Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) has requested a briefing on an upcoming U.S. military training exercise expected to take place in Biloxi, Mississippi.
“I’ve requested and will soon receive a private briefing from Special Operations Command regarding the scope of the exercise, but after looking into it, I think it is a very important event,” Palazzo said Friday in response to questions from The Sun-Herald newspaper. “All you have to do is turn on the news to realize that real dangers exist just outside our back door. I support our military continuing to train in order to be fully prepared for the real threats that we face.”
Part of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s “Jade Helm 15” training exercise, which has been the subject of numerous wild conspiracy theories, particularly in Texas, was initially expected to take place in Biloxi. But the training exercise ultimately approved by the Biloxi City Council was dubbed “Serpent Guardian,” and there was no mention of “Jade Helm 15” in the documentation.
Palazzo, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, added in his statement to The Sun-Herald that he believes the training exercise “has nothing to do with martial law and does not threaten Americans in any way.”
translation: “I may be moronic but even I realize that there’s nothing to the conspiracy theories, but I realize that my constituents are even more moronic, so I have to request a “special briefing” so I can show my moronic constituents that I “did something about it” re/ Jade Helm 15.”
Send one of the white vans from Ft. Lauderdale to pick him up for the briefing.
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And please! Tell me that’s a 70s stock photo accompanying this article.
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I think it’s a young Tom DeLay.
Translation: I need to pander enough to avoid being primaried in 2016.