Have you heard of Rex 84, FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America

[babylonsister]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROL20060820&articleId=3010

Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America

by Allen L Roland

Global Research, August 20, 2006
Salon.com Blogs

We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.

The Cheney/Bush administration has a plan which would accommodate the detention of large numbers of American citizens during times of emergency.

The plan is called REX 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984. Through Rex-84 an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state.

The Rex 84 Program was originally established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA.

Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987

" These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached."

And there you have it ~ the real purpose of FEMA is to not only protect the government but to be its principal vehicle for martial law.

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http://uweb.txstate.edu/~lf14/conspire/rex84.html

FEMA And REX 84

In April 1984, President Reagan signed Presidential Directorate Number 54 that allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national "readiness exercise" under the code name of REX 84. The exercise was to test FEMA's readiness to assume military authority in the event of a "State of Domestic National Emergency" concurrent with the launching of a direct United States military operation in Central America. The plan called for the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so that they could legally be used for domestic law enforcement. These units would be assigned to conduct sweeps and take into custody an estimated 400,000 undocumented Central American immigrants in the United States. The immigrants would be interned at 10 detention centers to be set up at military bases throughout the country. REX 84 was so highly guarded that special metal security doors were placed on the fifth floor of the FEMA building in Washington, D.C. Even long-standing employees of the Civil Defense of the Federal Executive Department possessing the highest possible security clearances were not being allowed through the newly installed metal security doors. Only personnel wearing a special red Christian cross or crucifix lapel pin were allowed into the premises. Lt. Col. North was responsible for drawing up the emergency plan, which U.S. Attorney General William French Smith opposed vehemently.

The plan called for the suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the government over to FEMA, appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments and the declaration of Martial Law. The Presidential Executive Orders to support such a plan were already in place. The plan also advocated the rounding up and transfer to "assembly centers or relocation camps" of a least 21 million American Negroes in the event of massive rioting or disorder, not unlike the rounding up of the Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

The second known time that FEMA stood by was in 1990 when Desert Storm was enacted. Prior to President Bush's invasion of Iraq, FEMA began to draft new legislation to increase its already formidable powers. One of the elements incorporated into the plan was to set up operations within any state or locality without the prior permission of local or state authorities. Such prior permission has always been required in the past. Much of the mechanism being set into place was in anticipation of the economic collapse of the Western World. The war with Iraq may have been conceived as a ploy to boost the bankrupt economy, but it only pushed the West into deeper recession.

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[bonito]

1. We didn't have a bankrupt economy before * & co.

Impeach now, sticks and stones as the saying goes.

[melody]

2. Mae Brussell did quite a lot of writing about Rex 84 back in the 70s

This is an old, old document, by the way, though it was supposedly re-drafted, in
part, by Oliver North. It called for the "destruction of the containers", in other
words the bodies. It's a very, very ugly look into the psyche of these people.

That said, it is rejected by all but a handful of people, for obvious reasons. It's
also not implementable, thank god, for any practical purpose.

Mae's stuff is over at http://maebrussell.com

She was almost certainly clinically paranoid, but she did a lot of good research also.

[derby378]

3. A lot of survivalist Christians touted this REX 84 theory as well

I'm not losing too much sleep over it.

[MagickMuffin]

4. To answer your question Yes

back when Ollie testified Iran-Contra and my own research....

[struggle4progress]

5. This nasty scheme first appeared as Tricky Dick Nixon's "preventive detention"

scheme. Nixon originally used bogus "material witness" custody as a means of detaining people without process, and William Rehnquist, serving under Nixon (before being appointed to SCOTUS), worked out some of the legal theory. Oliver North helped sharpen planning in what became REX-84/NSC-168. After the Republicans obtained control of Congress in the 1990s, they passed a "preventive detention" statute. In the Bush era, of course, players from the Nixon and Reagan periods were able to bring back some of the innovations of their wingnut predecessors. In particular, Bush is again using "material witness" warrants as a custodial technique. So none of the more recent developments should have surprised anyone.



Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
News Analysis/Commentary, Peter Dale Scott,
New America Media, Feb 08, 2006

Editor's Note: A little-known $385 million contract for Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for "an emergency influx of immigrants" is another step down the Bush administration's road toward martial law, the writer says. ~snip~

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77

[Karenina]

13. "Immigrant detention" = $$$$$$$$

The plan has been on the drawing board for YEARS.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0233/solomon.php

The Gatekeeper: Watch on the INS
by Alisa Solomon
Detainees Equal Dollars
The Rise in Immigrant Incarcerations drives a prison boom
August 14 - 20, 2002

t was a shaky spring for the correctional workers of Hastings, Nebraska (pop. 24,064), as the stagnation in the nation's prison population and the increasingly high costs of incarceration jostled the sleepy town, some two hours' drive from Lincoln. On April 9, the 84 employees of the Hastings Correctional Center were told that the 186-bed facility would be closing at the end of June. State funds were scraping bottom, and the $2.5 million annual price tag for the prison was too big a burden to carry. "We really didn't know what we would do," says Jim Morgan, who had been working at HCC for 15 years and lives to this day in the house where he was born. "There aren't a lot of job opportunities out here, and most of us have homes and kids and couldn't even think about moving somewhere else." For two months, the workers scrambled, filling out applications at nearby meatpacking and cardboard-container plants and anticipating long hours in the unemployment office.

Then salvation came from, of all places, the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Days after HCC closed as a state prison in June, it reopened as an INS detention center.

"It's a win-win," says Morgan. The INS is desperate for more beds for its ever expanding detainee population. And the state of Nebraska, collecting $65 per detainee per day from the INS, rakes in more than $1 million a year over and above the cost of running the place.

County jailers have long known that housing INS detainees pumps easy income into the coffers. Nearly 900 facilities around the country provide beds for the INS, and in interviews over the years, several county sheriffs and wardens have described such detainees as a "cash crop."

Passaic County Jail in New Jersey learned the lucrative lesson after 9-11, as INS transfers boosted its detainee population from 40 to 386 by December 18. The INS paid $77 per day per detainee, compared to New Jersey reimbursements of $62 for state prisoners; some $3 million in INS payments poured into Passaic last year.

Now, in places like Hastings all around the country, prisons are seeking to cut such deals on a larger scale. At the end of July the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported a decline in the state prison population, reversing a decade-long trend that produced a prison-building boom across America. The only incarcerated populations sustaining reliable growth now are INS detainees and federal prisoners, many of them noncitizens. Those with an interest in keeping multitudes behind bars—whether public employees working in the prisons that expanded in the '90s, or for-profit companies that have seen their stock prices plunge in the last couple of years—are coming to regard immigrants as their redeemers.

[roguevalley]

6. I still believe, given the gun-nut libertarian eccentricity of too many

of our folks, that they can try. If the military -our families- don't play along and the rest of the 290 million of us agree, then Bush and Co. can go fuck themselves.

[JacquesMolay]

7. They still maintain the camps ..

.... I just wonder who would be the first to go in.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. FEMA can't even maintain a fucking trailer park.

I'd like to see them try to pull this off.

[Swamp Rat]

9. Yes, they practiced on us in New Orleans already.

There were temporary camps set up where poor folks were herded at gunpoint and not allowed to leave.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/09/1443240
http://katrina.house.gov/hearings/12_06_05/hodges_120605.rtf
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html
http://www.nilc.org/disaster_assistance/da001.htm
http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=05/12/09/1444207
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0902-06.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1451600.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1998/09/ito.html
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/8033
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/12/1426242
http://michaelmoore.tribe.net/thread/cdb78374-f502-4c0e-807d-7753492a3dea

[Octafish]

10. Ollie North and the Secret Government

Here's Ollie North's reaction when asked by Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas:

If the Reagan-Bush White House had in place a plan to suspend the Constitution of the United States?



Know your BFEE: The Secret Government

News from Post-Constitutional America

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1996 - The issue arose again during the Iran-Contra affair, but even in the wake of all the copy on that scandal, the public got little sense of how far some America's soldiers of fortune were willing to go to achieve their ends. When the Iran-Contra hearings came close to the matter, chair Senator Inouye backed swiftly away. Here is an excerpt from those hearings. Oliver North is at the witness table:

REP BROOKS: Colonel North, in your work at the NSC, were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?

BRENDAN SULLIVAN: Mr. Chairman?

SEN INOUYE: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch on that.

REP BROOKS: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was the area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation.

SEN INOUYE: May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I'm certain arrangements can be made for an executive session

With few exceptions, the media ignored what well could be the most startling revelation to have come out of the Iran/Contra affair, namely that high officials of the US government were planning a possible military/civilian coup. First among the exceptions was the Miami Herald, which on July 5, 1987, ran the story to which Jack Brooks referred. The article, by Alfonzo Chardy, revealed Oliver North's involvement in plans for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to take over federal, state and local functions during an ill-defined national emergency.

According to Chardy, the plan called for 'suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the government over to the Federal Management Agency, emergency appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments and declaration of martial law.' The proposal appears to have forgotten that Congress, legislatures and the judiciary even existed.

CONTINUED...

http://prorev.com/coup.htm

[Karenina]

11. Kick!

:kick:

[radfringe]

12. The plan called for the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units

ummm... what military/guard units? the majority of them are in Iraq

will the bushies bring them back from over there so they can attack us over here?