On 7/13/19 12:14 PM, grarpamp wrote:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/alien-march-facebook-event-trnd/index.... https://www.facebook.com/events/448435052621047/
Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us
Friday, 20 September 2019 from 03:00-06:00 PDT Area 51 Amargosa Valley, Nevada 20908 662K going · 614K interested We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry. If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.
As a wargamer this amuses me to no end. General Jack D. Ripper's troops at "the battle of" Burpleson AFB come to mind. But today's Generals have both the training and the inclination for Corporate thought, and they have to see this silliness as a major expense: Start with direct costs of crowd control preparations, add indirect costs including administrative and operational overhead secondary to "chaos outside the base." CI people will view the turmoil caused by the tinfoil turnout as a source of targets of opportunity for opposition espionage assets to exploit. So at least the Storm Area 51 thing will annoy the hell out of Uncle Sam's boys & girls, and cost the public a medium sized fortune; that's worth doing for its own sake. I do see a bit more here than a comedy version of civil disobedience. Big Brother gets a lovely field exercise in crowd control - a chance to use all that cop equipment that's just been piling up in armories, parking lots, warehouses... and a chance to redefine rules of engagement. The near-uniform fanatical loyalty of the crowd to that Trump person presents some potentially amusing optics: Faithful MAGA Patriots arrested and transported en masse! In real life I expect Nevada National Guard to meet the crowd, if any, outside the base fence with lots of borrowed prison busses lined up and ready for transportees. The inherent unpredictability of network mediated crowd surges would mandate over-preparation on the defender's side - swarms move faster than requisition orders. The invading force, if any, will contain a critical mass of individuals who think 4G network signals permanently injure and even kill people. We know that, because many of them sit for hours daily with their mobile phones out, typing rants and getting into arguments about the deadly dangers of cell phone signals. I think this presents as the invading forces' Achilles heel. On the Federal side of the fence, I would look into deploying microwave fences and crowd control weapons (or pretending to truck them in, if already built into the landscape). Considering the physical terrain and the need to avoid adverse publicity by causing grave physical harm to wily invaders, I don't see how General Ripper & Co. could say no to this, once informed that the option stands open. Hell, just SAY you are doing it, roll out a few big ominous looking parabolic antennas, and let mass hysteria do the rest. :o)