Full Version: The famous camps letter
Thanks! That's going into the "charts" library
Should I surmise from the date that this was a Clinton administration initiative?
Initiative? No. It was in drawn up long before. I figure you knew that.
Feel free to pin this one on Saint Ronnie, if you like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84
Feel free to pin this one on Saint Ronnie, if you like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84
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The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan), [otherwise known as a continuity of government plan], indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense.
The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial rule.[3]
Existence of a master military contingency plan, "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike" were originally revealed by alternative journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in "Garden Plot and the New Action Army."[4]
Rex 84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported on by the Miami Herald on July 5th, 1987. [5]A number of websites and alternative publications that span the political spectrum have hypothesized upon the basic material about Rex 84, and in many cases hyperbolized it into a form of urban legend or conspiracy theory. Nonetheless, the basic facts about Rex 84 and other contingency planning readiness exercises--and the potential threat they pose to civil liberties if fully implemented in a real operation--are taken seriously by scholars and civil liberties activists.
The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial rule.[3]
Existence of a master military contingency plan, "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike" were originally revealed by alternative journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in "Garden Plot and the New Action Army."[4]
Rex 84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported on by the Miami Herald on July 5th, 1987. [5]A number of websites and alternative publications that span the political spectrum have hypothesized upon the basic material about Rex 84, and in many cases hyperbolized it into a form of urban legend or conspiracy theory. Nonetheless, the basic facts about Rex 84 and other contingency planning readiness exercises--and the potential threat they pose to civil liberties if fully implemented in a real operation--are taken seriously by scholars and civil liberties activists.
I notice the writer of this note is from North Carolina.
Isn't that a part of the country famous for it's inmate laber crews (chain gangs)?
Here in the North West the only time I am aware of in which we sometimes use inmate labor is to fight forest fires, and that's strictly voluntary.
I've heard some chatter about using inmate labor to fill in for the lack of migrant farm workers, but not around here. I spose if it's being done they likely wouldn't wanna advertise the fact.
Isn't that a part of the country famous for it's inmate laber crews (chain gangs)?
Here in the North West the only time I am aware of in which we sometimes use inmate labor is to fight forest fires, and that's strictly voluntary.
I've heard some chatter about using inmate labor to fill in for the lack of migrant farm workers, but not around here. I spose if it's being done they likely wouldn't wanna advertise the fact.
but but but CLINTON!
QUOTE(happymisanthropy @ Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 2:51 pm) 
but but but CLINTON!
Clinton smoked (?) cigars that were rolled by inmate labor gangs.
There, happy now?
Heres some background info from that year (I dont have a direct link for it):
In a revealing admission the Director of Resource Management for the
"U.S. Army confirmed the validity of a memorandum relating to the
establishment of a civilian inmate labor program under development by
the Department of the Army. The document states, "Enclosed for your
review and comment is the draft Army regulation on civilian inmate labor
utilization" and the procedure to "establish civilian prison camps on
installations." Cherith Chronicle, June 1997.
...Congressman Henry Gonzales (D, Texas) clarified the
question of the existence of civilian detention camps. In an interview
the congressman stated, "the truth is yes - you do have these stand by
provisions, and the plans are here...whereby you could, in the name of
stopping terrorism...evoke the military and arrest Americans and put
them in detention camps."
In a revealing admission the Director of Resource Management for the
"U.S. Army confirmed the validity of a memorandum relating to the
establishment of a civilian inmate labor program under development by
the Department of the Army. The document states, "Enclosed for your
review and comment is the draft Army regulation on civilian inmate labor
utilization" and the procedure to "establish civilian prison camps on
installations." Cherith Chronicle, June 1997.
...Congressman Henry Gonzales (D, Texas) clarified the
question of the existence of civilian detention camps. In an interview
the congressman stated, "the truth is yes - you do have these stand by
provisions, and the plans are here...whereby you could, in the name of
stopping terrorism...evoke the military and arrest Americans and put
them in detention camps."
QUOTE(sky of mind @ Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 12:02 pm)
I notice the writer of this note is from North Carolina.
Isn't that a part of the country famous for it's inmate laber crews (chain gangs)?
Here in the North West the only time I am aware of in which we sometimes use inmate labor is to fight forest fires, and that's strictly voluntary.
I've heard some chatter about using inmate labor to fill in for the lack of migrant farm workers, but not around here. I spose if it's being done they likely wouldn't wanna advertise the fact.
Isn't that a part of the country famous for it's inmate laber crews (chain gangs)?
Here in the North West the only time I am aware of in which we sometimes use inmate labor is to fight forest fires, and that's strictly voluntary.
I've heard some chatter about using inmate labor to fill in for the lack of migrant farm workers, but not around here. I spose if it's being done they likely wouldn't wanna advertise the fact.
they currently use jail crews to clean up roadside garbage and weeds in Eugene, OR.
QUOTE(seuss @ Thursday, 6 September 2007, 6:20 am)
they currently use jail crews to clean up roadside garbage and weeds in Eugene, OR.
Those are community service crews, and they work in my county as well.
They are usually people who don't have the money to pay a fine and work it off instead.
However, that's not a labor crew made up of inmate prisoners.
QUOTE(POAC @ Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 12:40 pm)
Thanks! That's going into the "charts" library
I'm glad you found it interesting!
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