I originally wrote this weblog a year ago but it seems appropriate to bring it up to date and share it again ~ particularly in light of the new emergency powers the Cheney/Bush administration now have. ( Presidential directive # 51 ) .
The Rex 84 Program was originally established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA.
Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987
" These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached."
And there you have it ~ the real purpose of FEMA is to not only protect the government but to be its principal vehicle for martial law.
This is why FEMA could not respond immediately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster ~ humanitarian efforts were no longer part of its job discription under the Department of Homeland Security.
It appears Hurricane Katrina also provided FEMA with an excuse to “dry run” its unconstitutional powers in New Orleans, rounding up “refugees” (now called “evacuees”) and “relocating” them in various camps. “Some evacuees were being treated as ‘internees’ by FEMA,” writes former NSC employee Wayne Madsen.
“Reports continue to come into WMR that evacuees from New Orleans and Acadiana [the traditional twenty-two parish Cajun homeland] who have been scattered across the United States are being treated as ‘internees’ and not dislocated American citizens from a catastrophe"
We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.
See footage of the camps here: www.fight4truth.com/concentrationcamps.htm
Be forewarned ~ the Cheney/Bush administration will stop at nothing to preserve their power and their ongoing neocon mis-adventure in Iraq and they already have executive control over all the states National Guard troops in a national emergency.
Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa, called this action "the end of the Guard as a dual-function force that can respond to both state and national needs."
The provision was tucked into the House version of the defense bill in 2006, without notice to the states, something Vilsack said he resented as much as the proposal itself.
Under the provision, the president has the authority to take control of the Guard in case of " a serious natural or manmade disaster, accident , catastrophe or crisis " in the United States.
Do remember, the growing threat the Cheney/Bush administration truly fears is not terrorists ~ but, instead, the people demanding the truth.
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/07/21.html
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