Friday, August 08, 2008

FEMA DEATH TRAIN IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA



I still have a vestigial tendency to scoff at FEMA death camp fear, but this historic clip from the San Francisco Chronicle was sent by our pal Iggy to clearly demonstrate that whole thing is not just the product of the paranoid web but has actually been validated in the mainstream media. All I can really add is that, if they come for me, I profoundly hope I have the courage to tell the bastards I ain’t going. “Shoot me on the spot, motherfucker. There are worse things than death.” And meanwhile someone here in LA needs to have a very serious talk with Rep. Jane Harman.

"San Francisco Chronicle. By Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg. Monday, February 4, 2008

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."- Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943

Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."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.According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton. But the real question is: What kind of "new programs" require the construction and refurbishment of detention facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house perhaps millions of people?Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response to "a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order."The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.Also in 2007, the White House quietly issued National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure "continuity of government" in the event of what the document vaguely calls a "catastrophic emergency." Should the president determine that such an emergency has occurred, he and he alone is empowered to do whatever he deems necessary to ensure "continuity of government." This could include everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack. Congress has yet to hold a single hearing on NSPD-51.U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has come up with a new way to expand the domestic "war on terror." Her Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR1955), which passed the House by the lopsided vote of 404-6, would set up a commission to "examine and report upon the facts and causes" of so-called violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative recommendations on combatting it.According to commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Rep. Harman and her colleagues from both sides of the aisle believe the country faces a native brand of terrorism, and needs a commission with sweeping investigative power to combat it.A clue as to where Harman's commission might be aiming is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a law that labels those who "engage in sit-ins, civil disobedience, trespass, or any other crime in the name of animal rights" as terrorists. Other groups in the crosshairs could be anti-abortion protesters, anti-tax agitators, immigration activists, environmentalists, peace demonstrators, Second Amendment rights supporters ... the list goes on and on. According to author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?The Constitution does not allow the executive to have unchecked power under any circumstances. The people must not allow the president to use the war on terrorism to rule by fear instead of by law.Lewis Seiler is the president of Voice of the Environment, Inc. Dan Hamburg, a former congressman, is executive director."

The secret word is Resist

9 comments:

Mick said...
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Anonymous said...

True or not, this shit is really depressing.

Benjamin Owens said...

I believe I can quote the Terminator from Terminator 3 as saying "Anger is more useful than despair"... so get angry & figure you can at least try to take somebody with you... it's the thought that counts, right?

Anonymous said...

Ahem to that!

Mick said...

Depression is only anger that has run out of energy. Anger must be constantly fed if we are to defeat the sons of bitches.

Unknown said...

Well it's either fight back or get out. I think Malta would be a nice place to ride out a fascist coup.

On the other hand if a coup is run with the same flawless efficiency as Iraq and Katerina were handled slipping through their grasp and derailing their plans should be quite doable. On the other other hand the ICE raids to round up immigrants are giving them good practice.

kass said...

Katrina was a failure only in sane, humanistic terms; i.e. from the point of view of residents and normal, compassionate, empatheic human beings.

I don't think it was failure in "their" terms. As Iggy has pointed out, FEMA ain't there to do what we've assumed. It worked, in their terms. It too was practice. They need to see how much they can get away with and have the public still acquiescent. That's what Katrina, torture, immigrant round-ups are all about. None of it is about what it "seems."

People get hung up about stuff being done that makes no sense and so naturally think in terms of failure and mistakes. These creeps are not stupid. They are not making mistakes, even in Iraq. All is going according to plan, it's just that the agenda is hidden and it looks like screw-ups.

The easiest way to see it is to assume stuff is intended, even when it makes no sense and then try to see exactly who it would make "sense" to, who's agenda would be advanced. It's not nearly so confusing then.

Getting out, to Malta or anywhere, must be considered. That's what airport security, even the border fence are about. Not keeping "terrorists" out but keeping us in when the time comes. Think iron curtain.

A Strange Lad said...

Iron curtain is right, Kass. Gotta keep those hopes up, though... just got to. We can theoretically prevail... there are 270 million guns in America.

Iraq, too, as you note, is going to plan, strange as that may seem. The plan is to keep the place in turmoil (most areas have sporadic electricity and water) for as long as possible while milking them dry. Before we invaded, oil production was almost exactly twice what it is now, this artificial control jacks up the price that bit more. You can be sure that Dick and CondoSleezza are mighty happy about that little tweak, they laugh at my shock and awe that it costs 60 bucks to fill my VW.

I dunno about Malta, though... lots of intrigue goes through there... (mostly SAS, MI6...)

Anonymous said...

...also the Knights of Malta, the British Navy and the Mafia. (And James Bond at the bar always spices up a vacation.)