A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.Just in case anyone thinks this is only the stuff of lunatic fringe paranoid conspiracy theories...
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, 12 days after the Korean War began. It envisioned putting suspect Americans in military prisons...
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"Just in case anyone thinks this is only the stuff of lunatic fringe paranoid conspiracy theories..."
ReplyDeleteWell, this 12,000 number is mild compared what the government is currently planning for. They are currently compiling a much larger list and building containment camps.
In northwest Illinois, Blackwater is training police departments, for free! Well, I'll assume someone is paying for it.
You are a terrorist...aren't you? Things might easier on you if you give up the names of other terrorists.
Sorry...too many movies. But, just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after me.
Why am I not surprised.
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