Monday, February 4, 2008

“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”

- Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943

Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of “an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.

According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of “all removable aliens” and “potential terrorists.”

Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton. But the real question is: What kind of “new programs” require the construction and refurbishment of detention facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house perhaps millions of people? MORE

To those of us that receive our news from sources other than the MSM, the facts alleged in the story were no surprise, but the lack of comments, and those of a negative nature were indeed a surprise. Why are the bulk of Americans so complacent? This is one of the comments that appears online:

watcher2 wrote:

I suggest that Seiler and Hamburg re-read the title to their piece…”Rule by fear or rule by law”…and then examine the activities of those they seek to defend. “Activists” (I use the term loosely) whose appear unable to understand the difference between: “I don’t like what you do, please stop”, and “I don’t like what you do and if you don’t stop, I’ll (burn your car, burn your house, threaten you with physical violence…or if you happen to live in England…I’ll rob the graves of your relatives or attack you with baseball bats…insert your own threat)”, and have failed to understand the difference between protest and blackmail. I don’t recall the right to blackmail as a part of the 1st amendment…or did I miss that? More power to Ms Harman. In her own state there resides a medic who advocates the killing of researchers as a defensible was to save the lives of lab rats….rule by fear or rule by law? Hmmm, think I know where I stand on that one.

When you take into consideration the importance of a mainstream newspaper actually breaking the silence on this issue, I expected pages of comments, however, the original article was published on February 4th, and so far, there have only been five (5) comments, two of them made today. The article was concise and didn’t go into the specifics when I wrote Now We Know Why There’s A Press Blackout On S 1959 - It’s Called “ENDGAME” By DHS on December 21st, 2007, but they did cover the essentials - and it went nowhere. Why? It’s one thing when people don’t choose to believe what we research and write on our Blogs, but when the public ignores a dire warning by a mainstream newspaper, it’s obvious that America’s complacency, if it doesn’t stop soon, could be the final nail in FEMA’s coffin for all of us.

William Cormier

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