence training, but also to intimidate Americans and terrorist border crossers, such as the US-created ISIS. Just to be sure it isn’t treading on Texans, though, many in the state are armed and ready for the troops.

Whatever the bottom line is about why the military is really conducting its super drill over most of the nation’s south, the bottom line about training exercises to exert violence is what Americans would be better off questioning and debating, according to Anderson’s recent workshop.

“Militarism makes problems worse, so why does the government keep using militarism? Who benefits from this?” Anderson asks. “We could achieve more profound, holistic “national security” by renouncing violence and promoting peace and fairness.

In his workshop, Anderson encouraged highly participatory learning, facilitating learning participants to share their information and insights on U.S. militarization around the globe. He did so in a highly professional format to achieve remarkably deep understanding of military violence and possible real solutions, as seen in the video of the workshop (below).

Imagine if you will all the people who have spent time, money and other resources in the Jade Helm 15 frenzy using those resources for community workshops such as the one Anderson conducted last week. Why not work for the betterment of humanity? If a more secure, free world is what the human family really wants, the simple question is, “Why not?”