Camp Is Not Just For Children

 Camp Is Not Just For Children

That feeling when you recognize you are a voice with a story the majority of people will never understand because of their own privileged experiences.

If we have learned one thing from Trump’s Narcopath egocentric rallies it is that he likes to sing and dance. He should feel right at home out in the Georgia sun getting fresh air and exercise with the camaraderie he demands. You know, dancing with the boys to entertain Ivanka. Or is it Melania? Maybe Eric and Jr.

https://youtu.be/QVGgyGXPDJ8

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Yeah, them southerners figured out a way to extend slavery that is as prevalent today as it was then. In fact, many northerners claiming to support civil rights even picked up on it. But hypocrisy is a topic for another time. 

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Martin Niemöller was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. This is never far from my thoughts..."First they came..." – The origins of this poem have been traced to a speech given by Niemöller on January 6, 1946. Do you remember what happened 75 years later to the day?

"When the Nazis came for the communists,

I remained silent;

I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent;

I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,

I did not speak out;

I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,

I remained silent;

I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,

there was no one left to speak out."

What would you do?

https://youtu.be/RMkNtiXxQAM

Bottoms, Ghetto, Reservation, Residential School, Boarding School, Prison, Internment Camp, Border Camp, Detention Camp, Concentration Camp…are they not just different terms for the same result? Rhetorical question, since you would have to experience each one in order to properly describe any difference, if there are any. Which brings me to the question of why Halliburton has built so many “camps” around this country and the world? Was it just to make Dick Cheney even richer?

During WWII, the United States had Internment Camps for Japanese Americans, but not for Italian Americans nor German Americans. Could it have been because the Japanese were not considered white? But that was then. Could they come for you next and the empty camps today are waiting for you and yours, white or not? Just another rhetorical question.

Whose country is this anyway?

https://www.incpu.org/articles/FEMA_camps_on_US_soil.pdf

Who was President and Vice President in 2006? Rhetorical question again! 🥴

Halliburton's Immigrant Detention Centers

BY RUTH CONNIFF APRIL 20, 2006 10:07 PM

While thousands of people were celebrating the contribution America's undocumented immigrants make to our economy, and demanding justice and recognition for workers who are denied basic rights, the government was making plans for large-scale detention centers in case of an "emergency influx" of immigrants.

KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary recently reprimanded for gross overcharging in its military contracts in Iraq, won a $385 million contract to build the centers. According to the Halliburton website, www.Halliburton.com, the contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."

What new programs might those be?

The web was abuzz with speculation after the contract was awarded on January 24. Pacific News Service gave the most detailed analysis.

It connected the new "immigration emergency" plans with older plans that involved imposing martial law.

Certainly the detention centers raise the specter of WW II Japanese internment camps.

The new facilities could be used for round-ups of Muslim Americans or other American citizens tagged as "enemy combatants.”

The use of military personnel and military contractors in the event of a Katrina-like disaster, which the Halliburton contract provides for, brings us closer to martial law, whether it is officially declared or not.

It also means record profits for Halliburton, which declared 2005 "the best in our 86-year history." David Lesar, Halliburton's chairman, president and CEO, declares on the company website, "For the full year 2005 we set a record for revenue and achieved net income of $2.4 billion with each of our six divisions posting record results."

Not bad for a company that has been repeatedly cited for inflating charges and wasting taxpayer money in Iraq.

The immigration detention centers ought to raise a red flag, not just about nepotism and waste among military contractors, but about what our government has in store for us.

Perhaps the same energy that propelled immigrant rights into the national headlines could be harnessed to demand an explanation for what, exactly, Halliburton is helping to prepare for with this latest big chunk of taxpayer largess.