American Prison Camps Are on the Way
By Marjorie Cohn
AlterNet
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.
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, "unlawful enemy combatants."
Bush & Co. has portrayed the bill as a tough way to deal with aliens to protect us against terrorism. Frightened they might lose their majority in Congress in the November elections, the Republicans rammed the bill through Congress with little substantive debate.
Anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on Bush's list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant" and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American citizens.
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This is the same KBR that had un-audited, no-bid contracts to build state infrastructure in Vietnam that prompted Rep. Rumsfeld (R-IL) to say:
"...under one contract, between the U.S. Government and this combine, it is officially estimated that obligations will reach at least $900 million by November 1967...why this huge contract has not been and is not now being adequately audited is beyond me. The potential for waste and profiteering under such a contract is substantial."
Sounds like we have a candidate for the first occupant. Troublemaker.
Well, if those of us who speak out against the government are going to be locked up together, at least we'll have some good company and intelligent conversation.
Hate to say that I scooped you, but I posted about this on another board back in March referring to this link:
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=5776
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Our friend Schmidlap had also posted on the construction over his way back then. What makes it scarier now, though, Jimbow, is the new bill and its "unlawful enemy combatant" language that could apply to you and me.
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