"Concentration Camps in U.S."....how real is this???

[whistle]

...Here is a site with pictures and locations. Has any MSM investigated this to determine if in fact the story is true?


Photos, testimonials, commentary regarding detention / concentration camps in America run by foreign troops -- eventually to be filled with patriots who oppose the New World Order when martial law comes?

http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Concentration_Camps/

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps_confirmed.htm

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

http://www.greatdreams.com/concentration.htm

[mark414]

1. take a peek around those sites...

they're all off their rockers

[Placebo]

2. Ya gotta be INSANE to believe those are "concentration camps"

as the people on those websites obviously are

please :eyes:

[Name removed]

17. Deleted message

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[mattclearing]

21. Sorry, I declare bullshit.

I'm not willing to believe they couldn't be capable of that at some point, but not since 96.

And not 600.

And not shaped like skulls.

Maybe one, but not all three.

And box cars? Link? Photo?

No way.

[thecai]

27. Sorry To Disappoint You

Seattle gvt. denied the existence of one, for years, until so many people found it, now it is The Federal Detention Center. Okanogan County Commissioner David Schultz demanded to know why there is one in Okanogan County, WA (near Canadian border), there was a news segment on KXLY4 in Spokane on Feb. 25, 2003 about it. It accompanied a link to a site listing over 600 camps. The following day the link was disabled, (but not before I had printed it).
Certain professionals boast of the camps, (I cannot say who, or my post will get deleted.)
See one of my posts below, for more info...

[mattclearing]

30. I'm not disappointed.

I'm just saying, I think that kind of allegation with that little information is simply short of credible.

Reports get pulled because people in power don't want them to be seen.

But they also get pulled because they are bullshit.

I'm willing to believe elements of this could be possible, but all of your story taken together is just utterly mind-bogglingly silly.

I googled it. I read some of what came up. It all seems pretty weak.

[thecai]

34. Have You Ever Flown At Night?

Some of "the skulls" are lit up in bright, red lights. Especially CA and OK.

[mattclearing]

37. Then why are there no pictures?

I'll remember the next time I head out west to keep an eye out, but you'd think with all the people out there scared shitless of the Administration, there'd be a bit more info you could point to?

[thecai]

43. Maybe Not Everyone

Is "scared shitless of the Administration". Maybe that's why many of us post unpopular information. Raising awareness is important, IMO.
Here's another suggestion: get a prison guard drunk and listen to him boast of what they will do when * declares marshall awww.

[mattclearing]

44. I don't care if your information is popular.

I only care if you have evidence.

EVIDENCE. You've shown me nothing but a lot of cheap talk.

You have failed to persuade me. Bedtime.

[thecai]

47. Perhaps Because You Already DO Know

Sleep tight. Don't waste any of your precious time conducting your own search.

[mattclearing]

48. I searched. Twice. I told you that.

You can't blame me for being skeptical. You haven't provided anything to support what you are saying.

How do you expect anyone to take you seriously?

[Dookus]

134. Why would your post get deleted

for mentioning professionals? It violates no rule.

[thecai]

137. My Posts Get Deleted

Frequently. (All but one deleted on this thread were mine, I believe).
"Too much information", would be MY guess, as the reason. Some posters are offended by the facts, and I suspect they push "alert".
But these camps are real. As you drive alongside one, all you see are small hills. Everything is hidden from view. Some of the "alleged" camps are blacked out on satellite pictures.

[Dookus]

145. Hitting alert doesn't

automatically get a post deleted. The mods have to agree that it breaks a rule.

There is no rule against posting valid information.

[vpigrad]

3. I think those sites are run by trolls...

to make people who question why those places exist in the US look bad. It's a nice misinformation tactic.

This, of course, leads to the question of what all of those empty, barb-wired surrounded places are for. Why were they built?

[Journeyman]

4. Would these be the same "concentration camps" . . .

people worried about back during the '60s?

[whistle]

6. Don'no, that's why I posted the thread....

[thecai]

49. KXLY 2-25-03

Concentration Camps in Okanagon County?

Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz says he's convinced his county is a designated home for a ``concentration camp'' in case of civil unrest.
Schulz says he has copies of documents, although he hasn't been able to confirm the rumor.

Federal officials say they have no idea where the commissioner got the notion of civilian detention camps.

A Federal Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman says it sounds like an urban legend and a Pentagon spokesman says he's not aware of any planned camps in Okanogan County or elsewhere.

Rumors of planned U.S. detention facilities appear on dozens of Web sites.

Schulz says he thinks the plan has been written in the event of a national emergency where martial law is necessary, and hopes it never becomes necessary.


by
(2/25/2003 3:52:00 PM)
©2000-2004 KXLY Broadcasting Group. All Rights Reserved.

[thecai]

53. The Response Is Always The Same

Denial, calling the information "urban legend' or "conspiracy", and more. I've seen (and circulated) dozens of satellite pictures, then Mapquest discontinues aerial views, I've interviewed many witnesses, links, maps, and pictures disappear, makes ya wonder what are they hiding?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Can I get cable and three squares?? What if I vote for shrub in his

fourth term, can I get a reprieve?? What about volleyball, will there be volleyball? Suddenly I am thinking about Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption.... spooky.

[thecai]

55. The Prisons Manufacture The Prison Food

You'll only get whatever the inmates grow, manufacture, and prepare. I don't know if you'll be able to purchase tv's in the camps like in regular prisons.

[Turbineguy]

7. Yeah, but these guys

in the websites seem to think they'll get the slammer if "Democrats" get elected.

Huge irony, really.

[kdmorris]

8. Err, Ok

I only got through part of that first link and looked at the pictures on the second, but I wonder why, in two of the pictures on the second link, the signs are in Serbian? The say Srebrenca {so many kilometers}.

I guess that's to prove that we let SERBIANS build concentration camps here? Or something? :eyes:

Not that that necessarily disqualifies completely this assumption, just sheds large amounts of doubt on it.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. The signs are not in Serbian

otherwise they would be written in a Cyrillic alphabet.

Perhaps this was a training area during the Kosovo conflict
:shrug:

[kdmorris]

62. Good Point...

That's a good idea, too. I just found it strange that the sign pointed out the way to Srebrenca and listed the mileage in kilometers (which most American's don't use or understand). I could go with a training area.

[Warren DeMontague]

64. Well, if it's 17 KILOMETERS from Srebenca, that gives a pretty

good clue as to where it is, doesn't it? (Here's a clue- it's not in Mississippi.)

And again, why the F*ck is anyone on DU going to take the word of the self-described "Mississippi State Militia" (which sounds like a right-wing white supremacist nutjob outfit If I've ever heard one) about ANYTHING?

[kdmorris]

66. I have no idea

Most of the stuff on those sites talk about how Clinton is going to shove us all in a concentration camp, because he is letting the UN take over, yada yada yada.

They don't seem any kinder to Bush, but I agree with your assessment (right-wing white supremacist nutjobs).

[Art_from_Ark]

126. The sign is bogus

It says 17.5 kilometers (11 miles) to Srebrenica and .5 kilometer to Kladanj. That would mean that Kladanj would be at most 18 kilometers from Srebrenica, yet a check of a map of Bosnia-Herzogovina shows that the two towns are at least 60 kilometers apart.

Also, Srebrenica is in a very hilly area, not flatlands like the photos.

[Warren DeMontague]

128. Well, I guess that proves it then.

The ARE Concentration Camps in Mississippi. Help!!!!!!!!!!!

[Art_from_Ark]

150. I never said anything about concentration camps in Mississippi

I was merely pointing out the error in your conclusion that "if the sign says Srebrenica, it can't be in Mississippi"

This area was apparently used for war games. The army does that sort of thing all the time.

[Warren DeMontague]

155. ...In case you didn't notice, that's the point of this crackhead thread.

My point was, those pictures could be of anything, and they could be from anywhere.

[Art_from_Ark]

157. I will agree that the pictures themselves prove nothing

They could very easily be from Mississippi, as far as that goes . I doubt they are from Srebrenica, though, since that area is extremely hilly, and the alphabet in use in that part of Bosnia-Herzogovina (which is called the Republic of Srpska) is Cyrillic, like Russian. What's more, the distances cannot be correct.

Sounds like leftover army war games materials to me.

[Warren DeMontague]

158. The pictures prove nothing, and the websites are either

white supremacy right-wingut militia sites, or they are recycling "information" which was generated by similar groups during the Clinton administration. Which pretty much seals the deal for me.

[Art_from_Ark]

68. The military uses metric measurements

What's more, if they wanted to "simulate" Serbia, they would use kilometers on the road signs. However, if they used actual Cyrillic letters on the signs, it might be too confusing (especially considering the military maps would be in English). So my guess is that it was just some kind of training set-up.

[Warren DeMontague]

109. So, what part does a "Simulated Serbia" play in the

Mississippi "Concentration Camp" plan?

Is there a rational narrative to this shit? Or is it more fun to go "Help! There are Concentration Camps in the US!!!" because some gaggle of toothless deliverance retreads posts a bunch of pictures of a field, a ramshackle "guard tower" and some barbed wire.

That could be fucking anywhere.

Allow me to reiterate. That is what you have here, in the way of "evidence". A field. A Tower. Some Barbed Wire.

Ooooooh, shit, I'm scared now!!

Alberto Gonzales trying to weasel his way out of the Geneva convention, that scares me. This kind of rightwing nutbar shit doesn't.

[TR Fan]

99. Technically correct, but...

the language spoken in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia is Serbo-Croatian, which can (and is) written in both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets. I've seen many signs like that in Sarajevo.

[Art_from_Ark]

119. Welcome to Srebrenica

[Igel]

101. You're right. THEY'RE WRITTEN IN CROATIAN!!

Or Bosnian. Terribly hard to tell the difference with just a few words.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. This is old stuff. The planning is real, but the actual

properties are not set up.

[thecai]

18. They've Been Set Up For YEARS.

Google concentration camps in America. There were hundreds, ten years ago, I don't know how many are complete now.
Most are near water companies, railroad tracks, airports, and golf courses.

[bonito]

10. Well has any

body done a real investagation on the subject, all I here is gossip, maybe truth out has a comment on the subject?

[thecai]

19. I've Done Years of Research On Them

Google "State By State Index of Concentration Camps". There are several sites that offer a list, with addresses and locations, you can view some of them on globeXplorer.
Repeal The PATRIOT Acts.

[thecai]

81. Common Dreams Often Reports On This

And of course, Alex Jones and Jeff Rense, et al.:tinfoilhat:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

147. Rense

So, the jews are setting up concentration camps?

[ck4829]

11. It's Oliver North's fault.

Check out my latest thread.

[FlavaKreemSnak]

12. They are just the FEMA camps for when the gov declares martial law

Most of them are not ready yet though, and they only have enough for a few million people.

[thecai]

20. Alaska's Will Hold 2 Million

Many will hold hundreds of thousands, a few will hold millions. The one in Alaska is in a remote area accessible by aircraft only.

[The Magistrate]

29. As A Point Of Curiousity, Ma'am

How is it proposed to handle the logistics of transporting two million people to a place accessible only by air...?

[thecai]

31. By Aircraft

One flight at a time. You couldn't GUESS that?

[mattclearing]

36. *slaps forehead* n/t

[thecai]

41. Perhaps You Could Tell Me Why

When I go to my saved AOL News articles concerning this issue, I get "Sorry. You are denied access to that area"?

[mattclearing]

42. Perhaps because you don't know how to use a computer?

Who uses AOL???

[thecai]

46. I've Already

...explained (in other threads) I lack computer skills. THAT'S no secret. But up until my house was broken into while I not at home and my phone and computer were tampered with, I COULD access all my favorites.
Two days after I threw my phone away, I was invited back to a forum I had been banned* from.
*for posting articles and links to concentration camps and the Patriot Acts.
Go figure. And now you know I'm a "target".

[The Magistrate]

40. How Large Is The Air-Strip, Ma'am?

What size machines can it handle?

[thecai]

54. Apparently Large Enough To

Fly in the building materials, supllies, contracters, staff, etc.

[The Magistrate]

59. What Do You Mean By Apparently, Ma'am?

The arithmetic of this sort of thing fascinates me. For any decent sized transport machine nowadays, several thousand feet of runway is required. This is tens of thousands of tonnes of concrete, and reinforcing materials, which would have to be flown in in penny packets by bush planes Heavy machinery, such as levelling scrapers and rollers, would be required, and hundreds of laborers, and a good deal of fuel. Then, once in operation, something like two hundred persons per flight would seem reasonable for "back of the envelope" calculations, and suggests something on the order of ten thousand flights would be required to move two million people. Fifty flights a day, working round the clock, would be an extraordinarily efficient operation. If these moved just people, it would require about eight months. But of course, two million people, even on starvation rations, would require something on the order of a thousand tonnes of food each day, which would require, at twenty tonnes per flight, fifty flights a day, and so there would quickly some a crossing point where the need to fly in supplies would stretch out the capability of flying in new prisoners to a degree resembling Zeno's Paradox. Water has been left out of the calculation, but water for two million people is a daunting and weighty thing to organize as well, even if near a river. The thing really does not seem a particularly practicable by air; it is the sort of thing that requires railroads....

[thecai]

83. Aircraft and Railroads?

Well, maybe the it's the same contracters who built the pyramids. :shrug:
I don't HAVE all the answers. I simply raise awareness to the injustice and corruption permeating our nation.

[Zhade]

92. Oh, that was BEAUTIFULLY done.

Bravo!

[arwalden]

125. That's Pure Artwork!

[geniph]

132. Kind of puts the Berlin Airlift to shame, doesn't it?

I'm quite familiar with Okanogan county, and believe me, getting ANYTHING in there in mass quantities would be one hellacious undertaking.

[Filimon]

13. hee hee hee

My goodness!

We are just going to have to do better than this.

One pic is obviously from former yugoslavia because srebreniza is certainly NOT 10 miles from anywhere near the US.

This is shameful in its stupidity.

I wonderwhy I even bothered to comment?

[Filimon]

14. Can we choose?

On link had lists of all known camps. Can we choose which one to attend for reeducation? Come on - between Alaska and Hawaii? I want Hawaii!

[mattclearing]

22. We deserve this, for this ridiculous thread. n/t

[thecai]

84. Justice?

Is that what you call justice? Deserving of concentration camp incarceration "for this ridiculous thread"???
That explains a lot.

[OneBlueSky]

15. anyone think that BushCo ISN'T capable of this? . . . n/t

.

[thecai]

23. "Disappearing" Links

I attempted to post some of the links I have saved, but many say "Page Expired", "Error", "Page Could Not Be Displayed", etc.
(My computer was "tampered with" a couple years ago, that could be why I cannot access some of my saved links).

[mattclearing]

25. A likely story. n/t

[Name removed]

28. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[mattclearing]

35. You don't know anything about me.

Just because I'm shooting you down on this doesn't mean I don't believe in other things.

9/11 LIHOP/MIHOP? Sure. Election Fraud? Fine.

But your story is ridiculous, and you offer practically no backup.

But feel free to attack me. It's just one more ridiculous unfounded thing you've said.

[thecai]

38. I Suggest You Conduct A Google Search

Maybe the links will work on your computer.
I didn't "attack" you, please do not falsely accuse me. You are the one in attack-mode.

[mattclearing]

39. I said I did that in Post #30.

I googled concentration camps in the US. It brought up three relevant sites, and a bunch of unrelated stuff.

And there were little in the way of pictures.

If you can't prove it, you shouldn't say it. It's embarassing.

[Name removed]

50. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[thebigidea]

96. so if you think your computer was tampered with, why use it?

if strange powers behind our comprehension fucked up your computer YEARS ago, what the hell is your excuse for not getting a new one? Damnit, all of your secrets could be getting into the wrong hands. Why are you risking it all on a compromised computer?

ps. check behind the sink. disconnect the blue wire first.

[thecai]

110. Personal

You cannot communicate without cussing and belittling? Then don't waste my time and I won't dignify your sarcastic questions with any answers.

[Igel]

146. At the risk of pointing out the obvious,

considering the amount of planning and the sophistication required of the logistics ... and the natural reaction he'd get from most Americans ... No, I don't think he's capable of doing this.

Unless he's actually a genius that makes Einstein look like a rather dull sea urchin, and a magician that would put Gandalf and the other Maya taken together to shame.

[Zynx]

16. Mmmm....Patriots, New World Order....

Ahhh, that's *right* wing tinfoil hat stuff, not leftie tinfoil hat.

[ElectroPrincess]

24. Agreed, it doesn't get much stranger than this ...

FEMA AND THE REX 84 PROGRAM.

[raysr]

32. http://100777.com/doc/136

http://100777.com/doc/136 Reagan-FEMA

[achtung_circus]

122. I have concerns with any site that says this:

" #1) You must believe everything that the Zionists say about the Holocaust.

(Sorry, I don't believe everything the Zionists say about anything, including the Holocaust. I believe that like any historical event, it must be backed up with facts and it should be freely researched and debated. Zionists are denying the freedom of speech concerning the Holocaust. Also, the Zionists use the Holocaust as a license to kill Palestinians and steal their land. On top of that, the Zionists use the Holocaust to elevate Jewish suffering above all others' suffering.)"


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[kdmorris]

65. I feel like such a loser...

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[thecai]

51. I Question The "90%"

I recall seeing sci-fi movies years ago that were considered "conspiracy and fantasy", but now much of it is old news.
That's a good post, tho. jdots.
I had to hurry and print this thread before more disappeared.:tinfoilhat:

[Warren DeMontague]

52. Wow. That's some impressive research you've uncovered there.

The first site has "studies" on how Prince Charles might be the anti-christ, and how "Al Gore" = 666.. in ASCII, no less.

The second site comes to us from the "Mississippi Militia".. Why do I get the feeling these were the same people who were convinced that Bill Clinton was sending UN black helicopters to force their daughters to put condoms on bananas in public school?

Sorry, but it looks like you've found the deep, detailed investigative work of a bunch of religious end-times wackjobs, and right-wing white supremacist yahoos... I'm not saying there aren't real reasons to be concerned with trends towards overstepping constitutional bounds of power where the Bush admin. is concerned, but this is right up there with the Alien Autopsy video. Total Bullshit, and of the Low Budget toothless crank variety, to boot.

[thecai]

57. Black Helicopters

I live in the flight path of black helicopters, I see at least 2 a day.
Social Security = 42 USC 405 & 666.

Prisons are highly profitable slave-factories already, the gvt. prospers from incarcerations. Search for any prison website in any state, click on "industries". Prisons could maintain the country.

on edit: Prison Links (click on any state, then "industries")
http://www.doc.wa.gov/general/links.htm

[Warren DeMontague]

60. Really. And what is it they're doing? Is the UN Sending Them? Satan?

The Illuminati? The Pope?

As far as the prison/industrial complex, hell yes it's out of control... I never said it wasn't.

The way to fight that is to lobby to bring some sanity to the ridiculous drug war, first off.

But spreading wackjob babble about black helicopters and the "Anti-Christ" isn't terribly productive... at least not on my planet. But, really, enjoy. Knock yourself out.

[thecai]

79. "Sent By" Nearby Air Force Base

Who suggested anti-Christ? You? Although, martial law (and concentration camps) doesn't seem very Christ-like, does it?

[Warren DeMontague]

87. It's hard enough to get people to take seriously the very real threats to

liberty this Administration is unquestionably engaged in... Indefinite detention in places like Gitmo, relaxing of torture conventions, the Patriot act, all kinds of scary shit... floating a lot of nonsense from sites put up by illiterate right-wingers and religious end-times cranks hurts the cause because it makes anyone who questions the very real anti-liberty agenda of This Administration sound like as much of a kook as the folks who constitute your "sources" on this.

I notice you haven't spent a whole lot of time in this thread backing up your hyperbole, and even less time addressing the very real questions about just what exactly the flimsy pieces of "evidence" you've posted prove. To wit: The second site you link to, the one brought to us by the "Mississippi State Militia", the one with the oh-so-scary pictures of an empty field, a bit of barbed wire, and what might be a guard tower (shit, that proves it, I guess!) has a sign that says "Srebenca 17 Km." Now, maybe that is talking about Srebenca, Mississippi. Or maybe the "Mississippi State Militia" is so fucking retarded that they can't even master Photoshop enough to block out the sign that shoots holes through their pathetic wannabe pieces of "evidence".... Now, as for "who suggested Anti-Christ" (I guess when you're on as familiar a basis with the subject matter as you seem to be, using "The" becomes redundant) the first site you link to contains a number of links to "studies" pertaining to whether or not Prince Charles is THE Anti-Christ. Or Al Gore. Or some other such blabbering nonsense.

One last thing.. these black helicopters.. are they the same ones the right-wing white supremacy kooks were convinced Clinton was sending to bring the US under UN Control? Or are they different... Because a number of these sites you reference as sources seem to believe that this "martial law" and these "concentration camps" are not a product of Bush and the Neo-Cons, but rather are a left-wing plot to establish socialism in the US, steal all the guns from millions of rednecks, and stamp out Christianity to boot.

Is this true? Were these "Concentration Camps" started by Bill Clinton, as your sources seem to suggest? Is UN Mandated Socialism the threat? Racial Mixing? Gun Control? Birth Control?

It would help those of us you're trying to work up with your baseless alarmism just what, exactly, it is that you think is happening... and who precisely is doing it.

[thecai]

88. Many Were In Place BEFORE Clinton

Does it really matter WHO started them? More importantly, what matters is WHO is going to stop them. There are corrupt Democrats AS WELL as corrupt Republicans. Some are "in bed" together. Bush the first promoted a New World Order. Reagan "put the teeth in FEMA".
Jesus was not republican NOR democrat, but He said "As you have done to the least of these, the poor, the needy, the prisoners, you have done unto Me". Matt. 25:36-46
Jesus also said there are many anti-Christs, even in His day...

[Warren DeMontague]

89. Mmmmmmmmkay. Bye-Bye. nt

[libodem]

56. god say it's not true

[thecai]

58. I Wish To God It Wasn't True

Repeal the Patriot Acts.

[Warren DeMontague]

61. It's not true.

The truth sucks, no doubt about it.... but this particular stripe of penny ante right-wing kook crap isn't true.

[slaveplanet]

72. I can't verify

the poster's sites , and haven't even bothered to check those sites.
But like the old saying goes ...Truth is Stranger than fiction...How about Russian concentration camps on US soil....

http://statedepartmentwatch.org/GulagWrangell.htm

A massive Russian gulag concentration camp has been found on the American Wrangell Island in the Arctic Ocean (71° North, 178° West).

Photographs show acres of buildings, storage tanks, and roads built by Russians. Abandoned drums and tanks litter the landscape. A guard tower keeps out villagers from nearby Rodgers Harbor at its southeast location on the 3000-square-mile island.

“This is an astounding revelation. I call upon the President and Congress for immediate on-site investigation of this gulag on U. S. soil,” Olson demanded. “The U. S. government should de-classify all the spy satellite photos of Wrangell with its Russian gulag from the 1950s to the present.”

Wrangell Island was discovered and made part of the United States in August 1881 with the landing of famed explorer John Muir and the crew of U. S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin under the command of Capt. Calvin Leighton Hooper. The landing at the mouth of the Clark River was illustrated by Muir in his book “The Cruise of the Corwin”. Two weeks after the Corwin took possession, USS John Rodgers conducted a complete survey of the island, which turned out to equal the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. (snip)....pics provided

[Warren DeMontague]

73. Truth is stranger than fiction, certainly

... but that doesn't mean that, say, Prince Charles is the "anti-Christ".

[slaveplanet]

74. Ok..that is one whacked out site

the original poster listed, and certainly there must be other examples...but I couldn't find where it claims definitively, Charles is THE "anti-christ"....in context it does says this...snip-Because of the opposites found in word-number studies, these correlations with Prince Charles name and the prophecy of 666 do not necessarily prove a conclusion he is the anti Christ or even an anti Christ. They could actually indicate a potential opposite, that he will in the final analysis be a principal force for good in the world. -snip

[Warren DeMontague]

75. Well, that's certainly a relief.

*wipes sweat from brow, wonders whether it's time to alphabetize the sock drawer...*

:D

[muriel_volestrangler]

76. Wrangel Island is part of Russia

and acknowledged by the USA as such. See, for instance, the State Department page on it.

"None of the islands or rocks above were included in the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, and they have never been claimed by the United States, although Americans were involved in the discovery and exploration of some of them."

So the existence of a Soviet camp on the island is hardly surprising.

[slaveplanet]

77. wrongel

the Fact sheet is poppycock...and even if you want to swallow the Kissinger /Baker lies....the camp was documented long before the purported 1990 handover.

Wrangel was annexed by The US in 1881 and was NOT part of the Alaska purchase.

http://statedepartmentwatch.org/FactSheet.htm

FALSE “FACT SHEET” ISSUED BY U. S. STATE DEPARTMENT TO DISGUISE
ITS GIVEAWAY OF 8 ALASKAN ISLANDS AND VAST RESOURCE-RICH SEABEDS
TO THE RUSSIANS; LOSSES ESTIMATED IN BILLIONS OF BARRELS OF OIL
AND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF FISH ANNUALLY

The U. S. State Department has issued a false “fact sheet” in order to disguise its giveaway
of eight Alaskan islands and vast resource-rich seabeds to the Russians, it was reported by Carl
Olson, Chairman of State Department Watch, a foreign policy watchdog group headquartered in Washington, D. C.

Falsehoods about the American history of the eight islands, the negotiations over the
U.S.-Russia maritime boundary line, and the current status of demands by the Russians are in a
fact sheet titled “Status of Wrangel and Other Arctic Islands” issued May 20, 2003.

Completely untrue in the fact sheet is the statement, “None of these islands or rocks
above were included in the U. S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867….” The treaty in
1867 includes Copper Island along with its adjacent Sea Lion Rock and Sea Otter Rock.
In negotiating the treaty Secretary of State William Seward was willing to leave one Aleutian
island to the Russians, Bering Island, which is to the west of Copper. The treaty language
states at the end of Article 1, “…to the meridian of one hundred and ninety-three degrees
west <167 degrees east> longitude, so as to include in the territory conveyed the whole of
the Aleutian islands east of that meridian.” That meridian runs between Bering and Copper.

Also untrue is the assertion, “…they have never been claimed by the United States,
although Americans were involved in the discovery and exploration of some of them.”
Wrangell Island was discovered and annexed into the United States in 1881 by Americans.
U. S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin under the commanded by Captain Calvin
Leighton Hooper landed on Wrangell Island. Among the landing party was the famous
explorer John Muir, who wrote of this addition of a 3000-square mile island for America
in his book “The Cruise of the Corwin.”

[Art_from_Ark]

124. Wrangell Island is part of Alaska

http://www.wrangell.com/visitors/index.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

130. Check the latitude and longitude

71° North, 178° West. This is due north of the eastern end of the Russian mainland. Wrangell Island, Alaska is off SE Alaska. Both are named after Baron von Wrangel, who was in charge of a lot of the Russian exploration of eastern Siberia and Alaska.

The one with Russian buildings on has had a few people land on it - the first attempt to settle it was made on behalf of Canada, but the new Soviet Union chucked them off. Since the island was first talked about by the inhabitants of the mainland (Wrangel searched for it without success) and the first Western sighting was by Captain Kellet of the British Navy while searching for John Franklin, the American claim to it (because they landed and planted a flag, but never settled it) is fairly thin, and the US government never pushed it hard. Obviosly there are a few diehards at "State Department Watch" who think it would still be a good move for the USA to claim ownership of a few isolated islands north of Russia. Thank God for some diplomats at the State Dept, I say.

[slaveplanet]

151. hmmm

...the American claim to it (because they landed and planted a flag, but never settled it) is fairly thin...


If this is the criteria , think of how many British claims are THIN....

The Americans included John Muir....and they didn't just plant a blimey flag...they extensively surveyed it and ANNEXED it.....it was unclaimed at the time of the Alaska purchase.....what gives the State department the right to give away 3000 square miles without consent.In secret...

http://statedepartmentwatch.org/GiveawaySummary.htm

Wrangell Island: At 3,000 square miles, it is by far the largest of the five (equal to
Rhode Island and Delaware together). It was first landed on and formally taken into
U. S. possession on August 12, 1881, by direction of Captain Calvin Leighton Hooper
aboard U. S. Revenue Marine (Coast Guard) ship Thomas Corwin. Among the landing
party going ashore onto Wrangell was the famed explorer John Muir. He wrote about
his "notable addition...to the national domain" in his book "The Cruise of the Corwin".
In September 1881 USS Rodgers conducted an
extensive survey of the island under Navy Lieutenant Robert M. Berry. Wrangell was
named in honor of the Baltic Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangell, who had
conducted Arctic forays but never sighted nor landed on the island. (Note: Another
Wrangell Island exists near Juneau. It is not involved in this issue.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

154. Isn't that the State Department's job?

To decide what is worth pursuing in international relations, and what isn't worth it? With no American colonists on it, but it being known of by the inhabitants of Russia, the American claim was indeed thin.

What British claims are you thinking of? A lot of the 'British Antarctic Territory' is indeed disputed (though no-one is pushing their claims now anyway). What other uninhabited islands are you concerned about?

[slaveplanet]

156. I'm sure the state Department would

love to have the power to give away ,as many seemingly insignificant atolls , for god who know's what..brokered in some secret deal ... but as part of their job description ???

The Fact is Wrangel was annexed by the US , was not settled by Americans , but was settled by Russians who built a gulag on US soil.

No it's not worth it , the oil and fish resources are probably worth billions, and we don't even know what we recieved in return.

and if it's on the Up and Up , then why all the secrecy?

and you still haven't answered why there is a Russian gulag on a US annexed island in the 1950s before all the disputes came to light....

[muriel_volestrangler]

159. If you look back to post #130

you'll see that there was an attempt to claim it for Canada in the 1920s - and the Russians chucked them off then. The Russians were the only government interested in an icebound island off their north coast in the 1920s (Muir, when he landed, didn't even know it was an island):

Wrangel Island is off of the coast of Siberia, and is part of Russia, but in the early 20th century, the US and the British Empire also held contested claims to the land. Stefansson promoted the theory of the "friendly Arctic," which was that anyone who had common sense could live off of the land at even the northernmost areas of the Arctic. In 1921, motivated by both a desire to prove his theory as well as to make money (from the lectures and books that would follow, as well as his plan to obtain land rights on Wrangel Island after "claming" it for Canada), Stefansson sent 3 young Americans, 1 young Canadian, and a young Inuit woman to Wrangel Island. (Notably, Stefansson, as he had done before, stayed home). He sent them instructions to buy enough supplies in Seattle to last them six months, even though the expedition was slated to last at least a year. The idea was that the young men, with the help of Native hunters, would learn to live off of the land and thrive. No doubt you can see where this is headed...
...
What Stefansson did not tell them was that neither the Candian nor the British governments supported his venture, and that they were extremely wary about the idea of getting into a land dispute with the newly Communist Russian governmetn. The American State Department, over the course of the expedition, ruled that the island belonged to the Russians, and refused to give Stefansson any money to finance the relief boat (to refresh supplies and relieve the explorers after a year on the island, between June and August of 1922). Both the Canadians and the Brits also refused to help, and going to the Russians was not an option.

http://www.modernmuslima.com/archives/2004_03_07_archive.htm

'Annexing' it consisted of the crews of a couple of American boats saying "it's American". The Russians did the same in 1911. Realistically, the USA would have had to start a war to enforce a claim to it - it's far closer to the Russian mainland than Alaska, and getting to it is a literal expedition.

[slaveplanet]

160. Kettel did not find Wrangel

He only sighted the much smaller Herald island...

The small Herald Island, only 8 km2, is a massive chunk of granitic gneiss jutting 380 m above the sea. In 1849, a British search party discovered the island while looking for a lost explorer, and named it after the rescue ship. It was another 20 years before an American whaling ship discovered the larger Wrangel Island, 60 km west of Herald. It was named for the explorer and Russian Navy Lieutenant F. P. von Vrangel who had searched for the island after hearing about it from the native people of Chukchi. He traveled from Chukotka over the ice by dog sled several times in 1821-1823 but never reached the island. http://www.wild-russia.org/bioregion1/1-wrangel/1_wrangel.htm

Muir did not know it was an Island because it was icebound and impossible to verify in the 19th century, although He surely must have had a good idea it was from the Chukchi native legend....

Can you produce any treaty where Wrangel was ceded before the secret agreement in Bush41 era?

--the USA would have had to start a war to enforce a claim to it---

possibly , but it seems the State Department had it's hands full saving another island during much of the 20th century....

Wrangel In the 1920's = not so valuable
Wrangel today = very valuable....what did they get in return?

[muriel_volestrangler]

161. Kellet(t) is acknowleged as sighting Wrangel Island in this introduction

to The Cruise of the Corwin.

How keenly Muir appreciated the possibilities of science and adventure in the exploration of this unknown Arctic land may be seen in the fourteenth chapter of this volume. Up to this time nothing was actually known about Wrangell Land except its existence. The first European who reported its discovery was Captain Kellett of H.M.S. Herald. He saw it in 1849 when he discovered Herald Island, which was named after his vessel. By right of discovery Kellett’s name should have been given to Wrangell Land, and upon British Admiralty charts it was very properly indicated as "Kellett Land."

The name Wrangell Land, it seems, became associated with the island through a report of Captain Thomas Long, of the whaling bark Nile. In 1867 he reported that he had


sailed to the eastward along the land during the fifteenth and part of the sixteenth (of August), and in some places approached it as near as fifteen miles. I have named this northern land Wrangell Land (he says) as an appropriate tribute to the memory of a man who spent three consecutive years north of latitude 68°, and demonstrated the problem of this open polar sea forty-five years ago, although others of much later date have endeavored to claim the merit of this discovery. The west cape of this land I have named Cape Thomas, after the man who first reported the land from the masthead of my ship, and the southeastern cape I have named after the largest island in this group (Hawaii). (Quoted from a letter by Captain Long published in the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser, November, 1867. The same paper contains a letter from Captain George W. Raynor, of the ship Reindeer, giving additional geographic details)


Captain Long apparently was unaware of the fact that the Island already bore the name of Kellett by right of discovery eighteen years earlier. But since Baron Wrangell had made such a brave and determined search for this "problematical land of the North," as he referred to it in his final report, there is a certain poetic justice in applying his name to what he only sought, but never found.

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/the_cruise_of_the_corwin/introduction.html

This introduction, written in 1917, also notes:

"Whether Wrangell Land became United States territory when Hooper formally raised our flag over it is a question. The editor is unable to discover any treaty between Russia and the United States which would debar possession by the latter. But questions involving rights of territorial discovery have not, so far as we know, been raised between the two governments."

So the land was already debatable in 1917.

From The Nation's archive:

Abstract:

The discovery of the tragic death of the four young Canadians who set out to colonize the bleak shores of Wrangel Island has distracted public attention from the conflicting claims to the ownership of that Arctic territory. Harold Noice, commander of the Wrangel Island Relief Expedition, discovered on the shore a monument containing a proclamation left by the dead explorers, declaring the island to be the possession of Great Britain. This position is in direct conflict with the claims of Russia as set forth in the following note addressed by Foreign Minister to the British Agent in Moscow.

Selections from Full Text:
...Likewise there has been no reply from the British Government to a second note communicated by the Russian Government to the British Government on May 28, 1928, after the receipt by the Russian Government of additional information intimating that Mr...

...This position is in direct conflict with the claims of Russia as set forth in the following note addressed by Foreign Minister Chicherin to the British Agent in Moscow...

...Russian sovereign rights to the island have never been questioned by any other government, and it has been generally looked upon as Russian territory...

...Stefansson in raising the British flag on the Isle of Wrangel acted in the capacity of an agent of the Government of the Dominion of Canada...

...Finally, in September, 1916, the Russian Government formally notified all the Allied and neutral governments that the Isle of Wrangel, together with other islands and territories adjoining the coast of Siberia, constituted an integral part of Russian territory...

...It may also be noted that all geographic maps, including the British "Phillip's New General Atlas" (1921 edition), put down the Isle of Wrangel as Russian territory...

...This notification elicited no objections on the part of any of the governments so addressed, including the British Government...

...Therefore the Federal Government is compelled to notify the British Government that it regards the raising of the British flag on the Isle of Wrangel as a violation of Russian sovereign rights...

...In connection -with reports in British newspapers to the effect that an expedition led by Mr...

...Thus the Russian Government took concrete steps to assert its rights and its duties as the possessor of the territory...

...Wrangel Island fin HE discovery of the tragic death of the four young -I- Canadians who set out to colonize the bleak shores of Wrangel Island has distracted public attention from the conflicting claims to the ownership of that Arctic territory...

...Harold Noice, commander of the Wrangel Island Belief Expedition, discovered on the shore a monument containing a proclamation left by the dead explorers, declaring the island to be the possession of Great Britain...

...This position is taken by British official sources as well, so, for instance, the British official publication "The Arctic Pilot" (vol...

...The Isle of Wrangel was officially incorporated as Russian territory, and the Russian flag raised thereon, by an expedition organized by the Russian Government and led by Lieutenant Wrangel, in 1821-24...

...The Government of the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics, being wholly unable to understand the absence of the requested explanations, and having in the meantime learned that new expeditions are being planned by British subjects to the Isle of Wrangel, finds it necessary again to state that it regards the Isle of Wrangel as an integral part of the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics...

...It is interesting to note that several American authorities claim that the island belongs to the United States, on the ground that the first person actually to land was an American named Hooper, in 1881...

...In the year 1910 the Russian Hydrographic Arctic Expedition, under the command of Vilkitsky, made measurements around the island, and built thereon an iron navigation pyramid for the guidance of ships seeking entrance to the southwest part of the island, this pyramid being the first and only erection on the island...

http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v117i3037_27.htm

(note: you get all the above snippets if you look at the HTML source of that page - you need a subscription to get the full thing.)

So the claims were complicated (and the claim that Wrangel himself got there in 1821 seems to be made nowhere else). I don't think the State Dept got anything in return for giving up the US claim - they just recognised that it was unenforcable. 80 years later, we can say "if only they had sent an armed party to defend the island - a young Soviet Union wouldn't have tried that hard ...", but back then I don't think it would have been seen as a worthwhile use of US military personnel, consirering the number of people who died trying to exist on the island.

[Art_from_Ark]

153. You are right

The confusion comes from the spelling-- one "L" for the Russian island, 2 "L's" for the Alaskan island.

[Cooley Hurd]

67. In Plattsburgh, NY, they're putting the finishing touches on...

...a new Federal Detention Center. According to the wife of the man who's slated to run it, she said it's for "terrorists."*

*as per a conversation I had with her a few months ago...

[thecai]

82. Under The Patriot Acts

EVERYBODY could be falsely labeled a "terrorist".

[Igel]

102. No, it's likely at least a couple of the people so labelled

would actually be terrorists. :-)

[Patriot Acts]

140. How many people at Guantanamo have been convicted as 'real terrorist"?

[Modem Butterfly]

69. The Y2Kooks were all over this story six years ago...

Everything old is new again.

[slaveplanet]

71. newscrax

reported on this years ago - But I'm willing to place bets should it go Nuclear or biological, they'll be too lazy to bother. What they'll do is set up a perimeter and anyone who tries to escape out will be shot on site. They'll let the survivors eek it out in an "escape from New York" type scenario for a while, then try to ride in like the saviors to scoop up the those lucky enough to avoid the roving gangs of thugs, rapists and looters. Of course the rest of the region not hit will be under Martial Law, so any real accounts will be hard to come by at best.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/7/14/214727.shtml

FEMA Preparing for Mass Destruction Attacks on Cities

John O. Edwards
Monday, July 15, 2002

FEMA, the federal agency charged with disaster preparedness, is engaged in a crash effort to prepare for multiple mass destruction attacks on U.S. cities - including the creation of sprawling temporary cities to handle millions of displaced persons, NewsMax has learned.

FEMA is readying for nuclear, biological and chemical attacks against U.S. cities, including the possibility of multiple attacks with mass destruction weapons.

The agency has already notified vendors, contractors and consultants that it needs to be prepared to handle the logistics of aiding millions of displaced Americans who will flee from urban areas that may be attacked.

The agency plans to create emergency, makeshift cities that could house hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who may have to flee their urban homes if their cities are attacked.

(snip)

[kk897]

78. I myself have seen a concentration camp inside the US

It is near Carrizozo, New Mexico, a teensy little town in the middle of nowhere. At least I think that was the location; I used to live in Albuquerque and went to school for a bit at NM Tech in Socorro, and saw a lot of the state, but that was a while ago, and it could have been the camp at Lordsburg.

It was used to hold Japanese prisoners.

No, the US could never plan concentration camps...er, make that "internment" camps:

http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/history/timeline.html

or is it "relocation camps"?

http://www.pnorthwestbooks.com/docs/fac_fic_fal.html

or maybe it was just a chance to take some time off and garden and golf:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/8760.html

Hm, maybe not...

A number of locations in New Mexico were used as internment camps for Japanese-Americans, including Lordsburg where two male internees were shot and killed under highly questionable circumstances in 1942.

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1511.html

Clark
When the Japanese originally came on the trains, how were they brought out to camp?

Mr. Dockum
Well, the trains came on this railroad right out here on the El Morris Siding. The trains stopped there usually at two or three o'clock in the morning. When it stopped, of course, the guards came to meet them there, and they would unload them and march them over to the camp--about two miles. They'd march them up there, and they'd be fed and bedded down in the compounds by daylight.

http://tinyurl.com/4mjhv

[thecai]

85. Doomed To Repeat History?

If we don't pay attention to the warning signs and learn from our nation's previous mistakes, if we give up our freedoms willingly, we can never get them back.

Repeal, I repeat, REPEAL the patriot acts. It is our duty as American citizens to defend The Constitution.
Very good post, kk897.
Most of the camps are in remote locations, surrounded by dirt mounds so are nearly invisible from the street. Many US prisons are the same, and only visible by air.

[walldude]

80. While I wouldn't put this past the Government

these sites and photos prove nothing. Alex Jones has been reporting this stuff for a long time, but he's questionable at best. For me to believe something like this I'm going to need credible evidence..

[thecai]

86. Maps, Directions, Satellite Views

State By State Index (from rense.com):
http://www.rense.com/general17/statebystate.htm

check out the aerial views on globeXplorer. The pictures are not as clear as there were on Mapquest*, then go on a long, country drive to locate the dirt mounds surrounding the camps. If you attempt to enter, you'll find guards are everywhere.
*discontinued aerial view feature...

[BlackClouds]

90. I have seen video of a concentration camp/facility

Indianapolis / Marion County - Amtrak railcar repair facility (closed); controversial site of a major alleged detention / processing center. Although some sources state that this site is a "red herring", photographic and video evidence suggests otherwise. This large facility contains large 3-4 inch gas mains to large furnaces (crematoria??), helicopter landing pads, railheads for prisoners, Red/Blue/Green zones for classifying/processing incoming personnel, one-way turnstiles, barracks, towers, high fences with razor wire, etc. Personnel with government clearance who are friendly to the patriot movement took a guided tour of the facility to confirm this site. This site is located next to a closed refrigeration plant facility.

I have seen video of this, and taped it on my vcr back in 1995. It was some video made by the Indiana militia and shown on the local cable access channels. This was around the time of the Waco Texas tradegy, since other parts of the video dealt with that. I think it was pretty compelling evidence, and anybody doubting that there are concentration camps in the US are the ones that are delusional. Like I want this crap to be true. It's not in my best interests to believe this stuff is true, but the truth is the truth and I cannot hide from it.

[thecai]

111. BRAVO BlackClouds!

Your very first post is an excellent one! I've seen that camp on Mapquest, (before they discontinued the aerial view option). One of my posts regarding the box-cars was removed, but I agree with you, this is NOT something we WANT to be true. I wish someone COULD make a "liar" out of me.

[Patriot Acts]

143. I have been to several of these locations,

especially in IN. I have been sitting her for 15 min debating to myself if I should even talk about them.... Was on 2 suspect military bases, Missouri and in Georgia.... and lived around and/or visited several in Indiana.

You would have to be nuts to think our government doesnt have some type of plan for Domestic Evil Doers! After some of the stuff I have seen and experianced, I wouldnt put anything past anyone!

[gandalf]

91. Who could or would deliver "Credible Evidence" here besides Alex Jones?

With regard to these topics, the mainstream media will never ever even search for credible evidence. Besides, why should one believe anything what the NY Times writes? After all, they sold the WMD lie.

So, while your request for credible evidence is understandable, it is utterly naive. Regarding government crime and related topics, credible evidence will only in rare instances be searched for, and if it exists (like, for example, in the CIA cocaine story reported by Gary Webb), the mainstream media will ignore it.

But you will live in a happy world.

[Warren DeMontague]

93. Alex Jones is Credible?

Look, I'll be the first to admit we live in a weird world. Inexplicable things do occur. Sometimes frogs rain from the sky, sometimes total imbeciles get re-elected, sometimes (rarely) freepers even have dates with non-inflatable women.

However, some things are bullshit. They just are. Aliens aren't drawing crop circles. The virgin mary isn't making her presence known by appearing on moldy biscuits. 10 foot tall Lizards from the dimension freemb aren't stealing your socks from the laundromat. I'm all for Charles Fort, but you gotta draw the line, separate the wheat from the chaff somewhere.

[gandalf]

94. ??? You are attacking claims I never made. Read again.

I did not say Jones is credible. I made no judgement. I said "would or could".

What I meant: The only people who would investigate such topics are people that are commonly (for example, by the mainstream media) judged as not credible or as conspiracy theorists.

Real journalists would never touch such a subject, it could end their careers (see C. Borjesson, Into the Buzzsaw) or their life (see Gary Webb).

[gandalf]

95. What do you suggest to produce credible evidence in this question?

Ask a mainstream media reporter? He would flatly deny that there is anything to investigate? Look for yourself, search a site mentioned by Rense? Even if you found one, who would believe you? After all, you have no "credible" organisation behind you like the NY Times.

[Warren DeMontague]

108. I suggest something beyond pictures of a field with barbed wire

and a sign that says "Srebenicia 17km", from some outfit known as the "Mississippi State Militia" as "evidence" that there are "Concentration Camps" in Mississippi.

I suggest that "credible evidence" be something that isn't obvious flat-out bullshit. I don't care WHO prints it, be they the NY Times or Crackheads-R-Us dot com. So here's a question for you; on what basis are you determining whether these claims are true, or "credible"? Because you want to believe them? Because someone provides a grainy picture that could be from anywhere, of anything?

And I hate to break it to you, but a great deal of the shit that is floated by folks like Alex Jones is crap. Weekly World News Stuff.

[gandalf]

121. You misunderstood my question.

"So here's a question for you; on what basis are you determining whether these claims are true, or "credible"? Because you want to believe them?"

Don't make innuendos. You came up with the credibility issue, so it is your turn to define your standards for credible.

My point is: The institutions that could produce credible evidence won't do that. They don't really investigate this kind of topic, as they don't investigate 9/11, or CIA/drug smuggling, or Sibel Edmonds claims.

[Warren DeMontague]

127. They also don't investigate spontaneous human combustion

or alien abduction.

Merely listing the subject of this thread- which is the allegation that there are currently "Concentration Camps in the US", and which is backed up by evidence consisting of five pictures of a field with barbed wire and a whole bunch of blathered right-wing rehash that is essentially the same "Clinton is Sending Black Helicopters from the UN to come and take over the country" crap that we heard an awful lot of in the 90s.. yeah, so, merely listing the subject along with legitimate stories that were not covered adequately by the Corporate MSM, for what seem fairly obvious reasons- like the CIA crack thing- does not confer upon it some kind of legitimacy.

Attempting to do so is sort of like implying that because your bicycle is a vehicle, just like a 747, you can fly 400 people on it to Taiwan.

And I did not bring up the "credibility issue", you did. You asked who could deliver credible evidence besides Alex Jones, Alex Jones being the man who does crack reporting on things like flying foot long extra-dimensional worm creatures.

I'm not going to sit here and debate whether the Mainstream Media is full of crap and have an agenda in being extremely selective with what they choose to cover and not cover-- I think the total MSM silence on Gannongate (can you imagine if it was the Clinton WH?) provides this week's ample example of that. However, (and then I will have spent 10 times as much energy on this crackhead thread than it deserves-- so I'm done with it) I will merely reiterate my previous statement that some things; like this thread and it's "sources", are just flat-out fucking bullshit. If you still can't smell it when it's this obvious, you should get your nose checked. Good day.

[thecai]

133. Nor The FBI

Good post, gandaf! "They" DON'T investigate the most important issues.
Remember, prior to 9-11, the fbi was under investigations for mass corruption, but on 9-12, those investigations ceased and the fbi were given more power.
It seems "they" only investigate issues such as Abu Ghraib inmate/abuse because there were photos and enough witnesses willing to testify in court.

[Ani Yun Wiya]

136. If you were presented with photographs of such places...

from areas of all 50 states,

would you then boldly demand "close-ups", "clear signs" and group photos with the guards?

[thecai]

138. Good Question, Ani Yun Wiya!

But of course, they would still deny it.

[Ani Yun Wiya]

139. I think you are correct.

I surmise it would actually require that they take a journey to such exotic locales, get the full experience of being in such "secure" surroundings, before the facts of life would become painfully apparent.

[Warren DeMontague]

148. Right. I'm either in denial, or I'm one of THEM...

Yes, actually, the black helicopter folks running that high-tech camp in Mississippi sent me here to monitor the activity on this board, make sure news wasn't able to get out about our plans. It was a massive setback that the crack photographers from the Mississippi State Militia were able to sneak past our security perimeter and escape with that incredibly damning evidence. Darn those fiendish patriots!

*SARCASM OFF* ...in case you didn't get it.

Seriously, I'm curious... you've asked me what it would take for me to take this seriously... I can't say for sure (here's a starter- you keep promising spooky, incriminating "satellite images".. why don't you provide some, and then we'll talk), but I can say that the "evidence" presented in those links doesn't even come close, and all it does is set off my bullshit detector, a device that I can only assume is severely malfunctioning in a few people on this thread... so, here's my question to them: what's the lowest threshold for evidence to "prove" whatever wild theory some asshat floats? I mean, we've established that someone can post 5 pictures of a field and barbed wire, and -blammo!- that means that there MUST BE concentration camps in Mississippi! So what does it take for you to believe just about anything? Photos of a suspiciously hubcap-looking round thing on a string to believe in UFOs? A Bela Lugosi film to believe in vampires? I mean, it seems to me you've got it in your head that this is what is happening, and are going to latch onto the flimisiest pieces of "evidence" to verify your initial hypothesis. The lack of more substantial evidence, of course, is merely more evidence of a far-ranging conspiracy to surpress the information, although apparently some toothless meth-eaters from the "Mississippi State Militia" were somehow able to sneak past the far-ranging and all-powerful web of information surpression around this.

I fear that critical thinking is becoming an ever-more lost art in this country. I see this in Science teachers who are intimidated by fundamentalists out of teaching science to their classrooms, I see this in people who have blindly accepted the Bush Admin.'s hollow rationales for the Iraq war, and I see this in this thread.

Seriously? I suggest medication. And I mean that in the friendliest terms possible.

[Warren DeMontague]

149. I'll boldly demand evidence that isn't obvious bullshit, yes.

Until then, you're arguing hypotheticals. We don't have "evidence" from ONE state, much less fifty.

[thecai]

113. Biased Media

It's absolute fact as well as common knowledge that mainstream media is biased, censored, controlled, unreliable, and untruthful.
These camps are visible on globeXplorer. Before anyone denies the camps exist, they should take a few minutes to view them.

[Melynn]

97. Not as crazy as it might seem

Retired General Tommy Franks has stated in a interview that martial law will be declared in the U.S. if America is hit with a WMD by terrorists.
Franks made these comments in a interview with "Cigar Aficionado" magazine about a year ago. Franks comments seemed to be so strange and out of place for an interview with a cigar magazine that it has stuck in my memory. So it appears that the Federal Government is giving some thought about declaring martial law.

[kk897]

98. I mean, if you think about it...

you'd almost *want* the government to have plans in place for some sort of mass plague. If a deadly plague affecting two million people hit, it would be damn hard to control further spread any other way. Of course, that's assuming they'd be, er, "nice" camps, where the plague-affected would be attended to lovingly by well-qualified doctors. Somehow, I doubt that would happen, and certainly such camps could be used for much more nefarious purposes.

There's a guy who's putting up a novel on his site, his name's Ran Prieur or something like that, and that's the context he puts it in. He started this last year. A tsunami hits the west coast, a plague spreads, and the government starts putting people in camps and in stadiums (like in Iraq, from what I understand) to control the spread. In his story, though, the plague is purposely set and spread, and it all seems to be prelude to something more. (last time I checked, he hadn't written in a few months, so stay tuned, I guess).

With all the Administration's emphasis on possible biological terrorism, you'd think that they'd have something planned for the worst-case scenario. Why not use empty prisons or old Japanese "internment" camps? From their point of view, it's expedient and logical.

[kk897]

100. I'm curious--does anyone doubt the existence of the Japanese "internment"

camps? And if you don't question that we did that 60 years ago, what, are we so much more moral a society now than we were in the 1940s? Are the people in government so much more protective of people's rights now than they were then?

I personally don't know if they're building new camps, but certainly no one except historical revisionists can doubt that the government rounded up completely innocent Japanese people and put them in camps (whatever you might call them) against their will and used armed soldiers to keep them there, to the point of shooting people who tried to escape. I don't think anyone can doubt that there are many prisons being built that are currently standing empty. Why is it so hard to believe that there might be plans for their use in the event of some "national emergency" or another?

As someone who has plumbed the depths of many a conspiracy "theory," I can tell you that there are many on the right and the left who can agree that there seems to be a consistent trend in our government and financial institutions over the years toward consolidating and perpetuating their power and wealth, and both sides agree that the tactics employed by the government and financial institutions are sometimes merciless, even soulless. It always kind of amuses me that both "wings" have this common fringe element that has attempted to trace and disclose the machinery of power, yet somehow they always seem to determine that the "other" side is the enemy.

That's why I don't mind fishing around the sites that lefties consider to be from reactionary nutcase righties' point of view. I don't agree with them about who is the enemy, but sometimes they have interesting information about the mechanisms employed by whoever *is* the enemy. I feel sickened when I go to Rense, for instance, and see a thing about Holocaust deniers. Lately he's been ramping that up, and I hesitate to go there at all these days.

But that's the site where I read about mycoplasms and their possible connection to diseases such as Gulf War Syndrome. It's where I read some of Robert Fisk's most moving articles. It's where I read about the interesting government reaction to Hurricane Andrew in certain areas of Florida (which is probably relevant to this particular topic of US concentration camps). Rense will publish some of the best anti-war stuff on the web (I'm very anti-war). About half the time, the site links to the same articles DU does.

I don't know... I'm really, really starting to hate the whole "conspiracy theory hogwash/nutcase/tinfoil hat" stuff. Don't people on DU realize that every time you use this kind of terminology you're just aiding the Right in its efforts to diffuse independent journalism? Is it so impossible to just say, "well, I don't agree, I don't think the weight of the evidence supports this assertion"?

Ah, I've got more to say, but probably nobody's listening anyway... I'll just STFU.

[Igel]

103. No, the concentration camps housing Japanese are acknowledged

by all (or nearly so) to be real.

Now the Ukrainian camps in Canada, that's a different story.

[thecai]

117. Another Good Post, kk897!

I'm listening.
The ones who aren't are Masters of Denial, obviously. Either that, too lazy to research the subject, the maps and directions, the satellite pictures, (yet they have plenty of time to argue about what they know nothing about).:shrug:

[Igel]

104. The pictures in the second link are almost certainly in

either Bosnia or Croatia. They're labelled a the Latin-script variety of what used to be called Serbo-Croatian (and, for almost entirely political/ethnic reasons, is now Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian).

Been a few years since by Serbo-Croatian classes, but that's what it is.

And I find it hard to imagine that the US government, in all its wisdom, seriously thinks there's a Croatian speaking minority large enough to merit using it in signs.

[Goathead]

105. One possible explanation

The U.S. military uses mock "prison camps" for training. There used to be one set up at a military base near where I grew up. Combat scenarios dictate that that the U.S. military may come across such camps during routine operations in foreign countries. So the military must have contingency plans to deal with such things. It would make since that they would train for such things, if you look at some of the photos, the guard towers appear to be made of plywood and don't stand very high off the ground. They would not be effective for prisoner suppression, but would be effective for training.

[whistle]

106. Here is a list of locations around the country, check to see if...

...any of these are near where you live:

<snip>
FLORIDA
Avon Park - Air Force gunnery range, Avon Park has an on-base "correctional facility" which was a former WWII detention camp. Camp Krome - DoJ detention/interrogation center, Rex 84 facility Eglin AFB - This base is over 30 miles long, from Pensacola to Hwy 331 in De Funiak Springs. High capacity facility, presently manned and populated with some prisoners. Pensacola - Federal Prison Camp Everglades - It is believed that a facility may be carved out of the wilds here.

GEORGIA
Ft. Benning - Located east of Columbus near Alabama state line. Rex 84 site - Prisoners brought in via Lawson Army airfield. Ft. Mc Pherson - US Force Command - Multiple reports that this will be the national headquarters and coordinating center for foreign/UN troop movement and detainee collection. Ft. Gordon - West of Augusta - No information at this time. Unadilla - Dooly County - Manned, staffed FEMA prison on route 230, no prisoners. Oglethorpe - Macon County; facility is located five miles from Montezuma, three miles from Oglethorpe. This FEMA prison has no staff and no prisoners. Morgan - Calhoun County, FEMA facility is fully manned & staffed - no prisoners. Camilla - Mitchell County, south of Albany. This FEMA facility is located on Mt. Zion Rd approximately 5.7 miles south of Camilla. Unmanned - no prisoners, no staff. Hawkinsville - Wilcox County; Five miles east of town, fully manned and staffed but no prisoners. Located on fire road 100/Upper River Road Abbeville - South of Hawkinsville on US route 129; south of town off route 280 near Ocmulgee River. FEMA facility is staffed but without prisoners. McRae - Telfair County - 1.5 miles west of McRae on Hwy 134 (8th St). Facility is on Irwinton Avenue off 8th St., manned & staffed - no prisoners. Fort Gillem - South side of Atlanta - FEMA designated detention facility. Fort Stewart - Savannah area - FEMA designated detention facility
<more>
<link> http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1062

[thecai]

118. Over 800

There were over 600 last time I checked. The camps are springing up faster than I expected.

[disillusioned1]

107. Here are the Executive Orders

Does anyone here know how to verify these Executive Orders do indeed exist?

...

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:...

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990

allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995

allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997

allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998

allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999

allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000

allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001

allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002

designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005

allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051

specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310

grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049

assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921

allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. 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." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the...

National Security Act of 1947

allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities.

1950 Defense Production Act

gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy.

Act of August 29, 1916

authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency.

International Emergency Economic Powers Act

enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.

...

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1062

The site also lists by State, locations of FEMA camps. FWIW.

[AZCat]

112. It's fairly easy to confirm the text of Executive Orders

The National Archives and Records Administration keeps an archive of all the Executive Orders. The web site is here. What's interesting is that since the orders are sequential, you can determine the range of presidents that are covered by the orders in your post. The first one (#10990) was issued under JFK and the last (#11921) was issued under Ford. Unfortunately only the Executive Orders since the Clinton administration have full texts available at NARA - the others (your whole list) must be found elsewhere. I suggest searching the www.firstgov.gov web site with the string "Executive Order #####" - I have found that to be an effective method.

Here are some links to a few of the Executive Orders in your list:

Executive Order 10990

Executive Order 10995

Executive Order 10997

Executive Order 10998


You should be able to find the rest by yourself. Good luck. :)

[thecai]

116. Correct

I have a friend who works with a fire department and confirms this is true. Up until approximately one year ago, fire depts. were their own entity but now are under the control of state patrol.
That friend was extremely skeptical when I informed him of this info, then he began calling me to say "it's just like you said, only WORSE!"
I have another friend currently employed at a vet's hospital in a distant city, that receives frequent updates on marshall awww info and instruction. He's just about ready to "retire" from gvt. employment, in disgust.
I HAD a friend who reported mass corruption within the gvt., she "committed suicide". R.I.P. K.C.!

[anarchy1999]

144. These EO's do exist and are real. Wake up Everyone! FEMA is not

your friend. Negroponte's new appointment makes it more real than ever.

[readmoreoften]

114. some people wish there were camps

I don't know if there are any, but there is a demand:


Published on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 in the Los Angeles Times
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
Attorney general shows himself as a menace to liberty.

by Jonathan Turley

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.

Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.

The proposed camp plan should trigger immediate congressional hearings and reconsideration of Ashcroft's fitness for this important office. Whereas Al Qaeda is a threat to the lives of our citizens, Ashcroft has become a clear and present threat to our liberties. The camp plan was forged at an optimistic time for Ashcroft's small inner circle, which has been carefully watching two test cases to see whether this vision could become a reality....

<snip>

[solinvictus]

115. REX-84

A great deal of this was planning for the contingency of war with the Warsaw Pact, assuming a nuclear exchange. Now, at the same time, in light of recent events it can and should seem sinister. With PATRIOT, we, as Americans, could arbitrarily be declared "turrists" and thrown into a federal hoosegow or rounded up into camps. On the flip side of this, many Americans possess and can effectively use small arms. If a few of their Black Marias and drivers are peppered with heavy shot or rifle bullets, I don't think the implementation phase would go so well.

[rman]

120. There were camps in the US during WW2,

for Japanese.

Why not this time?

[BiggJawn]

123. Are these the same camps Janet Reno was supposed to round up...

...the Freepers and Christian Identity people and all the Home-Schoolers?

We had one in Indianapolis. It's the Amtrak railyards. Supposed to be a concentration camp for "patriots" in the Clinton Era. You want to know how they determined that? By the way the barb wire on top the fence was pointing. They claimed the wire was to keep people IN, not out.

Funny how perceptions shift back and forth, isn't it?

Me, I believe they'll round up Liberals and Athiests and just shoot us in the street. No camps. Cheaper that way, and after all, with this CEO government we have, the Bottom Line is important. Unl;ess Halliburton gets a contract to run a camp.

[Warren DeMontague]

129. Yes, EXACTLY the same.

Some of these yokels probably don't realize that Clinton isn't President anymore.

The photos that are supposed to be of "Mississippi" (the ones with the signs saying "Srebenicia 17km") come from an outfit called the "Mississippi State Militia".. Hmmm. Yeah, that sounds like a rational bunch..

Which leads me to wonder why so many here are taking this crap so seriously.

[thecai]

135. Boycott NYSE:CXW

Privatized prisons are a a dangerous investment, profiable only to gvt. and investers, while a heavy tax-burden on citizens, and less humane for many inmates. The prisons are in employment contract violation, and with accountability for inmate's safety and well-being. Inmate abuse/neglect has the potential for sparking riots.

[alphadog]

131. Chris Carter, is that you?

Are you testing out a new storyline for the X-Files? When's the next movie due? Gee, I miss your show...

[anarchy1999]

141. "it" is coming. Facism. Welcome the camps, get to know them.

See you there.

[ck4829]

142. Concentration Camps - It's a RW Thing

Read my post above about Oliver North, American Traitor, who created the Rex-84 program and then years later blamed Clinton for a conspiracy to enslave us using... the Rex-84 program.

We should also remember Michelle Malkin and how she wanted to put all Muslims and Arabs in Internment (Concentration) camps.

[achtung_circus]

152. Some of these are obviously training facilities.

A barbed wire fence, a guard house, a sign and a tower, all seemingly unattached to anything else would on first blush be nothing more than an aid to teaching how to man a checkpoint.


I recall living near Edmonton when local units of the Canadian Army would deploy to the Balkans. They would set up around a town, set up checkpoints and run their practice. All and sundry were invited to show up and harass the troops.

Based on the reports from Iraq of people being shot at checkpoints, often unmarked checkpoints, the US Army needs that kind of training, too. I saw a BBC news clip on GB troops being seconded to US outfits to provide similar training.

Some of the Canadian locations for the camps include Primrose Lake Weapons Range in Alberta. I lived there, it's moose pasture, and as unsuited for that kind of setup as anywhere else on the planet.