Detainment Camp Utah
Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), today urged all fire and emergency services departments not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina without being requested and lawfully dispatched by state and local authorities under mutual aid agreements and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
http://www.rense.com/general67/urge.htm
Former FEMA officials have admitted that Government disaster officials had an action plan if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. They simply didn't execute it when Hurricane Katrina struck.
Furthermore, as the Florida Sun Sentinel has reported, Training for FEMA inspectors is often brief and and poor.
"With an investment of eight hours one Monday in early October, Johanna Hadik of Margate got a badge and the next day was out inspecting hurricane damage for the federal government."
FEMA also acknowledges a long history of fraud in disaster aid by applicants who call it "Christmas money" or "free money" and by inspectors who are supposed to prevent it. These inspectors consistently simply turn a blind eye because often enough they are reaping the benefits.
The Sentinel has also reported on the fact that FEMA employs as inspectors known criminals with records for embezzlement, drug dealing and robbery. These people are entrusted to enter disaster victims' homes and verify damage claims, with their histories, is it any wonder that there is consistent fraud?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/080905FEMA_corrupt.htm
Take this internal Texaco strategy memo: "[T]he most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus of refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. (The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry.) Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins and very poor refinery financial results. Significant events need to occur to assist in reducing supplies and/or increasing the demand for gasoline." The memo went on to discuss a sucessful campaign in Washington State to shrink refined supply by removing other additives in the gasoline that filled gas volume
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-court/memos-show-oil-companies-_b_6980.html
He then precedes to tell us that some churches had already enquired into whether they could send a van or bus on Sundays to pick up any occupants of their cabins who might be interested in attending church. FEMA will not allow this. The occupants of the camp cannot leave the camp for any reason. If they leave the camp they may never return. They will be issued FEMA identification cards and "a sum of money" and they will remain within the camp for the next 5 months.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html
The officials and engineers said that after they had found the widening gap in the concrete wall on the eastern side of the canal, they had no quick-response plan to repair it.
Even as they tried to improvise a solution while water continued to pour into neighborhood after neighborhood, their efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy helicopters, most of which had been dispatched by federal emergency officials to rescue stranded residents.
"The first priority of the rotary-winged aircraft was to rescue people," Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, commander of the corps, said in the conference call. "Plugging the gap was a lower priority."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02levee.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1126232525-249FqkzVl2G2AtEGAbbXYQ
Neither man, Jacksonville attorney Reynold Hoover (pictured at left) and Miami lawyer Mark Wallace, had any experience in emergency management before they were named by the Bush administration to FEMA, now under fire for its botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
Hoover, a longtime "explosives expert" with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who became a lawyer in 1996, is still with FEMA as its director of national security coordination. Wallace left the Bush administration in 2004 to become deputy manager of the president's re-election campaign, and is now a lobbyist.
They are two more names to add to the list of political appointees and out-and-out hacks at FEMA. Many are calling for the firing of agency chief Michael Brown, the ousted head of a horse association who was hired at FEMA in 2001 along with his college roommate, top Bush advisor Joe Allbaugh. And it was reported yesterday that FEMA's No. 2 and No. 3 officials, Patrick Rhode and Scott Morris, are also former campaign aides.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002346.html
http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/637/1/
A state law prohibiting political candidates from lying about their opponents is an unconstitutional violation of free speech and chills political discourse, a state appeals court ruled yesterday.
The decision from the Court of Appeals Division II stems from a 2002 legislative race and puts in jeopardy one of the state's remaining truth-in-campaigning laws
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002479741_pdc08m.html
Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?"
As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.
Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.
Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.
On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.
Federal officials are unapologetic.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197
TWO US Navy helicopter pilots who ferried supplies have been reprimanded as they also rescued 110 people in New Orleans.
Lt David Shand and Lt Matt Udkow - both based at Pensacola, Florida - were told their unscheduled rescues were an "unacceptable diversion".
Udkow was temporarily ordered to oversee a kennel for pets of evacuated service members instead of flying but he said: "It was a great day. We resupplied the people we needed to and we rescued people, too."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15943170&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=pilots--rap-for-hurricane-rescue-name_page.html
"Some black leaders and their allies in New Orleans fear that it boils down to preventing large numbers of blacks from returning to the city and eliminating the African-American voting majority. Rep. William Jefferson, a sharecropper's son who was educated at Harvard and is currently serving his eighth term in Congress, says, "This is an example of poor people forced to make choices because they don't have the money to do otherwise," Mr. Jefferson says.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/WSJ_White_rich_escape_New_Orleans_chaos_dont_want_blacks_poor__0908.html
The Naval Medical Center in San Diego's Balboa Park was shut down to accommodate a visit by President George W. Bush Aug. 30, RAW STORY has learned, forcing patients to cancel chemotherapy treatments and hundreds of scheduled patient visits.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/San_Diego_hospital_closed_to_acommodate_Bush_visit_No_ch_0906.html
Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out. One would have to guess, I suppose.
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html
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Here is an article from a “real” newspaper- The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/carman/ci_3006502
“If I didn't know better, I'd have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp.
The signs on the buildings say "Community College of Aurora," though for now they're serving as an impromptu Camp Katrina. About 160 hurricane survivors are being housed in the dorms, surrounded by fences, roadblocks, security guards and enough armed police officers to invade Grenada.”
===
Here is a post from some random website I came across, lots of photos.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html
“I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp”
===
Then I came across this
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906CampWilliams.html
“Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah”
===
And this on the same subject
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3002350
Like others who arrived in smaller military planes, Bergeron wasn't told where he was headed when he boarded the JetBlue airliner Saturday at the Louis Armstrong
===
And this
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html
Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out. One would have to guess, I suppose.
Now, I explained my visit to Detainment Camp Utah from Tuesday, and Ms. Kiguchi got a little pissed. “They are not detainees!”
[It’s actually “kikuchi” I found in a news article from the Salt Lake City Tribune.]
===
http://www.rense.com/general67/urge.htm
Former FEMA officials have admitted that Government disaster officials had an action plan if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. They simply didn't execute it when Hurricane Katrina struck.
Furthermore, as the Florida Sun Sentinel has reported, Training for FEMA inspectors is often brief and and poor.
"With an investment of eight hours one Monday in early October, Johanna Hadik of Margate got a badge and the next day was out inspecting hurricane damage for the federal government."
FEMA also acknowledges a long history of fraud in disaster aid by applicants who call it "Christmas money" or "free money" and by inspectors who are supposed to prevent it. These inspectors consistently simply turn a blind eye because often enough they are reaping the benefits.
The Sentinel has also reported on the fact that FEMA employs as inspectors known criminals with records for embezzlement, drug dealing and robbery. These people are entrusted to enter disaster victims' homes and verify damage claims, with their histories, is it any wonder that there is consistent fraud?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/080905FEMA_corrupt.htm
Take this internal Texaco strategy memo: "[T]he most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus of refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. (The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry.) Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins and very poor refinery financial results. Significant events need to occur to assist in reducing supplies and/or increasing the demand for gasoline." The memo went on to discuss a sucessful campaign in Washington State to shrink refined supply by removing other additives in the gasoline that filled gas volume
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-court/memos-show-oil-companies-_b_6980.html
He then precedes to tell us that some churches had already enquired into whether they could send a van or bus on Sundays to pick up any occupants of their cabins who might be interested in attending church. FEMA will not allow this. The occupants of the camp cannot leave the camp for any reason. If they leave the camp they may never return. They will be issued FEMA identification cards and "a sum of money" and they will remain within the camp for the next 5 months.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html
The officials and engineers said that after they had found the widening gap in the concrete wall on the eastern side of the canal, they had no quick-response plan to repair it.
Even as they tried to improvise a solution while water continued to pour into neighborhood after neighborhood, their efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy helicopters, most of which had been dispatched by federal emergency officials to rescue stranded residents.
"The first priority of the rotary-winged aircraft was to rescue people," Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, commander of the corps, said in the conference call. "Plugging the gap was a lower priority."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02levee.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1126232525-249FqkzVl2G2AtEGAbbXYQ
Neither man, Jacksonville attorney Reynold Hoover (pictured at left) and Miami lawyer Mark Wallace, had any experience in emergency management before they were named by the Bush administration to FEMA, now under fire for its botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
Hoover, a longtime "explosives expert" with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who became a lawyer in 1996, is still with FEMA as its director of national security coordination. Wallace left the Bush administration in 2004 to become deputy manager of the president's re-election campaign, and is now a lobbyist.
They are two more names to add to the list of political appointees and out-and-out hacks at FEMA. Many are calling for the firing of agency chief Michael Brown, the ousted head of a horse association who was hired at FEMA in 2001 along with his college roommate, top Bush advisor Joe Allbaugh. And it was reported yesterday that FEMA's No. 2 and No. 3 officials, Patrick Rhode and Scott Morris, are also former campaign aides.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002346.html
http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/637/1/
A state law prohibiting political candidates from lying about their opponents is an unconstitutional violation of free speech and chills political discourse, a state appeals court ruled yesterday.
The decision from the Court of Appeals Division II stems from a 2002 legislative race and puts in jeopardy one of the state's remaining truth-in-campaigning laws
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002479741_pdc08m.html
Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?"
As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.
Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.
Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.
On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.
Federal officials are unapologetic.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197
TWO US Navy helicopter pilots who ferried supplies have been reprimanded as they also rescued 110 people in New Orleans.
Lt David Shand and Lt Matt Udkow - both based at Pensacola, Florida - were told their unscheduled rescues were an "unacceptable diversion".
Udkow was temporarily ordered to oversee a kennel for pets of evacuated service members instead of flying but he said: "It was a great day. We resupplied the people we needed to and we rescued people, too."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15943170&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=pilots--rap-for-hurricane-rescue-name_page.html
"Some black leaders and their allies in New Orleans fear that it boils down to preventing large numbers of blacks from returning to the city and eliminating the African-American voting majority. Rep. William Jefferson, a sharecropper's son who was educated at Harvard and is currently serving his eighth term in Congress, says, "This is an example of poor people forced to make choices because they don't have the money to do otherwise," Mr. Jefferson says.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/WSJ_White_rich_escape_New_Orleans_chaos_dont_want_blacks_poor__0908.html
The Naval Medical Center in San Diego's Balboa Park was shut down to accommodate a visit by President George W. Bush Aug. 30, RAW STORY has learned, forcing patients to cancel chemotherapy treatments and hundreds of scheduled patient visits.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/San_Diego_hospital_closed_to_acommodate_Bush_visit_No_ch_0906.html
Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out. One would have to guess, I suppose.
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html
====
Here is an article from a “real” newspaper- The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/carman/ci_3006502
“If I didn't know better, I'd have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp.
The signs on the buildings say "Community College of Aurora," though for now they're serving as an impromptu Camp Katrina. About 160 hurricane survivors are being housed in the dorms, surrounded by fences, roadblocks, security guards and enough armed police officers to invade Grenada.”
===
Here is a post from some random website I came across, lots of photos.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html
“I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp”
===
Then I came across this
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906CampWilliams.html
“Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah”
===
And this on the same subject
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3002350
Like others who arrived in smaller military planes, Bergeron wasn't told where he was headed when he boarded the JetBlue airliner Saturday at the Louis Armstrong
===
And this
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html
Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out. One would have to guess, I suppose.
Now, I explained my visit to Detainment Camp Utah from Tuesday, and Ms. Kiguchi got a little pissed. “They are not detainees!”
[It’s actually “kikuchi” I found in a news article from the Salt Lake City Tribune.]
===
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