Thread: Preparing for Civil Unrest in America

Preparing for Civil Unrest in America
Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases


by Michel Chossudovsky


Global Research, March 18, 2009









The Economic and Social Crisis

The financial meltdown has unleashed a latent and emergent social crisis across the United States.

What is at stake is the fraudulent confiscation of lifelong savings and pension funds, the appropriation of tax revenues to finance the trillion dollar "bank bailouts", which ultimately serve to line the pockets of the richest people in America.

This economic crisis is in large part the result of financial manipulation and outright fraud to the detriment of entire populations, leading to a renewed wave of corporate bankruptcies, mass unemployment and poverty.

The criminalization of the global financial system, characterized by a "Shadow Banking" network has resulted in the centralization of bank power and an unprecedented concentration of private wealth.

Obama's "economic stimulus" package and budget proposals contribute to a further process of concentration and centralization of bank power, the cumulative effects of which will eventually resul in large scale corporate, bankruptcies, a new wave of foreclosures not to mention fiscal collapse and the downfall of State social programs. (For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America's Fiscal Collapse, Global Research, March 2, 2009).

The cumulative decline of real economic activity backlashes on employment and wages, which in turn leads to a collapse in purchaisng power. The proposed "solution" under the Obama administration contributes to exacerbating rather than alleviating social inequalities and the process of wealth concentration.

The Protest Movement

When people across America, whose lives have been shattered and destroyed, come to realize the true face of the global "free market" system, the legitimacy of Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and the US administration will be challenged.

A latent protest movement directed against the seat of economic and political power is unfolding.

How this process will occur is hard to predict. All sectors of American society are potentially affected: wage earners, small, medium and even large businesses, farmers, professionals, federal, State and municipal employees, students, teachers, health workers, and unemployed. Protests will initially emerge from these various sectors. There is, however, at this stage, no organized national resistance movement directed against the administration's economic and financial agenda.

Obama's populist rhetoric conceals the true nature of macro-economic policy. Acting on behalf of Wall Street, the administration's economic package, which includes close to a trillion dollar "aid" package for the financial services industry, coupled with massive austerity measures, contributes to precipitating America into a bottomless crisis.

"Orwellian Solution" to the Great Depression: Curbing Civil Unrest

At this particular juncture, there is no economic recovery program in sight. The Washington-Wall Street consensus prevails. There are no policies, no alternatives formulated from within the political and economic system. .

What is the way out? How will the US government face an impending social catastrophe?

The solution is to curb social unrest. The chosen avenue, inherited from the outgoing Bush administration is the reinforcement of the Homeland Security apparatus and the militarization of civilian State institutions.

The outgoing administration has laid the groundwork. Various pieces of "anti-terrorist" legislation (including the Patriot Acts) and presidential directives have been put in place since 2001, largely using the pretext of the "Global War on Terrorism."

Homeland Security's Internment Camps

Directly related to the issue of curbing social unrest, cohesive system of detention camps is also envisaged, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon.

A bill entitled the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act (HR 645) was introduced in the US Congress in January. It calls for the establishment of six national emergency centers in major regions in the US to be located on existing military installations. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtex ... l=h111-645

The stated purpose of the "national emergency centers" is to provide "temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster." In actuality, what we are dealing with are FEMA internment camps. HR 645 states that the camps can be used to "meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security."

There has been virtually no press coverage of HR 645.

These "civilian facilities" on US military bases are to be established in cooperation with the US Military. Modeled on Guantanamo, what we are dealing with is the militarization of FEMA internment facilities.

Once a person is arrested and interned in a FEMA camp located on a military base, that person would in all likelihood, under a national emergency, fall under the de facto jurisdiction of the Military: civilian justice and law enforcement including habeas corpus would no longer apply.

HR 645 bears a direct relationship to the economic crisis and the likelihood of mass protests across America. It constitutes a further move to militarize civilian law enforcement, repealing the Posse Comitatus Act.

In the words of Rep. Ron Paul:

"...the fusion centers, militarized police, surveillance cameras and a domestic military command is not enough... Even though we know that detention facilities are already in place, they now want to legalize the construction of FEMA camps on military installations using the ever popular excuse that the facilities are for the purposes of a national emergency. With the phony debt-based economy getting worse and worse by the day, the possibility of civil unrest is becoming a greater threat to the establishment. One need only look at Iceland, Greece and other nations for what might happen in the United States next." (Daily Paul, September 2008, emphasis added)

The proposed internment camps should be seen in relation to the broader process of militarization of civilian institutions. The construction of internment camps predates the introduction of HR 645 (Establishment of Emergency Centers) in January 2009. There are, according to various (unconfirmed) reports, some 800 FEMA prison camps in different regions of the U.S. Moreover, since the 1980s, the US military has developed "tactics, techniques and procedures" to suppress civilian dissent, to be used in the eventuality of mass protests (United States Army Field Manual 19-15 under Operation Garden Plot, entitled "Civil Disturbances" was issued in 1985)

In early 2006, tax revenues were allocated to building modern internment camp facilities. In January 2006, Kellogg Brown and Roots, which at the time was a subsidiary of Halliburton, received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):

"The contract, which is effective immediately [January 2006], provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs...

The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster. (KBR, 24 January 2006, emphasis added)

The stated objectives of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are to:

"protect national security and uphold public safety by targeting criminal networks and terrorist organizations that seek to exploit vulnerabilities in our immigration system, in our financial networks, along our border, at federal facilities and elsewhere in order to do harm to the United States. The end result is a safer, more secure America" (ICE homepage)

The US media is mum on the issue of the internment camps on US soil. While casually acknowledging the multimillion dollar contract granted to Halliburton's subsidiary, the news reports largely focused their attention on possible "cost overruns" (similar to those which occurred with KBR in Iraq).

What is the political intent and purpose of these camps? The potential use of these internment facilities to detain American citizens under a martial law situation are not an object of media debate or discussion.

Combat Units Assigned to the Homeland

In the last months of the Bush administration, prior to the November 2008 presidential elections, the Department of Defense ordered the recall of the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Team from Iraq. The relocation of a combat unit from the war theater to domestic front is an integral part of the Homeland Security agenda. The BCT was assigned to assist in law enforcement activities within the US.

The BCT combat unit was attached to US Army North, the Army's component of US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). The 1st BCT and other combat units would be called upon to perform specific military functions in the case of civil unrest:

The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,â€

See ya in the Concentration camp ... I wonder how long after I get there before they carry out my sentence for being a good Patriot...

they said it would never happen again..... well the New Fourth Reich took over America a long time ago under G.W.Bush and they have the same playbooks

they robbed you blind, took away your financial safety nets, will tax your grand childrens grand children for the events they caused

for all of you Obamamaniac's ..... hahahahaha... he's the new dear leader, you figure it out

for all you nay say'r's ... we can rub elbows as we head to the chambers. At least my children and grand children will know I stood my ground and didnt bend my core principles to a corrupt government and evil men that leeds this nation into the bowels of hell itself

not sure how good my concentration camp number will be ingraved on my body if it will be on my arms or on my forhead as the mark of the beast ... but I do know I will reject evil to my last breath

the last time this happened there was a Nuremberg trial for those found guily of attrocities to citizens.

these evil people know and remember these trials, they dont plan on leaving enough people to prosecute them under a New Nuremberg trial

so look for corruption to start a World War to hide their crimes and give them the opportunity to greatly reduce the worlds population

in closing the bible says how it will end ... live through it to point the finger at those that commited these crimes

They will put us away as they let the terroists of 9/11 go free. What a government.

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Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

I wonder how long after I get there before they carry out my sentence for being a good Patriot...

Being a Patriot is its own reward, AirborneSapper7. You expected a medal, a plaque, a certificate of appreciation? How about a hero's welcome home? No, man you already got one of those when you came back from serving your country in 'Nam.

Originally Posted by In H.R. 645, Rep. Hastings of Florida

A site designated as a national emergency center shall be--

(6) required to consist of a complete operations command center, including 2 state-of-the art command and control centers that will comprise a 24/7 operations watch center as follows:

(A) one of the command and control centers shall be in full ready mode; and

(B) the other shall be used daily for training;

That sounds like a lot more than a guard shack at each gate of a military base... more like two "eyes-in-the-sky" at a prison camp.

Yup, $180,000,000 should buy a lot of razor wire for six FEMA camps already in working order. Especially with prices decreasing for the first time in my memory.

No comments about my memory, please. I remember everything that happened at least five years ago. It's the unpleasant stuff that is happening now that I try to forget.

Keep in mind that this cloud has a gleaming silver lining. The bad news is six concentration camps (for a start). The good news is the crowd that plans to implement this: the chronically unemployed and welfare-for-lifers, pro-aborts and homosexuals, crackheads and crack runners, draft-dodgers and rejects, downstream media and Hollywood types, felons and Wall St. bailout recipients, rabble-rousers and ACORN neighborhood organizers, and those too young or too inexperienced to recognize a con man even while he is shucking them.

Talk about a gang that can't shoot straight. Whom will they conscript to man the machine guns in the guard towers? That bunch will probably line up the patriots alphabetically by height, then step through the gate and lock it. Only after the patriots walk away will the Obamajugend brownshirts realize that they have locked themselves inside.

wondering how they will terminate my life

~ Gallows
~ Water Boarding
~ Torture
~ Firing squad
~ Gas chamber

what is the appropriate way for a corrupt government to exterminate my life

how do the dispose of so many bodys.. What will they do with my body

Will they
~ Bury me in a mass grave
~ Burn my body in a Bon Fire
~ Acid Bath seems to be popular south of the border will this government pick up some tips

so many decisions for the concentration camp gestapo and FEMA to decide on

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

what is the appropriate way for a corrupt government to exterminate my life

IIRC, you don't get a choice.

"Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." - Revelation 20:4

Of course, this is probably just a trial run before the real thing. But Who knows.

any last words Airborne

Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take

can I have a last cigarette?

No !!!!

silence ............. Pause ...... sentance completed

I see the light... go to the light Airborne

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

any last words Airborne

Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take

can I have a last cigarette?

No !!!!

silence ............. Pause ...... sentance completed

I see the light... go to the light Airborne

Well said Airborne. They weren't even nice enough to give you a cigarette because Obama outlawed them I'm guessing.

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