I used to teach in a high school and GED program up in Oregon. When we got to the history section I would be asked by these 15-21 year olds, “why do we have to study history?” I would reply humorously, “If I told you to go stick your tongue in the electrical socket, would you?” “Of course not!” No? Why not? .... “Lesson for the day: We learn from stories and other people's mistakes and experience.”
The results of the tongue in the socket are immediate. But what about delayed results? It is more difficult to stop eating chocolate when the immediate reward of oral ecstasy is right in front of me even when a brand might be related to slavery somewhere in the world. Or a struggle to cut my meat consumption now even though it will cause some random people starvation two, four, or eight years from now. Can we make proper analysis of patterns and be bold in our prophetic word? It is our call as community leaders, theologians and ministers to do just this.
“The further back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
-- Winston Churchill
I have been studying the WWII internment of U.S. citizens: Japanese, German, and Italian. The Japanese Americans bore the brunt of the war time hysteria and prejudice; scapegoats for U.S. fear and xenophobia. Although there were 5 to 6 million German Americans in the U.S. at the time, it was considered politically disastrous to try a mass relocation.
Years of silence can be broken and healing can happen. Our Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, CA) class Pilgrimage to Manzanar traveled to a Japanese American internment camp and it was a deeply profound experience of affiliation - powered by sadness, anger, and hope.
Sitting in the desert at Manzanar for the "Day of Remembrance" I was moved by the day's speeches, nearly all asking for solidarity in preventing this happening to any people, group, or ethnicity ever again. "Never again" a phrase in solidarity with the horrific Jewish WWII experience. “We will not forget. Never Again!” As the Jews promise not to forget the holocaust and work to prevent another such atrocity, these words come also from Nisei (second generation) and Sansei (third generation) who are in the process of healing and enjoin a promise to keep alive the memory of American internment.
The support by the Japanese American community for the plight of the Muslim American community since 9-11 was strong enough to bring over 100 Muslim Americans from CAIR Sacramento and Los Angeles to the hot dessert ritual pilgrimage of the Manzanar. They hosted a day long dialog session regarding race, class, and history where the multi-generational, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual group shared their own experiences, listened deeply, and walked with grace together in difficult conversations.
So, I was concerned when I read about the current building of camps for civilians. Government documents say they are in case of a surge of immigration. What was this all about? I read that KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, was the the construction firm receiving a contract to build with no other bids on this lucrative job. We know KBR built the Guantanamo containment and torture camp. It has been all over the news about Halliburton being confronted with war profiteering, and Halliburton's move to relocate it's corporation offshore. It is no longer an American Company and therefor not under U.S. law. With little effort I was able to find Halliburton’s own press release regarding a contract for $385 million dollars to build civilian internment camps.
The Army has had policy in place as early as 1997 for "civilian prison inmate labor and civilian prison camps on Army installations." Confirmed as policy by a congressional letter from Congressman Bill Hefner.
Can we trust Halliburton? Civilian employees were threatened with reassignment to military camps under fire if they expressed concern to auditors. Below is an excerpt from:
Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing
“An Oversight Hearing on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
in U.S. Government Contracting in Iraq”
Monday, June 27, 2005, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
138 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Portions of the transcript --
**********
STAFF:
And these senior managers ordered you and other employees not to discuss your concerns with the auditors?
MAYBERRY:
Yes. We were informed if we talked; we'd be rotated out to other camps that were under fire.
STAFF:
Is it fair to say that the managers used the threat of transfer to a more dangerous base to intimidate employees and keep them quiet?
MAYBERRY:
Yes.
STAFF:
When employees did talk to auditors, what happened?
MAYBERRY:
All the employees that did talk to the auditors were switched out to other camps or fired because they refused to go to the other camps.
*********** end of transcript section ************
Halliburton has relocated to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Halliburton is under investigation for Billions of dollars of wasteful management and other legal infringement.
Who do we trust? Look here as a former CIA speaks on Haliburton corruption and move to Dubai.
Film clips from mainstream media with former Halliburton-KBR employees, congress persons, and research analysts speaking out about Halliburton profiteering, misusing a cost-plus contract and lack of congressional oversight. U.S. taxpayer money lining the pockets of private bureaucrats and American troops in Iraq suffering at the hands of this greedy corporation. Who is protecting such obvious theft at highest levels of government?
What are some of the "New Programs" that Pres. Bush is preparing for and funding?
“The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements,” Graham, R-S.C., told Gonzales during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Feb. 6, 2006
Here is a web site with a list of camp locations. I can not speak to the accuracy of this list. I did find a couple of YouTube journalists reporting on sites. If you find any more evidence feel free to post.
Is this site a camp in waiting? Or is this camp fully operational with inmates?
How about a Texas family camp?
“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." -- Paul Joseph Watson. Prison Planet.com. February 1 2006.
H.R.6166 Military Commissions Act of 2006 Very troubling. disturbing content!
Everything is already in place to move inmates in federal prisons to become a workforce on military installations. See:
Civilian Inmate Labor Program
Army Regulation 210–35
Installations
Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC 14 January 2005
Other resources from U.S. military sources:
18 USC Chapter 303 Bureau of Prisons
18 USC Chapter 305 Commitment and Transfer
18 USC Chapter 1385 Posse Comitatus Act
28 USC 1346(b), 2671–2680 Federal Tort Claims Act
DODD 5525.5 DOD Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Officials
FAR, Part 22.201 Convict Labor
Cut and paste HERE
I do not know what all this means, but knowing enough history not to stick my tongue in an electrical socket leads me to believe that we as a people in this great nation need to educate ourselves and understand the relation of the past to the present. The past is a good indication of what the future holds unless we move together for change, and stability of our Constitution.
The results of the tongue in the socket are immediate. But what about delayed results? It is more difficult to stop eating chocolate when the immediate reward of oral ecstasy is right in front of me even when a brand might be related to slavery somewhere in the world. Or a struggle to cut my meat consumption now even though it will cause some random people starvation two, four, or eight years from now. Can we make proper analysis of patterns and be bold in our prophetic word? It is our call as community leaders, theologians and ministers to do just this.
“The further back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
-- Winston Churchill
I have been studying the WWII internment of U.S. citizens: Japanese, German, and Italian. The Japanese Americans bore the brunt of the war time hysteria and prejudice; scapegoats for U.S. fear and xenophobia. Although there were 5 to 6 million German Americans in the U.S. at the time, it was considered politically disastrous to try a mass relocation.
Years of silence can be broken and healing can happen. Our Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, CA) class Pilgrimage to Manzanar traveled to a Japanese American internment camp and it was a deeply profound experience of affiliation - powered by sadness, anger, and hope.
Sitting in the desert at Manzanar for the "Day of Remembrance" I was moved by the day's speeches, nearly all asking for solidarity in preventing this happening to any people, group, or ethnicity ever again. "Never again" a phrase in solidarity with the horrific Jewish WWII experience. “We will not forget. Never Again!” As the Jews promise not to forget the holocaust and work to prevent another such atrocity, these words come also from Nisei (second generation) and Sansei (third generation) who are in the process of healing and enjoin a promise to keep alive the memory of American internment.
The support by the Japanese American community for the plight of the Muslim American community since 9-11 was strong enough to bring over 100 Muslim Americans from CAIR Sacramento and Los Angeles to the hot dessert ritual pilgrimage of the Manzanar. They hosted a day long dialog session regarding race, class, and history where the multi-generational, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual group shared their own experiences, listened deeply, and walked with grace together in difficult conversations.
So, I was concerned when I read about the current building of camps for civilians. Government documents say they are in case of a surge of immigration. What was this all about? I read that KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, was the the construction firm receiving a contract to build with no other bids on this lucrative job. We know KBR built the Guantanamo containment and torture camp. It has been all over the news about Halliburton being confronted with war profiteering, and Halliburton's move to relocate it's corporation offshore. It is no longer an American Company and therefor not under U.S. law. With little effort I was able to find Halliburton’s own press release regarding a contract for $385 million dollars to build civilian internment camps.
The Army has had policy in place as early as 1997 for "civilian prison inmate labor and civilian prison camps on Army installations." Confirmed as policy by a congressional letter from Congressman Bill Hefner.
Can we trust Halliburton? Civilian employees were threatened with reassignment to military camps under fire if they expressed concern to auditors. Below is an excerpt from:
Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing
“An Oversight Hearing on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
in U.S. Government Contracting in Iraq”
Monday, June 27, 2005, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
138 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Portions of the transcript --
**********
STAFF:
And these senior managers ordered you and other employees not to discuss your concerns with the auditors?
MAYBERRY:
Yes. We were informed if we talked; we'd be rotated out to other camps that were under fire.
STAFF:
Is it fair to say that the managers used the threat of transfer to a more dangerous base to intimidate employees and keep them quiet?
MAYBERRY:
Yes.
STAFF:
When employees did talk to auditors, what happened?
MAYBERRY:
All the employees that did talk to the auditors were switched out to other camps or fired because they refused to go to the other camps.
*********** end of transcript section ************
Halliburton has relocated to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Halliburton is under investigation for Billions of dollars of wasteful management and other legal infringement.
Who do we trust? Look here as a former CIA speaks on Haliburton corruption and move to Dubai.
Film clips from mainstream media with former Halliburton-KBR employees, congress persons, and research analysts speaking out about Halliburton profiteering, misusing a cost-plus contract and lack of congressional oversight. U.S. taxpayer money lining the pockets of private bureaucrats and American troops in Iraq suffering at the hands of this greedy corporation. Who is protecting such obvious theft at highest levels of government?
What are some of the "New Programs" that Pres. Bush is preparing for and funding?
“The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements,” Graham, R-S.C., told Gonzales during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Feb. 6, 2006
Here is a web site with a list of camp locations. I can not speak to the accuracy of this list. I did find a couple of YouTube journalists reporting on sites. If you find any more evidence feel free to post.
Is this site a camp in waiting? Or is this camp fully operational with inmates?
How about a Texas family camp?
“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." -- Paul Joseph Watson. Prison Planet.com. February 1 2006.
H.R.6166 Military Commissions Act of 2006 Very troubling. disturbing content!
Everything is already in place to move inmates in federal prisons to become a workforce on military installations. See:
Civilian Inmate Labor Program
Army Regulation 210–35
Installations
Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC 14 January 2005
Other resources from U.S. military sources:
18 USC Chapter 303 Bureau of Prisons
18 USC Chapter 305 Commitment and Transfer
18 USC Chapter 1385 Posse Comitatus Act
28 USC 1346(b), 2671–2680 Federal Tort Claims Act
DODD 5525.5 DOD Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Officials
FAR, Part 22.201 Convict Labor
Cut and paste HERE
I do not know what all this means, but knowing enough history not to stick my tongue in an electrical socket leads me to believe that we as a people in this great nation need to educate ourselves and understand the relation of the past to the present. The past is a good indication of what the future holds unless we move together for change, and stability of our Constitution.
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