PatrickHenry
03-09-2008, 06:01 AM
This is a topic that Alex Jones addresses pretty consistently.
The term "forced labor" is generic for prison camp.
Now, if someone has committed a crime, I have no issue with the government housing them and having them work, with a fixed date for release.
If the crime is dissent, however, the government is the criminal.
And ethnicity should have nothing to do with internment.
The US has done this before, in WW2, to Japanese-Americans. It was recognized as being wrong, and the government later issued an apology. But it was impossible to restore the lives that were disrupted, and the fortunes and property siezed.
We generally think of the camps administered by the Nazis, the Soviets, the Communist Chinese, the Imperial Japanese when thinking of "forced labor."
Most of us are appalled by the conditions and the arbitrariness of the forced labor camps, wherever they have been. And we deny that they could ever be a policy of the United States government. Few are aware that 4 million German POWs were used as forced labor for several years after WW2 in what was euphemistically termed, "reparations labor."
But is it realistic that the US could not go this dierction?
There is evidence that the US has been preparing gulags for its residents as far back as 1987, with the program known as REX-84. It was inadvertently revealed in testimony regarding the Iran-Contra affair, but quickly hushed up by my own Democratic Party Senator, Daniel Inouye.
Now Alex Jones alleges that there is a series of government prison camps being set up in anticipation of the next false-flag attack that will justify martial law. Those of us who would dare to protest the descent of the Republic into a tyrannical Empire would be packed off to these camps to be guarded by military units.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/
This article references the $385 million no-bid contract awarded to Halliburton subsidiary, KBR for such detention camps. It also references the concept of forced labor and a document found here: http://www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r210_35.pdf
Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said, "Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They've already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration' detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo."
Labor camps
There also was another little-noticed item posted at the U.S. Army website, about the Pentagon's Civilian Inmate Labor Program. This program "provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations."
The Army document, first drafted in 1997, underwent a "rapid action revision" on Jan. 14, 2005. The revision provides a "template for developing agreements" between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations.
On its face, the Army's labor program refers to inmates housed in federal, state and local jails. The Army also cites various federal laws that govern the use of civilian labor and provide for the establishment of prison camps in the United States, including a federal statute that authorizes the attorney general to "establish, equip, and maintain camps upon sites selected by him" and "make available … the services of United States prisoners" to various government departments, including the Department of Defense.
I know the usual suspects on this forum will either let this pass without comment or give assent to any government program that quashes dissent.
Or they will ridicule such a topic as a conspiracy theory. That's why I placed it in this forum. I am certain that the government of the United States DOES engage in conspiracy. And I want to theorize as to which of my rights they seek to undermine and overthrow next.
The term "forced labor" is generic for prison camp.
Now, if someone has committed a crime, I have no issue with the government housing them and having them work, with a fixed date for release.
If the crime is dissent, however, the government is the criminal.
And ethnicity should have nothing to do with internment.
The US has done this before, in WW2, to Japanese-Americans. It was recognized as being wrong, and the government later issued an apology. But it was impossible to restore the lives that were disrupted, and the fortunes and property siezed.
We generally think of the camps administered by the Nazis, the Soviets, the Communist Chinese, the Imperial Japanese when thinking of "forced labor."
Most of us are appalled by the conditions and the arbitrariness of the forced labor camps, wherever they have been. And we deny that they could ever be a policy of the United States government. Few are aware that 4 million German POWs were used as forced labor for several years after WW2 in what was euphemistically termed, "reparations labor."
But is it realistic that the US could not go this dierction?
There is evidence that the US has been preparing gulags for its residents as far back as 1987, with the program known as REX-84. It was inadvertently revealed in testimony regarding the Iran-Contra affair, but quickly hushed up by my own Democratic Party Senator, Daniel Inouye.
Now Alex Jones alleges that there is a series of government prison camps being set up in anticipation of the next false-flag attack that will justify martial law. Those of us who would dare to protest the descent of the Republic into a tyrannical Empire would be packed off to these camps to be guarded by military units.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/
This article references the $385 million no-bid contract awarded to Halliburton subsidiary, KBR for such detention camps. It also references the concept of forced labor and a document found here: http://www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r210_35.pdf
Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said, "Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They've already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration' detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo."
Labor camps
There also was another little-noticed item posted at the U.S. Army website, about the Pentagon's Civilian Inmate Labor Program. This program "provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations."
The Army document, first drafted in 1997, underwent a "rapid action revision" on Jan. 14, 2005. The revision provides a "template for developing agreements" between the Army and corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations.
On its face, the Army's labor program refers to inmates housed in federal, state and local jails. The Army also cites various federal laws that govern the use of civilian labor and provide for the establishment of prison camps in the United States, including a federal statute that authorizes the attorney general to "establish, equip, and maintain camps upon sites selected by him" and "make available … the services of United States prisoners" to various government departments, including the Department of Defense.
I know the usual suspects on this forum will either let this pass without comment or give assent to any government program that quashes dissent.
Or they will ridicule such a topic as a conspiracy theory. That's why I placed it in this forum. I am certain that the government of the United States DOES engage in conspiracy. And I want to theorize as to which of my rights they seek to undermine and overthrow next.