I was told to leave or be arrested

[Bison William]

I live in Fort Smith Arkansas and 360 people from NO have been shipped to an old army base outside our town.

The problem is the base barracks they have put the people in is listed as a toxic waste dump. The barracks are so inundated with lead paint that the people that have to get around them wear masks so they don't have to breathe the fumes coming off them.

There is no air conditioning and it is 95 degrees at this time of year. I am afraid some of the older people will die of stroke from the heat.

This morning I went out and snuck into the area where they are being kept and told many of the people that the buildings were poisonous and got many of them to promise to leave as quick as they could before I was told to leave or be arrested for inciting a riot..

When I say the building are poisonous you must believe me. They have been trying for years to find a way to destroy them but the EPA won't let them do it..If they burn them it will release lead into the air and it will settle in the lakes and streams around the area. They can't tear them down and send them to other places because no one wants poisonous wood..They ground around them is even poisonous from the lead wash off when it rains. So what does our Illustrious Repug Governor do,.. well he puts NO refuges in them... Ain't that america baby..

[Gabi Hayes]

1. jesus.....what can you say about something like this?

I know where there are sixteen hundred acres of land near Crawford Texas that are uninhabited by human beings.......

[blossomstar]

2. Oh holy Jesus!

Can this nightmare get any worse! It surely seems to be never ending with the incompetence. God help us all.

[Lindsay]

3. Dear God. It just goes

on and on and on.

[tsuki]

4. What is the name of the Base?

[Bison William]

6. Fort Chaffee

is the name of the base

[tsuki]

23. Found this:

The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) was established to develop a set of recommendations for reutilization and development of the remaining property, including removal or disposal of more than 600 World War II-era temporary wood frame buildings comprising about 2 million square feet of floor space.

A number of unique characteristics of the property make redevelopment a costly endeavor. Fort Chaffee has over 700 buildings that must be demolished in order to encourage development. The buildings date from the World War II era and contain a significant amount of asbestos and lead. This hazardous material must be removed before the buildings can be demolished. The projected cost of the entire project is $22 million. And because the lead and asbestos do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of the community (and will not until the buildings come down), the Fort Chaffee Public Trust has been unsuccessful in finding federal funds through the EPA to help with this effort. Other infrastructure needs that must be addressed before the property is ready for reuse total another $10.6 million.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-chaffee.htm

Is this the place?

[JuniperLea]

5. Just like the gift of Small Pox infected blankets

to the American Indians. Some things never change.

Here, let me give you a hug so the camera can see it while I carefully hide the knife I am plunging into your back.

[undergroundrailroad]

25. Here is more reference to the infected blankets:

On 24 June 1763,] the commander of Fort Pitt gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets that had been exposed to smallpox, in hopes of spreading the disease to the Indians in order to end the siege. Indians in the area contracted smallpox. It is impossible to verify how many people (if any) contracted the disease as a result of the Fort Pitt incident; the disease was already in the area and may have reached the Indians through other vectors. Even before the blankets had been handed over, the disease may have been spread to the Indians by native warriors returning from attacks on infected white settlements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_American_indigenous_peoples#Deliberate_infection.3F

[Gabi Hayes]

7. oh yeah....can't you get this out to the media?

surely there must be some way to get this publicized beyond DU

and highest regards for your brave actions

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. File criminal charges against that Mother Fucker!

What legal agency do we have that can take action against this son of a bitch Republican Governor?

[annabanana]

9. So THAT's where the convention center people are going

I heard that they were headed for Arkansas...

This is worse than disgusting. They've broken them into smaller groups for easier "disappearance"..

[xultar]

10. Please email this to CNN!

[e-mail].
[e-mail]

[Autonomy]

11. Call your local media. National media, too. LA media, as well.

You can't rely on the federal government to do the right thing. Remember Jabbar Gibson.

[geomon666]

12. EPA about Fort Chaffee

http://epa.gov/region6/6xa/base_chaffee.htm

[SoCalDem]

16. email Jackson, Moseley-Braun, black caucus members

insult----meet injury :cry:

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Little pink houses for you and me.

This is UNACCEPTABLE! What are they thinking? Just dump these poor people anywhere? OUTRAGEOUS! Who can we call about this? I'll drop a dime.

[demodonkey]

14. My Dad was at Fort (Camp) Chaffee -- in WWII! eom

[Gabi Hayes]

15. after they move them from Ft. Chaffee, their itinerary:

Times Beach

Love Canal

Three Mile Island

Chernobyl

[oxbow]

17. Get some evidence about the lead paint problem and email all this to media

[wli]

18. Need to fax the UN crimes against humanity hotline.

This is a webpage with the fax number.

I really hope it's current.

[donsu]

19. that you for warning the people

nt

[Catrina]

20. Make the media aware of this

Is there any online link to that so that emails can be accompanied by some backup?

edited to ask: Call the Governor's office and let him know we are on to this crime ~ who is the Governor of Arkansas now? Never mind, will look it up.

Thank you for your humanitarian actions ~ will spread this around.

[Fleshdancer]

21. Links to use when contacting the media:

I'll also be posting this in the DU Activist page

Information on the lead and abestos in Ft. Chaffee:

http://www.epa.gov/region6/ready4reuse/ftch-rfr-sanders-final-2.pdf

Article about the 4,000 victims being sent to Ft. Chaffee:

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/09/03/News/327944.html

edit: spelling error

[Bison William]

22. Here is a quote from our new city administrator

He won't last long after his remarks and he doesn't even know yet that the building are poisonous.

But Fort Smith City Administrator Bill Harding said Thursday evening that he wouldn't want to move them "from one hell hole to another."

"The barracks (at Fort Chaffee) are what they are," Harding said. "There are buildings out there with no heat, no air, no windows and that are falling down and should have been torn down a long time ago."

[patdem]

24. Well, my first instinct was to pooh pooh you, so I did a google..and WOW

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps1.htm

I did not google FT Chafee, but Ft. Smith...oops...it looks even worse than that!!!

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Fort+Smith+Arkansas+&num=50&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=toxic+waste&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images

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[in_cog_ni_to]

27. American Concentration Camps, aka, Relocation centers Fort Chaffee on list

I know nothing about this site, but Fort Chaffee is on their list.


ARKANSAS

Berryville FEMA facility - east of Eureka on Hwy 62.

Blytheville AFB - was closed; now a camp. Newly constructed wooden barracks surrounded by high barbed wire-topped fencing and guard towers.

Ft. Chaffee - has new aircraft runway and detention facility for 20,000 prisoners.

Jerome, Chicot/Drew Counties - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment detention facility.

Omaha FEMA facility - on Hwy 65, south of old wood processing plant, on a dirt road that leads to a toxic waste dump.

Rohwer, Descha County - Renovated WWII Japanese-American Special Internment detention center.







http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/known_relocation_centers.htm

[Catherine Vincent]

28. I would call every media outlet I can to inform them of this.

Good job!

[Bison William]

29. I will send as much information as I can get to CNN and

to the other places but the local Media a blowing this up as some great humanitarian project when what they are really doing is putting them in poison buildings.

[PatriotMom]

30. Can you get pictures of them taking the people there?

If you have a digital camera or video cam or know someone that does you could use to upload some pics this would get all over the internet. I will watch to see if there are pics coming out of this. I will distribute far and wide. I will save this link and watch for updates here. I hope you can get pics.
You are one courages son of a gun and what you are doing is commendable. Stay safe in your fight for the truth my friend.
I have taken pictures of stuff the Gov is doing around my neck of the woods in the past and it gets a little tricky and risky.
Nothing surprises me about this Nazi Government any more. It makes me sick.


Peace, MOM

[Bison William]

34. Some of us are going back in after dark

to try to tell a few more people. I have a Vid cam with night lens and will try to get a few pics. I'll promise nothing

[meganmonkey]

31. Wow- That is really sick - what does that say about the US?

Why would someone make the decision to put the people there? I am trying so hard not to wear a :tinfoilhat: about all this but it is unblelievable.

:(

Welcome to DU, Bison William - thank you for your bravery and for passing this information on.

[Silverhair]

32. I lived in barracks exactly like that when I was in the Army.

The WWII era barracks were all built to a single standard plan, and used the same materials. I was in them at a time when all paint was lead based.

That was over 40 years ago.

So based on the fact that I lived in barracks exactly like them and am still alive I have to conclude that you are extremely over rating the danger.

And, of course, there are the millions of WWII soldiers that lived in them and survived.

[idiosyncratic]

33. But, 40 years ago the paint was not so flaky and prone to become

dust that gets into the air and into people's lungs. It is especially bad for children.

Lead-based paint was taken off the market years ago because it was finally deemed to be toxic.

[Moderator]

35. Locking...

Sorry to do this, but there just isn't enough information at this time. If more details and facts become available, we will revisit this subject. Thank you for understanding