From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ FEMA Camps in Your Future? I have no idea if FEMA Relocation camps exist for the incarceration of American citizens or even if they exist at all. Are these camps being built for the relocation of Americans if some disaster befalls some part of America? Are they being built to be used as prison camps? Are they even being built at all? Some scoff that these may be built to incarcerate American citizens. But let us not forget that camps have existed in the U.S. to hold U.S. citizens in the past. These AMERICANS, some who lived here for generations, were run from their homes. They were forced to sell thriving businesses. They were held like prisoners of war. I am referring, of course, to Japanese-Americans who were sent to prison camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This came to my mind again after I was reading a book about the history of a church in our area. To quote a small passage: After Pearl Harbor The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor lead to a national climate of anti-Japanese discrimination and government policies which were harsh to residents of Japanese ancestry. Thomas K. Walls in The Japanese Texans reports that on the West Coast 120,000 Japanese-Americans, of which 50,000 were women and 15,000 were children under the age of 10 were interned in ten concentration camps. The Federal government froze Japanese-American bank accounts and restricted the free travel of Japanese-Americans to within only a few miles of their homes. In Texas the greatest intrusion was the house search and interrogation of members of every Japanese-American family living in Texas. ...Mr. K. Saibara was taken to a camp in Kenedy, Texas, and released 3 weeks later. Mr. Kagawa was sent to a camp but was gone only a "short time". In February of 1942 Mr. and Mrs. Kobayashi were taken to a detention center in Houston for a month. Mitsutaro Kobayashi went 3 times to Camp Kenedy for a month or so. , Gregori Potemkin wrote: >I have no idea if FEMA Relocation camps exist >for the incarceration of American citizens >or even if they exist at all. > >Are these camps being built for the relocation >of Americans if some disaster befalls some part >of America? Are they being built to be used as >prison camps? Are they even being built at all? > >Some scoff that these may be built to incarcerate >American citizens. They don't need to build any more. They have a bunch of them built in the administrations of a number of presidents (the most recent I'm sure of being George Bush). These camps are specifically intended to incarcerate anyone "believed" by the Attorney General to be "capable" of "interfering" with the operations of the government or of commerce. They may be held for the duration of a presidentially-declared "internal security emergency" and for as long after its termination as it takes to obtain a writ from a court (to which the inmates have no access until a month or more AFTER the emergency is DECLARED to be OVER). To activate it requires: - One presidential signature on a proclimation. - One attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Prominent among the sponsors of the legislation in question was Hubert Humphrey, and this is one of the reasons he fell out of favor in the '60s. ------------------------------------------------ (This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the Radio Free Michigan archives by the archive maintainer. All files are ZIP archives for fast download. E-mail bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu)