<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of National Public Radio (NPR) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/403865824/texas-governor-deploys-state-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover">http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/403865824/texas-governor-deploys-state-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.2; letter-spacing: -0.00625em; font-size: 3.5rem; font-family: 'Gotham SSm', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Texas Governor Deploys State Guard To Stave Off Obama Takeover</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since Gen. Sam Houston executed his famous retreat to glory to defeat the superior forces of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Texas has been ground zero for military training. We have so many military bases in the Lone Star State we could practically attack Russia.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So when rookie Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he was ordering the Texas State Guard to monitor a Navy SEAL/Green Beret joint training exercise, which was taking place in Texas and several other states, everybody here looked up from their iPhones. What?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It seems there is concern among some folks that this so-called training maneuver is just a cover story. What's really going on? President Obama is about to use Special Forces to put Texas under martial law.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let's walk over by the fence where nobody can hear us, and I'll tell you the story.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You see, there are <a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/04/30/closed-walmarts-to-be-guerilla-warfare-staging-areas-in-response-to-invasion/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">these Wal-Marts in West Texas</a> that supposedly closed for six months for "renovation." That's what they want you to believe. The truth is these Wal-Marts are going to be military guerrilla-warfare staging areas and FEMA processing camps for political prisoners. The prisoners are going to be <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/texas-ranger-drops-jade-helm-bombshell-there-are-trains-with-shackles-on-them_04292015" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">transported by train cars that have already been equipped with shackles</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don't take my word for it. That comes directly from a Texas Ranger, who seems pretty plugged in, if you ask me. You and I both know President Obama has been waiting a long time for this, and now it's happening. It's a classic false flag operation. Don't pay any attention to the mainstream media; all they're going to do is <a href="http://www.infowars.com/mainstream-media-attacks-alex-jones-over-jade-helm-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">lie and attack everyone who's trying to tell you the truth</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Did I mention the ISIS terrorists? They've come across the border and are going to hit soft targets all across the Southwest. <a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/04/17/the-connection-between-jade-helm-and-isis/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">They've set up camp </a>a few miles outside of El Paso.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That includes a Mexican army officer and Mexican federal police inspector. Not sure what they're doing there, but probably nothing good. That's why the Special Forces guys are here, get it? To wipe out ISIS and impose martial law. So now you know, whaddya say we get back to the party and grab another beer?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's true that the paranoid worldview of right-wing militia types has remarkable stamina. But that's not news.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">is</em> news is that there seem to be enough of them in Texas to influence the governor of the state to react — some might use the word pander — to them.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-governor-abbott-orders-national-guard-military-takeover" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">That started Monday</a> when a public briefing by the Army in Bastrop County, which is just east of Austin, got raucous. The poor U.S. Army colonel probably just thought he was going to give a regular briefing, but instead 200 patriots shouted him down, told him he was a liar and grilled him about the imminent federal takeover of Texas and subsequent imposition of martial law.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We just want to make sure our guys are trained. We want to hone our skills," Lt. Col. Mark Listoria tried to explain in vain.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One wonders what Listoria was thinking to himself as he walked to his car after two hours of his life he'll never get back. God bless Texas? Maybe not.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The next day Abbott decided he had to take action. He announced that he was going to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor Operation Jade Helm from start to finish.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed upon," Abbott said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The idea that the Yankee military can't be trusted down here has a long and rich history in Texas. But that was a while back. Abbott's proclamation that he was going to keep his eye on these Navy SEAL and Green Beret boys did rub some of our leaders the wrong way.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Former Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst tried to <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150430-david-dewhurst-suspicion-of-our-own-troops-must-stop.ece" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">put it in perspective for outsiders</a> when he explained, "Unfortunately, some Texans have projected their legitimate concerns about the competence and trustworthiness of President Barack Obama on these noble warriors. This must stop."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another former Republican politician was a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/263700043/Letter-to-Governor-Abbott" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">bit more pointed</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Your letter pandering to idiots ... has left me livid," former state Rep. Todd Smith wrote Abbott. "I am horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my Governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my Governor doesn't have the backbone to stand up to those who do."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There's no argument that after the 2014 election, Texas politics took a further step to the right. The 84th session of the state Legislature has given ample proof of that. But the events of this last week have been an eye-opener for Texans of all political stripes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You will find the names of Texans etched into marble at war memorials from Goliad to Gettysburg, from Verdun to the Ardennes and Washington, D.C. The governor's proposition that these soldiers and sailors constitute a potential threat and need watching as they go about their duties certainly stakes out some new political ground for the leader of the Texas GOP to stand on.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: auto; max-width: 680px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><div class="bucket" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed upon."</span></p></div><p class="byline" style="font-variant: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas</span></p></div><div>-------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>