{"id":17371,"date":"2015-07-08T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=17371"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:29:32","slug":"america-the-most-gullible-terrorized-nation-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=17371","title":{"rendered":"America: The Most Gullible ‘Terrorized’ Nation In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The United States military is effectively using psychological warfare to learn how people function and how to control them” \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>— Infowars.com
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JADE HELM, TERRORIST ATTACKS, SURVEILLANCE & OTHER FAIRY TALES FOR A GULLIBLE NATION<\/h2>\n

by<\/i> JOHN WHITEHEAD
\nThe Rutherford Institute<\/p>\n

\"jade-tank\"<\/a>
\n\u201cStrange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.\u201d \u2013 Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials claimed to have been caught by surprise, the people believed them.<\/strong> And when the government passed massive laws aimed at locking down the nation and opening the door to total government surveillance, the people believed it was done merely to keep them safe. The few who disagreed were labeled traitors.<\/p>\n

When the government waged costly preemptive wars on foreign countries, insisting it was necessary to protect the nation, the citizens believed it. <\/strong>And when the government brought the weapons and tactics of war home to use against the populace, claiming it was just a way to recycle old equipment, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled unpatriotic.<\/p>\n

When the government spied on its own citizens, claiming they were looking for terrorists hiding among them, the people believed it.<\/strong> And when the government began tracking the citizenry\u2019s movements, monitoring their spending, snooping on their social media, and surveying their habits\u2014supposedly in an effort to make their lives more efficient\u2014the people believed that, too. The few who disagreed were labeled paranoid.<\/p>\n

When the government let private companies take over the prison industry and agreed to keep the jails full, justifying it as a cost-saving measure, the people believed them. <\/strong>And when the government started arresting and jailing people for minor infractions, claiming the only way to keep communities safe was to be tough on crime, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were labeled soft on crime.<\/p>\n

When the government hired crisis actors to take part in disaster drills, never alerting the public to which \u201cdisasters\u201d were staged, the people genuinely believed they were under attack.<\/strong> And when the government insisted it needed greater powers to prevent such attacks from happening again, the people believed that too. The few who disagreed were told to shut up or leave the country.<\/p>\n

Finally, the government started carrying out covert military drills around the country, insisting they were necessary to train the troops for foreign combat, and most of the people believed them.<\/strong> The few who disagreed, warning that perhaps all was not what it seemed, were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and quacks.<\/p>\n

By the time the government locked down the nation, using local police and the military to impose martial law, there was no one left in doubt of the government\u2019s true motives\u2014total control and domination\u2014but there was also no one left to fight back.<\/p>\n

Now every fable has a moral, and the moral of this story is to beware of anyone who urges you to ignore your better instincts and trust the government.<\/p>\n

In other words, if it looks like trouble and it smells like trouble, you can bet there\u2019s trouble afoot.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

For instance, while there is certainly no shortage of foul-smelling government activities taking place right now,<\/strong> the one giving off the greatest stench is Jade Helm 15. This covert, multi-agency, multi-state, eight-week military training exercise is set to take place from July 15 through Sept. 15 in states across the American Southwest.<\/p>\n

According to official government sources<\/a>, \u201cJade Helm: Mastering the Human Domain\u201d is a planned military exercise that will test and practice unconventional warfare including, but not limited to, guerrilla warfare, subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities, and unconventional assisted recovery. The training exercise will take place in seven different southwestern states: California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Utah and Nevada.<\/p>\n

U.S. Army Special Operations Command will primarily lead this interagency training program but the Navy Seals, Air Force Special Operations, Marine Special Operations Command, Marine Expeditionary Units, 82nd\u00a0Airborne Division, and other interagency partners will also be involved. Approximately 1,200 troops are expected to participate<\/a> in these exercises.<\/p>\n

The training is known as Realistic Military Training because it will be conducted outside of federal property. The exercises are going to be carried out on both public and private land, with the military reportedly asking permission of local authorities and landowners prior to land usage. The military map<\/a> listing the locations that will host the exercise shows Texas, Utah, and the southern part of California as \u201chostile territory.\u201d According to U.S. officials, these three areas are marked as hostile to simulate environments where American troops are viewed as the enemy. The other areas on the map are marked as permissive, uncertain (leaning friendly), or uncertain (leaning hostile).<\/p>\n

Military officials claim that the southwestern states were chosen because this exercise requires large areas of undeveloped land as well as access to towns and population hubs. These states purportedly also provide a climate and terrain that is similar to that of potential areas of combat for the United States, particularly Iraq, Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n

Now the mainstream media has happily regurgitated the government\u2019s official explanation about Jade Helm<\/strong>. However, there is a growing concern among those who are not overly worried about being labeled conspiratorialists or paranoid that the government is using Jade Helm as a cover to institute martial law, bring about total population control, or carry out greater surveillance on the citizenry.<\/p>\n

In the first camp are those who fear that Jade Helm will usher in martial law<\/a>. <\/strong>These individuals believe that by designating the two traditionally conservative and Republican-dominated states, Utah and Texas, as hostile territory, while more Democratic states like Colorado and California are marked as friendly, the military plans to infiltrate the states with large numbers of gun owners and attempt to disarm them.<\/p>\n

Adding fuel to the fire<\/a> is the mysterious and sudden temporary closures of five Walmart stores in Texas, California, Oklahoma and Florida, two of which are located near Jade Helm training sites. Those in this camp contend that the military is planning to use the Walmart stores as processing facilities<\/a> for Americans once martial law is enacted.<\/p>\n

Pointing to the mission\u2019s official title, \u201cJade Helm: Mastering the Human Domain,\u201d there is a second camp that fears that the military exercises are merely a means to an end\u2014namely total population control<\/a>\u2014by allowing the military to discern between friendly civilians and hostiles.<\/strong> This concern is reinforced bymilitary documents<\/a> stating that a major portion of Jade Helm training will be about blending in with civilians, understanding how to work with civilians, using these civilians to find enemy combatants, and then neutralizing the target.<\/p>\n

In this way, the United States military is effectively using psychological warfare to learn how people function and how to control them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a study written by military personnel<\/a> states, mastering the human domain, also known as identity processes, means \u201cuse of enhanced capabilities to identify and classify the human domain; to determine whether they are adversarial, friendly, neutral, or unknown.\u201d The study later states that identity processes can be used to \u201cmanage local populations during major combat, stability, and humanitarian assistance and\/or disaster relief operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the military has promised that the work they are doing is aimed for use overseas, we have seen first-hand how quickly the military\u2019s weapons and tactics used overseas are brought home to be used against the populace. In fact, some of the nation\u2019s evolutionary psychologists, demographers, sociologists, historians and anthropologists have been working with the Department of Defense\u2019s Minerva Initiative<\/a> to master the human domain. This security research includes \u201cUnderstanding the Origin, Characteristics, and Implications of Mass Political Movements\u201d at the University of Washington and \u201cWho Does Not Become a Terrorist and Why?\u201d at the Naval Academy Post Graduate School. Both studies focus on Americans and the different movements and patterns that the government can track to ensure \u201csafety and security<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is also working to infiltrate churches<\/a> across the country to establish a Christian Emergency Network, carry out emergency training exercises to prevent and prepare for disasters (active shooter drills and natural disaster preparedness), and foster two-way information sharing, while at the same time instituting a media blackout of their activities. As the DHS continues to establish itself within churches, a growing number of churches are adopting facial recognition systems<\/a> to survey their congregations, identify and track who attends their events, and target individuals for financial contributions or further monitoring. As the partnership between churches and the DHS grows, their facial recognition databases may be shared with the federal government, if that is not already happening.<\/p>\n

Finally, there is the third camp which fears that Jade Helm is merely the first of many exercises to be incorporated into regular American life so that the government can watch, study, and better understand how to control the masses. <\/strong>Certainly, psychological control techniques<\/a> could be used in the future to halt protests and ensure that the nation runs \u201csmoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Jade Helm 15 proves to be a thinly veiled military plot to take over the country (one lifted straight out of director John Frankenheimer\u2019s 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May<\/em>), turn the population into automatons and psychological experiments, or is merely a \u201croutine\u201d exercise for troops, albeit a blatantly intimidating flexing of the military\u2019s muscles.<\/p>\n

However, as I point out in my book\u00a0Battlefield America: The War on the American People<\/em><\/a>, the problem arises when you add Jade Helm to the list of other troubling developments that have taken place over the past 30 years or more<\/strong>: the expansion of the military industrial complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance, the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the economy flirting with near collapse, the growing social unrest, the socio-psychological experiments being carried out by government agencies, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

Suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister.<\/strong><\/u> Clearly, there\u2019s a larger agenda at work here, and it\u2019s one the American people had better clue into before it\u2019s too late to do anything about it.<\/p>\n

Call me paranoid, but I think we\u2019d better take James Madison\u2019s advice and \u201ctake alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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