Detention Camps for Dissidents?

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Bush’s Mysterious New Programs
Nat Perry, Feb 21, 2006

Consortiumnews.com


“…there was that curious development in January when the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root a $385 million contract to construct detention centers somewhere in the United States, to deal with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs,” KBR said. [Market Watch, Jan. 26, 2006]

“…what kind of programs would require a major expansion of detention centers, each capable of holding 5,000 people….”

“…Only a few independent journalists, such as Peter Dale Scott and Maureen Farrell, have pursued what the Bush administration might actually be thinking.

Scott speculated that the “detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.” He recalled that during the Reagan administration, National Security Council aide Oliver North organized Rex-84 “readiness exercise,” which contemplated the Federal Emergency Management Agency rounding up and detaining 400,000 “refugees,” in the event of “uncontrolled population movements” over the Mexican border into the United States…”

I wonder if perhaps these camps are also in place to house Americans who dissent from the views of their government?….

“…There also was another little-noticed item posted at the U.S. Army Web site, about the Pentagon’s Civilian Inmate Labor Program. This program “provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations.”
The Army document, first drafted in 1997, underwent a “rapid action revision” on Jan. 14, 2005. The revision provides a “template for developing agreements” between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations.

The term 'Gulag' comes to mind. A place where criminals and dissents were sent for re-education.

“…The Army also cites various federal laws that govern the use of civilian labor and provide for the establishment of prison camps in the United States, including a federal statute that authorizes the Attorney General to “establish, equip, and maintain camps upon sites selected by him” and “make available … the services of United States prisoners” to various government departments, including the Department of Defense..”

The Internet, the one you are now using, the one you use to send e-mails to aunt Betty and to communicate with friends, and to read news that goes uncovered by the entire U.S. News Media, yeah, that Internet, that's the one they are going to close down with martial law….

“…The Pentagon plan also includes a strategy for taking over the Internet and controlling the flow of information, viewing the Web as a potential military adversary. The “roadmap” speaks of “fighting the net,” and implies that the Internet is the equivalent of “an enemy weapons system.” ..”

To sum it up, it would appear that the Bush Administration, with the collusion of both political parties holds that we are a war with Terrorism (Although how the hell you can be at war with a tactic, I really don't understand. You can be at War with the Taliban, but can you be at war with a weapon or manuever?)

“…the White House still asserts the right to detain U.S. citizens without charges as enemy combatants.

This claimed authority is based on the assertion that the United States is at war and the American homeland is part of the battlefield..."

We are at 'war' therefore anything goes, the President is beyond all law and can do no wrong....this would be somewhat more tolerable if that jackass was sane.

In obvious agreement with Mr. Perry above, is Maureen Farrell who pointed out:

"...By the fall of 2005, news that the US could continue to "confine US citizens without charges," prompted conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan to dig up the following quote: "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist" -- Winston Churchill, November 21, 1943, describing what is now legal and constitutional in the United States, under president Bush.".." (Maureen Farrell, Detention Camp Jitters)

And this:

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe said on ABC's Nightline:

"It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way. . . ." (Farrell, Detention Camp Jitters)

The Bushites are preparing for martial law, and they mean it.

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By the by, when we discuss camps being established for immigrants and refugees, we must understand a little known fact. That as global warming proceeds, and petroleum becomes less and less available, we are going to see famine and ecological disaster on a scale beyond our imagination. Bush and his handlers know this. They know that if these predictions come to pass, there will be millions of refugees, crossing any border that shows the hint of food or safety. That means the U.S. is going to see a lot of people come pouring across the borders from the south.

These people are on a thin edge of poverty all the time, and with the massive changes in climate and shortage of oil, they are going to head north. I don't blame them, I would too. But this means that Bush and his minions know that disaster refugees are coming and they are getting preparded for them. If an occasional dissident gets thrown into the camps with them...oh well.