I'm pretty sure it already is, with everything in place and ready to go at the flip of a switch. They're not exactly making a big secret out of the whole deal either. For instance, I first read about the internment camps in a story in that subversive rag, the Wall St. Journal.
On January 24, 2006, the WSJ reported that the DHS and former Halliburton subsidiary KBR had signed a deal worth an estimated $385M to build new camps and refurbish old ones.
According to the Halliburton website in early 2006, "...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." All that's really lacking is the formal announcement and coronation ceremony.
A few months ago, I posted
this compilation of various elements of the fascist state already in place and just waiting for the green light. Sick thing is, it's nowhere near a complete list. There's plenty more where that came from.
Then there's the InterTubes. I hear there's something happening on Nov. 4th that has to do with people making momentous decisions and what effects those decisions will have on the lives of tens of millions of Americans. To wit:
The Future of the Internet on Nov. 4
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
A huge decision is going to be made on Election Day that could change the lives of millions of Americans. And it’s not about Obama or McCain.
(My comment: I think it has everything to do with Obama getting elected, since McCorpse would just continue the Bushean golden age of corporate dominance and screwing up the lives of everyday people so thoroughly that they're now virtually unrecognizable from the normal lives they lived just five or so years ago. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
On Nov. 4, the Federal Communications Commission will vote to open unused television airwaves to provide affordable, wireless Internet services nationwide. Help sway the vote by calling Congress today.
Opening up these vacant airwaves – called white spaces — might be our best opportunity to close the digital divide. White spaces can be used to transmit an Internet signal over mountains and through concrete walls.
FCC engineers just completed an exhaustive 18-month study that shows new technology can use white spaces without harming adjacent TV signals. The agency released its report on Oct. 15 and will vote on its conclusive findings on Nov. 4.
The facts are pretty clear: White spaces can be used to deliver Internet service to people near and far. But that hasn’t stopped the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), a powerful group representing the nation’s largest media companies, from deploying their lobbyists to try to keep Americans from gaining access to these airwaves.
The entire article is here, although there's a lot of useful information throughout their website that's worth a glance.
I don't suppose anyone's looking to bury any coverage of another multi-billion dollar give-away of the peoples' airwaves? But you don't need a story teller to recite the same lame recycled excuses; not after hearing them several hundred times without much improvisation. It's always for our own good, and the American public will benefit from more educational programming and investigative reporting. And it's all in the spirit of improving and expanding quality of life for all Americans and blah, blah, blah...
But to anyone who's been paying attention as the country is stolen right out from under us, house by house, dollar by dollar and retirement account by IRA by 401K, it's just another predictable screwing by the same old criminals committing the same old crimes and running the same old scams right under the noses of the same old deaf, dumb and blind alleged regulators.
This is just the latest instance of appearing to grovel to the FCC for a favorable ruling, an act of pure horse shit given that "everybody who counts" is aware of the FCC's usual practice of rubber-stamping any new piece of money-making creative sleaze dreamed up by the "idea men" within corporate mass media's collection of thieves, liars and propagandists.
And who says the American entrepreneurial spirit is dead? It's just refocused its energies from innovation and creativity to the art of a successful con and the profit margins to be had through when you don't bother making or selling anything at all -- you just keep committing grand theft on such a massive scale that after a while, you're no longer a thief; you're a gawddam pillar of the community, with the record of charitable foundations and huge donations to worthy causes to prove it.
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