Government tries to ban us from tracking Jade Helm - Patriots step in

GOVERNMENT TRIES TO BAN US FROM TRACKING JADE HELM
PATRIOTS STEP IN


Posted on July 13, 2015 by Sam Rolley

A citizen surveillance group says it plans to monitor Operation Jade Helm, the U.S. military’s planned seven-state training exercises, as it begins throughout the Southwest on Wednesday.
The grass-roots surveillance movement was organized by a group calling itself Counter Jade Helm, which boasts a Facebook following of more than 6,000 people and a website filled with information about the military’s plans.


The Counter Jade Helm website explained the citizen-initiated mission thusly:

Counter Jade Helm, aka CJH, is a training exercise for the people. In response to the military’s multi-state training, called Jade Helm 2015, citizens will participate in an unofficial fashion to practice counter-insurgency, organizational and intelligence gathering and reporting skills.
CJH is not affiliated with the military’s training exercise.
The objective is not to stop or countermand the military’s training, but to practice our own skills. Anyone can participate. Groups within each state that will play host to the military are being established to streamline the process. Individuals not wishing to be affiliated with a group can also submit information to this website for analysis and publishing.

National organizer Marine Pete Lanteri, 44, described by The Hill as a former Marine and “a New Yorker currently living in Arizona,” said that the group’s main goal is to observe what the military participants do in public.
“Obviously on a military base they can do whatever they want,” Lanteri said, according to The Hill. “But if they’re going to trade on public land, we have a right as American citizens to watch what they’re doing.”
The Washington Post reported last week that media will be largely prohibited from covering the military training exercises:

Embedded reporters won’t be permitted at any point during the exercise, in which military officials say that secretive Special Operations troops will maneuver through private and publicly owned land in several southern states. Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command, said his organization is considering allowing a small number of journalists to view selected portions of the exercise later this summer, but nothing is finalized.

That means Counter Jade Helm participants like Texas surveillance team leader Eric Johnston, a 51-year-old retired firefighter and sheriff’s deputy, will be the primary source of public information about the military’s actions. According to Houston’s Chronicle, Johnston will “coordinate three groups of volunteers, about 20 folks in total, who hope to monitor the SEALs, Green Berets and Air Force Special Ops in Bastrop, Big Spring and Junction…”
“If a team member sees two Humvees full of soldiers driving through town, they’re going to follow them,” Johnston told local reporters. “And they’re going to radio back their ultimate location.”
Johnston said that one of his team members is a licensed pilot who plans to conduct aerial surveillance of the military maneuvers.
The citizen response to Jade Helm mirrors Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s April decision to mobilize his state guard to observe the U.S. military’s planned training exercises in Texas after hundreds of residence relayed concerns about Jade Helm.
“During the training operation, it is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed,” he said in a statement at the time. “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.”
Americans and some lawmakers skeptical of the Jade Helm exercises have at times been ridiculed by the mainstream media and political establishment. But amid intense Jade Helm secrecy and increasing federal power in recent years, people leery of the training event represent a sizable percentage of likely U.S. voters.
Rasmussen noted in May: “45% of voters are concerned that the government will use U.S. military training operations to impose greater control over some states, with 19% who are Very Concerned.”


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