Remember the RW'ers who said Clinton had a conspiracy to enslave America?

[ck4829]

We should all remember that. Clinton and the UN, united to enslave and destroy us all.

Remember they said there was a horrible plan called 'Rex-84', which Clinton would use to arrest all dissenters?

This should not be a history lesson. The truth is that Rex-84, the plan which many RW'ers said would be to used to arrest dissenters against Clinton and the UN was actually written by an opponent of Clinton and a Hero to many Conservatives. That's right, it was written by Traitor, Terrorist Funder, and Drug Dealer Oliver North.

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), founded 1979 to the Civil Defense program, answers to the President, via the National Security Council. A Miami Herald article published 5 July 1987 reported that U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, then employed to draw up national security contingency plans, often met then FEMA director Louis O. Giuffrida between 1982 and 1984. They allegedly discussed FEMA's role in the event of civil unrest and the imposition of martial law. Giuffrida produced a plan for mass roundup and imprisonment of subversives, recycled from a plan he had devised in 1970 for the Army War College in case of an uprising of black militants.

The Miami Herald got a copy of the 2 Aug 1984 memo detailing the plan, to be included in an Executive Order or National Security Directive that President Reagan was supposed to sign. According to various right-wing web pages, this is NSDD 58. The Herald story says it's unclear whether it was signed.

REX-84, according to the Winter 1990 (#33) issue of the Covert Action Information Bulletin, was a series of simulations designed to coordinate the various agencies, civilian and military, needed under the above arrangement. One of these wargames was called REX-84/Night Train.

While taxpayer money went to set all this up, FEMA itself lost the ability to do its ostensible job, which was to be of some use during a real emergency. The CAIB cites a memo to this effect written by then Attorney General William French Smith. Eight years later, FEMA proved itself useless after Hurricane Andrew struck Florida in 1992. Habitat For Humanity showed them up. FEMA was subsequently overhauled.

The concentration camps reportedly mentioned in the Giuffrida plans were probably never built, though various right-wing websites claim to have photos. The irony is that these people probably worship Ollie, who hosts a whiny right-wing radio show, and attribute the putative REX-84 camps to Clinton and his secret UN/New World Order army."

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[Gman]

1. Of course, there were a lot of us that stoked right wing fears that

all right winger dissidents would be rounded up and put into concentration camps as a result of the chaos of Y2K under the auspices of what you described above regarding FEMA. God, we had fun getting 'em stirred up with that!

I enjoyed posting on the old Michael Reagan Forum that I looked forward to being a prison guard in the gulag for right wingers that was being formed! I had all kinds of death threats in late '98 and into '99!

LOL!! Those were the days!

[hansberrym]

2. They could only see it when Clinton was the boogeyman.

Now that their man Bush is in, they just can't see that he is leading us to destruction.


But then a lot of Dems went along with Clinton when he pushed us into NAFTA, and war in Bosnia, and bombing of Somalia and Iraq.