Has Halliburton started construction on the "internment" camps?

[rhett o rick]

This article does give much light (not that I would expect it from Faux).

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198456,00.html

Excuse me, did I call them interment camps, I meant "domestic processing centers".

[corkhead]

1. "freedom camps"

[rhett o rick]

2. Thanks corkhead. I like your signature. nm

[sallyseven]

3. In AZ they are called worker camps and they will build the wall.

[babylonsister]

4. Here's just one article. Google US detention camps and you'll

find lots of info...

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/06/02/far06003.html
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The biggest bombshell, however, came from Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose proposal to send US citizens to detention camps, without the benefit of trial, jury or other Constitutional protections, was dissected by the Los Angeles Times. "The camp plan was forged at an optimistic time for Ashcroft's small inner circle, which has been carefully watching two test cases to see whether this vision could become a reality," the Times reported in August, 2002. "The cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi will determine whether U.S. citizens can be held without charges and subject to the arbitrary and unchecked authority of the government."

Padilla was held without charges for more than three years, and when charges were finally filed against him, the chilling "dirty bomb" allegations made by Ashcroft on national TV were not even mentioned. His attorneys have vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court -- which is expected to side with presidential decrees.

By the fall of 2005, news that the US could continue to "confine US citizens without charges," prompted conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan to dig up the following quote: "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist" -- Winston Churchill, November 21, 1943, describing what is now legal and constitutional in the United States, under president Bush."

Churchill, one supposes, did not include President Franklin Roosevelt in his condemnation, but when Ashcroft's plans for detention camps came to light, legal analysts began comparing the Bush administration's scheme to internment of Japanese Americans. "The main distinction is that Ashcroft's camps are smaller in scale. The difference in magnitude should not make the internment of U.S. citizens any more just or palatable," columnist Anita Ramasastry explained.

And as Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe said on ABC's Nightline:

"It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way. . . ."

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And for the record, that last paragraph I copied, that bothers the hell out of me, too.:scared:

[rhett o rick]

5. Great post. I did use google and read lots, but still don't know if

actual construction has begun. I would think there would be photos if it had.

[babylonsister]

6. Unless they want as little attention drawn to the construction

project as possible. :eyes: If the contract was awarded in January, I imagine it must have started by now.

[rhett o rick]

7. If construction started I would think someone would know. nm