Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.
What's been portrayed as the "fringe" of the "Patriot movement" has been clamoring for attention about this for years, complete with posting photos on the Internet. But they generally can't break it out beyond their circle--and are ridiculed as tinfoil hat militia kooks. The lefties get ahold of the issue, mention the dreaded Halliburton, and it makes the San Francisco Chronicle --as the subject of legitimate discussion and thought requiring congressional action.
Here's the thing: say it's all true, every word of it, (and with the way things are going, as well as recent government efforts to associate being a patriot with being a terrorist, nothing will surprise me any more), why is it the political left in general, and "Greens" (like authors Seiler and Hamburg) in particular, aren't the biggest proponents of the individual rights/insurrectionary theory interpretation of the Second Amendment out there? Have you ever met a Green who's not a statist gungrabber?
In truth, it strikes me as incredibly naive to think that there aren't efforts underway constructing facilities to be used if and when a national emergency is declared. In a society where people trusted their government (that is, in one where "civil defense" was treated and valued as a participatory partnership, rather than the Soviet "Homeland Security"/FEMA cattle-herding monstrosity conceived by the bureaucrats), you'd think such contingencies would be demanded and prepared for, with heavy and enthusiastic volunteer citizen involvement--why, we'd probably make a weekend fair out of it, complete with rifle matches and prizes.
Somehow though, and call me kooky, I just don't think that's the same vision shared by the feds.
[Via ZG]
Have you heard anything about an agreement between the U.S. and Canada to use each other's troops to quell domestic unrest (thus presumably bypassing any potential reluctance among troops to use force against their countrymen)?
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ReplyDeleteThere must already be such involvement. Just the wrong people wih more of the wrong ideas.
Seems everyone wants power and control these days, regardless of who suffers.
oderint dum metuant
No, hadn't seen that, Kurt.
ReplyDeleteI had read of scenarios in case bio wmds are used, contagions, where plans exist for quarantine facilities with armed guards to prevent escape with shoot- to- kill orders.
One can imagine all kinds of eventualities, and I'm sure the minds of our overlords have, to deal with detainees when food runs out and you can't just let 'em go...remember "Kodos the Executioner" from Star Trek?
And, of course, the elites all have contingency plans--escape retreats, emergency bunkers--I do have to wonder though--when TSHTF and it's time for a politician to go underground, who will he take with him: his long- suffering- stand- by- him -at- embarrassing-press- conferences wife, or his girlfriend...?
here's the NORTHCOM release:
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Can you actually believe this government - regardless of which 'party' is 'in charge' - is competent to do such a thing?
ReplyDeleteColor me -very- skeptical.
Thank you for this post - it can be lonely wearing a tin foil hat
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I knew it! They are prepping us for the concentration camps. I can only imagine what will happen next. Maybe the next president declaring himself (or herself) president for life? This is an excuse to buy more guns and ammo. I would rather die than be a slave.
ReplyDelete"They" have been prepping us and the rest of the nation since Ruby Ridge and Waco (especially Waco), and I would much prefer that they die than live as their slave.
ReplyDeleteScott, while I can identify with your sentiment, we don't need diers. We need people who would rather kill than live as slaves.
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