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Sunday, 06/11/2006 9:17:33 AM

Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:17:33 AM

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homeland security contracts for vast new detention camps..

by Peter Dale Scott

February 6, 2006
Pacific News Service
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle
&code=%20SC20060206&articleId=1897

Editor's Note: A little-known $385 million contract for
Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for "an emergency
influx of immigrants" is another step down the Bush administration's road
toward martial law, the writer says.

A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million
contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary
detention and processing capabilities."

The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and
construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of
immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the
event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release
offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or
when.

To date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended
provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have
occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded
that this is a "contingency contract" and that conceivably no centers might
be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that
detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush
administration were to declare martial law.

For those who follow covert government operations abroad
and at home, the contract evoked ominous memories of Oliver North's
controversial Rex-84 "readiness exercise" in 1984. This called for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000
imaginary "refugees," in the context of "uncontrolled population movements"
over the Mexican border into the United States. North's activities raised
civil liberties concerns in both Congress and the Justice Department. The
concerns persist.

"Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after
the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters," says
Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon
Papers, the U.S. military's account of its activities in Vietnam. "They've
already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration'
detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo."

Plans for detention facilities or camps have a long
history, going back to fears in the 1970s of a national uprising by black
militants. As Alonzo Chardy reported in the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987, an
executive order for continuity of government (COG) had been drafted in 1982
by FEMA head Louis Giuffrida. The order called for "suspension of the
Constitution" and "declaration of martial law." The martial law portions of
the plan were outlined in a memo by Giuffrida's deputy, John Brinkerhoff.

In 1985, President Reagan signed National Security
Decision Directive 188, one of a series of directives that authorized
continued planning for COG by a private parallel government.

Two books, James Mann's "Rise of the Vulcans" and James
Bamford's "A Pretext for War," have revealed that in the 1980s this parallel
structure, operating outside normal government channels, included the
then-head of G. D. Searle and Co., Donald Rumsfeld, and then-Congressman
from Wyoming Dick Cheney.

After 9/11, new martial law plans began to surface similar
to those of FEMA in the 1980s. In January 2002 the Pentagon submitted a
proposal for deploying troops on American streets. One month later John
Brinkerhoff, the author of the 1982 FEMA memo, published an article arguing
for the legality of using U.S. troops for purposes of domestic security.

Then in April 2002, Defense Dept. officials implemented a
plan for domestic U.S. military operations by creating a new U.S. Northern
Command (CINC-NORTHCOM) for the continental United States. Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld called this "the most sweeping set of changes since the
unified command system was set up in 1946."

The NORTHCOM commander, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
announced, is responsible for "homeland defense and also serves as head of
the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).... He will command
U.S. forces that operate within the United States in support of civil
authorities. The command will provide civil support not only in response to
attacks, but for natural disasters."

John Brinkerhoff later commented on PBS that, "The United
States itself is now for the first time since the War of 1812 a theater of
war. That means that we should apply, in my view, the same kind of command
structure in the United States that we apply in other theaters of war."

Then in response to Hurricane Katrina in Sept. 2005,
according to the Washington Post, White House senior adviser Karl Rove told
the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, that she should
explore legal options to impose martial law "or as close as we can get." The
White House tried vigorously, but ultimately failed, to compel Gov. Blanco
to yield control of the state National Guard.

Also in September, NORTHCOM conducted its highly
classified Granite Shadow exercise in Washington. As William Arkin reported
in the Washington Post, "Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and
compartmented operation related to the military's extra-legal powers
regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military
operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control."

It is clear that the Bush administration is thinking
seriously about martial law.

Many critics have alleged that FEMA's spectacular failure
to respond to Katrina followed from a deliberate White House policy: of
paring back FEMA, and instead strengthening the military for responses to
disasters.

A multimillion program for detention facilities will
greatly increase NORTHCOM's ability to respond to any domestic disorders.

Peter Dale Scott is author of "Drugs, Oil, and War: The
United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina" (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2003). He is completing a book on "The Road to 9/11." Visit his
Web site .

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US Concentration Camps?
KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. was
awarded a $385 million 1-year contract (with 4 1-year options) from the
Department of Homeland Security to establish “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.”

“We are especially gratified to be awarded this contract,” an executive
vice president, Bruce Stanski, said in a statement, “because it builds on
our extremely strong track record in the arena of emergency management
support.”
It’s amazing someone can stand up and say something like that, given the
historical facts. Sigh.

So, the question is, why do we need concentration camps in the US, and who’s
really gonna sit in them??

Terrorists? Immigrants to be deported? Victims of natural (or unnatural)
events? Poor people? Old people? Whoever doesn’t sign up for the drug
benefit written by the insurance industry? (the last a lame attempt at
humor, sorry)

American citizens culled for one of the rapidly-developing “new programs”?

What kind of programs require major expansion of detention centers, each
capable of holding 5,000 people?

Let’s ask the Bush administration exactly what it means by the “rapid
development of new programs,” which might require the construction of a new
network of detention / labor / concentration camps across the United States!

“Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11
for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters,” says Daniel Ellsberg,
a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S.
military’s account of its activities in Vietnam. “They’ve already done this
on a smaller scale, with the ’special registration’ detentions of immigrant
men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.”
Peter Dale Scott, author of Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in
Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina, suggests that it could be a
preparation for conditions of martial law, and notes that a multimillion
program for detention facilities “will greatly increase NORTHCOM’s ability
to respond to any domestic disorders.”

…in April 2002, Defense Dept. officials implemented a plan for domestic
U.S. military operations by creating a new U.S. Northern Command
(CINC-NORTHCOM) for the continental United States. Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld called this “the most sweeping set of changes since the unified
command system was set up in 1946.”

The NORTHCOM commander, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced, is
responsible for “homeland defense and also serves as head of the North
American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)…. He will command U.S. forces
that operate within the United States in support of civil authorities. The
command will provide civil support not only in response to attacks, but for
natural disasters.”

John Brinkerhoff later commented on PBS that, “The United States itself is
now for the first time since the War of 1812 a theater of war. That means
that we should apply, in my view, the same kind of command structure in the
United States that we apply in other theaters of war.”

…NORTHCOM conducted its highly classified Granite Shadow exercise in
Washington. As William Arkin reported in the Washington Post, “Granite
Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to
the military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It
allows for emergency military operations in the United States without
civilian supervision or control.”
For an excellent, but chilling overview of some of the possibilities here
(including labor camps, dissident and “Fifth Columnist” roundups, and so
on), take a look at “Bush’s Mysterious ‘New Programs’” by Nat Parry,
Consortium News, posted February 23, 2006. at AlterNet.

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