Halliburton awarded $385M to build "emergency detention" centers

[IChing]

KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M (HAL) By Katherine Hunt

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL) , said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency.

The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said.

The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.
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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. The draft is coming folks.

And you know who they plan to put in those Halliburton built detention centers.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Rumor has it one is near me

in Arkansas. My local peace group is getting awfully nearvous about it.

[tatertop]

4. I have one about two hours away. This ain't good.

I just discovered it a few weeks ago.
It is hidden away near a very small town.

[hippiechick]

3. Not LBN

... :hi:

[IChing]

6. Really? Is that why I didn't post it there in LBN?

This post was in conjunction to my other post which was a wake up call

;) :hi:

[Angry Girl]

5. ALWAYS REMEMBER our Japanese Americans!

In February, 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor, the United States took unprecedented action directed at its own population. Executive Order 9066 and Civilian Exclusion Order 5 decreed that over 120,000 Japanese Americans be removed from their homes in the "western defense zone" of the United States, and incarcerated in ten "internment" camps, which were located in isolated areas of Utah, Montana, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, and Idaho. These ten camps functioned as prison cities, with populations of 10,000 to 18,000 people in each camp.

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans in America were no longer seen by other Americans as industrious, immigrant neighbors but were transformed into enemy aliens overnight. There were no trials, no hearings to prove innocence or guilt. They were assumed to be the enemy and made prisoners, indefinitely incarcerated because of their race. Successful Japanese-Americans were informed that, according to Civilian Exclusion Order 5, they were required to liquidate all property, including homes, real estate, business holdings, and anything else that they could not carry themselves into the prison camps.

They lost their homes, property, and communities. Families were separated. After the war there was a long silence because of their shame and guilt, not unlike the victims of the holocaust.

http://www.csuohio.edu/art_photos/map.html

[Jack Rabbit]

7. This says a lot about the junta's priorities

Ignore the paranoia about building these for dissidents (although they could be used for that). If one just assumes that all plans for these facilities are entirely benign, it still tells us that the Bush junta is committed to its corporate cronies, not the people.

The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.

A national emergency such as a natural disaster (like a cat 5 hurricane)? Wouldn't this money be better spent giving it to the Army Corps of Engineers to fix levies and prevent disasters rather than give it to Halliburton to house refugees after the fact?

Objectively, this is poor planning. Given the junta's past record, one may be pardoned for being so cynical as to suppose that the decision was made to enrich Halliburton.

[donkeyotay]

8. "or to support the rapid development of new programs"

Now that we've established that king george is in fact above the law and can do any damned thing he wants, I wonder what kind of "new programs" might be coming up.

[iconoclastNYC]

9. well with all the rhetoric about dissent being dangerous

You just might wonder if the top 100,000 dangerous liberals might be interned right after the next neocon-fortuitous terrorist attack.

[bmcatt]

10. I hate myself for even thinking this

but I can't help wondering if any of those "new programs" eventually involve showers or ovens. :cry:

[populistdriven]

11. Time to Weapon Up

Use Trigger locks!

[Earth_First]

12. Question: Do you believe that post Katrina NOLA was a martial law dry run?

I finally had the opportunity to read through a voluminous amount of REX-84 websites today, which in my googling, led me to the post-Katrina military response. What I read was deplorable. I am almost ashamed that I didn't investigate this myself earlier immediately following the disaster. What follows are paraphrased instances.

Martial law was declared for a period of time on August 30th 2005.
The governing executive body was FEMA/National Guard.
Civilians were told that no civilian individual was permitted to posses firearms.
During such period, civilians were rounded up for mass evacuation/relocation.
Civilians were taken to military complexes in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico without disclosed location details.
Evacuees (detainees) were reported to obtain/posses FEMA ID cards.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but with the publishing of this recent KBR contract information, this seems like a cause and effect relationship based on "market research" to better implement the plan...

[Az_lefty]

13. Why aren't they building emergency housing in NO?

:shrug: