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CONCENTRATION CAMP AMERICA
More
to U.S. Detention Camps
Than Feds Admit
by Victor Thorn
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exists an explosive hot-button issue that U.S. government
officials don’t want revealed to the American public;
namely, that internment camps have been established—and
are at the ready to detain citizens if mass insurrections
occur. Under FEMA’s 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?: “I’ve 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 Observer’s 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
doesn’t 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
Obama’s 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 MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who questioned the
“expectation of future crimes” that seemed implicit
in his plan. Maddow had further suspicions about the president’s
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 harm’s 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 Lincoln’s 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.
. . ..Victor Thorn is a freelance journalist based in Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books about the New World Order and 9-11. These books include New World Order Exposed, New World Order Illusion, 9-11 Evil: The Israeli Connection to 9-11; 9-11 On Trial; 9-11 Exposed and AFP's Phantom Flight 93 and Other Astounding 9-11 Mysteries Explored. He is also author of Hillary (and Bill): The Sex Volume. All are available from FIRST AMENDMENT BOOKS at 202-547-5585; toll free 1-888-699-NEWS. Thorn was, along with Lisa Guliani, a founder of WINGTV Network. He is also a member of the advisory board of THE BARNES REVIEW magazine. |
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