[Ppnews] Texas Prison Camp Future American Gulag?

Thu Jan 11 08:34:43 EST 2007

Texas Prison Camp Future American Gulag?
Detention facility currently holds as many as 200 children 
incarcerated after midnight arrests

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html>Prison Planet
Monday, January 8, 2007

<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/080107americangulag.htm>http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/080107americangulag.htm

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A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of 
rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of 
which are children swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime 
location for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time 
of national emergency.

The privatized Hutto jail, which is also administered by Homeland 
Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), currently 
interns political asylum seekers who came to the U.S. on legal visas. 
<http://www.counterpunch.org/moses12192006.html>Most of them are 
families including pregnant women and children who have never been 
accused of any wrongdoing but are forced to endure squalid conditions 
inside literal concentration camps.

In 2004 the facility was on the verge of being shutdown due to lack 
of occupancy but new immigration policies, allied to the burgeoning 
growth of the prison industry and future plans to detain American 
citizens on masse, have revived the potential scope of the camp, and 
a 
<http://www.taylordailypress.net/articles/2005/12/21/news/news01.txt%7C%7Cheight=,width=,location=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no>new 
contract to intern 600 individuals was finalized with immigration 
authorities in December 2005.

The facility is euphemistically called a "Residential Center," yet 
c<http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=708>harges 
of overcrowding and poor conditions are rife, with an estimated 645 
people filling a facility that has only 512 beds.

"Innocent children should not be jailed and forced to live under 
traumatizing and dehumanizing conditions," said a statement from 
Texans United for Families, an organization that recently held a 
vigil protest at the facility. "It is bad policy and an impractical 
and inhumane response to a growing refugee crisis. The U.S. should 
seek alternatives to detention while making sure that it legislates 
policies that support families and keep them together and out of jail."

The Infowars team recently visited the facility and were promptly 
told to leave the premises before having their names taken, but not 
before they were able to get footage of the camp "playground" where 
some of the children were playing behind giant mesh barbed wire. The 
children were kept indoors throughout the taping and were only 
allowed out when the film crew left to eat lunch. View the video below.

One local said that other residents of the town were completely 
oblivious to the fact that the camp even existed, never mind its 
function and purpose.

Suspicions will undoubtedly be cast as to whether the facility in 
Tyler is part of a wider agenda to set up a network of internment 
camps that will be used to forcibly detain American citizens under 
emergency provisions. The pretext for this was set in the summer of 
2004, when thousands of protesters in New York for the Republican 
National Convention were forcibly detained, some for over 24 hours, 
without charge in an asbestos infested disused bus facility known as 
<http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/pier57/>Pier 57, or 
"Guantanamo on the Hudson" as other labeled it.

During the Iran Contra hearings in the 80's, previously classified 
information came to light about Continuity of Government (CoG) 
procedures in times of national crisis. The masterminds behind these 
programs were Oliver North, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and the 
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/010306_b_camps.htm>Rex-84 
'readiness exercise' discussed the plan to round up immigrants and 
detain them in internment camps in the context of uncontrolled 
population movements across the Mexican border.

The real agenda was to use the cover of rounding up immigrants and 
illegal aliens as a smokescreen for targeting political dissidents 
and American citizens . From 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of 
persons to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list.

Since 9/11 shadow government and CoG programs that were outlined in 
Rex-84 have been activated, including mass warrantless wiretapping of 
American citizens. The internment camp program is being readied for 
execution 
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/010306gulagsforamericans.htm>following 
the announcement on January 24th that Halliburton subsidiary KBR 
(formerly Brown and Root) had been awarded a $385 million contingency 
contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps.

A much discussed and circulated report, the 
<http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf>Pentagon's Civilian 
Inmate Labor Program, has recently been updated and the revision 
details a "template for developing agreements" between the Army and 
corrections facilities for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army 
installations."

The pretext given for which the camps would be used as reported by 
the <http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/>New York Times was stated 
as, "an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event 
of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional 
detention space."

Following the news first given wide attention by this website, 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 <http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/>Alternet 
website put together an alarming report that collated all the latest 
information on plans to initiate internment of political subversives 
and Muslims after the next major terror attack in the U.S.

The article highlighted the disturbing comments of Sen. Lindsey 
Graham, who encouraged torture supporting Attorney General Alberto 
Gonzales to target, "Fifth Columnists" Americans who show disloyalty 
and sympathize with "the enemy," whoever that enemy may be.

Respected author Peter Dale Scott speculated that the "detention 
centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush 
administration were to declare martial law."

Daniel Ellsberg, former Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of 
Defense, called the plan, "preparation for a roundup after the next 
9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They've 
already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration' 
detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo."

One of the last acts of Congress before Christmas was to send 
President Bush a bill that establishes a $38 million program of 
National Park Service grants to 
<http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/081206lastact.htm>preserve 
Japanese POW internment camps in Hawaii, California, Arizona, 
Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. Is this really in the 
name of historical interest or does it dovetail with programs on the 
books to intern hundreds of thousands of dissidents in a time of crisis?

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