Shots fired for the second day at Jade Helm site

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**Ouze**

Shots Fired For 2nd Day In A Row At Jade Helm Site In Mississippi

Shots Fired For 2nd Day In A Row At Jade Helm Site In Mississippi
By CATHERINE THOMPSON

For the second day in a row, shots were reportedly fired Wednesday near a Mississippi military facility where part of the "Jade Helm 15" training exercise was expected to take place.

Soldiers training at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg reported shots fired into the air around 8 a.m. local time, according to a news release obtained by local TV station WJTV. The release noted that the shots were reportedly fired in the same location where two soldiers reported being fired upon on Tuesday.

Authorities said the suspect in Wednesday's incident was a white male driving a maroon pick-up truck, according to WJTV. The news release noted that is the same suspect description given in Tuesday's shooting.

The news release described Camp Shelby as being in a "heightened state of alert." Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) said in a statement that he's in communication with the head of the state's Department of Public Safety to locate and arrest the suspect, according to WJTV.

"The soldiers at Camp Shelby and across the state can and should take appropriate steps to defend themselves as necessary," Bryant said in the statement. "This is one of the reasons I signed an executive order directing certain National Guard personnel to be armed."

More than 4,600 National Guard troops are currently on site at Camp Shelby for field exercises. Part of "Jade Helm 15," the multi-state training exercise that Internet conspiracy theorists posit is actually a cover for the implementation of martial law, is also expected to take place at Camp Shelby this summer.

Interesting mingling of the "we must protect the troops at recruiting stations" and "we must resist these jackbooted thugs" vibes we got going right now.

As always, the best reporting in the land has it covered.

**d-usa**

"Shots in the air" sounds just like the kind of false flag operation that would be used to take our guns away!

**Ouze**

So, do you think the guy in the truck is a defender of our liberties and a brave defender against government overreach? Or is he a terrorist (or if white), a lone wolf with mental issues?

**d-usa**

I need to see pictures of his boots, that's how I always differentiate between undercover federal agent trying to stir up trouble and legitimate trouble maker.

**Gitzbitah**

Boots can be faked. I go by the size of their badges.

**CptJake**

How are Fraz and family doing in the shuttered WalMart detention facility?

**streamdragon**

So three nutjobs were arrested for planning to kill US troops.

Federal officials say three North Carolina men — Walter Eugene Litteral, 50; Christopher James Barker, 41; and Christopher Todd Campbell, 30 — spent months compiling their cache, much of it purchased through a military surplus store owner who became so concerned about the plot that the person became the FBI’s informant.

The men were arrested Saturday and charged with conspiracy and amassing weaponry allegedly to combat what they believe is the government’s plan to impose martial law through (among other things) the multistate military exercise known as Jade Helm.

More at the link. Basically the fear-mongering that Jade Helm was some ploy for Martial Law in the US was so effective that these three mental midgets decided to get a preemptive strike on the US military.

I say, treat them as domestic terrorists.

**Ouze**

streamdragon wrote:
I say, treat them as domestic terrorists.

Didn't you see the picture? They're white.

I'll help you. Look in the top right:

Spoiler:

If these guys had been named Muhammed Al-whatever they'd probably be halfway to Gitmo by now. Instead they're only looking at gun charges despite committing, literally, the textbook definition of sedition.

**CptJake**

Ouze wrote:

If these guys had been named Muhammed Al-whatever they'd probably be halfway to Gitmo by now. Instead they're only looking at gun charges despite committing, literally, the textbook definition of sedition.

Hyperbole on both sides is getting silly. We have not put a new guy into GITMO in years, regardless of color/creed/whatever.

Wait for all the charges. They typically go with the easy ones first to get the crap bag detained while they investigate and the lawyers figure out what charges they will actually take to court.

**d-usa**

I don't know about hyperbole, but I am dang confident in saying that if they were screaming "allahu Akbar" while firing into the air there would be a lot more coverage...

**CptJake**

d-usa wrote:
I don't know about hyperbole, but I am dang confident in saying that if they were screaming "allahu Akbar" while firing into the air there would be a lot more coverage...

If they had screamed feth The US and fired into the air there would be more coverage. They didn't scream or fire though. Conspiracies like this are broken up all the time and the coverage is minimal even when the motivating factor is jihad. Of course in the jihad cases, we typically get a story about how an FBI undercover tricked some loser into building an inert bomb with components the FBI gave him. Once that story runs coverage typically stops.

**kronk**

Yep. Domestic Terrorists ala Timothy McVeigh and what's his face.

String them up and move on.

**d-usa**

Ah, reading fail on my part. I thought those guys were the "shooting in the air" guys and didn't realize that they were unrelated idiots.

**ScootyPuffJunior**

CptJake wrote:
d-usa wrote:
I don't know about hyperbole, but I am dang confident in saying that if they were screaming "allahu Akbar" while firing into the air there would be a lot more coverage...

If they had screamed feth The US and fired into the air there would be more coverage. They didn't scream or fire though. Conspiracies like this are broken up all the time and the coverage is minimal even when the motivating factor is jihad. Of course in the jihad cases, we typically get a story about how an FBI undercover tricked some loser into building an inert bomb with components the FBI gave him. Once that story runs coverage typically stops.

Yes, then followed by two weeks of "ISIS IN AMERICA" headlines.

**CptJake**

ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
CptJake wrote:
d-usa wrote:
I don't know about hyperbole, but I am dang confident in saying that if they were screaming "allahu Akbar" while firing into the air there would be a lot more coverage...

If they had screamed feth The US and fired into the air there would be more coverage. They didn't scream or fire though. Conspiracies like this are broken up all the time and the coverage is minimal even when the motivating factor is jihad. Of course in the jihad cases, we typically get a story about how an FBI undercover tricked some loser into building an inert bomb with components the FBI gave him. Once that story runs coverage typically stops.
Yes, then followed by two weeks of "ISIS IN AMERICA" headlines.

Not really, not covered by any main stream or large volume news source. Not unless they actually pull off even a failed attack. Without some action actually committed the stories don't survive long in the news cycle at all.