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 cant 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.
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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.
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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 didnt. She protested the decennial survey by declaring it a possible prelude to internment camps .
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4. World War Two-Style Internment Camps, From Scalia to Beck
The specter of Americas 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. Thats 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 . Thats what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. Its no justification, but it is the reality,