KBR awarded Homeland Security contract for US detention centers.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/pulseone.asp?dateid=38741.5136277662-858254656&siteID=mktw&scid=0&doctype=806&

KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M (HAL) By Katherine Hunt
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL) , said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.

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on edit- This really bothers me.. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but this really bothers me.

"or to support the rapid development of new programs"

And what new programs would that be?

On edit again- Changed title to reflect the thread in LBN

All part of the nazification of the USA.

Plan. Along with Operations Garden Plot and Cable Splicer, Ollie North's dream of suspending the constitution, 'constitutionally' with old Reagan-era Roberts and Alito as rubberstampers from that time period, comes to fruition.

Dissenters can then be interned into camps, assuming that the over HALF of the population that currently despises Bush and his war plans are economically feasible for the plan to accomodate.

But what does that matter to BushCo.

facilities

wonderful....lucky us.

"or to support the rapid development of new programs"

And what new programs would that be?

sounds like they're building dorms.... (ahem) and not in a good way.

Guess they'll drop the "new program" on us later. But they have something in mind

:::putting fingers in time out::::

We'll use a little Zyklon B on them to put them out of their misery! :sarcasm:

Seriously, it looks like a detention camp program in development, like Gitmo except several camps instead of one.

Thousands of US citizens who were of Japanese descent were imprisoned in the camps until the war ended, but the US currently isn't in a state of total war, since Congress never declared war. Technically, we're still in "peace."

in detention? I don't..

FDR and the Japanese isn't the only example of freedom crushing measures taken by the US government.

President Wilson was just as bad with, of all people, anti-war protesters and democratic socialists in the US. It was Wilson who urged Congress to pass the Espionage Act of 1917, which made it illegal to criticize the federal government in a time of war or impede its prosecution of war, and the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it illegal to attempt to change the laws of the US government or the nature of the US government itself. Together, it had the effect of virtually wiping out the anti-war movement and driving social democrats and socialists underground.

I didn't mean to get snappy with you, I'm just really freaked out right now. I don't trust them any farther than I can throw them. My worry is that they will not be satisfied by just driving us underground..

to this adm. They think they own us now.

""Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:..."

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/FEMA-Concentration-Camps3sep04.htm

read and scroll through. Justice Roberts, while in the Reagan administration, would have rubberstamped many of these executive orders, and Samuel Alito, while in the Reagan-era DOJ Office of Legal Counsel to the White House, would have ruled on the constitutionality of these programs and executive orders.

By all means, Democratic members of Congress, go ahead and approve of these rubberstampers.

in these places.

""General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis.""

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/FEMA-Concentration-Camps3sep04.htm

And under the AUMF (authorization of use of military force) after 9-11 and the Joint Resolution for War in Iraq, both allowed language "...at his (Bush's) determination..." to identify whomever he wishes to go into such camps.

It seems reasonable to assume that Karl Rove would expand the determinations to include anyone who disagrees with Bush domestically and or internationally.

"If you're not with us, you're against us", therefore to the gulag.

This all violates the War Powers Act of 1973, but you'll never get Roberts and Alito, if confirmed, to be on the SCOTUS and vote against these dictatorial and unconstitutional executive powers.

Only check points everywhere, right, I often wondered how they got so many people on those list,

who rises up in opposition of their policies, even FReepers. If Freeps think they will be allowed to keep their guns, they're out of their minds.

and we are not talking Mexican either...

game..

Does rounding up LEGAL immigrants not equally worry you?

Which immigrants are they taking about. Brown ones? Yellow ones? White ones?

As I asked below WHAT THE HELL is an immigration emergency??!!

about.. I think it's a cover story. I fear the plan will be to round up protesters and dissenters. The * admin doesn't like having their authority questioned, and I fear that is the real reason for the centers.

It is all up to Bush. "...at his determination..." is the fateful language used in the resolutions that is patently UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The determinations are constitutionally directed to be from CONGRESS'S warmaking authority and not to be abdicated to the executive.

This is strict construction here folks. To have it any other way means playing fast and loose with the Constitution and those sworn to 'preserve protect and defend' it.

if they actually do this it will
be more on the order of a general cleansing of
all 'undesireables'.

The "cleansing" of America might be at hand..

< The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said. >

I'm all for better immigration policies and whatnot but this is quite worriesome. Will they put legal immigrants in this?

That's what I fear..

I see this as a really bad sign.. Maybe I'm too cynical, but as soon as I read it I had chills down my spine, and goosebumps on my neck.

And give it a reccommendation:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x226695

will please the chimperor and his thugs.

Thanks for the link. Seeing it all put together says a lot. And it's past sad.

my God, the scandal-sheet has climbed skywards.

Like re-writing History in a truthful manner.

Up until recent, one could still catch those "Magic Bullet" documentaries, easily proving there was NO WAY 1 bullet killed Kennedy.

Lately, the History Channel repeatedly airs 1 guy saying it was all BS - 1 bullet did in fact perform miracles. Nothing to see here. No, go away.

They even took my beloved History Channel from me, along with TLC, Discovery, etc., etc.

Propaganda at its worse.

Is it any wonder History Professors/Teachers & Librarian jobs can't be filled locally anymore. It's got me thinking more then double these days, sadly so as they take beating's under this mis-adm.

:scared: In the environment in which we live, wouldn't any healthy, thinking person be bothered by detention camps within the U.S.? :shrug:

He has been warning about this sort of thing for years. And while I always occationally read his stuff, for entertainment value, it's starting to seem like he was more on point than I gave him credit for...

Really, just fricked really.

Michael Chertoff's daughter in law? The one even Michelle Malkin was pissed off about?? Yeah, something's fishy.

Brown & Root Services, a division of Kellogg Brown & Root, was awarded a $16,000,000 task order for construction of the 408-unit detention camp at the Radio Range area of U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Units were to be of modular steel construction. Each unit was to measure 6 feet 8 inches by 8 feet and includes a bed, a toilet, and a hand basin with running water. The total contract amount could run as much as $300,000,000, according to the Navy.

http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/2002/c02262002_ct088-02.html

Immigrants migrating en mass in an emergency are usually called Refugees.

Are refugees going to be locked up and shipped back to the emergency from which they came?

think..

Even if your theory of dissenters getting locked up is true the cover story needs explanation.

These people know what they are doing. They hire high priced PR firms to draft releases like this, and they know what they mean by Immigration Emergency.

They need to explain it.

:scared:

The one in the snow where they are trying to escape Amerikkka?:scared:

but I well remember how scary it was! :scared:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=226361&mesg_id=228081

The determinations are all "...at his determination..." Bush's discretion as to whom to arrest and detain. Dissenters to unpopular wars for example.

Like if Cuba flooded or something? Doesn't make any sense.

Please remind Dems in Congress next time not to include the '...at his determination...' language in the war authorization resolutions they use to end run the WarPowersAct of 1973

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2388890&mesg_id=2388992

With that unconstitutional language, Bush can declare anyone a threat to national security and round them up. Dissenters to an unpopular war for example. Or simply all his political enemies.

I've got to stop visiting this site. It sounds like they're building new "secret prisons" similar to the ones in Eastern Europe. Why use foreign gulags when we can build our own? And the reason makes no sense - emergency influx of immigrants? From where? We just ship illegal immigrants back, we don't hold them in detention centers. This is very weird.

The pretexts for using this power were needed, just as with the Iraq War. 'A New Pearl Harbor' is what PNAC called it. New detention camps, new era. Same result, lock up the dissenters any way possible, even if they're no threat and are speaking truth to power.

Or it could just be for immigrants. This is run by the ICE - which enforces border security & shuts down "vulnerabilities" in security. So far, the our gulags in East. Europe are just for Arabs we suspect have ties to Al-Queda. We kidnap them, send them to the gulag, and they disappear. But what do we care, they're just terrorists anyway, right? The fact that this is run through the ICE makes me suspect that this has to do w/a mass detention of immigrants, almost exactly like what we did in WWII to Japanese-Americans. Instead of an "emergency influx of immigrants," I think they're talking about an "emergency round-up of immigrants" that are already here in the US. It's been done before. Plus, even if we're using the facist model - most facist states didn't start out immediatly oppressing any opposition, instead it started out w/the "outsiders," the scapegoats that people didn't care so much about. It's too dangerous to immediatly try to persecute the 58% of Americans that don't support him; but if he did the same to immigrants as a "terrorist threat", many Americans would still support this action. Then come the political dissidents, once America has allowed the concept of detention centers to exist. :scared: OK, time to take off the tinfoil now.

""General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis.""

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/FEMA-Concentration-Camps3sep04.htm

And under the AUMF (authorization of use of military force) after 9-11 and the Joint Resolution for War in Iraq, both allowed language "...at his (Bush's) determination..." to identify whomever he wishes to go into such camps.

It seems reasonable to assume that Karl Rove would expand the determinations to include anyone who disagrees with Bush domestically and or internationally.

"If you're not with us, you're against us", therefore to the gulag.

This all violates the War Powers Act of 1973, but you'll never get Roberts and Alito, if confirmed, to be on the SCOTUS and vote against these dictatorial and unconstitutional executive powers.

An umbrella Dept of Homeland Security. Does that mean the Executive Orders have disappeared ? No. It just means that they've felt the heat from around 30 years of everyone finding out about FEMA's role so now they've found new loopholes.

Improvise, adapt, overcome. The enemy's sneaky, we've gotta have our stratergy down, dontcha see ?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/about/index.htm

""About ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is one component that completes Border and Transportation Security (BTS), which is underneath the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The mission of the entire BTS is to secure the nation's air, land, and sea borders. As an organization that is part of BTS, ICE also strives to achieve a more specific mission.

ICE's Mission
To prevent acts of terrorism by targeting the people, money, and materials that support terrorist and criminal activities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nation’s border, economic, transportation and infrastructure security.

ICE’s Vision
To be the nation's preeminent law enforcement agency, dedicated to detecting vulnerabilities and preventing violations that threaten national security. Established to combat the criminal and national security threats emergent in a post 9/11 environment, ICE combines a new investigative approach with new resources to provide unparalleled investigation, interdiction and security services to the public and our law enforcement partners in the federal and local sectors.""

A division of Homeland Security...the old FEMA jobs just realigned. Don't worry, the camps are stil there as are the Executive Orders. Move over, FBI NSA DIA etc etc a new 'kid' is on the block with its own intelligence capability and domestic spying role to play.

reassuring :eyes: "...prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion..." So long 1st ammendment, been nice to know ya.

My guess is that the coup is almost complete, but we need one more polarizing event.
Too many people are suspicious of this regime.
This time they are going to round them up.
It's over folks.:tinfoilhat:

afraid. I've never been as freaked out as I am right now.

If we can't stop Bu$h and his secret "new programs," we are totally fucked.

Frankly I'm surprised they haven't done this already -- I mean, all of them (they've certainly rounded up number of them.)

I don't buy the "immigration emergency" bit -- it's either for Arab-Americans or political dissenters and protestors, or both. They're already making it legal to arrest people for "disruption."

I fear for my family...step-father is from Iran, now US citizen, but is a Repuke (sigh)...and the Japanese citizens thought their country would never send them to internment camps...

thanks for the link :toast:

peace

"aliens or to support the rapid development of NEW programs."

What the hell are the NEW PROGRAMS? Has anyone found anything on this yet, do you know Marie?

Thanks!
V

to have the answer.. I'm really freaked out by this..

being read. I knew because it had been taped. I was often getting several pieces with tape a week for a couple of months (it took me a couple weeks before I even realized it was strange, a friend pointed it out). I was laughed at and called paranoid. There was something strange going on with my phone for a few months also. When I would *69 weird *no one there* calls, sometimes 5-8 a day, I would get "We have no record of the number in our system" or something to that effect and "This number is not in service".

Now that we know about the NSA snooping I feel vindicated and a lot more sane!

I made jokes about refusing to go to camp.

I guess it was not a very funny joke after all.

I am also a bit scared. But they can still kiss my ass.

Oops, that may have gotten me watched in the first place, or something else..

We will make it converted_dem, at least we stand a better chance than many, because we have seen it coming. It does give us just a small advantage.

Hang in there. :hug:

In peace
V

I wrote this first one in Aug. before we even knew about what was happening...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4435866

Then I wrote this one a week or so ago..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=172637

Looks like we are in the same boat.. I can't believe that this is America some days, it seems like a completely different country. You're right though, at least we can see it coming, many won't see it until it's too late. That is the one real advantage we hold. I'm just glad to have a place that people like us can get together and compare experiences, it makes me feel a little better. Thank you for your kind words, they made me feel better.

:hug:

satisfaction from FEDEX converted_dem! It sure sounds like some renegade psycho reich-wing worker there has a problem with your politics possibly. Or could a nutty neighbor have access to your mail? Don't let it slide please. Just to be careful.

My mail was coming from USPS and in perfect shape. Didn't even look opened at all and had clear tape across all of it. I've opened letters before to put in pics and things I've forgotten and taped it shut again and these did not look like that at all. It was just the strangest thing.

Anytime you need to talk or just a :hug: feel free to pm me. We've got to all be strong for each other to help keep our sanity in this ever maddening world.

In peace,
V

Sorry, I have no idea what that means, but it's definitely the scariest part. I kind of doubt even Halliburton knows. It seems like the "immigrant emergency" cover story was used even for the application process for this contract. Maybe it's just a boondoggle project to give Halliburton more money preparing for a non-emergency. Maybe it's really a plan for handling refugees after a terrorist attack, maybe it's for dissidents. I think we'd need more information about these "new programs" to start panicking about this, but it is pretty suspicious.

administration do best.

Hopefully it is just another way to give Helliburton and KBR more cash.

I can't believe I just said that. How sad to actually hope they are wasting more money rather than something more sinister.

What has happened to us?

In peace,
V

I hope that's all this is too.

toes, arms, legs and eyes crossed here. And I'm not superstitious.

Yep, here's to good old gov. waste.

In peace,
V

Right on cue. Ladies and Gentlemen...
this is the happy face of fascism - American style.

Step by step.... with corporate efficiency ....
we (the dissenters and disruptors) will be interned
for national security... exactly as another regime
did over seventy years ago. One by one we will go.
Without a trace. Who will be next ???

Frightened ??? You should be !

This went on for over a year......where is the outrage?

And this: "as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster..."

So, my friend, you tried to leave our Christian Worker's paradise? Obviously you are a traitor.

It's off to the re-education camps with you!

God Bless The United States of America!

God Bless our fearless leaders!

Let the Eagle Soar!



Ooops, sorry, wrong picture. Here's the right one:

There are good Jews and Moslems, and even while they are willfully ignorant and don't believe Jesus is the Actual Son of God, we are still children of the same God.

Like it says on our money, "In God We Trust." And our pledge too, "One Nation Under God."

So long as they show up for work on Friday and Saturday, and attend church Sunday like everyone else, we shouldn't disrespect their religious practices.

Tolerance for religious beliefs is what makes this country great!

It's all those communistic atheists and budhists and people like that we should be worrying about.

Splendid! Just what we need, more prisons and prisoners. 2.2 million is hardly enough. I just can hardly wait for construction to begin. Just like all our fraudulent wars, great way to spend our ever-diminishing taxpayer dollars.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2062553
thread title (1-24-06 LBN): KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M US detention ctrs

They're for martial law, and they're for US.

where we are headed.. (martial law, locking up protesters, and dissenters) I mean the immigration angle does not make a lick of sense when you think about it.. Didn't they just pass a law to build a fence across the Mexican Border? Canadians have it better than us, so why would they come here? The only mass exodus there could be would be Americans to Canada or Mexico.. And that is disturbing too, when you think about it. (Though I doubt that is what it is about.)There is just no other way to explain it, I don't think.. It has to be for dissenters, and protesters... Hell, I wish someone would tell me this isn't the way it is..

funding for border security.

That's why the release is worded as it is. They figure it's a win/win.

That's a much more reasonable explanation than anything else posted in this thread.

Homeland security measures at our banks, domestic spying, Alito confirmation hearings and one could think they are working on a schedule.

I believe they might just be "misunderestimating"
the number of Americans that will just sit by and allow them
to take away their relatives, friends, and neighbors.

Ya think?

But that did not stop them when it came to Iraq, and I really doubt that will stop them this time either.