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FEMA Camps in Your Future?

I have no idea if FEMA Relocation camps exist 
for the incarceration of American citizens 
or even if they exist at all. 

Are these camps being built for the relocation 
of Americans if some disaster befalls some part 
of America? Are they being built to be used as
prison camps? Are they even being built at all?

Some scoff that these may be built to incarcerate
American citizens.

But let us not forget that camps have existed
in the U.S. to hold U.S. citizens in the past.
These AMERICANS, some who lived here for 
generations, were run from their homes. They were
forced to sell thriving businesses. They were
held like prisoners of war.

I am referring, of course, to Japanese-Americans
who were sent to prison camps after the bombing
of Pearl Harbor.

This came to my mind again after I was reading a
book about the history of a church in our area.

To quote a small passage:

After Pearl Harbor

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor lead to a national 
climate of anti-Japanese discrimination and government
policies which were harsh to residents of Japanese
ancestry. Thomas K. Walls in The Japanese Texans reports
that on the West Coast 120,000 Japanese-Americans, of
which 50,000 were women and 15,000 were children under
the age of 10 were interned in ten concentration 
camps. The Federal government froze Japanese-American bank
accounts and restricted the free travel of Japanese-Americans
to within only a few miles of their homes. In Texas
the greatest intrusion was the house search and interrogation
of members of every Japanese-American family living
in Texas.

...Mr. K. Saibara was taken to a camp in Kenedy, Texas,
and released 3 weeks later. Mr. Kagawa was sent to a
camp but was gone only a "short time". In February of
1942 Mr. and Mrs. Kobayashi were taken to a detention
center in Houston for a month. Mitsutaro Kobayashi
went 3 times to Camp Kenedy for a month or so.

<end quote.

Mr. Saibara also went on to say in a following letter
to the Houston Post in 1961 that he had been requested
to raise all the rice he could for the war effort.

To obey the government plea he doubled his rice planting
acreage from 500 acres to 1000 acres. Just when the 
rice was ready to be harvested he was again picked
up and sent to the concentration camp in Kenedy, Texas.
Even after this indignity he secured his release
so he could harvest the rice for the war effort.

Like I said, I don't know if these FEMA camps exist or
not or even what they are for.

But those who say "Your paranoid. That could never
happen in the U.S.!" had better think again. It 
already has.

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In article <194353Z20011995@anon.penet.fi>,
Gregori Potemkin <an65279@anon.penet.fi> wrote:

>I have no idea if FEMA Relocation camps exist 
>for the incarceration of American citizens 
>or even if they exist at all. 
>
>Are these camps being built for the relocation 
>of Americans if some disaster befalls some part 
>of America? Are they being built to be used as
>prison camps? Are they even being built at all?
>
>Some scoff that these may be built to incarcerate
>American citizens.

They don't need to build any more.  They have a bunch of them built
in the administrations of a number of presidents (the most recent
I'm sure of being George Bush).

These camps are specifically intended to incarcerate anyone "believed"
by the Attorney General to be "capable" of "interfering" with the
operations of the government or of commerce.  They may be held for the
duration of a presidentially-declared "internal security emergency"
and for as long after its termination as it takes to obtain a writ from
a court (to which the inmates have no access until a month or more AFTER
the emergency is DECLARED to be OVER).

To activate it requires:
 - One presidential signature on a proclimation.
 - One attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names
   is attached.

Prominent among the sponsors of the legislation in question was Hubert
Humphrey, and this is one of the reasons he fell out of favor in the '60s.

 
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