Feds foil plot against Jade Helm participants

 by MOTHAX

 

[Graphic above is from one of the websites that think this is some attempt to take over the country.]

The online freak out over Jade Helm always struck me as absurd in the extreme, and now we have people arrested for taking their obsession WAY over board.

The men had a deadly plot to lure government forces into a trap, federal officials say, and were amassing a stockpile fit for war.

There were Kevlar helmets and body armor, pipe bombs and handmade grenades, large amounts of gunpowder and dozens of rounds of ammunition for a military-grade sniper rifle.

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.

They even told undercover agents why they were so afraid of Jade Helm too apparently.

Specifically, they told the informant that the Jade Helm exercises planned in five states were a cover for the government’s plot to impose martial law. The exercises were scheduled to be conducted from July 15 to Sept. 15, and Litteral made it clear that he needed the military-grade items no later than July 15.

Glad they caught them before hand.  As my friend Jonn noted, these guys were from North Carolina, where Robin Sage, the ultimate portion of the SF course does exactly the same thing as Jade Helm was.

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