Jade Helm 15 is not a Movie - It's Real!

Although not a movie, the title of "Jade Helm 15" does sound like another episode in the James Bond or another Sci-Fi hero saga. Actually, the mystery deepens as the Jade Helm 15 has created conspiracy theories that are based on the eponymous (of a person) giving their name to something like this United States military training exercise, scheduled to take place in multiple US states from July 15 to September 15, 2015. This has not been described as a "DOD Joint Exercise" which therefore defines these maneuvers are for the sole purpose to practice homeland engagement on U.S. soil for a specialized group of soldiers in a domestic role. 

The announcements of these training exercises have raised concerns that have been characterized by The New York Times as "travers[ing] the outer edges of political paranoia." They should too since the shroud of secrecy about the maneuvers does raise questions about the seemingly odd name and just what's going on in the great State of Texas too.

I have researched the "JADE" name which refers to the "Joint Assistant for Deployment & Execution" software program. It is military software which is "network centric warfare" for developing and leveraging information superiority in AI, Artificial Intelligence" programs that use force deployment systems calculating best strategies in fighting insurgents.

The name "Helm" refers to taking over leading and directing activities under military controls. This military JADE software program exercise has been described in seminars as to engage in "asymmetric warfare against belligerence." The word asymmetric refers to unequally matched combatants in the field such as terrorists, rioters, insurgents, unruly civilians that are defined as the "belligerents."--their small arms and munitions for retaliation do not match the military complex and therefore are asymmetrically smaller or more easily defeated.

The training program also encompasses securing tactical information. It is through undercover intelligence through spy networks, data network monitoring, populace surveillance and extensive data mining of a population's activities.  

The public hearing these concerns have asked and received assistance from Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Louis Gohmert to inquire and watch over this program. They both assured the public they will see it does not in any way encroach on the state rights of Texans--only time will bear out citizen's concerns.

Mexico's Clear Message to Cops in Ferguson, MO

After the recent live TV theater action from Ferguson, MO on the police involved shooting, what did you bring away from it besides the shooting? How about the show of police force? It was pretty scary stuff, over the top, but many said justified. If it was in Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan wars it would be a necessity in warfare. I have never seen U.S. public demonstrations in the United States reach the combat fervor of raising the threat limits to the level of combat; albeit, some anomalies admittedly do exist.

Read about how a country has gone back to the wild West just "south of de border down Mexico way."  It is an instruction manual on what not to do in federal government civil inforcement interdiction.

El Presidente de Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto is a true politician's politician. With his movie star good looks and his 'soap opera' TV star wife, and promises of social reforms and government services he swept the 2012 national elections.

Enrique Peña Nieto returned to power the 'PRE', a corrupt political party in itself, that ruled with an iron fist for seventy-five years that was rife with murders, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, drug cartels and pay-offs. It read more like a tabloid crime story from the top on down. The jury is still out on how the Nieto political machine will overcome its past or not.

Presidente Peña Nieto recognizing Mexico's massive crime problems, started a newly formed security force in 2013 that will function as a response force to recover public spaces from criminal control. Peña Nieto will have, at minimum, a 100,000-strong federal security force by the end of his six-year term, with 50,000 Federal Police and 50,000 members of the gendarmerie. As WOLA, the Washington Office on Latin America, and others have indicated, there are many concerns about the creation of the gendarmerie, particularly given the military nature of the force and the lack of consultation with the Mexican Congress and civil society about its creation over using instead civilian-led police security forces.

It is worth noting that unlike the model that the U.S. government has promoted in Latin American countries (including Mexico), U.S. law strongly restricts our military from carrying out law enforcement roles in the United States, and for good reason—the police and the military are not interchangeable bodies. 

• Military forces are trained for combat situations in which force is used to overwhelm an armed enemy.  

• Police are a civilian corps, trained to address threats to public security while using the least amount of force possible and to address crime with the cooperation of the people. 

There are inherent risks in having military-trained forces in close contact with the civilian population as situations can become volatile creating tensions and armed overreaction. 

A Fort Hood "Workplace Violence Shooting' Again?

The first shooting in November 2009 on the Texas military base of the murder of thirteen people was attributed to 'workplace violence' as the Obama administration did not want to use the words 'Islamic extremist' about Major Nidal Hasan to avoid ethnic Muslim backlash. That poorly misplaced concern actually masks the real underlying problem that the United States faces going into the future, 'Islamic Muslim extremists.'

The Obama administration in their zeal to cover up this truth actually has forever buried their own argument for attacking our second amendment by naming it 'workplace violence' too. Therefore, since Nidal Hasan was not motivated by his Islamic zealotry but instead by some kind of an obtuse anger management issues, his actions were literally insane. It follows that being insane, Hasan falls into the pejorative category with others as 'certifiable nut-jobs' that have massacres around our country during the Obama administration. One cannot argue that any gun laws or confiscation of firearms will administrate or prevent any insane persons incapable of knowing from right or wrong to access weapons.

All of these massacres were atrocities carried out in sanitized environments, almost in a laboratory settings, because these were 'gun-free zones' where no weapons were allowed. All Weapons were 'clinically removed' by prevailing guns laws in movie theatres, school campuses and military bases and signage at points of entries of all facilities disclose gun laws which ban them in these areas too. These facilities with restrictive laws and no guns are the ideal 'perfect environment' that the anti-NRA advocates seek for the entire world. What element are they missing to guarantee complete compliance? These places are all 'soft targets', with the people inside vunerable to attack because they have no weapons to fight back. How about 'conceal and carry' licenses for citizens' self-protection? That would ensure immediate personal safety and defensive action to quickly counter any eminent assault. How about Obama signing an executive order to recind the Department of Defense Directive 5210.56 gun ban to carry sidearms on military bases? It dates back to 1992 under H.W. Bush, subsequently signed by Bill Clinton too.  

Fast forward to April 2014, another Ft, Hood shooting occurs. Spc. Ivan Lopez murders three people and wounded sixteen more. Now what is this murderer's sorry excuse?  He was troubled because he didn't get more time off to mourn after his mother's death; had complained of PTSD, post traumatic syndrome disorder, even though he had no active combat experience but an overpowering fear after an insurgent attack in Iraq; and had hatred that consumed him after getting robbed. Before the afternoon shooting, Lopez stopped at the post's personnel office to pick up a leave form and was told to come back and apparently he didn't want to hear that, so he came back and just opened fire. And so, Ivan lost his crazy mind as he just went off and took out all his frustrations on innocent military personnel.

The real issue here is for an immediate medical diagnosis and timely treatment for the mentally ill. They have to be identified and treated either as an out patient or institutionalized for closely monitored ongoing treatment. Ivan Lopez's treatment was undoubtedly a complex issue when blended with privacy laws, gun laws, base procedures, DOD policies coupled with an overburdened military healthcare bureaucracy. The bottom line is it's still no reason to blame violence on guns since they do not have brains, crazy people have lost their brains which leaves thinking people to act, not to politicize to further castrate our current gun ownership under the second amendment ~ If public code laws do not compel obedience, then personal gun laws effectuate compliance and protection.

Obama Passes the "I've Got A Pen" Act - Executive Power Legislation

Conservative talk-radio host Mark Levin has responded to Barack Obama’s “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” declaration to Congress with a declaration of his own: “This is gradual, quiet coup.”

Levin was referring to Obama’s recent statement that he will not wait on Congressional legislation to pass his agenda but will instead use his pen to take executive and administrative actions when and where he sees fit.

Levin played audio clips of Obama’s remarks, which he made before the start of his first Cabinet meeting of the year, on his nationally-syndicated radio – interspersed with commentary. Excerpts:

Obama: “One of the things that I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting is the fact that we are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need. I’ve got a pen…and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions…that move the ball forward.” 

Levin: “He’s just announced that he is going to assume law-making powers. He does not recognize the [Republican Party] majority in the House of Representatives.”

Obama: “One of the things that I’m going to be talking to my Cabinet about is how do we use all the tools available to us, not just legislation, in order to advance a mission that I think unifies all Americans.”

Levin: “[He is] assuming that he represents all Americans, that he’s a unifying figure, that we just need to concentrate more power in his hands. He will decide what laws are good, what laws are bad. He will use executive orders to pass laws that Congress won’t pass. And he will ignore laws he doesn’t like, and he’ll rewrite laws that he wants to rewrite like ObamaCare and so forth.”

While Levin’s claim that Obama is literally staging a coup smacks of hyperbole, his analysis of Obama’s comments does not. This president has demonstrated time and again that he will circumvent Congress and the Constitution when he disagrees with existing legislation (Defense of Marriage Act, existing immigration law), and that he will act by decree when bills he champions fail legislatively (DREAM Act).

Obama amends Bill of Rights by executive order.

However, perhaps the most telling – and frightening – part of Obama’s declaration, as Levin pointed out, is that this president seems to believe that he and he alone knows what is best for “the American people,” of whom he speaks as if they are an over-simplified homogenous group, in full support of whatever action(s) he deems necessary. That, in and of itself, is frightening enough.

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Article credit: Mike Miller - While Mike's professional background is in the financial field, he has been a political junkie since his early days in grade school. He entered college with the intent of pursuing a journalism degree, but politics and the business world pulled (and pushed) him in a different direction. Mike also publishes "Rat Nation," a conservative political blog, where he writes as "Rat." Mike's articles have been featured on Forbes.com, The Dallas Morning News, Fuse, Newsvine, Discovery News and various other sites.    

       

All the world's a stage - Obama, The Bad Actor

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and their entrances...
Wm. Shakespeare's "As You Like It"

The whole world doesn't know what to make of America anymore--in part because of our Another tedious drool of words...president, but also referring not only to foreign policy but to U.S. domestic economic policies, to the limits America has imposed on itself. The nations all ask the same question: Why does the greatest country in the world allow itself to be led by an inexperienced, naive, dilettante who just dabbles in light-weight parlor politics not knowing anything at all? - This is not the time for 'Amateur Hour' on the world stage!

U.N. members find time to Kindle, text, email, apply lipstick, check watch & read paper. In just five years of Mr. Obama, world leaders do not understand what are really his higher strategic aims, have real doubts about his seriousness and his judgment, and read him as unsure and covering up for his unsureness with ringing words.

"A heated scorching assessment of the president's role as a foreign-policy actor came from a former senior U.S. diplomat, a low-key and sophisticated man who spent the week at many of the U.N.-related functions." "World leaders are very negative about Obama," he said. They are really very "disappointed, feeling he's not really in charge. . . . The Western Europeans don't pay that much attention to him anymore."