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</font><font size=3 color="#800000"><b>Texas Prison Camp Future American
Gulag?<br>
</font><font size=3>Detention facility currently holds as many as 200
children incarcerated after midnight arrests <br><br>
<i>Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones<br>
</i><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html">Prison Planet<br>
</a>Monday, January 8, 2007<br><br>
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<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/080107americangulag.htm">
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/080107americangulag.htm</a>
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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. <br><br>
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.
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/moses12192006.html">Most of them are
families including pregnant women and children</a> who have never been
accused of any wrongdoing but are forced to endure squalid conditions
inside literal concentration camps.<br><br>
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
<a href="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 </a>was finalized with immigration
authorities in December 2005.<br><br>
The facility is euphemistically called a "Residential Center,"
yet
c<a href="http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=708">
harges of overcrowding and poor conditions are rife</a>, with an
estimated 645 people filling a facility that has only 512 beds.<br><br>
"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."<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/pier57/">Pier 57, or
"Guantanamo on the Hudson"</a> as other labeled it.<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/010306_b_camps.htm">
Rex-84</a> '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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/010306gulagsforamericans.htm">
following the announcement</a> 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.<br><br>
A much discussed and circulated report, the
<a href="http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf">Pentagon's
Civilian Inmate Labor Program</a>, 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."<br><br>
The pretext given for which the camps would be used as reported by the
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/">New York Times</a> 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."<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/32647/">Alternet website</a> 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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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."<br><br>
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."<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/081206lastact.htm">
preserve Japanese POW internment camp</a>s 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?<br>
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