Holy Deja Crap! American Detention Centers?
Holy crap.
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers
By Rachel L. Swarns
New York Times
February 4, 2006WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.
KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year. [“Halliburton detention camp contract: cause for alarm?”]
This just sends a chill down my spine. When I read it, all I could think was “Where have I read this before?
Oh, yes.
In 1984, FEMA tested it’s wartime crisis strategy in conjuction with Pentagon maneuvers. Their “readiness exercise” was code named Rex-84. FEMA’s part of the simulation had to do with an international crisis set off by a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua which resulted in a swarm of refugees coming in over the Mexican border into the U.s. According to an article in Penthouse (August 1985), during the exercise FEMA would simulate rounding up some 400,000 fictional “aliens” in a six-hour period and detaining them in military camps thoughout the U.S. FEMA justified the detention camps by suggesting that terrorist moles could be among the refugees. However, according to one of the co-authors of that Penthouse article, the terrain of the Mexican border made such a huge influx of hundreds of thousands of people highly unlikely.
If that’s the case, who exactly was FEMA interested in rounding up?
Some critics believe that Rex-84 was actually a simulation to practice rounding up Americans in large numbers — probably those “flaming hippies, militant minorities, and draft-dodging radicals of the 60’s and early 70’s, not to mention possible protestors of a controversial government invasion of Central America. Not a far leap in logic when you consider the fact that in 1970, Giuffrida had written a paper devising a hypothetical plan to detain black radicals in detention camps. [“FEMA’s Dark History”]
The “plan” last time was to set FEMA up to declare martial law during any kind of crisis and have it take over the government — comforting considering how well it’s been doing with hurricane disaster and recovery.
Forget Gitmo, Bush & company are blatantly planning and building concentration camps for dissidents now — and remember, dissidents are anyone who doesn’t agree 100% with every single thing that Bush’s administration claims is the right thing, even if it totally disagrees with what they said last week.
1984, anyone?
Folks, this administration is very semi-quietly putting everything in place so that one day we are going to wake up and discover that we are living in a police state and our civil liberties are gone! And if you think that living like that is worth the empty promises of a President and his political party that terrorists won’t attack again on our soil, you might as well be a slave now. What kind of life is that? Let me tell you something. The terrorists are winning. They’re winning because what they wanted was to affect us, to change us, to enslave us, to force us to give up our freedoms. They might not be sitting on a throne dishing out the rules from our own capital, but they might as well be if we are willing to sacrifice the very freedoms that we prided ourselves on, taunted the Iron Curtain with, and claim we want to bring to the rest of the world.
Say goodbye to the Land of the Free. There’ll be a law against freedom soon.
tags: politics, Halliburton, Conspiracy Theories, Homeland Security, immigration, FEMA
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