Tag: camps
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hoover: suspend habeas corpus & imprison thousands
from raw story: According to a newly declassified document, the New York Times reports, a plan by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sought to suspend habeas corpus during wartime, with the intention of imprisoning thousands of Americans indefinitely. Hoover’s plan was submitted to the White House twelve days after the start of the Korean…
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relocation camps
here is a short propaganda film created by the US government & the ‘Office of War Information – Bureau of Motion Pictures’ “Following the outbreak of the current war, it became neccessary to transfer several thousand Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to points in the American interior. This is an historical record of the…
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24 showcases mass terror, concentration camps
from infowars: The new season of 24, that is to air this coming weekend, is to prepare the American people for the idea of concentration camps, detention centers and the rounding up of people in times of crisis. The opener depicts an America besieged by mass terrorist attacks and public paranoia, with 11 cities, including…
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texas prison camp future american gulag?
from prison planet: A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime location for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time of national emergency. The privatized Hutto jail, which…
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iris scan database of children forms
from houston chronicle: Technology developed to keep track of prisoners by scanning their irises became available Thursday to identify missing children… part of an effort to image the irises of 5 million children into a nationwide database over the next few years, said Robert Melley, vice president and CEO of Biometric Intelligence & Identification. but…
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bush OKs grants to preserve camps
from japan times: U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law a $38 million grant program to preserve notorious internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War II. The money will be administered by the National Park Service to restore and pay for research at 10 camps. The objective of the…
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bush prepares to impose martial law
from the chattanoogan: The Republican re-writing of the Insurrection Act gives Bush the authority to declare martial law. For the first time since 1878, the president has the power to deploy troops within the United States. Bush and future presidents now have a power that, in other countries, is reserved to the dictator. Despite the…
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american prison camps are on the way
Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush’s “unlawful enemy combatants.” Americans are certain to be among them. from alternet: The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush…