Friday, 01 June 2007

• Are Internment Camps Contracted for Possible Construction in America?

  Last Tuesday, the Michael Savage show regarding the topic of detention camps planned for construction in the United States.

   

  At first, I thought it was another stunt that the shock-jock radio star was doing to promote his ratings – which are high.  However, his guest host was the columnist Jerome Corsi.  I am failure with Corsi’s writings. 

  Jerome R. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including co-authoring with John O'Neill the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." Corsi's most recent book was authored with Michael Evans: "Showdown with Nuclear Iran." Dr. Corsi's other recent books include "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil," which he co-authored with WND columnist Craig. R. Smith, and "Atomic Iran."

  I couldn’t believe my ears.  “Detention Facilities”; “New National Emergency Plans that allow Bush – including the next President - Extraordinary Powers in a National Crisis.”  WTF???  What's going on?

   

  I was rivited to my car radio listening to the interview with Jerome Corsi.  I was envisioning images of Nazi Germany 1939.  I kept telling myself, “NO, not in my country.”  Yet, with all that has happened in our country in the past six years, I thought I would look it all up for myself.  I am shocked!!  

   

  Below is the first of several articles that back up the claim of planned detention facilities in the event….  You name it!!   I will try to post the articles as I continue the research on the subject for the reader to decide.

   

  Bush's Detention Facilities
  

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  Posted: May 30, 2007
  1:00 a.m. Eastern

  Houston-based KBR, formerly the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co., has a contingency contract in place with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency.

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback confirmed yesterday in a telephone interview that the KBR contract for $385 million was awarded initially in January 2006 for a one-year base period with four one-year options. It has been extended into 2007. KBR held a previous emergency detention contract with ICE from 2000 to 2005.

  Zuieback told this writer the primary intent of the KBR contract was to build temporary detention facilities that could be used in the event of a mass migration across the border that required ICE to respond on a quick basis to an illegal-immigration crisis.

  "The idea of the KBR contract is to support the Army Corp of Engineers," Zuieback explained, "in case we experienced a sudden mass immigration and we had to respond quickly. We would need immediate detention facilities in the form of temporary housing that would enable us to determine if the large numbers of illegal immigrants were political or economically motivated, or if they were criminals or terrorists."

  

   

  Hellooo!!   ARN'T WE ALREADY HAVING "MASS MIGRATION" FROM MEXICO!?!?!?!?!  

   

  Zuieback confirmed that the KBR contract for detention facilities could apply to national emergencies, including natural disasters.

  Several times, Zuieback insisted in the telephone interview that the KBR contract was a "contingency contract," specifying that detention facilities were to be built only when an immigration emergency or a national emergency, including a natural disaster, had been declared.

  Last week, WND reported President Bush had signed May 9 a little-reported National Security and Homeland Security Directive (NSPD-51 and NSPD-20) that granted extraordinary powers to the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight.

  NSPD-51/HSPD-20, published on the White House website, rescinds Presidential Decision Directive 67 signed by Bill Clinton Oct. 21, 1998, and establishes a new White House office of the National Continuity Coordinator, a position now occupied by Frances Fragos Townsend, the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Terrorism.

  • The new directive concentrates an unprecedented amount of emergency authority in the office of the president, specifying that the president now has the authority to direct "National Essential Functions" of all federal state, local, territorial and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations in the event of a national emergency.
  • The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

  The KBR contingency contract appears to give ICE the ability to have detention facilities constructed under the president's direction in response to a national emergency as declared under NSPD-51/HSPD-20.

  The initial White House press release announcing the presidential directive included no background explanation of the directive or statement by the president. The press release merely posted NSPD-51/HSPD-20 on the White House website.

  Sections 23 and 24 of NSPD-51/HSPD-20 specify that Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes are incorporated into the directive, even though they remain secret and are not available for examination as part of the published document.

  Still, Zuieback said she was not familiar with NSPD-51/HSPD-20. At her request, this writer e-mailed to her the White House website link to the directive posting.

  The White House declined comment on the initial WND story and has not yet responded to the story or to my previous column on the subject.

  Why won't the White House respond??   Maybe I am becoming an alarmist.  However, it does open a Pandora's Box on possible extream senarios.  For example, what if Marshal Law is declared nation wide?  Would a nuclear bomb exploding in a U.S. city (God Forbid) result in the extreme use of this law?

  Are we Americans capable of segregating a segment of the population and house them in such camps?  What would happen to freedom of speech?  What would happen to the Constitution? 

  Never!  Not in My America!

  Right?

  Well, my friend, we did build such camps in late December 1941.  We did segregate a group of the population and interned them in the camps.  They were Americans of Japanese decedents; first – third generation Americans.  If it happened once, it can happen again.  Check your history books if you doubt me.

  Don't get me wrong, I support President Bush, the War on Terror, and the Patriot Act.  However, I think he has pulled some real boners with his domestic polices: Illegal Immigration; Boarder Security, to name a few. 

  "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

                                                        --------------Abraham Lincoln

  Think about it!      

  But it could be worst, we could have Al Gore or John Kerry as President 

   

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