Detention Camps

Interesting we are having the big "ports" debate while this is going on.

A recently announced contract for a Halliburton subsidiary to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists....... According to a 49-page Homeland Security document on the plan, ENDGAME expands "a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798." Its goal is the capability to "remove all removable aliens," including "illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers (required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists."

Wow! As I remember those Acts were extremely unpopular with the people and eventually rolled back. We have to do this all over again? ! Pre 9/11 mindset might serve them well.

Later, the New York Times reported that “KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space.” [Feb. 4, 2006]

In a view that I am sure will shock my liberal brethern, I could deal with it if they wanted to lock up illegal immigrants. It is a whole other post. I could also get behind building things to house something for emergencies and disasters. I get worried about it when I see "for new programs that require additional detention space. "

Despite the Posse Comitatus Act’s prohibitions against U.S. military personnel engaging in domestic law enforcement, the Pentagon has expanded its operations beyond previous boundaries, such as its role in domestic surveillance activities.

I hate to be disrespectful but I don't trust these guys any more than I'd trust George Micheal in the bathroom stall. Gee Ron, why would you say that!?

It is relevant that in 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be "enemy combatants." On Feb. 17 of this year, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country's security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called "news informers" who needed to be combated in "a contest of wills." Two days earlier, citing speeches critical of Bush by Al Gore, John Kerry, and Howard Dean, conservative columnist Ben Shapiro called for "legislation to prosecute such sedition."

Maybe cuz I'm already eligible....Sorry Donald Rumsfield, no harm will ultimately come from the truth. Only reform along realisitic lines. ....Oh come on Ron, they'd never lock up "Real Americans"!

With this expanded surveillance, the government’s list of terrorist suspects is rapidly swelling.
The Washington Post reported on Feb. 15 that the National Counterterrorism Center’s central repository now holds the names of 325,000 terrorist suspects, a four-fold increase since the fall of 2003.

If that happens to be a list of people in America that would be slightly more than 1% of the people who currently fit into the "terrorist" category. Here is the offical terror central if you want to keep track. I don't see me on the list yet but the prisons aren't finished.

This is another one of those things that need not be a secret. We the people need to talk about this. We need to revisit proper restraint.