"American Concentration Camps Explored
What could the government really be considering that causes it to make "emergency plans" to detain, without legal recourse, up to millions of its own people?
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March 1, 2008
by Robert W. Barker
Light shines on an issue that threatens our way of life and the American dissident spirit that made us unique in the annals of past social structures. Are we too distracted to notice or care -- as the blood of those who fought and died for our rights is diminished by our apathy?
Following the tragedy of 9/11, the U.S. federal government garnered the authority to initiate martial law, arrest citizens and noncitizens alike and detain people with no legal or constitutional recourse in the event of catastrophic events or civil emergency.
The purpose of this executive power augmentation is listed by the Federal government as terrorism, a possible mass influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to institute new programs and health measures. All this reticent weakening of citizens' rights and augmented executive powers are being pulled off without the awareness of most American citizens.
To augment this process the federal government has built and is building many detention camps around the USA, yet can we trust them to use these facilities in the manner they claim are the purpose of these facilities?
And do we need massive detention camps for a possible future event?
For all intents and purposes these are concentration camps, and while the reasons given seem innocuous enough, one cannot help but wonder if the reasons are far more sinister then we are led to believe.
Precedents for the use of such facilities are all around us and citizens must ask themselves if this is the future of America we envisioned or are we now blind to the facts?
It is easy to become cynical in this situation as torture, secret prisons and loss of habeas corpus have all become American reality with little citizen protest.
Concentration camps have been used to subjugate contain and control segments of a given population and retain enemy prisoners of war for generations of civilized history.
Our Native American population was segregated and driven forcefully to abide on reservations that were no more than concentration camps at the outset. During W.W.II the USA placed many Japanese citizens in concentration camps, a policy that proved racist in motivation; as German Americans were never placed in such internment camps. We were at war with both nations yet only the Japanese were subjected to this horrible detainment.
This concentration camp practice left a black eye on the open American persona and provides us a frightening perspective on the possibility of American Concentration camps operating today.
Millions of our tax dollars are being spent to build huge detainment camps throughout the USA especially along the southern Border States, under the auspice of Federal Emergency Management Association {FEMA}.
The government has also contracted with various companies to construct thousands of railroad cars, some complete with human shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees in an emergency.
FEMA camps are currently under construction by none other than Cheney's friends at no-bid Halliburton, and subsidiaries Kellogg Brown and Root {or KRB}.
Concentration Camps created right here in the USA, ostensibly for emergency reasons like infectious disease or massive influx of illegal aliens, yet could there be more conspiratorial reasons?
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Recently the San Francisco Chronicle has covered the construction and reasons behind these strange places and a nod of appreciation should be given this newspaper for their guts. The current exposé was written by Seiler and Hamburg and carried in the San Francisco Chronicle, they also caution us to the alarming amount of liberty-reducing legislation that have been passed lately to augment executive powers.
Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," grants the executive branch the power to invoke martial law.
The president is authorized to use US military in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any condition in which the President determine that civil disobedience has occurred to the point that state officials are unable maintain public order.
Further the Military Commissions Act of 2006, rather surreptitiously shoved through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, provides for the indefinite imprisonment of any person who may donate funds to a charity that ends up on a list of "terrorist organizations," or whomever speaks out in dissidence against the government's policies. The legislation calls for "secret trials" for citizens or noncitizens, no public hearings just kangaroo courts.
Peter Dale Scott, a diplomat and writer says the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan called, "Endgame" {let's all remember that name} which sets as its objective as the elimination of all aliens and potential terrorists.
In 2007, the White House calmly issued National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure "continuity of government" in the occasion of what the document hazily calls a "catastrophic emergency."
Should the executive branch determine that an urgent situation has occurred; the president alone is empowered to do whatever he estimates is indispensable to ensure continuity of government; whatever that is.
These options could include everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution or even launching a nuclear attack. The scary part is Congress has yet to hold a solitary hearing on NSPD-51.
U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice has devised a new method to expand the domestic war on terror. The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR1955), which passed the House by the uneven vote of 404-6, would establish a commission to examine and report upon the facts and grounds of alleged violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative proposals on fighting it.
This is an open door policy for killing dissidence, it may be animal rights dissidence, or anti abortion protest or environmentalist protest and so on, no matter what your gripe, it is about to be snuffed.
According to Naomi Wolf the National Terrorism Counterterrorism Center holds the names of 775,000 terrorist suspects and increases by twenty-thousand a month, are there really that many terrorist in the USA or has this roll become anyone that is willing to dissent.
What could the government really be considering that causes it to make "emergency plans" to detain, without legal recourse, up to millions of its own people?
Our US Constitution does not permit the executive branch to comprise unrestrained authority under any conditions. The American people must not permit the president to utilize the bellum on terror to rule by trepidation instead of by common sense and Constitutional law. It is time we spoke up on this issue and bring it out into the light of day for all to see and discuss, for this is the true alliance of evil right under our noses, yet hidden in the dark realms of shadow governments.
We must give thanks to the San Francisco Chronicle for its guts in revealing this issue."
