COVID-19 Detention Camps: Are Government Round-Ups of Resistors in Our Future?

Guest Post by John W. Whitehead

“No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.”—Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials

It’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when.

This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals who resist its orders and do not comply with its mandates in a vast array of prisons, detention centers, and FEMA concentration camps paid for with taxpayer dollars.

It’s just a matter of time.

It no longer matters what the hot-button issue might be (vaccine mandates, immigration, gun rights, abortion, same-sex marriage, healthcare, criticizing the government, protesting election results, etc.) or which party is wielding its power like a hammer.

The groundwork has already been laid.

Under the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military can detain and imprison American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a terrorist.

So it should come as no surprise that merely criticizing the government or objecting to a COVID-19 vaccine could get you labeled as a terrorist.

After all, it doesn’t take much to be considered a terrorist anymore, especially given that the government likes to use the words “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist” interchangeably.

For instance, the Department of Homeland Security broadly defines extremists as individuals, military veterans and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.”

Military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan may also be characterized as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats by the government because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.”

Indeed, if you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you could be at the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.

Moreover, as a New York Times editorial warns, you may be an anti-government extremist (a.k.a. domestic terrorist) in the eyes of the police if you are afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms, if you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law, or if you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car.

According to the FBI, you might also be classified as a domestic terrorism threat if you espouse conspiracy theories or dare to subscribe to any views that are contrary to the government’s.

The government also has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and result in their being labeled potential enemies of the state.

This is what happens when you not only put the power to determine who is a potential danger in the hands of government agencies, the courts and the police but also give those agencies liberal authority to lock individuals up for perceived wrongs.

It’s a system just begging to be abused by power-hungry bureaucrats desperate to retain their power at all costs.

It’s happened before.

As history shows, the U.S. government is not averse to locking up its own citizens for its own purposes.

One need only go back to the 1940s, when the federal government proclaimed that Japanese-Americans, labeled potential dissidents, could be put in concentration (a.k.a. internment) camps based only upon their ethnic origin, to see the lengths the federal government will go to in order to maintain “order” in the homeland.

The U.S. Supreme Court validated the detention program in Korematsu v. US (1944), concluding that the government’s need to ensure the safety of the country trumped personal liberties.

Although that Korematsu decision was never formally overturned, Chief Justice Roberts opined in Trump v. Hawaii (2018) that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.”

Roberts’ statements provide little assurance of safety in light of the government’s tendency to sidestep the rule of law when it suits its purposes. Pointing out that such blatantly illegal detentions could happen again—with the blessing of the courts—Justice Scalia once warned, “In times of war, the laws fall silent.”

In fact, the creation of detention camps domestically has long been part of the government’s budget and operations, falling under the jurisdiction of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

FEMA’s murky history dates back to the 1970s, when President Carter created it by way of an executive order merging many of the government’s disaster relief agencies into one large agency.

During the 1980s, however, reports began to surface of secret military-type training exercises carried out by FEMA and the Department of Defense. Code named Rex-84, 34 federal agencies, including the CIA and the Secret Service, were trained on how to deal with domestic civil unrest.

FEMA’s role in creating top-secret American internment camps is well-documented.

But be careful who you share this information with: it turns out that voicing concerns about the existence of FEMA detention camps is among the growing list of opinions and activities which may make a federal agent or government official think you’re an extremist (a.k.a. terrorist), or sympathetic to terrorist activities, and thus qualify you for indefinite detention under the NDAA. Also included in that list of “dangerous” viewpoints are advocating states’ rights, believing the state to be unnecessary or undesirable, “conspiracy theorizing,” concern about alleged FEMA camps, opposition to war, organizing for “economic justice,” frustration with “mainstream ideologies,” opposition to abortion, opposition to globalization, and ammunition stockpiling.

Now if you’re going to have internment camps on American soil, someone has to build them.

Thus, in 2006, it was announced that Kellogg Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, had been awarded a $385 million contract to build American detention facilities. Although the government and Halliburton were not forthcoming about where or when these domestic detention centers would be built, they rationalized the need for them in case of “an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs” in the event of other emergencies such as “natural disasters.”

Of course, these detention camps will have to be used for anyone viewed as a threat to the government, and that includes political dissidents.

So it’s no coincidence that the U.S. government has, since the 1980s, acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, a database of names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation.

As Salon reports, this database, reportedly dubbed “Main Core,” is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security. There are at least 8 million Americans in the Main Core database.

Fast forward to 2009, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists.

Incredibly, both reports use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably.

That same year, the DHS launched Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and other far-flung places, characterizing them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.”

These reports indicate that for the government, so-called extremism is not a partisan matter. Anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—is a target, which brings us back, full circle, to the question of whether the government will exercise the power it claims to possess to detain anyone perceived as a threat, i.e., anyone critical of the government.

The short answer is: yes.

The longer answer is more complicated.

Despite what some may think, the Constitution is no magical incantation against government wrongdoing. Indeed, it’s only as effective as those who abide by it.

However, without courts willing to uphold the Constitution’s provisions when government officials disregard it and a citizenry knowledgeable enough to be outraged when those provisions are undermined, it provides little to no protection against SWAT team raids, domestic surveillance, police shootings of unarmed citizens, indefinite detentions, and the like.

Frankly, the courts and the police have meshed in their thinking to such an extent that anything goes when it’s done in the name of national security, crime fighting and terrorism.

Consequently, America no longer operates under a system of justice characterized by due process, an assumption of innocence, probable cause and clear prohibitions on government overreach and police abuse. Instead, our courts of justice have been transformed into courts of order, advocating for the government’s interests, rather than championing the rights of the citizenry, as enshrined in the Constitution.

We seem to be coming full circle on many fronts.

Consider that two decades ago we were debating whether non-citizens—for example, so-called enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay and Muslim-Americans rounded up in the wake of 9/11—were entitled to protections under the Constitution, specifically as they relate to indefinite detention. Americans weren’t overly concerned about the rights of non-citizens then, and now we’re the ones in the unenviable position of being targeted for indefinite detention by our own government.

Similarly, most Americans weren’t unduly concerned when the U.S. Supreme Court gave Arizona police officers the green light to stop, search and question anyone—ostensibly those fitting a particular racial profile—they suspect might be an illegal immigrant. A decade later, the cops largely have carte blanche authority to stop any individual, citizen and non-citizen alike, they suspect might be doing something illegal (mind you, in this age of overcriminalization, that could be anything from feeding the birds to growing exotic orchids).

Likewise, you still have a sizeable portion of the population today unconcerned about the government’s practice of spying on Americans, having been brainwashed into believing that if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

It will only be a matter of time before they learn the hard way that in a police state, it doesn’t matter who you are or how righteous you claim to be, because eventually, you will be lumped in with everyone else and everything you do will be “wrong” and suspect.

Indeed, it’s happening already, with police relying on surveillance software such as ShadowDragon to watch people’s social media and other website activity, whether or not they suspected of a crime, and potentially use it against them when the need arises.

It turns out that we are Soylent Green, being cannibalized by a government greedily looking to squeeze every last drop out of us.

The 1973 film Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, is set in 2022 in an overpopulated, polluted, starving New York City whose inhabitants depend on synthetic foods manufactured by the Soylent Corporation for survival.

Heston plays a policeman investigating a murder who discovers the grisly truth about the primary ingredient in the wafer, Soylent Green, which is the principal source of nourishment for a starved population. “It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people,” declares Heston’s character. “They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food.”

Oh, how right he was.

Soylent Green is indeed people or, in our case, Soylent Green is our own personal data, repossessed, repackaged and used by corporations and the government to entrap us in prisons of our own making.

Without constitutional protections in place to guard against encroachments on our rights when power, technology and militaristic governance converge, it won’t be long before we find ourselves, much like Edward G. Robinson’s character in Soylent Green, looking back on the past with longing, back to an age where we could speak to whom we wanted, buy what we wanted, think what we wanted, and go where we wanted without those thoughts, words and movements being tracked, processed and stored by corporate giants such as Google, sold to government agencies such as the NSA and CIA, and used against us by militarized police with their army of futuristic technologies.

We’re not quite there yet, but as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, that moment of reckoning is getting closer by the minute.

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Cricket
Cricket

I had thought I’d be rounded up and put in jail when I refused to comply with Trudeau’s unlawful gun orders, which are not actually laws voted on by parliament. I now fully expect to be placed in a camp for failing to disclose my private health information to anyone.

It’s fine. Why continue to be productive in a society that hates you, despises your contribution and only wants ever more of your earnings in taxes. I was dismayed to discover my own parents have been brainwashed to think that people who refuse to get or disclose if they are vaccinated should be forced to wear a badge disclosing to all they are unclean, as if it’s right or logical for a person’s default decision about other people to be that they are sick.

We failed to listen to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who told us ‘we didn’t love freedom enough’. Australia is gone and will soon be an asset openly controlled by China and Canada is not far behind. When the US falls, we’ll all fall into a thousand years of darkness.

Quiet Mike

Granted, at my age it’s an easy decision but I have no intention of compliance. My message to FedGov is that of Robin Williams to Matt Damon in Goodwill Hunting: “Your move chief”.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Just one of the benefits of being old.

very old white guy
very old white guy

It is still damn irritating though.

falconflight
falconflight

I’m an optimist by nature (Ha!) and believe only five hundred years of darkness.

Anonymous
Anonymous

We are already in the darkness, dude.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The shit has already hit the fan. Few realize this.

m
m

“When the US falls, we’ll all fall into a thousand years of darkness.”

You still need to reflect a little more on that one.
I see the US as the main source of [world] darkness, for some decades already.

And I have come to the personal, to me now unavoidable conclusion -and one I didn’t want to get to-, that the enlightenment is the underlying cause of all this. (But I know only a handful people in a million will ever be willing to entertain such thoughts which brought me there, much less accept them.)

B_MC
B_MC

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falconflight
falconflight

Let ChyNa take them.

Cricket
Cricket

And how long before they’re on the 49th parallel? It’s well known that successive ‘Conservative’ and ‘Liberal’ governments in Canada have allowed CCP troops to train on our soil. The majority of our politicians in the great white north appear to be under Chinese or Muslim Brotherhood control, or both. Neither faction will stop China from attempting a US invasion from Canada.

falconflight
falconflight

The march of history will not be denied. Very glad to be getting on in age.

m
m

Shouldn’t you have updated your (propaganda-served) worldviews from “domino theory” and “red flood” to something new and better, by now?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Invade? Why bother?

We will simply be absorbed

Ken31
Ken31

Your enemy is not China.

DFJ150

Somewhere between 800 and 1000 FEMA camps have already been constructed across the US. All have similar characteristics. Each is designed to hold around 20,000 people. All are located close to water and railways for easy transport of “dissidents”. Guard towers are situated at each corner and the high fences have razor wire facing inward at the top. The areas around each camp are patrolled by armed guards and no one is allowed to take pictures or get near to the camps. Most of the US public is unaware the camps exist and does not understand their true purpose. The entire covid plandemic is playing out as intended and will be used as the impetus to incarcerate, “re-educate”, or eliminate those who rightly refuse the poisonous jab and resist the tyrannical overreach being instituted in the name of “public health” or the “greater good”. One needs only to look at Australia and New Zealand to understand the lengths power crazed politicians will go to in their unquenchable desire to increase their wealth and control over their citizens. Think it can’t happen here? Think again, it IS HAPPENING!

Observer
Observer

no one is allowed to take pictures or get near to the camps. Most of the US public is unaware the camps exist

And you know that these camps exist exactly how?

Red River D
Red River D

Swamp gas from a weather balloon reflected off a cloud bank on a hazy day. He was thereby able to snap several ultra high-definition digital images from the cloudbank which show, in exquisite detail — albeit in mirror image — each of the 800 to 1000 installations.

But he’s not at liberty to share the images with anyone. You’ll just have to trust him.

Stucky

Swamp gas?
From a weather balloon ?
Reflected off a cloud bank ?
On a hazy day?

Insert video here of me laughing so hard my ass fell off.

Sir Willie Wallace
Sir Willie Wallace

I believe they exist, but why they exist I have my doubts. Remember all the garbage during backdoor Barry’s reign? Never came to fruition. Not that Ol bunghole wasn’t hoping for it; just never happened. Either way, I’ll end it one way or another for myself if that day comes. Either by my own bullet or suicide by whomever.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Fusion centers. Plenty of pics, video and info available.

Stucky

“Somewhere between 800 and 1000 FEMA camps have already been constructed across the US. …. Each is designed to hold around 20,000 people”
.

BULLSHIT.

falconflight
falconflight

No need to construct new facilities. Throwing those deniers into the general population of Amerika’s criminal element would be a Communist time worn model of rehabilitation.

Yahsure
Yahsure

list a few locations…

Mygirl....maybe

Tsk. Ya’ll just lack imagination. Those camps are there, hidden in plain sight. Walmarts and outdoor shopping malls. All over the place and just perfect for use as FEMA camps. Actually that isn’t far fetched at all…

Architects Confirm: New Shopping Malls Will Become FEMA Camps

Mygirl....maybe
TN Patriot
TN Patriot

In a nearby town, the city took over the old Walmart building and turned it into their new criminal justice center, or Jailmart as the locals call it.

Yahsure
Yahsure

There are plenty of old empty malls and shopping centers…

Jason Mull
Jason Mull

For those will eyes to see, Walmart is coded for (MARTial LAW). The enemy plays the long game.

Stucky

Fear Porn at its very finest. And, lots of links too!

Raise your hand if you didn’t see the 1940s Jap-Amer internment example coming from miles away. So sorry … TOTALLY different circumstances of which few, if any,apply to today.

No other relevant examples. Hmmm

Besides, they are letting prisoners OUT of jail by the thousands.

In closing …. don’t forget to buy his book!!!

Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines

But they ARE starting to do this in Australia as we speak. It’s not a totally unrealistic prediction.

Yahsure
Yahsure

Everyone looking at Australia thinks they are insane tyrants also.

m
m

>TOTALLY different circumstances

You’ve reached a new level of bullshitting, Stucky, congrats!

Only a few critical thinkers here will find:
Wait, aren’t the outcomes the important question, not the circumstances that (supposedly) led to them?

Stucky

You’re a doctor. Patient comes in with severe stomach pain. He starts to explain what happened. You interrupt,

— “Whoa, whoa!! I’m not interested in the circumstances which brought you here! I’m an outcome doctor. Let’s focus on your stomach ache. Take two Alka Seltzers and call me in the morning.”.

That night, the patient dies from the rat poison he accidentally ingested. Dead … thanks to the moronic beliefs of Dr. Outcome.

Or, a guy comes to your shop and starts to explain what’s wrong with his car but, you interrupt and say you don’t give a shit about such things … his car is broke, and that’s all that matters. You replace the battery …. but, he actually needed a new alternator.

There are thousands of examples, literally, which expose the Pure Idiocy of your comment.

But, why bother? You are always the smartest guy in the room. Someone else recently told you that you come across as a know-it-all teacher lecturing a room full of dumb students. That person has you pegged perfectly.

Stop trying so hard to appear to be so damned smart. Because you simply are not!

Your comment that circumstances don’t matter … only OUTCOMES!!! …. is proof of that.

m
m

“Whoa, whoa!! I’m not interested in the outcome of 1940s Jap-Amer internment. I’m a situational doctor. The story sounded right at the time [that every Japanese-origin US citizen will sabotage the first chance they get], so we had to do something.”

You’ll need to provide a little better counter-examples, to justify hand-waving away the thing you saw coming from miles away but seemingly cannot withstand.

Ginger
Ginger

Camel sticks nose into tent.

“North Carolina officials sent a request to FEMA asking for 50 ambulances and personnel to staff them. Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, said resources are strained so the state has called on FEMA for help. ”

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/medic-staff-shortages-fema-request-help-north-carolina-pandemic-ambulance-drivers/275-695de571-9898-4f28-8f5a-a28fa5ac40ab

Divide And Conquer
Divide And Conquer

You wanted more government. You got exactly what you asked for.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I distinctly asked for a puppy, not more government.

Divide And Conquer
Divide And Conquer

You’ll need a licence for that puppy.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Funny story that

Wife left town leaving me with her new puppy
Morning one its barking at 4a.m. in the bedroom. By six i cant take it. Put him outside in kennel. Hes barking like mad. Half hour later i have multiple cops here for an abused animal complaint. Hands on guns and tasers, no lie. They need to check to make sure its not abused, so i let it leap all over them. They determine dog is fine. License from where its purchased not good enuf. Heres your ticket, go register the dog at city hall. Its 8 bucks. Pay your 300 fine within ten days. Funny not funny.

tabarnac
tabarnac

And puppy vaccines

Sir Willie Wallace
Sir Willie Wallace

Puppies are the best. The very antithesis of government.

Sir Willie Wallace
Sir Willie Wallace

The means and the muscle for those who allow it. I’d put a bullet in my own head just for spite.

Anonymous
Anonymous

There is no other way out but organized violent.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Disorganized covert violence works, too.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Admin:

At some point you will need to proactively end commenting just to protect yourself and us. We cant help commenting and its gonna come back and bite us all in the ass.

tabarnac
tabarnac

Have you heard about Commenters Anonymous?

m
m

Yes!!1!
We need more supervision by the (self-declared) experts, for our own good and safety!!

Freedom? “You can’t handle the freedom!

Anonymous
Anonymous

If you aren’t planning on dealing with an unwelcome crowd at your door, you should think about it.

RogerP
RogerP

Has it occurred to you that if TPTB are scanning these sites for people expressing unapproved ideas, and they find out that there are 1o times or 100 times more of us than there are of them and their minions, that all they’ll do is promote scary stories of FEMA camps to intern us in.
Perhaps they realize that if they actually try to round us up, the word will get out before they could get a tenth, or a hundredth of us, which would lead to unintended consequences for them.

JIMSKI
JIMSKI

Australia is PROOF that gun control works as advertised………

But as far as throwing us all in jail, NO not going to happen. They forgot the plan was to have confiscation before lockups.

Anyone here going quietly?

Random63
Random63

Confiscation is next up CDC is already starting that ball rolling. Gonna be a wild winter.

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