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Raisethefist.com: st Century Internment Camps: Disaster relief or civil rights
st Century Internment Camps: Disaster relief or civil rights
by Maha Zimmo Tue Apr 21 23:36:23 CDT 2009
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On January 22, 2009, the National Emergency Centers Establishment
Act (NECEA) was submitted to Congress for consideration. It was
introduced by Congressman Alcee L. Hastings of Florida, a man who,
in 1989, became only the sixth federal judge in the history of
America to be removed from office by the Senate for corruption and
perjury.
Even though NECEA has received very little mainstream media
coverage, action alerts are making their way across message boards
and Internet sites due to Global Research’s Michel Chossudovsky, who
has brought to light both the Act itself as well as the U.S.
government’s actions leading up to the presentation of NECEA.
The question we must ask ourselves is simple: if NECEA is meant to
address natural disasters, then why is the scope of the Act so vague,
large and open-ended? The flipside of which is: if NECEA is only
meant to address natural disasters, they why isn’t NECEA crystal clear
on this point?
Instead, we find that the purpose of these military-based emergency
centres may be used to “meet other appropriate needs, as
determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.” It is when we
attempt to understand the pocket of obscurity created by NECEA’s
vagueness, and while factoring in the readying of the U.S. military’s
response to the anticipated civil unrest (due to the economic war
being waged on all but the ‘haves’), that the potentially insidious
nature of the centres becomes evident.
21st century internment camps?
On the surface, NECEA proposes to direct the Secretary of Homeland
Security in the establishment of six “national emergency centers on
military installations," one in each of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) regions.
The purpose of these centres is to use existing military infrastructure
for several emergency situations or natural disasters that might
render individuals and families “dislocated.” NECEA further proposes
that over the course of the next two years, $360,000,000 is to be
appropriated for this initiative. (To whom do you think such
construction contracts will be awarded?)As already mentioned,
primary concern must be given to the following catch-all phrase: that
the purpose of these military-based emergency centres may “meet
other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland
Security.” In other words, that the purpose is to be determined by the
same U.S. government body who, since launching the trailer for the
War on Terrorism in 2001, has systematically worked to
institutionalize prejudice against civil rights groups and activists,
anti-war movements, unions, ‘brown’ people (you are homogeneous,
don’t challenge this) and Muslims, while stripping the American
citizen of their right to privacy and dissent.
Second, nowhere does NECEA provide clear indication as to which
system of justice those inside of the emergency centres would be
held. Since they are to be established within the parameters of
military bases, the de facto assumption is that those within would be
subject to military law. More dangerous perhaps is an all-together
different system, removed even from the military one, learned
courtesy of Guantanamo and all other secret and illegal US ‘security’
facilities across the globe.
NECEA does, however, mention that within six months, the “Secretary
of Defense shall transfer to the Secretary of Homeland Security
administrative [sic] jurisdiction.” It would then follow that the
definition of ‘administrative’ jurisdiction here may have nothing to do
with legal jurisdiction, and so NECEA makes it possible that those
within the emergency centre would, for the duration of their (interred)
stay, not be subject to the regular legal system. Once more,
Americans may welcome the suspension of habeas corpus.
At a more general level, these centres are “capable of being scaled up
or down” and would each be subject to a “24/7 operations watch
center [which] shall be in full ready mode.” For what, exactly, the
watch centre will be ready, is left to our imagination and to be
utilised at the discretion of those in power. Nowhere is it mentioned
for whom these centres are to be established, or more specifically,
who would be kept within these locations.
NECEA begs the following questions: Are these ‘emergency centres’
only for U.S. Citizens? How does one become eligible? Is it on a first-
come, first-served basis? Does one have to be arrested? If the centre
is filled to capacity and there is indeed a natural disaster, how will
individuals be kept out? If one is inside of the emergency centre, can
they simply walk out and leave, or will their freedom of movement be
at the discretion of the military? Etc., ad infinitum.
Finally, and if not more insidious, is the reality that nowhere in NECEA
is mentioned either the duration of these emergency centres or the
efforts that must be undertaken to restore to order and to normal the
lives and environment post ‘emergency.’
‘None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free’
Within the reality presented above and in order to understand the full
weight of this silent war on Americans, it is necessary to view it within
a greater context. First, there is the unfortunate reality that Obama
has time and again stated that his administration will neither
investigate, hold to account, nor prosecute the officials responsible
for the United States’ criminal policies of torture, illegal detention and
“extraordinary rendition” (whereby alleged terrorists were kidnapped
and sent beyond American borders to foreign countries or secret CIA
prisons, where they were tortured).
More importantly, the Bush Administration’s disregard for and
mockery of international, as well as constitutional, law have not been
undone by this new Administration, and there are no clear indications
that they will be undone by Obama’s campaign of ‘change.’ In fact,
there is strong evidence to the contrary.
In laymen’s terms, Obama’s letting criminals walk, and in this
context, this can only mean the following: that he does not believe
they are guilty of a crime, thereby making it clear that Obama himself
does not view torture, illegal detention or extraordinary rendition as
criminal actions.
Second, that many experts are foreshadowing that the on-going
financial disaster being levelled against all-but-the-wealthy is going
to lead to great civil unrest within the United States. Rightly, there
exists a palpable fear that the ‘have-nots’ will take seriously their
right to bear arms and they will rise against — not only the
government — but all institutions who continue (at the expense of
the ‘have-nots’) to lie and behave in fraudulent manner. Finally, that
the reality that in the fall of 2008, military bodies previously active
only on foreign soil became operational within America’s borders,
with much of their mandate focussed on how to address ‘civil unrest.’
To recap, the U.S. has a President who — until he fully proves
otherwise — seems relatively chill about torture, indefinite detention,
extraordinary rendition and the suspension of habeas corpus.
Also, there is a strong foreshadowing of great civil unrest within the
US, as well as a now present military contingent trained to deal with
civil unrest. Add to this recipe the creation of military-based
emergency centres used to “meet other appropriate needs, as
determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security” and one is left
with the choice to believe either they are witnessing random unrelated
events or layered preparation to further dilute — and possibly
completely suspend — civil rights.
Naturally, the third option is to view these events as a combination of
coincidence and design; no matter from which perspective you choose
to approach it, the reality remains that NECEA, as it stands today, is a
dangerous Act which threatens what remains of American civil
liberties.
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