According to people like Rachel Maddow and others in the MSM, anyone who thinks that FEMA camps are real should be in a straight jacket. I would agree with then if there wasn't overwhelming evidence that such camps exist. First, both KBR, who was contracted to build them, and the government do not deny their existence. Here is a letter from KBR from an individual asking about the program.:
From: Bob Siefert
Subject: RE: Level with Public about
FEMA camps
To: “Richard w. Firth” <firthrichardw@yahoo.com >
Date: Friday, December 16, 2011, 2:44 PM Dear Mr. Firth,
Thank you for asking about the truth concerning our search for subcontractors. First, KBR is not a subsidiary of Halliburton, and hasn’t been since April of 2007. KBR intends to respond to an upcoming Request for Proposal. FEMA is looking for companies that can set up temporary camps to house First Responders to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, etc. The services included in the KBR request for information are ones we cannot provide ourselves and will need companies who can react quickly enough to meet the FEMA goal of having a place for their responders to stay within 72 hours of a call up. The camps will be temporary in nature, and nothing is being “activated”. FEMA is trying to be proactive in preparing for timely responses if emergency responses are required. I hope this answers your question.
Regards
Bob Siefert
KBR
In a previous post, which my internal numbers say is my most popular column to date, I linked to a leaked memo from KBR discussing the true nature of these camps and to government data that showed similar notions. In each instance, the fences were designed to keep people in not out, which kind of negates their statement that these camps are for disaster victims. Wouldn't you want to keep people out, not in, in a disaster scenario?
I also published a list of suspected FEMA camps in the previous post as well. And while I can neither confirm of deny any of what is on that list, our own government has independently confirmed at least some of their existence as seen in the above email as well as from government personnel who also claim that the camps are built for disaster victims. So if these camps do not exist, deniers of the world, explain this case of victims of Hurricane Sandy?
In NJ, at a shelter at Tom's River High, people put out by the storm were asked to leave and re-locate to one of these so called non-existent FEMA camps. They thought they were going to a hotel or maybe even another school. They were boarded on buses and drove nearly four hours to a tent city erected at a local racetrack. The tents had no heat, a cot, a rubbery pillow and a single blanket. Armed guards were everywhere and you had to show ID to even go to the bathroom. There were no magazines, radio, books or TV. Here's what one person said about the experience:
“They treat us like we’re prisoners,” says Ashley Sabol, 21, of Seaside Heights, New Jersey. “It’s bad to say, but we honestly feel like we’re in a concentration camp.“
People froze for days in subhuman conditions where the food was gruelish, and people were made to feel like prisoners. Where were all the rations, blankets and other necessities FEMA used our tax dollars to buy for just such an emergency? And more importantly, if these camps are being built with our tax dollars, which both the government and KBR do not deny, why are they not being used for this emergency which is why they were supposedly built in the first place?
Mind you while FEMA did loads better than Katrina and the Red Cross was kind of asleep at the wheel for this one, neither did great and begs the questions of what happens if a huge disaster hits the country as we still seem woefully unprepared for things that require housing refugees? If we spent all this money on food, blankets and "shelter," why are we housing people in racetracks and, in one odd case in NY, an attempt to move people to a closed prison? That last one didn't seem to happen as people were understandably not keen on moving into a ruin that once housed prisoners.
If the government is not using these camps to house refugees, what are they using them for? If they don't exist, why did we give KBR a lot of money to build them? I have read through the people who say they have debunked this including Glenn Beck and Popular Mechanics, neither of which is terribly credible in their own right. Beck is a loon and Popular Mechanics got bought out right after 9/11 by some less than stellar individuals who have used the publications to "debunk" 9/11 theories with less than realistic results. But people read what they think is news and then spread that idiocy everywhere. The anti-union morons that troll the Internet are a good example of believing what you want to believe without looking into the whole story.
Understand that first and foremost, I am a skeptic. That should not be confused with a denier which is what most people who call themselves skeptic really are. A skeptic is one who is wary about what he is being told but holds reservations off until all the facts are in. A denier is someone who has made up his mind before the facts are in and will bend the truth to fit his world view. That type of reasoning is no better than the religious fundamentalists that refuses to believe things that science says are real.
We know that we are being pulled further and further into a police state. This past weekend saw a record number of people drive, take the bus or take the train. Know what form of travel saw a significant decrease? Airlines. The MSM says that it is because of the economy but, as someone who used to travel a lot, I know train travel is just as expensive as planes and they saw a marketable increase in passengers. People are NOT flying because they hate the TSA and refuse to get groped to get on a plane. A recent study said that the TSA as gotten over 17,000 complaints this year alone. That is a lot of angry people, most of which are never flying again. Plus, because of this asinine policy, it is literally killing people as driving is far more dangerous than flying. On the MA Pike for the past few holidays, we have seen 45 mile back ups that is only recent in nature and almost certainly caused by people no longer willing to fly. This past weekend saw bumper to bumper traffic from Tuesday through Sunday with no days in between any better than the previous one. If we don't start doing something about the shitty TSA, a lot of people are going to wind up dead in a ditch and traffic jams are going to look epic in length and time.
How will you feel if these agents start invading our malls, our subways, our streets? Polls show a third of you out there will have no problem getting ass raped to get where you are going. That is a lot of sheep. We need to start standing up and saying in one loud voice that this is unacceptable. Thankfully enough people bitched about going to a prison for a stay as a terrible idea and the notion seemed to have been nixed. But how long before that idea comes back again? And if these FEMA camps do exist, for the reasons they say, why are they not being used? If they don't, where did all that money go to build them? Either way, there is a story here even if the MSM thinks we are nutters for asking. Here is a link again to a NYT story about the $385 million KBR got to build these camps:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04halliburton.html
Still think I'm nuts?
No comments:
Post a Comment