Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:13 AM Jun 2014

7 Craziest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories About Interment Camps

http://www.alternet.org/belief/7-craziest-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-about-interment-camps

1. Glenn Beck
The revival of concentration camps in the United States is the tune Glenn Beck just can’t stop singing. He was most recently at this past week , when he warned that President Barack Obama is about to snap from the pressures of his allegedly failing presidency and start rounding people up.

***SNIP


2. Agenda 21 and FEMA Camps Combine to Enforce a One-World Urban Currency

About those FEMA camps: Beck is pulling from an gnarly tangle of theories that have sprung up over the past decade, combining everything from geopolitical conspiracies to control currencies to corralling an obeisant population into giant megacities.

***SNIP

3. Michele Bachmann Outsmarts the Census and Americorps

Glenn Beck has his legislative counterpart in Michele Bachmann, who gleefully spots the shadow of future camps in even the most benign aspects of the American political system. Take, for instance, the census, which Bachmann didn’t. She protested the decennial survey by declaring it a possible prelude to internment camps .

***SNIP

4. World War Two-Style Internment Camps, From Scalia to Beck

The specter of America’s World War Two internment camps for the Japanese has served as a muse for more conservatives than just Bachmann, all of whom enjoy reimagining the camps as set for them by their political enemies.
This view has been aired by none than Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “That’s what was going on - the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot,” Scalia told a room of law school students . “That’s what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It’s no justification, but it is the reality,”
Latest Discussions»General Discussion»7 Craziest Right-Wing Con...