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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS UP FOR REVIEW (fwd)
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>>Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 18:25:33 -0500
>>Subject: CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS UP FOR REVIEW
>>
>>CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS UP FOR REVIEW
>>
>> In a revealing admission the Director of Resource Management for the
>>U.S. Army confirmed the validity of a memorandum relating to the
>>establishment of a civilian inmate labor program under development by
>>the Department of the Army. The document states, "Enclosed for your
>>review and comment is the draft Army regulation on civilian inmate labor
>>utilization" and the procedure to "establish civilian prison camps on
>>installations." Cherith Chronicle, June 1997.
>>
>> Civilian internment camps or prison camps, more commonly known as
>>concentration camps, have been the subject of much rumor and speculation
>>during the past few years in America. Several publications have devoted
>>space to the topic and many talk radio programs have dealt with the
>>issue.
>>
>> However, Congressman Henry Gonzales (D, Texas) clarified the
>>question of the existence of civilian detention camps. In an interview
>>the congressman stated, "the truth is yes - you do have these stand by
>>provisions, and the plans are here...whereby you could, in the name of
>>stopping terrorism...evoke the military and arrest Americans and put
>>them in detention camps."
>>
>>HISTORY OF CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS
>>
>>
>> The concept of mass internment camps was implemented during the
>>decade of the 1930's when the idea was either integrated into national
>>security planning or put to actual use in the world's three socialistic
>>experiments - the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the United States under
>>Roosevelt.
>>
>> On March 9, 1933, Adolph Hitler put his Dachau detention center into
>>operation where thousands of his own countrymen were sent. (Source:
>>Martin Gilber,The Holocaust). Stalin exterminated 7 to 10 million in his
>>rural collectivization program from 1931-1933 and another 10 million in
>>the purges of 1934-1939. It was this decade that the Soviet Gulag proved
>>its worth. On August 24, 1939, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover met with FDR
>>to develop a detention plan for the United States. Five months after
>>this meeting, Hitler opened the Auschwitz detention center in Poland.
>>
>> On August 3, 1948, J. Edgar Hoover met with Attorney General J.
>>Howard McGrath to form a plan whereby President Truman could suspend
>>constitutional liberties during a national emergency. The plan was
>>code-named "Security Portfolio" and, when activated, it would authorize
>>the FBI to summarily arrest up to 20,000 persons and place them in
>>national security detention camps. Prisoners would not have the right to
>>a court hearing or habeas corpus appeal. Meanwhile, "Security Portfolio"
>>allowed the FBI to develop a watch list of those who would be detained,
>>as well as detailed information on their physical appearance, family,
>>place of work, etc. (David Burnham, Above the Law).
>>
>> Two years later Congress approved the Internal Security Act of 1950
>>which contained a provision authorizing an emergency detention plan.
>>Hoover was unhappy with this law because it did not suspend the
>>constitution and it guaranteed the right to a court hearing (habeas
>>corpus). "For two years, while the FBI continued to secretly establish
>>the detention camps and work out detailed seizure plans for thousands of
>>individuals, Hoover kept badgering...[Attorney General McGrath for]
>>official permission to ignore the 1950 law and carry on with the more
>>ferocious 1948 program. On November 25, 1952, the attorney
>>general...caved in to Hoover." ibid.
>>
>> Congress repealed the Emergency Detention Act of 1950 more than
>>twenty years later in 1971. Seemingly the threat of civilian internment
>>in the United States was over, but not in reality. The Senate held
>>hearings in December, 1975, revealing the ongoing internment plan which
>>had never been terminated. The report, entitled, "Intelligence
>>Activities, Senate Resolution 21", disclosed the covert agenda. In a
>>series of documents, memos and testimony by government informants, the
>>picture emerged of the designs by the federal government to monitor,
>>infiltrate, arrest and incarcerate a potentially large segment of
>>American society.
>>
>> The Senate report also revealed the existence of the Master Search
>>Warrant (MSW) and the Master Arrest Warrant (MAW) which are currently in
>>force. The MAW document, authorized by the United States Attorney
>>General, directs the head of the FBI to: "Arrest persons whom I deem
>>dangerous to the public peace and safety. These persons are to be
>>detained and confined until further order." The MSW also instructs the
>>FBI Director to "search certain premises where it is believed that there
>>may be found contraband, prohibited articles, or other materials in
>>violation of the Proclamation of the President of the United States." It
>>includes such items as firearms, shortwave radio receiving sets,
>>cameras, propaganda materials, printing presses, mimeograph machines,
>>membership and financial records of organizations or groups that have
>>been declared subversive, or may be hereafter declared subversive by the
>>Attorney General."
>>
>> Since the Senate hearings in 1975, the steady development of highly
>>specialized surveillance capabilities, combined with the exploding
>>computerized information technologies, have enabled a massive data base
>>of personal information to be developed on millions of unsuspecting
>>American citizens. It is all in place awaiting only a presidential
>>declaration to be enforced by both military and civilian police.
>>
>> In 1982, President Ronald Reagan issued National Security Directive
>>58 which empowered Robert McFarlane and Oliver North to use the National
>>Security Council to secretly retrofit FEMA (Federal Emergency Management
>>Agency) to manage the country during a national crisis. The 1984 "REX
>>exercises" simulated civil unrest culminating in a national emergency
>>with a contingency plan for the imprisonment of 400,000 people. REX 84
>>was so secretive that special metal security doors were installed on the
>>FEMA building's fifth floor, and even long-term officials of the Civil
>>Defense Office were prohibited entry. The ostensible purpose of this
>>exercise was to handle an influx of refugees created by a war in Central
>>America, but a more realistic scenario was the detention of American
>>citizens.
>>
>>STATE OF EMERGENCY
>>
>>
>> Under "REX" the President could declare a state of emergency,
>>empowering the head of FEMA to take control of the internal
>>infrastructure of the United States and suspend the constitution. The
>>President could invoke executive orders 11000 thru 11004 which would: 1-
>>Draft all citizens into work forces under government supervision. 2-
>>Empower the postmaster to register all men, women and children. 3- Seize
>>all airports and aircraft. 4- Seize all housing and establish forced
>>relocation of citizens.
>>
>> FEMA, whose black budget comes from the Department of Defense, has
>>worked closely with the Pentagon in an effort to avoid the legal
>>restrictions of Posse Comitatus. While FEMA may not have been directly
>>responsible for these precedent-setting cases, the principle of federal
>>control was seen during the Los Angeles riots in 1992 with the
>>federalization of the National Guard and during the siege at Waco, where
>>Army tanks equipped with flame throwers were involved in the final
>>conflagration.
>>
>>GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE IS "LEGITIMATE"?
>>
>>
>> The Deputy Attorney General of California commented at a conference
>>that anyone who attacks the State, even verbally, becomes a
>>revolutionary and an enemy by definition. Louis Guiffreda, who was head
>>of FEMA, stated that "legitimate violence is integral to our form of
>>government, for it is from this source that we can continue to purge our
>>weaknesses."
>>
>> It is significant to note that the dictionary definition of
>>terrorism - "the calculated use of violence" - corresponds precisely to
>>the government's stated policy of "the use of legitimate violence." One
>>might ask, who are the real terrorists? Guiffreda's remark gives a
>>revealing insight into the thinking of those who have been charged with
>>oversight of the welfare of the citizens in this country. If one's
>>convictions or philosophy does not correspond with the government's
>>agenda, that individual may find himself on the government's enemy list.
>>This makes him a "target" to be "purged" by the use of "legitimate
>>violence."
>>
>>If one forgets the past, he will not be prepared for the future.
>>--
>>kurt@kab.mdn.com
>>
>>Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat
>>it. -- Peter Lamborn Wilson
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