Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami Fl.

[Fire Walk With Me]

via Jenna Pope



If anything in that list surprises you excepting the secret prisons (within the US, at least), read my Journal and the Occupy Underground activism forum.

[bunnies]

1. Doesnt seem to be unusual.

A quick google search reveals the same thing in April 2011 & May 2012.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. And the more you come to expect it as "normal", and the more the military comes to expect it

as "normal", the more likely it is to become the new normal.

"Conditioning" and "normalization".

[bunnies]

12. sad, scary & true.

Just like assholes shopping with AR-15's.

[RandiFan1290]

2. Why the need for gunfire?

Why do they assume they were blanks? Don't they have enough government owned land to play their little war games over?
We have dark days ahead

[RC]

5. What happens when, and I do mean when, someone grabs the wrong ammo box and they shoot up several

cars worth of families. This is another example of "Military Intelligence"

Someone(s) need to be stripped of their command over this. And maybe some federal prison time.
Why do we, as a country, take war and violence over peace and prosperity? What is wrong with us.

[RandiFan1290]

6. Exactly and where do the shells go?

I could just imagine the shells raining down on the highway as people are trying to drive around.

[RC]

13. I'm thinking that since the brass is worth money and can be reused, they have a way to catch them in

the helicopter.
Or maybe it is just like on TV. Only bad guys have guns that eject the brass. You never see any brass from the cops guns after a shootout. Makes more sense that doing military shoots over civilian traffic, even if they did use "blanks", where did the wads go?

[sarisataka]

20. They have brass catchers

that fit on machine guns- more to keep the shell from getting into something important than the metal value.
The blanks the military uses are sealed in wax. The barrel needs an adapter that physically blocks the barrel for the blanks to cycle the weapon, nothing can be fired out without blowing up the gun.

The cover story sounds BS. There is a lot not being said.

[RandiFan1290]

23. Thank you for the info.

I have to admit I am completely ignorant of military hardware. My only knowledge is from the TV box where I've seen the shells flying all around That makes much more sense thanks again

[sarisataka]

27. Glad to help

I always hated firing blanks- they gunk up the weapons something fierce. It took three times as long to clean as actually shooting bullets.

[RC]

25. That makes sense.

Thanks

[loudsue]

30. Someone needs to be hung out to dry for this. Damn it!!

I want to know WHO. WHO in the hell is behind this? WHO authorized this? I want NAMES.

[RC]

31. +100 BINGO!

Practicing war on our own people.

[DollarBillHines]

3. "Only a drill"

For effing WHAT?

Just a little un-announced drill involving the US military and local law enforcement.

In downtown Miami.

[Mojorabbit]

38. That is what I want to know.

What the Hell are they planning for?

[appleannie1]

4. Are they expecting Ted Nugent's NRA buddies to attack or what?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. More likely OWS Miami

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. SWAT team raids OWS Miami's safehouse

http://www.bing.com/search?q=ows+miami+swat+safehouse&form=MOZSBR&pc=MOZI

[Scuba]

9. Everybody needs to be a little bit more afraid.

[RandiFan1290]

11. I wonder what the destinations were?

All of these police and military rushing where? I bet it was to secure the bridges and entrances to the 1% areas like "Star" Island. They know the people aren't going to stay calm as things get worse.

[libtodeath]

14. That is just insane

[Buzz Clik]

16. Which part?

[Buzz Clik]

15. Incredible how the extremes of right and left meet at this point.

Amazing.

[whatchamacallit]

17. And a vast herd of sheep in the center n/t

[Buzz Clik]

18. Yeah, I've heard that before -- from the right and left.

It's funny how anybody who doesn't buy into the latest paranoid adventure is a sheep.

In this case, it's a legit military exercise. They play their traditional war games at their bases and at sea all the time. Every now and then, they need to practice in an urban setting. I just cannot crap myself when the military does what they are obligated to do.

[whatchamacallit]

19. You crap yourself

with every post.

[Buzz Clik]

21. Weak.

Take off.

[EastKYLiberal]

24. The next step is FEMA camps, donchakno...

[Demo_Chris]

22. What the fuck?!

[Fla_Democrat]

26. I wonder how many people actually read

to the bottom of that list.

[geek tragedy]

29. Black helicopters and gun paranoia. Mmmhmm. nt

[Eleanors38]

37. ...and who composed that list?

[geek tragedy]

28. Black helicopters!! oh Noez! Call Alex Jones. nt

[TheMightyFavog]

32. Perhaps they were shooting a movie or TV show?

Aren't there eseveral based in Miami?

[2on2u]

33. Burn Notice films there no? At least that is where the warehouse is that the crew

works out of.....

[RandiFan1290]

35. That would make sense but

A ton of stuff is filmed down there so the media would be informed. There would be no need for all the speculation.

[RedCappedBandit]

34. How else are they gonna make sure we know who is in charge?

[okaawhatever]

36. This was announced ahead of time to let residets know it would be a training exercise. There

are several news channels and newspapers who disclosed ahead of time that this would be happening. The firing of the gun was probably them taking out a target as part of the exercise. It also says this is a multi day event, and that they did it in March 2011 as well. It's curious to note that Miami has been used twice. I'm wondering if their intel shows Miami as a likely target. Hmmmm.....

[Fire Walk With Me]

39. Monday kick to avoid the weekend news hole.

[felixmtt]

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[hrmjustin]

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