America is DYING....
From August 2002 LA Times:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0814-05.htmCamps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
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. (cut)
Ashcroft hopes to use his self-made "enemy combatant" stamp for any citizen whom he deems to be part of a wider terrorist conspiracy.__________________________________________________________________
From February 2006:
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
BERKELEY, Calif.--A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities."
The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants,
or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." (cut)
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Peaceful protestors DETAINED during RNC convention
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From August 2002:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/columns/fl.ramasastry.detainees/"The administration asserts, however, that the law doesn't apply to enemy combatants. Its position is that the executive -- and the executive alone -- can set up and populate citizen-combatant internment camps, without any involvement by either the legislature or the judiciary."