Saturday, August 24, 2013

13-08-24 US: Where left-right-and-center converge: Obama and the danger of FEMA camps

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Obama explains the FEMA Camps

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Headlined to H3 8/24/13

  
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/11846056@N06/8151482123/: Federal Emergency Management Agency relief trucks stage in New York, as seen as Army Gen. Frank Grass, the chief of the National Guard Bureau; Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Denise Jelinski-Hall and other National Guard senior leaders visit areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and New York and Guard members supporting recovery operations on Nov. 2, 2012. (Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jim Greenhill) (Released)
Federal Emergency Management Agency relief trucks stage in New York, as seen as Army Gen. Frank Grass, the chief of the National Guard Bureau; Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Denise Jelinski-Hall and other National Guard senior leaders visit areas impacted by byjim.greenhill

The Conspirosphere has been buzzing about FEMA camps - mass incarceration/relocation centers - for some years now.  
There is no shortage of videos and more videos from conspiratists and mainstream sources alike.  
Some purposes seem benign, even helpful, like using the camps to house natural disaster victims, instead of warehousing them in horrific conditions like what ensued after Hurricane Katrina, when up to 20,000 people were jammed into the Louisiana Superdome.
Here is how CBS news covered the temporary camps set up during Hurricane Sandy:

But the use of such camps can be expanded greatly, especially in the new Amerika, where everyone is a suspect, and constitutional rights are a sometime option.
  
Rachel Madow has compiled and dissected some recent speeches by Obama in which he explains the future use of FEMA camps directly, and his twisted but very real legal theory allowing, at least to him, indefinite pre-emptive detention for crimes that have not been committed yet, and Obama's overreach, far beyond anything Bush and Cheney ever attempted, and completely outside even the constitution's Article 1, Section 9, which allows for suspension of Habeas Corpus during times of "Rebellion (e.g. as in the Civil War) or Invasion."  She compares Obama's evolving policy to that of the Tom Cruise science fiction movie: Minority Report, in which Cruise works as a cop in the department of pre-crime, arresting people for things they haven't done yet. 

VIDEO URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YwqFN1-mxJc

So, FEMA camps: helpful shelter systems for the next super-storm, or involuntary detention centers for the round-up by the the next super storm-troopers...or both?  You can decide...for now.

Scott Baker is a Senior Editor and Writer at Opednews

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