Halliburton Awarded $385 mill To Build "Detention Centers" In USA

[kpete]

What ought to shock and terrify every American is that KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, was awarded a $385 million contract to build "temporary detention facilities" in case of an "immigration emergency":

"The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. 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. In the event of a natural disaster, the contractor could be tasked with providing housing for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) personnel performing law enforcement functions in support of relief efforts."

Anyone paying a little bit of attention will ask, "What immigration emergency?" If there is an immigration emergency looming on the horizon it is a big secret. Of course immigrants will be the first ensnared in the net that big brother Bush has in mind, but the net won't stop with them.

What sort of national emergency requires detention centers? America has plenty of prisons. More of our population is behind bars than in any country on earth. There are detention centers for immigration in existence already. As for helping in case of a natural disaster, hurricane Katrina proved that saving American lives is not on the Bush agenda.

When the word detention comes up, hairs should rise on the back of every neck. Thanks to the Patriot Act and the creation of "enemy combatants" these detention centers can be used to lock up anyone for any reason for any length of time that Uncle Sam wishes.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/171/171_freedom_rider_halliburton_detention_centers.html

[Burried News]

1. I thought the Superdome served that purpose? Sark

[babylonsister]

2. I get chills every time I see this story; it's truly frightening to think

about what 'they' might have in store for us.

[im10ashus]

14. Me too sister.

I was just talking about this at lunch with coworkers yesterday. Is this where we are going to end up? :scared:

[The Backlash Cometh]

24. Especially since they think they have full martial law powers -- at

any time. My second best guess is that they are going to quarantine people with the bird flu there.

[mirandapriestly]

38. and our democratic "leaders" have helped give them those

powers.

[The Backlash Cometh]

41. No question about it.

Which makes the Sherrod coup that much more worrisome.

[donheld]

27. I get chills thinking about where I don't see this story

The MSM seems to be keeping people pretty oblivious to it. People can't get up in arms about what they're kept in the dark about.

[Dover]

3. I'd be curious to know what 'temporary' means and where they'll be located

$385 million sounds like a lot of money, but when you are discussing buildings how far would it go?
I wonder how much Gitmo cost? My immediate thought was that this was just another bogus boondoggle project to siphon money into their pockets.

[Crowdance]

4. Doesn't cost much to lay down concrete and surround it with electric fence

Throw in a barracks, munitions storage and a food facility, and you could probably build each one for 3-4 million, if you already own the land. It won't take much more than that to detain us, really. We're pretty much trained to fall into line and do what we're told.

[helderheid]

11. they're talking about using old military bases so even cheaper. each

facility they say will hold 5000 people.

[babylonsister]

5. How does 500M sit with you?

Halliburton has rec'd at least 39+Million and counting, per Commondreams:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0618-06.htm
Halliburton Given $30m to Expand Guantanamo Bay
by Rupert Cornwell in Washington


A subsidiary of Halliburton, the oil services group once led by the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has won a $30m (£16m) contract to help build a new permanent prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Pentagon announcement, giving further details of the planned two-story jail, complete with air conditioning and exercise and medical facilities, is a further sign that the Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is determined to keep the jail in operation.

There are some 520 inmates from 40 countries at Guantanamo, some of them held there for more than three years. The new jail will be capable of holding 220 people. Under the contract with the US Naval Engineering Command, the work is to be finished by the end of July 2006. The final deal could be worth as much as $500m.

The work will be carried out by Halliburton's contracting subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR). It will include site work, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical work.
more...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0727-02.htm
Halliburton to Build New Cells at Guantanamo Base
by Charles Aldinger


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. has been awarded a $9.7 million contract to build an additional 204-cell detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold additional suspected al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The move will expand the high-security prison on the base, where hundreds of such "detainees" from Afghanistan are already being held in 612 small cells.

The prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station has played a major part in the U.S. war on terrorism declared after September's attacks on America in which more than 3,000 people died. No prisoners have been charged, but some could eventually face military trials.

Brown and Root Services, an engineering division of Halliburton, will build the additional 6-by-8-foot cells on the windward side of the remote U.S. base at the southeastern tip of Cuba, the Pentagon said.

The work is expected to be completed by October. But the Pentagon suggested on Friday that the facility could grow even more and that the contract could eventually total as much as $300 million if additional options were exercised over the next four years.

[Dover]

7. Thanks for that info. Do you suppose they might use it on Cuban citizens?

If I were in Cuba I'd certainly be nervous. Or might that be a cover for establishing a military presence there?

So that much money is purportedly being spent on just that one unit.

[babylonsister]

8. I think it's yet another way to line Halliburton's pockets, with

some strategic funds going into Swiss bank accounts. As I've said before, how much money is enough for these people?:banghead:

[Richard D]

9. 9.7 million

to build 612 6x8 foot cells. Something like $328 per square foot of cell space. Or around $15,744 per cell.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. And if you'll notice

they never say who is a "terrorist suspect." People like Cindy Sheehan could be apart of their list. :( Just like in Guntanamo Bay and Abu Grhaib nobody there has been tried and convected. They're just there and most of them are innocent people. Remember the White Rose Society!

[countryjake]

32. In the middle of nowhere...see this article...

The Okanogon is in Eastern Washington, up by the Canadian border. Can't think of a more lonely place!

Concentration Camps in Okanagon County? KXLY News February 27 2003

~snip~

"Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz says he's convinced his county is a designated home for a "concentration camp'' in case of civil unrest. Schulz says he has copies of documents, although he hasn't been able to confirm the rumor."

[tecelote]

6. America, The Land of the Free.

America holds more prisoners than any other nation - per capita and in total number.

It's big business and motivated by profits.

This has been going on for decades but now we also support torture and arrests without right to council.

I was once a proud American. Now, I'm ashamed.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Cheap prison labor.

[helderheid]

10. I just emailed friends and family the NY times article

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04halliburton.html?ex=1140325200&en=da9b822742ab2e76&ei=5070

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[babylonsister]

13. Signs in Russian? What's that about? Scary stuff. nt

[tecelote]

15. That should be a post of it's own.

[schmuls]

16. I'll do that!

[Dover]

18. I wonder if our activism might be more effective if, instead of

all going to one location like D.C. to protest at the doors of government, if protests were held at key Halliburton and affiliate facilities and executives homes around the country? They are one of the key players who seem to have infiltrated our government and it's policies with their people. What if everyone focused on them for a period of time, forming large groups within every state?

It's a sort of 'decentralized' model and has a tight focus, for however long its needed to exact changes.

[FatDave]

39. They'd call it tresspassing

Anything owned by Haliburton will be considered private property, so they'd be able to scream "criminal tresspassing" and have you taken away pretty easily. Now normally that would be a pretty minor charge, you'd be cuffed, stuffed, fingerprinted, and released. But these days? Who knows.

[Norquist Nemesis]

19. In some strange twist of fate, there's going to be a whole bunch

of Cons occupying those detention centers while they await trial for treason. Grover Norquist will be Detainee #000001. I can dream, anyway...

Everyday seems to be one more step toward destroying America. :( This has been in the planning for some time now and the really scary thing is that the public has no idea what the plan is. It's impossible to get ahead of things because everything they do is secret, at least until they sign a contract. Then, it's a done deal and they can checkoff another task completed.

[glitch]

30. Considering the deep levels of corruption, they may just need the space.

I love your sense of irony!
Imprison the people who planned and built the prisons.

[mmonk]

20. Darkness on our horizon

[crizzo5137]

21. I Wish to be on record that I have no problem with this.

Im ready to sign my loyalty oath to Bush and the Republicans!!! They are protecting us!!!

I LOVE PREZ BUSH!!!!!!


I do hope Bob from NSA saves that in my file...

[helderheid]

28. ditto!! :)

[FreedomAngel82]

22. Oh wow

Perhaps this is just a coverup for their real purpose of this. Is the black commentator reliable on their reporting? People have been talking about concentration camps in the US since the 90's. I'm sure some of these places are from the Japanese-American deal in WWII. I'm all for having a better immigration policy with illegal aliens but this is way way out of hand if it's true. :\

[smoogatz]

25. The Halliburton ress release is up on the net--I'll try to find the link.

The story is true. My theory: this is Bushco's preparation for bird flu, or another such pandemic. They're talking about an INTERNAL immigration emergency. They're envisioning a scenario in which whole cities or regions would be quarantined, and civil/government/economic institutions would collapse. You could use the camps as quarantine centers, or as holding pens for the masses of homeless/starving they envision. Because, you know, the cost of getting a vaccine out to people would be excessive.

[Harald Ragnarsson]

26. Read it and weep, if you have any tears left

KBR Awarded Homeland Security Contract

The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., OR TO SUPPORT THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PROGRAMS.

Note the acronym, ICE. How cute, they will be able to say they ICED somebody! I wonder if ICING someone will mean killing them like the other Mob?

[helderheid]

29. welcome to DU

:hi: :scared:

[smoogatz]

31. Welcome, Harald.

Quick find on the press release. "New programs" is a terrifyingly vague bit of nomenclature, isn't it?

[Harald Ragnarsson]

35. Thanks for the welcome, guys and gals

I think there must be a typo in their news release though.

I'm sure they meant pogroms instead of programs.

[jeffrey_X]

33. $385 million "in case" WTF

WTF

[mwb970]

34. Those camps may be our future home.

Let's make sure they get built right! Like Internet access in every room.

[Harald Ragnarsson]

36. Those will be the White Collar detention centers n/t

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[Mrspeeker]

42. National Police force and US (KBR ) Detention Centers

this is what i was pointing out a few posts ago:

What is the whole picture here?

A national police force is in the works and of course kellogg Brown and Root has already been awarded a huge contract to build Guantanamo bay type detention centers in the US. The police force will run rapid with no jurisdiction, no warrants and no civil rights to hold them back. They will coincide with KBRs (Kellogg, Brown, and Root) new US detention centers which are being built around the country. The detention centers will be used for the governments new practice of extraordinary rendition, and of course permanent detention. With the creation of the national police the government will effectively have achieved its goal of maintaining control over the entire US. The national Police force can arrest and detain any person in the US without a court order or a warrant, they don't even need probable cause.


This is all very scary considering that the current administration has adopted a policy of you are either with us or against us. So for those who are against them its not love it or leave it, its we will arrest you and permanently detain you if you don't support the NEO-CONS.

[countryjake]

43. Since my link is considered "conspiracy" and the original isn't active...

Here's the article that I've linked to, copied from right here at DU...

Concentration Camps in Okanagon County? KXLY News in Washington state

Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz says he's convinced his county is a designated home for a ``concentration camp'' in case of civil unrest.
Schulz says he has copies of documents, although he hasn't been able to confirm the rumor.

Federal officials say they have no idea where the commissioner got the notion of civilian detention camps.

A Federal Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman says it sounds like an urban legend and a Pentagon spokesman says he's not aware of any planned camps in Okanogan County or elsewhere.

Rumors of planned U.S. detention facilities appear on dozens of Web sites.

Schulz says he thinks the plan has been written in the event of a national emergency where martial law is necessary, and hopes it never becomes necessary.


(2/25/2003 3:52:00 PM)
©2000-2004 KXLY Broadcasting Group. All Rights Reserved.


Here is the other article that was deleted (from The Village Voice):

General Ashcroft's Detention Camps by Nat Hentoff September 4, 2002

~snip~

"The nature of the conduct engaged in by a (terrorist) enterprise will justify an inference that the standard is satisfied, even if there are no known statements by participants that advocate or indicate planning for violence or other prohibited acts." (Emphasis added.) That conduct can be simply "intimidating" the government, according to the USA Patriot Act.