Halliburton sub KBR awarded contract to build detainment camps in the US [Archive]

Coldwolf

Feb 06, 2006, 12:57 AM

from Prisionplanet (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/010206detentioncamps.htm)

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In another shining example of modern day
corporate fascism, it was <A HREF="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060124/20060124005819.html?.v=1" TARGET=_blank>announced
recently</A> that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root
had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to
construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national
emergency.
The language of the preamble to the agreement
veils the program with talk of temporary migrant holding centers, but it
is made clear that the camps will also be used "as the development
of a plan to react to a national emergency."
Discussions of federal concentration camps
is no longer the rhetoric of paranoid Internet conspiracy theorists, it
is mainstream news.
Under the enemy combatant designation
anyone at the behest of the US government, even if they are a US citizen,
can be <A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/090402camps.html" TARGET=_blank>kidnapped
and placed in an internment facility</A> forever without trial.
Jose Padilla, an American citizen, has spent over four years in a Navy brig
and is only just now getting a trial.

In 2002, FEMA sought bids from major real
estate and engineering firms to <A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/080702camps.html" TARGET=_blank>construct
giant internment facilities</A> in the case of a chemical, biological
or nuclear attack or a natural disaster. 
Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz
<A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/022703camps.html" TARGET=_blank>went public
three years ago</A> with his contention that his county was set
to be a location for one of the camps.
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Alex Jones has attended numerous military
<A HREF="http://www.infowars.com/ouwmar9901.html" TARGET=_blank>urban warfare
training drills</A> across the US where role players were used
to simulate arresting American citizens and taking them to internment camps.

The move towards the database state in
the US and the UK, where <A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/241104everyoffence.htm" TARGET=_blank>every
offence is arrestable</A> and <A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/210405dnadatabase.htm" TARGET=_blank>DNA
records of every suspect</A>, even if later proven innocent, are
permanently kept on record, is the only tool necessary to create a master
list of 'subversives' that would be subject to internment in a manufactured
time of national emergency.
The national ID card is also intended
to be used for this purpose, just as the <A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2004/062204ibmsued.htm" TARGET=_blank>Nazis
used early IBM computer punch card technology</A> to catalogue
lists of homosexuals, gypsies and Jews before the round-ups began.
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act in Britain
<A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/310106IDprotester.htm" TARGET=_blank>enables
police to obtain name and address details of anyone</A> they choose,
whether they are acting suspiciously or not. Those details remain on a database
forever. To date, 119,000 names of political activists have been taken and
this is a figure that will skyrocket once the post 7/7 figures are taken
into account. At the height of the Iraq war protests, around a million people
marched across the country. However, most of these people were taking part
in a political protest for the first time and as a one off. Even if we take
a figure of half, 500,000 people being politically active in Britain, that
means that the government has already registered around a quarter of political
activists in the UK.

In truth the number is probably above
half because we are not factoring in those already on MI5 'subversive' lists
and those listed after the 7/7 bombings, when the powers were used even
more broadly.
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Concurrently in the US, a <A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/310106patriot_act.htm" TARGET=_blank>new
provision in the extended Patriot Act bill</A> would allow Secret
Service agents to arrest and jail protesters accused of breaching any security
perimeter, even if the President or any other protected official isn't present.
The definition of 'free speech zones' can be shifted around loosely and
this would open the floodgates for protesters to be grabbed and hauled away
in any circumstance at the whim of the Secret Service.
During the 2004 RNC protests, <A HREF="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/080605martiallaw.htm" TARGET=_blank>thousands
of New Yorkers were arrested en masse</A> in indiscriminate round-ups
and taken to Pier 57 (pictured), a condemned, asbestos poisoned old bus
depot, where they were imprisoned without charge for up to 24 hours or more.

The existence and development of internment
camps are solely intended to be used to round up en masse and imprison 'political
dissidents' (anyone who isn't prepared to lick government boots) after a
simulated tactical nuke or biological attack on a major US or European city.

Average Joe

Feb 06, 2006, 05:43 AM

Could care less who is awarded the contract. I'm more concerned over the intent and subsequent use, or mis-use, of the facilities.

It is quite possible that every generation goes through this, and that what I am experiencing is nothing new. There's really no way for me to tell other than to get older and see.

It seems to me America is changing. We have taken freedom for granted, and become complacent. Government is playing a larger and larger role in our daily lives, and we all welcome it with open arms for the 'better of us all'. Any semblance of privacy in a public place is disappearing, or long gone. Cameras everywhere (Plano, TX police actually had a portable watchtower setup this weekend on I75 and Plano parkway), all because "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothign to worry about".

How far can this thought process of "nothing to worry about" be pushed? My gut tells me it will be pushed further and further until the Judiciary has something to say about it... we'll see.

It just seems we are so easy to give up stuff now for safety and the better good with no long term thought of where the precedents may lead.

I hope this post isn't viewed as fatalistic rambling, because that's not how I want it to sound. It's just a very open, honest opinion of mine. I can't say whether any concerns I have are founded or not, I just grow more concerned every year.

Coldwolf

Feb 06, 2006, 11:50 AM

Joe, there is so much going on like this...so much I'm really overwhelmed. Burnt out is more the word. Your right, it doesn't matter who got the contract, but it being Halliburton that was awarded the contract and not some company no one ever heard of lends it creedence.

The rest of the article...damn, its real. Its happening. The abuse of power is going unchecked in this country. Yes, yes, other countries too, but we, WE have considered ourselves to be better than them. Free er than them. More democratic than them. And the powers that be, whether Republican or Democrat, are running over, and trampling under the freedoms we hold dear.

I guess we don't hold them too dear.

It is being allowed by Americans.

Ironhorse

Feb 06, 2006, 12:31 PM

I find it disturbing in view of the article I read in the Fresno Bee last week that millions of dollars in contracts for the re-building of Irag are unaccounted for, "lost", gone. That was according to the federal office charged with auditing those fund records. They said there was money withdrawn, not signed for, money that is "lost", money that wasn't spent on what is indicated it was spent for, etc., etc., etc. And who was the recipient of most of those monies?????? Halliburton. Then Bush turns around and requests what, another $437 million for the war in Iraq, a few days after that was published.