Camps for dissidents readied
Congressmen, authors, patriots warn FEMA camp system in place
Victor Thorn
There exists an explosive hot-button issue that U.S.
government officials dont want revealed to the American public; namely, that
internment camps have been establishedand are at the ready to detain citizens if
mass insurrections occur. Under FEMAs National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09),
potential trigger events could be economic collapse, widespread bank closures, massive
social unrest (possibly due to proof that Barack Obama is not natural-born), or a flu
pandemic.
This final item led Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) to declare on August 11 that the government
might use a pandemic disease or national disaster as an excuse to declare martial
law.
Renowned researcher Michel Chossudovsky addressed the mechanics of this subject in a March
19 article entitled, Preparing for Civil Unrest in America: Legislation to Establish
Internment Camps on U.S. Military Bases:
How will the U.S. government face an impending social catastrophe? The chosen
avenue, inherited from the outgoing Bush administration, is the reinforcement of the
Homeland Security apparatus and the militarization of civilian state institutions.
Are Army bases actually being converted into detainment camps? In his September 2008
newsletter, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) pulled no punches. Even though we know that
detention facilities are already in place, [the government] now wants to legalize the
construction of FEMA camps on military installations using the ever-popular excuse that
the facilities are for the purposes of a national emergency.
Conservative author and former presidential candidate, Pastor Chuck Baldwin, confirms this
notion in an August 11 article, Why Are Internment Camps Being Built?:
Ive had military personnel tell me that many of the U.S. military bases that
have been recently closed are also being prepared as large-scale holding
areas.
To counteract these charges, some claim the renovated bases will simply be
used to hold illegal aliens. A recent news item appeared in the Idaho Observers June
issue: In January 2006, it was revealed that Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown
& Root (KBR), had received a $385 million contract to build detention facilities
for an emergency influx of immigrants.
But to argue that their sole focus is simply on illegal immigrants doesnt hold water
because the U.S. has had an open-border policy for at least three decades. On the other
hand, more likely targets for detainment would be anti-New World Order proponents, Second
Amendment advocates, dissidents, people who refuse to participate in forced inoculation
programs, Christians, tax protesters and those deemed extremists and
enemies of the state under a recent Department of Homeland Security report on
homegrown right-wing terrorists.
To show their seriousness in pushing this agenda, Bob Unruh revealed a disturbing
development on August 7 for World Net Daily: An ad campaign featured on a
U.S. Army website seeking those who would be interested in being an
internment/resettlement specialist is raising alarms across the country.
What specifically would this position entail? The description is clear:
Internment/Resettlement (I/R) specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for
day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or
detention/internment facility.
Legislation introduced by representative Alcee Hastings (D-Fl.) under HR 645 would have
the DHS establishing at least half a dozen national emergency centers for large-scale
imprisonment of American citizens on military installations. Further, HR 645 would create
a Guantanamo-style setting after martial law is declared. At that point, posse comitatus
laws would be rendered non-existent, replaced by military jurisdiction over all detainees.
As a result, the incarcerated would find it much more difficult to enforce their
Constitutional rights to a fair trial and/or legal representation.
If skeptics doubt this scenario, they need to reexamine President Obamas own words
in a May 21 speech at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. At this locale, he spoke
of prolonged detention for all those who posed a threat to U.S. security. Even
members of the liberal media were disconcerted by the implications of this proposal,
including MSNBCs Rachel Maddow, who questioned the expectation of future
crimes that seemed implicit in his plan. Maddow had further suspicions about the
presidents advocacy of an Orwellian Big Brother-world via the use of
preventive incarceration to keep certain people in prison indefinitely without
charge.
Finally, similar to the policies of George W. Bush, Obama vowed to reshape the
standards that apply to our rule of law (i.e., prolonged military detention and the
denial of habeas corpus).
Obama and his representatives have unmistakably drawn a line in the sand. The Department
of Homeland Security even has an Operation Endgame that proposes the
removal of all potential terrorists. How would such a roundup be
accomplished? How would terrorist be defined? FEMA official Glenn Cannon
admitted to the Associated Press on Feb. 13, 2008 that they are looking at
ways to use passenger trains to get elderly and sick people out of harms way during
an emergency situation.
But would they conceivably stop at just senior citizens and the infirm, or is their plan
much more sinister? On Feb. 4, 2008, Lewis Seiler and former Congressman Dan Hamburg
(D-Calif.) provided a chilling scenario for The San Francisco Chronicle:
Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts
with Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within
the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build
thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport
detainees.
Such accounts should ring alarm bells, especially when we realize that the U.S. has a long
history of detaining its own citizens. In 1838, President Martin Van Buren authorized a
massive roundup of Cherokee Indians.
During the Civil War, Abe Lincolns jails were filled with inmates due to
suspicions of disloyalty. Much worse, President Woodrow Wilson imprisoned over
100,000 Americans during World War I who were deemed political opponents or pacifists.
In 1939, the FBI compiled a Custodial Detention Index, whereas FDR signed
Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which permitted the incarceration of not only
Japanese, but Americans, including orphaned infants and anyone deemed a
dissident as well. More recently, on August 20, 2006, Allen Roland of Global
Research described one of the most horrifying pieces of legislation ever passed:
Through Rex 84, an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation
throughout the United States for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful
to the state.
Closely associated with this action is Operation Garden Plot, which activist priest Frank
Morales characterizes as a master plan to suppress democratic opposition in the
United States.
It was actually implemented during the 1992 L.A. riots. Finally, Operation Cable Splicer
is designed for the orderly takeover of state and local governments by FEMA
and other federal agencies. (Issue # 35, August 31, 2009)
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