Did Louie Gohmert really say that?

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GOP Conspiracy Theorist Louie Gohmert Issues Official Statement Imploring U.S. to Halt Jade Helm

Posted by: AATTP Staff in Most Popular on AATTP, TEApublicans in Action May 18, 2015

 

Texas GOP Rep., Tea Party darling, and hero to nutbag conspiracy theorists everywhere Louie Gohmert is still “concerned” about the Jade Helm silliness – so concerned that he issued a statement from his office calling on the military to put a halt to the operation.

“When leaders within the current administration believe that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans, or even ‘cling to guns or religion,’ patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned,” Gohmert wrote.

Once I observed the map depicting “hostile,” “permissive” and “uncertain” states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution.

When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any U.S. city or state in “hostile” control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.

Such labeling tends to make people who have grown leery of federal government overreach become suspicious of whether their big brother government anticipates certain states may start another civil war or be overtaken by foreign radical Islamist elements which have been reported to be just across our border.

Such labeling by a government that is normally not allowed to use military force against its own citizens is an affront to the residents of that particular state considered as hostile, as if the government is trying to provoke a fight with them.

The map of the exercise needs to change, the names on the map need to change, and the tone of the exercise needs to be completely revamped so the federal government is not intentionally practicing war against its own states.

The Pentagon has denied that there are any preparations underway to implement martial law.

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