Prison Planet.com | February 1 2006

By Paul Joseph Watson

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.

The move towards the database state in the US and the UK, where every offence is arrestable and DNA records of every suspect,
even if later proven innocent, are permanently kept on record, is the
only tool necessary to create a master list of 'subversives' that would
be subject to internment in a manufactured time of national emergency.

The national ID card is also intended to be used for this purpose, just as the Nazis used early IBM computer punch card technology to catalogue lists of homosexuals, gypsies and Jews before the round-ups began.

Section 44 of the Terrorism Act in Britain enables police to obtain name and address details of anyone
they choose, whether they are acting suspiciously or not. Those details
remain on a database forever. To date, 119,000 names of political
activists have been taken and this is a figure that will skyrocket once
the post 7/7 figures are taken into account. At the height of the Iraq
war protests, around a million people marched across the country.
However, most of these people were taking part in a political protest
for the first time and as a one off. Even if we take a figure of half,
500,000 people being politically active in Britain, that means that the
government has already registered around a quarter of political
activists in the UK.

In
truth the number is probably above half because we are not factoring in
those already on MI5 'subversive' lists and those listed after the 7/7
bombings, when the powers were used even more broadly.

Concurrently in the US, a new provision in the extended Patriot Act bill
would allow Secret Service agents to arrest and jail protesters accused
of breaching any security perimeter, even if the President or any other
protected official isn't present. The definition of 'free speech zones'
can be shifted around loosely and this would open the floodgates for
protesters to be grabbed and hauled away in any circumstance at the
whim of the Secret Service.

During the 2004 RNC protests, thousands of New Yorkers were arrested en masse

in indiscriminate round-ups and taken to Pier 57 (pictured), a
condemned, asbestos poisoned old bus depot, where they were imprisoned
without charge for up to 24 hours or more.

The
existence and development of internment camps are solely intended to be
used to round up en masse and imprison 'political dissidents' (anyone
who isn't prepared to lick government boots) after a simulated tactical
nuke or biological attack on a major US or European city.

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