Funny thing about all this FEMA Detention camp conspiracy stuff....
1) The department of homeland security in and of itself does not have the authority to take or hold prisoners.
The DHS agency is merely a umbrella office to coordinate information between various agencies of the US Justice Department, Intelligence Agencies and the Military.
2) In a martial law situation, the military has full authority to shoot first, and forget about asking questions. It takes more personnel to guard people than it does to bury them.
Speaking from the viewpoint as ex-army, let me explain the very simple facts of life concerning martial law.
a) person or persons caught breaking curfew, shoot to kill
b) looters, shoot to kill
c) violators of any emergency measure put in place for the duration of martial law, shoot to kill.
Simple, effective, and economical... bullets cost less than prison guards.
3) Seems awful funny that the pictures used to prove the existence of these camps are of Federal and State Correctional facilities for work crews.
Perhaps people have forgotten that thanks to the supreme court, inmates have the right to earn a wage while in prison, and the state and federal government can use inmate labor on various projects, which is why there is the resurgence of chain gangs.
Federal inmate work programs include, but are not limited to, re forestation after wildfires, conservation and ecological recovery, Department of Parks and Interior projects including maintaining facilities, rebuilding facilities, or even constructing new facilities.
As for Norton Air Force Base, which really shows how much people remember, here is a quote from the EPA:
"Norton Air Force Base (AFB), an inactive military base, encompasses over 2, 000 acres of land in San Bernardino County, California. Norton AFB is situated between the San Gabriel Mountains on the northwest and the San Bernardino mountains on the northeast, with the Santa Ana River on its southern boundary. The installation, which opened in 1942, was used as an Army and Army Air Corps supply facility and housed numerous tenant organizations. The base closed in March 1994.
The facility was placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Exiting ATSDR Website National Priorities List (NPL) in 1987 because of contamination detected in the base groundwater and soils. Contaminants of potential concern at this site include trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), 1, 2-dichloroethylene (DCE), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), various radionuclides, and metals, including arsenic. "
Now, just in case anyone has forgotten, Norton was one of the bases ordered closed in 1992 and had already been on the EPA SUPERFUND list since 1987.
Due to lingering soil contamination, the base can only be used as industrial property, at least for as long as it takes for any remaining hazardous substances to decay into non toxic compounds, say about 2000 years.
Any fenced areas will be around the contaminated zones, and would indeed have all kinds of prison resembling fencing, including razor wire, since just a small amount of those compounds in a water supply for a major city would have disastrous results.
You wouldn't want some lunatic sneaking in there and grabbing a few tons of contaminated soil and dumping it in your drinking water, would you? Please remember, those chemicals are not able to be removed at water purification plants.
These compounds kill in two ways, long term and immediate. The immediate is the primary concern, since this stuff is lethal in very small amounts.
Furthermore, other sites, reputed to be detention camps are former military test and training centers, all on the epa superfund list. At least 12 sites make Love Canal (one of the early environmental disaster sites) look pristine.
For the record, the US military is currently in control of just over 3 million acres of land that is unsafe for humans to walk on, unless wearing protective clothing. All of these areas are fenced and guarded around the clock. These sites include areas where chemical weapons were tested in the fifties, a few sites of some non-explosive nuclear accidents (i.e, somebody broke a weapon casing and the nuclear material ended up on the ground, ) or in a few places, where there were purification plants for pretreatment before shipping, radioactive dust kind of made a mess of the place.
Now, personally, I feel the best way to alleviate the fears of the conspiracy theorists is to remove all fences around such areas, allow free public access, and of course, in the more lethal of the areas, leave the bodies in plain view.
But then I also support the idea that if you purchase a home in what was once the hunting grounds of large predators, signs should be posted with the following message:
"Since you were stupid enough or gullible enough to purchase a home in this
development, you hereby agree to become part of the diet of the local large
meat eating animals. Firearms are outlawed since this would give you (the idiot)
and your family undo advantage over the predators that hunted in this area.
you are allowed a large hunting knife for defense."
You see, I follow the philosophy that the majority of humans are stupid, considering some of the actions I have seen taken by individuals and crowds during my lifetime. I therefore feel that by allowing people to venture into areas that are unsafe, toxic or the hunting area of a large predator is a modern way to let natural selection to once more be used in association with the human race.
If you think that this is wrong, please consider, humans rebuild cities in Earthquake zones, examples being LA, San Francisco, and the New Madrid fault zone, and Alaska, or on the slopes of active volcanoes, go biking and jogging in areas that are known to be frequented by large predatory cats, (do a google on cougar attacks in California) go bear hunting with large caliber, single shot target pistols.
Or, and I love this, swim in areas of the ocean known to be inhabited by bull sharks, which are the only species of shark known that intentionally attacks humans.
And then there are the surfers... Since the rise in the popularity of the short board, attacks by large predatory sharks, i.e the great white, on surfers has risen dramatically. Research has shown that from below, a surfer on a short board resembles a nice fat seal. While a surfer on a long board looks like another large shark cruising close to the surface. With all this information available, you would think the short board would be replaced by the long boards.
However, surfers still use short boards, and the poor great whites are fooled into thinking they are going for a seal and all they end up with is a bunch of fiber glass, foam, and a large chunk of stupid surfer that they really dont like.
Therefore, since natural selection is no longer an active part of human evolution, it stands to reason that if we let the person's own stupidity take over, we can soon eliminate the genetic pool of stupid people and thereby allowing the human race to at the very least become more intelligent.
Now, unfortunately, this means that children suffer for the stupid decisions of the parents, but until laws are passed that would allow the government to step in and remove children from the custody of stupid parents, that cant be helped.
