Touring my friendly neighborhood FEMA death camp

The limping, enfeebled intellect of Chuck Baldwin is much to be pitied.

And then mocked.

I have had this one on the back burner for a few days now, as I have been rather busy. But now it is time. Baldwin's "Why Are Internment Camps Being Built?" appeared at Bible Prophecy Today. It seems to me that the title is a little misleading, because, really, what needs to be established is that death camps are being constructed in the first place.

The Internet is abuzz with news about the construction of internment camps all across America. Of course, "mainstream" media outlets refuse to touch the subject; or if they do, they pooh-pooh the story; they do what Glenn Beck recently did: try to debunk the story as fallacious and impugn people who speak of it as "conspiracy nuts." The fact that the Becks, Hannitys, Limbaughs, and O'Reillys of the media circus refuse to deal with the construction of large numbers of internment camps does not make them disappear, however.

Nor does your discussing them make them appear, Chuck. The Internet is abuzz with a lot of stuff, including Bigfoot sightings, astrological predictions, and cute squirrels fucking up a perfectly good picture. Lots of truly stupid shit fills the Internet, and the internment camps are no exception.

For starters, all anyone need do to begin a serious investigation of the subject of internment camps is Google the phrase "FEMA Camps."

A serious investigation will go to LexisNexis Academic and look up FEMA camps. A serious investigation will look at the FEMA budget. A serious study of the issue will look on page thirty-fucking-five of Michael Barkun's A Culture of Conspiracy and will see that FEMA has been the subject of conspiratorial thinking since the 1970s. If your brain doesn't hurt too much from all the actual knowledge you are acquiring, Chuck, and you read on to page 72, you will see that the concentration camp story came out of the civil preparedness planning following the upheavals of the 1960s, was originally pinned on Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and has been floating around, pinned on FEMA in April 1984 in a Spotlight article, and finally popularized in the first X-Files movie, which people actually saw. Cripes, you can do a Google search and find evidence for the existence of tap dancing gnomes (24,600 hits). But maybe your other research techniques are less completely and utterly incompetent.

As people read my columns all across America, I have had numerous readers contact me, saying that they have personally witnessed the transportation of construction materials used for internment camps, have actually worked in and around them, or have personally seen such camps.

How do you tell whether or not a spool of metal mesh on the back of a truck as it speeds by is destined for a death camp or a new preschool, just by witnessing it? I merely ask.

These eyewitness testimonies have come from very credible people, including law enforcement and military personnel, as well as airline pilots and construction workers.

So, the Village People are your source? Whatevs. Anyway, I smell the stinky feet of the appeal to false authority. Law enforcement, military people and pilots routinely report alien spacecraft. By your logic, those same UFOs must also be real. And I missed the memo about how construction workers had acquired special insight into the nature of black ops. The other problem is that you are reveling in the anecdote, which is likely the most untrustworthy type of evidence we have. I mean, other than Genesis.

Just a few weeks ago, I was aboard a cross-country flight when the passenger I was sitting next to (a total stranger) asked me to take a look out the window. He asked, "Do those look like internment camps to you?" I was astonished that the man (1) would even know to notice such a potentiality, and (2) would be so bold as to ask such a question of a total stranger. I must say, I was extremely happy to make his acquaintance. And we had a very warm and invigorating discussion the rest of the trip.

So, besides construction worker, you have "guy on plane." You're scrounging. Now, check out the following utter self-refutation:

We were flying over Colorado, over extreme wilderness terrain, and, yes, right in the middle of nowhere, the buildings and surrounding features that I saw sure looked like internment camps to me. Of course, flying at over 30,000 feet in the sky makes it difficult for any kind of detailed analysis to take place; that is for sure.

"Those sure look like death camps, but I sure have no idea!" Dude, flying at 30,000 feet makes it bonking impossible, especially for an untutored wus'name such as yourself, to do any in-depth analysis--or surface level analysis! This is what the world looks like from 30,000.

(click to embiggen, Chucky)

So, are those alfalfa fields? Corn? Who runs them, Chuck? Are they owned by a single person or a family? What are those little white specks (beneath the clouds)? Houses? Silos? Detention centers? How many square feet would you say those buildings, if they are buildings, cover? Are the plots bounded by razor wire? Barbed wire? Hedgerows? You can't tell. Seriously, it reminds me of Allied aerial reconnaissance of southern in France in WWII (but, really, what doesn't?). The Allies, and I don't know how the French could justify not rectifying this situation, assumed that the hedgerows in Normandy were like British hedgerows, a few feet high. Well, when they arrived, they learned that the hedgerows were basically hardened earthworks, fortified with a 1000 years' worth of tree root systems, a defensive playground, essentially, and an attacker's worst nightmare. They were ants charging across a waffle of death.

So, are there waffles of death below, you puny ant?

Then, a friend recently brought this URL to my attention:

http://www.nationalguard.com/careers/mos/description.php?mos_code=31E [Don't bother, the National Guard took it down]

This is an advertisement by the National Guard promoting the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of "Internment/Resettlement Specialist." Question: why does the National Guard need to recruit Internment/Resettlement Specialists? What do they know that we should know? [...]

Furthermore, I have had military personnel tell me that many of the US military bases that have been recently "closed" are also being prepared as large-scale "holding areas."

And these people were...? And I should take your word...why? And any documents...?

Obviously, the question that begs to be asked is, "Who is the US government planning to intern and resettle?" And another question is, "How many people are they planning to intern that would require the massive number of camps that are apparently being constructed?"

The people that these MPs will be relocating are all the people we are bombing out of house and home in strange and swarthy lands, you idiot. How about the crazy number of detainees that we have been picking up? These are Military Police training for what MPs have always done, and we are deploying the MPs from the National Guard in the same way that we have been deploying combat units from the National Guard.

Some suggest that these facilities are being prepared for large numbers of illegal immigrants. This seems extremely doubtful, however, considering the propensity of the federal government to (1) do next to nothing to seriously curtail the flood of illegal aliens into America, (2) do virtually nothing to apprehend illegals known to be in the US, and (3) do everything it can to facilitate the release of those illegals incarcerated by State and local authorities. To think that the federal government intends to place thousands of illegal aliens in internment camps borders on lunacy. If anything, the federal government (with either Democrats or Republicans in charge) has done everything it can to (1) entice illegals to come to America, and (2) provide every incentive for them to stay illegally in this country after having entered. [...]

You know, like deport them. Or are you talking about the space aliens that construction workers were seeing a few paragraphs ago?

Others suggest that these internment camps are being constructed to accommodate "enemy combatants" from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Yet, the total number of these types of detainees is miniscule compared to the detention space being constructed. Can one really imagine the need to build facilities that could accommodate prisoners numbering in the tens of thousands to house a few hundred foreign troops? I don't think so.

Well, shit, Rumsfeld once described Gitmo in terms of a pleasant tropical vacation. We're probably just giving the detainees space to stretch their legs and some alone space. This is all predicated on the unproven assumption that there are in fact camps at all. You might as well be asking, "What do the angels want?" or "How many tap dancing gnomes are collaborating with the CIA?" (1,190 hits--apparently, this is not the first time that I have discussed tap dancing, gnomes and the CIA in the same month.).

Then, of course, there are those who continue to deny that these internment camps exist at all. But then, were there not thousands of Germans who denied the existence of concentration camps during World War II? These types of people would refuse to believe the sun came up in the east if the government spinmeisters told them it didn't.

Oh, good. The government is telling civilians to shut up. That means communication and this should lead a record trail of sorts. Let's see it! (And we all know that the sun rises out of Obama's splendorous asshole.)

At this point, the imagination can take us anywhere [...]

At this point?

but it is not a little disconcerting when the same federal government that is building these internment camps begins categorizing Christians, conservatives, people who support the Second Amendment, people who oppose abortion and homosexual marriage, people who oppose the North American Union and the New World Order, people who oppose the United Nations and illegal immigration, and people who voted for Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin as "extremists," or "potential dangerous militia members."

The government did no such thing. It identified a cluster of warning signs designed to allow law enforcement officials to be more vigilant around certain people. And again, the New World Order is another of these fictitious entities that you simply can't substantiate. (I mean, given the vast interest, surely someone would have done it by now!)

Anyone knows that before a government can begin persecuting and imprisoning large groups of people, they must first marginalize them. As someone said, "Just because you are paranoid does not mean they really aren't trying to get you."

In fact, an argument could be made that by today's politically correct definition, America's Founding Fathers would be categorized as "paranoid," "extremists," or "potential dangerous militia members." I would even go so far as to question the patriotism of anyone today that is not a little paranoid. This federal government has certainly earned whatever paranoia citizens feel.

Well, depending on who you talked to at the time, the Founding Fathers were paranoid, extreme, and potentially dangerous. Several passages from the inflammatory manifesto (of which I am personally more than a little fond) the Declaration of Independence are exaggerated and not completely historically accurate.

And if we had actual knowledge of these camps, Chuck, we would not be talking about "paranoia." We would be talking about well-ground rational fear, not a vague sense of distrust and unease and suspicion.

This paranoid trend concerns me deeply. I fear that Baldwin and his ilk are setting the stage for violence.

HJ