Detention Camps Revives Proposals From Oliver North

Related stories have been posted in the last week or so from other sources like consortiumnews.com, but I haven't sees this one, dated March 1, 2006:

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/010306_b_camps.htm

excerpt:

The Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Brown and Root) announced on Jan. 24 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps. Two weeks later, on Feb. 6, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the Fiscal Year 2007 federal budget would allocate over $400 million to add 6,700 additional detention beds (an increase of 32 percent over 2006). This $400 million allocation is more than a four-fold increase over the FY 2006 budget, which provided only $90 million for the same purpose.

Both the contract and the budget allocation are in partial fulfillment of an ambitious 10-year Homeland Security strategic plan, code-named ENDGAME, authorized in 2003. According to a 49-page Homeland Security document on the plan, ENDGAME expands "a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798." Its goal is the capability to "remove all removable aliens," including "illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers (required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists."

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It is relevant that in 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be "enemy combatants." On Feb. 17 of this year, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country's security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called "news informers" who needed to be combated in "a contest of wills." Two days earlier, citing speeches critical of Bush by Al Gore, John Kerry, and Howard Dean, conservative columnist Ben Shapiro called for "legislation to prosecute such sedition."

Since 9/11 the Bush administration has implemented a number of inter-related programs, which had been planned for secretly in the 1980s under President Reagan. These so-called "Continuity of Government" or COG proposals included vastly expanded detention capabilities, warrantless eavesdropping and detention, and preparations for greater use of martial law.

Prominent among the secret planners of this program in the 1980s were then-Congressman Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who at the time was in private business as CEO of the drug company G.D. Searle. The principal desk officer for the program was Oliver North, until he was forced to resign in 1986 over Iran-Contra.

It guarentees the right of freedom of associate, and the right to peaceably assemble, AND the right to freedom of association. I have the right, hence, to freedom of speech, and to have the government address my grievances.

REALLY.

Go look it up.

And shame on you for data-mining, and shame on you for participating in the desecration of my beloved U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

How can you sleep at night, doing things to support a bunch of monsters?

:hi:

is it another Capitol Hill Blue?

Rights. The vote was 95% to pass the Patriot Act without Russ' Amendments to protect the rights of American citizens and only 3 other Senators stood with Russ. Even Boxer, Feinstein, Kerry and Kennedy voted against the rights of the American people. Please thank Russ. No mention of this important event today on the front page of DU.
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Patriot Act
He's providing evidence that people in this country support amendments to the Patriot Act to protect the liberties granted in the Constitution.

http://www.AlterNet.org - Rights and Liberties:

:wtf: Bush's Mysterious "New Programs" :argh: scroll down to read http://www.alternet.org/story/32647/

Frightening
Feb 23, 2006 2:22 AM

The Long War... Martial law... Detention without trial... Suppression of dissent... This piece does a nice job of bringing together a number of seemingly unrelated elements and building a bigger, more frightening picture.

I have been saying here and in my private communications that one of the most disturbing aspects of the current regime is that they act as if they will never be held to account, that there will never be a day of reckoning for all their misdeeds. As if the revolution upon which they have embarked will never be undone. Talk of impeachment or a change in control of either or both houses of Congrees does not seem to worry them. They just press ahead with their agenda apparently unconcerned with the political consequences. So much so that one has to wonder whether their plans preclude political consequences.

Does not this feel like a coup d'etat?

==Impeach the megalomaniacs

Holy Shit!! This is SCARY stuff! Just how far are are Americans going to let these EVIL cowboys go?!... before you all are living in a military dictatorship where ANYONE - foreigner or citizen - can be locked for good up on a whim? Impeach the megalomaniacs before it is too late!!!!!