KBR\Halliburton Gets The Contract For Our Internment Camps !!!

[WillyT]

Malloy was talking about this earlier.

Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.

KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year.

The contract with the Corps of Engineers runs one year, with four optional one-year extensions. Officials of the corps said that they had solicited bids and that KBR was the lone responder.

A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamie Zuieback, said KBR would build the centers only in an emergency like the one when thousands of Cubans floated on rafts to the United States. She emphasized that the centers might never be built if such an emergency did not arise.

"It's the type of contract that could be used in some kind of mass migration," Ms. Zuieback said.

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Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04halliburton.html

But check out a Canadian's take on this...

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US Detention Camps For Political Subversives

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In another shining example of modern day corporate fascism, it was announced recently that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency.

The language of the preamble to the agreement veils the program with talk of temporary migrant holding centers, but it is made clear that the camps will also be used "as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency." Discussions of federal concentration camps is no longer the rhetoric of paranoid Internet conspiracy theorists, it is mainstream news.

Under the enemy combatant designation anyone at the behest of the US government, even if they are a US citizen, can be kidnapped and placed in an internment facility forever without trial. Jose Padilla, an American citizen, has spent over four years in a Navy brig and is only just now getting a trial.

In 2002, FEMA sought bids from major real estate and engineering firms to construct giant internment facilities in the case of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack or a natural disaster. Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz went public three years ago with his contention that his county was set to be a location for one of the camps. Alex Jones has attended numerous military urban warfare training drills across the US where role players were used to simulate arresting American citizens and taking them to internment camps.

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Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WAT20060204&articleId=1886

Ya know... in the past, I'd have thought Mr. Watson a crack-pot.

Not anymore...

:mad::nuke::mad:

[fooj]

1. This is sooooooo scary.

Peace.

[leftstreet]

2. $385 million isn't very much money

It's probably just a campaign favor payback to some Bushco crony at KBR. I doubt they'll build a single thing. Bushco wants to end the catch/release policy with illegal immigrants here so he can pass his guest worker program. They probably just used it as an excuse to shove more money down some cronythroat.

[rucky]

5. that was for an extension to finish the job.

more at: www.legitgov.org

[NNN0LHI]

10. Were you expecting a 4-star Hilton? Razer wire doesn't cost much n/t

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. ...

:scared:

I know what you mean...A few years ago, I would have auggested that he wear a tin-foil hat...Now, I agree with him.

[november3rd]

4. Shit

At least the NY Times reported it, but still, we know those f***ing camps aren't being built just for immigrants, are they?

I wonder if any of 'em 'll be finished in time to handle the overflow of rioters after the 2006 election fraud?

[WillyT]

6. I'm Sure They Will Be, Cause That's Gonna Be The First National Emergency

of many.

:shrug:

[Ilsa]

7. I wonder what Hitler's excuse was for the camps he

built for the "undesirables"? Does anyone know? Were they also camps for refuge in event of a "natural disaster"?

God almighty. I don't recognize this place anymore. And it was done in a matter of five years or less.

[WillyT]

8. I Don't Know What He Told The German People, But...

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Almost immediately following his rise to power, Hitler began the creation of concentration camps. Initially these were designed to incarcerate political prisoners (enemies of the regime), criminals and security risks. While conditions were, predictably, horrible in these camps, and while the death rates were high, there is no evidence that they were used for extermination purposes. By the late 1930s there were literally hundreds of camps scattered throughout Germany and with the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, Holland and France, camps were established throughout the Reich.

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Link (hoping this site is honest): http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holocamp.html

They make a distinction between concentration camps, and extermination camps.

I'm not sure I'd be so gracious.

:shrug:

[Ilsa]

9. Thanks for enlightening me. I wondered how he managed that. eom

[liberalhistorian]

11. And the real, big problem is,

just like in Germany and any other country faced with creeping fascism, that most people won't realize what is happening, and recognize the danger and the "true purpose" of it, until it is far too late. You'd think we would have learned by now.

I wonder what color stars or patches we'll have to wear in the camps? I hope it isn't pink or yellow, I never did look good in those colors. A nice medium shade of blue should look nice, however.

[zann725]

12. If there were a sizeable earthquake in CA, thousands of BLUE voters

could be interned, under the pretense of disaster management. Once contained...how long 'til their eyes see the light of day again? And elsewhere, how would such disasters seriously skew the election base, and results in any future election. The already thousands of missing and displaced Louisiana and Mississippi residents will seriously effect '06 AND '08, obviously.

Given the scale and number of "possible" natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), "fixing" the machines in future elections may not even be necessary. Just relocate, or count "missing" or "dead" those who "disapear" during the panic of natural disasters.

But that's tooo tin-foil, so I won't explore it further. Though Hell-iburton DID get $385 to build said detention centers for exactly WHAT????

[WillyT]

13. Yeah... I Guess They've Gotta Move The Katrina Victims Somewhere...

They're gettin booted out of their hotel rooms don't ya know.

No wonder Bush didn't mention much of Katrina during the SOTUS.

:argh:

[WillyT]

14. Kick !!!

:kick:

[WillyT]

15. Hello... Anybody Seeing The 4th Reich ???

:shrug:

[WillyT]

16. OK...