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CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS
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In a revealing admission the Director of Resource Management
for the U.S. Army confirmed the validity of a memorandum
relating to the establishment of a civilian inmate labor program
under development by the Department of the Army. The
document states, "Enclosed for your review and comment is the
draft Army regulation on civilian inmate labor utilization" and the
procedure to "establish civilian prison camps on installations."
Cherith Chronicle, June 1997.
Civilian internment camps or prison camps, more commonly known as
concentration camps, have
been the subject of much rumor and speculation during the past few years in
America. Several
publications have devoted space to the topic and many talk radio programs
have
dealt with the issue.
However, Congressman Henry Gonzales (D, Texas) clarified the question of
the existence of
civilian detention camps. In an interview the congressman stated, "the truth
is yes - you do have these
stand by provisions, and the plans are here...whereby you could, in the name
of stopping
terrorism...evoke the military and arrest Americans and put them in detention
camps."
HISTORY OF CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS
The concept of mass internment camps was implemented during the decade of
the 1930's when
the idea was either integrated into national security planning or put to
actual use in the world's three
socialistic experiments - the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the United
States
under Roosevelt.
On March 9, 1933, Adolph Hitler put his Dachau detention center into
operation where thousands
of his own countrymen were sent. (Source: Martin Gilber,The Holocaust).
Stalin
exterminated 7 to
10 million in his rural collectivization program from 1931-1933 and another
10
million in the purges
of 1934-1939. It was this decade that the Soviet Gulag proved its worth. On
August 24, 1939, FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover met with FDR to develop a detention plan for the
United States. Five
months after this meeting, Hitler opened the Auschwitz detention center in
Poland.
On August 3, 1948, J. Edgar Hoover met with Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath to form a
plan whereby President Truman could suspend constitutional liberties during a
national emergency.
The plan was code-named "Security Portfolio" and, when activated, it would
authorize the FBI to
summarily arrest up to 20,000 persons and place them in national security
detention camps.
Prisoners would not have the right to a court hearing or habeas corpus
appeal.
Meanwhile, "Security
Portfolio" allowed the FBI to develop a watch list of those who would be
detained, as well as
detailed information on their physical appearance, family, place of work,
etc.
(David Burnham,
Above the Law).
Two years later Congress approved the Internal Security Act of 1950 which
contained a provision
authorizing an emergency detention plan. Hoover was unhappy with this law
because it did not
suspend the constitution and it guaranteed the right to a court hearing
(habeas corpus). "For two
years, while the FBI continued to secretly establish the detention camps and
work out detailed
seizure plans for thousands of individuals, Hoover kept badgering...[Attorney
General McGrath for]
official permission to ignore the 1950 law and carry on with the more
ferocious 1948 program. On
November 25, 1952, the attorney general...caved in to Hoover." ibid.
Congress repealed the Emergency Detention Act of 1950 more than twenty
years later in 1971.
Seemingly the threat of civilian internment in the United States was over,
but
not in reality. The
Senate held hearings in December, 1975, revealing the ongoing internment plan
which had never
been terminated. The report, entitled, "Intelligence Activities, Senate
Resolution 21", disclosed the
covert agenda. In a series of documents, memos and testimony by government
informants, the
picture emerged of the designs by the federal government to monitor,
infiltrate, arrest and incarcerate
a potentially large segment of American society.
The Senate report also revealed the existence of the Master Search
Warrant
(MSW) and the
Master Arrest Warrant (MAW) which are currently in force. The MAW document,
authorized by
the United States Attorney General, directs the head of the FBI to: "Arrest
persons whom I deem
dangerous to the public peace and safety. These persons are to be detained
and
confined until further
order." The MSW also instructs the FBI Director to "search certain premises
where it is believed that
there may be found contraband, prohibited articles, or other materials in
violation of the Proclamation
of the President of the United States." It includes such items as firearms,
shortwave radio receiving
sets, cameras, propaganda materials, printing presses, mimeograph machines,
membership and
financial records of organizations or groups that have been declared
subversive, or may be hereafter
declared subversive by the Attorney General."
Since the Senate hearings in 1975, the steady development of highly
specialized surveillance
capabilities, combined with the exploding computerized information
technologies, have enabled a
massive data base of personal information to be developed on millions of
unsuspecting American
citizens. It is all in place awaiting only a presidential declaration to be
enforced by both military and
civilian police.
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan issued National Security Directive 58
which empowered
Robert McFarlane and Oliver North to use the National Security Council to
secretly retrofit FEMA
(Federal Emergency Management Agency) to manage the country during a national
crisis. The 1984
"REX exercises" simulated civil unrest culminating in a national emergency
with a contingency plan for
the imprisonment of 400,000 people. REX 84 was so secretive that special
metal
security doors
were installed on the FEMA building's fifth floor, and even long-term
officials of the Civil Defense
Office were prohibited entry. The ostensible purpose of this exercise was to
handle an influx of
refugees created by a war in Central America, but a more realistic scenario
was the detention of
American citizens.
STATE OF EMERGENCY
Under "REX" the President could declare a state of emergency, empowering
the head of FEMA
to take control of the internal infrastructure of the United States and
suspend the constitution. The
President could invoke executive orders 11000 thru 11004 which would: 1-
Draft
all citizens into
work forces under government supervision. 2- Empower the postmaster to
register all men, women
and children. 3- Seize all airports and aircraft. 4- Seize all housing and
establish forced relocation of
citizens.
FEMA, whose black budget comes from the Department of Defense, has worked
closely with the
Pentagon in an effort to avoid the legal restrictions of Posse Comitatus.
While FEMA may not have
been directly responsible for these precedent-setting cases, the principle of
federal control was seen
during the Los Angeles riots in 1992 with the federalization of the National
Guard and during the
siege at Waco, where Army tanks equipped with flame throwers were involved in
the final
conflagration.
GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE IS "LEGITIMATE"?
The Deputy Attorney General of California commented at a conference that
anyone who attacks
the State, even verbally, becomes a revolutionary and an enemy by definition.
Louis Guiffreda, who
was head of FEMA, stated that "legitimate violence is integral to our form of
government, for it is
from this source that we can continue to purge our weaknesses."
It is significant to note that the dictionary definition of terrorism
- "the calculated use of violence" - corresponds precisely to the
government's stated policy of "the use of legitimate violence." One
might ask, who are the real terrorists? Guiffreda's remark gives a
revealing insight into the thinking of those who have been charged
with oversight of the welfare of the citizens in this country. If one's
convictions or philosophy does not correspond with the
government's agenda, that individual may find himself on the
government's enemy list. This makes him a "target" to be "purged"
by the use of "legitimate violence."
If one forgets the past, he will not be prepared for the future.
Written 9/8/97 >>
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