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Are American Prison Camps Next?

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 01:07:57 PM EST
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Law Prof Marjorie Cohn warns that the military commissions bill authorizes Bush to round of thousands, including Americans, and hold them in detention camps.

The contract, she writes, has already been awarded to a Haliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root.

As I wrote back in May, when warning about the Republican immigration bill, immigrants aren't safe either.

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    Are American Prison Camps Next? | 13 comments (13 topical)
    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#1)
    by Skyho on Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 02:00:56 PM EST
    Does anyone know when (I know it could be a smear of years) Nazi Germany started rounding up their "criminals"?

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#3)
    by Peter G on Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 03:45:07 PM EST
    Can anyone provide a link to the statutory language that Prof. Cohn is relying on? She doesn't quote anything at all. I'd like to parse it myself.

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#2)
    by kdog on Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 06:10:50 PM EST
    Nice concise article. Anybody heard the location of the new gulag? A prison, presumably on US soil, where the inmates are subject to waterboarding, denied habeus corpus, and held indefinitely simply cannot be allowed to stand. That's just too much to stomach.

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 06:15:25 PM EST
    I've heard they are already starting to build them. On American soil for us.

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 09:14:59 PM EST
    Section 948a of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 defines "unlawful enemy combatant" as any person who has "purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents."

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 12:35:02 AM EST
    Conspiracy junkies have been pointing out lots of sites that they claim are ocncentration camps on US soil. One that I have heard Coast to Coast AMers make claims about is the Denver airport. Or maybe it was a detention site for alien human hybrids. I can't keep it all straight sometimes...

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 09:10:48 AM EST
    Hello, folks. The venue is absolutely irrelevant; indeed, the contract was only let so more kickbacks can be given, rather than an actual need, even for dictatorial attributes. The authority has ALREADY BEEN CLAIMED, and they are ALREADY holding a lawful permanent resident immigrant named Saleh Al-Marri in the naval brig in Charleston, SC, on the same grounds and rationale as Padilla. And his case is screwing around the court system, where it, and he, may languish for years and years, if not forever. The government, you will recall, did not repudiate its "right" to do this to ANYONE, including citizens, though Padilla himself was transferred to regular federal civlian custody.

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#8)
    by cpinva on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 09:10:48 AM EST
    prof. cohn, since you were kind enough to identify the specific section of the legislation requested, could you please also identify, or provide a link to, the information regarding brown & root? you claim, in your article, that a contract has been signed, and a location designated, for the construction of a new prison. please provide evidence.

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#9)
    by Che's Lounge on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 09:51:29 AM EST
    Don't like somone's politics? Just one phone call and the words "supporting terrorism" and that person will be out of your life!

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 10:02:08 AM EST
    CPINVA - Please reference AlterNet article of 2/23/06 - by Nat Parry regarding the contract - also, please be sure to go to KRB and look around. Or just google - I too questioned this - take a good hard look

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 02:46:50 PM EST
    There's a post on Federal Prison Talk Online that states USP Marion is now empty and apparently the C.O.'s are all undergoing Islam and terrorist training of some kind. I don't know how to link so anyone wanting to read it should google Federal Prison Talk Online 2006 and it will be the 2nd website that comes up. The post is under General Federal Prison (1st category listed), at the bottom are pages (it's on page 4), under Inside Word on USP Marion. The Federal BOP (Bureau of Prisons) is as secretive as our current government and pretty much do whatever they want (despite any written policies). Too soon to know if this is for transfers from Guantanamo, or to segregate current federal prisoners suspected of terrorist leanings or a whole new round up. Only time will tell and even then, what we're told will probably be different from the actual reality (you know, "Spin").

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 03:54:32 PM EST
    would that you heroes had to live in a country (or move to one) where your words actually would get you into trouble. why not hop on a short flight and speak the "truth to power" in China? Cuba? North Korea?

    Re: Are American Prison Camps Next? (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 08:22:02 AM EST
    There are a number of FEMA Detention camps around the United States. Built by Haliburton, and all are manned and staffed. Interesting article here: http://www.gnn.tv/threads/7987/I_just_got_back_from_a_FEMA_Detainment_Camp Also google operation "cable splice" and operation "garden plot". It's not all about terrorists.

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