Marines to practice invading/killing in downtown Toledo

[donsu]

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004412290352


Marines will stay close to home for urban training
Unit to use downtown Toledo


The Marines will take over parts of downtown Toledo as sounds of gunfire will echo off buildings when training exercises are conducted next weekend.

A Marine Corps unit based in Perrysburg will stage the exercises from 9 p.m. Jan. 7 to about noon Jan. 9, Maj. Gregory Cramer said.

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Major Cramer said Marines will be dressed in green and will be carrying rifles through the streets, but the exercises should have a minimal impact on the downtown area. He said the Marines will be firing blanks and conducting operations throughout the area.

"The only request we would have of folks, if they happen to be near where an exercise is taking place, is to stay away as much as possible," Major Cramer said.
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you won't believe what the administrator for the Lucas County Common Pleas Court said:

"We used to do this when we were kids - you know, running around the woods," Ms. Atkin said. "They're just going to use the downtown."


the citizens of Toledo have drank the kool aid

watching america change

[musette_sf]

1. No doubt being held in abeyance

should any, um, visible and audible dissent occur in Columbus over, say, um, the next several weeks.

Tin soldiers and Dubya's drooling
We're finally on our own

[Elise]

2. Slogan from the election:

"I blame Ohio."

:kick:

[Benhurst]

3. Silly me. And to think I thought Syria was next. NT

[Goathead]

4. They are not practicing for Iraq

They are practicing for the crackdown, when the military turns on everyday American citizens. I'd like to see how many people have "support your troops" magnets on their cars then!

[TexasChick]

5. Uh...good grief!

:cry:

[queeg]

6. Preperation for civil war--....n/t

[salin]

7. they are stepping up there excursions

a few years ago there was a hullaballoo on the forums when it was announced that several such exercises had been held (one very rural and one, I believe in a semi populated but somewhat rural area.) In the latter there was some kind of scuffle between participants and a local sheriff deputy who had not been warned/informed about the exercise. But now they are going for urban warfare?

If I recall... the biggest concern around the earlier exercises was the speculation that perhaps the training was not meant for foreign incursions...

[aquart]

8. OHIO??

Interesting choice.

[hootinholler]

9. Holy Toledo!

Sorry, couldn't resist!

-Hoot

[tk2kewl]

10. Will Corp. Klinger be participating?

In a dress, maybe? :shrug:

[eleny]

11. Intimidation practise

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Just gettin us ready for martial law.

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Liberal and darned proud about it!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/

[sandnsea]

13. Possibly 500,000 dead

And our country just can't see the senselessness in killing. Maybe if we loaded up the bodies and dumped them on the White House lawn. (I know that's disrespectful...)