Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps

"A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities."

"The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when."

"To date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded that this is a "contingency contract" and that conceivably no centers might be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law."

Don't you wish you had stock in Halliburton? They're doing great with this administration.

The idea behind this article proposes that these "camps" may well be intended for us, should we decide to rebel against the direction we're taking. I don't think they'll be needed for that, since the propaganda specialists are doing such a good job of pacifying us.