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Dear Milo, I love your site. I noticed you haven’t discussed FEMA camps yet, but here’s some information that you might find interesting.
I’m a police officer in [withheld to protect officer's identity] State. Everyone in my department was recently required to take an online course sponsored by FEMA about the “Incident Command Structure” (ICS). The Incident Command Structure is the system of control set in place following a disaster, catastrophe, terrorist strike, or other such event. All of the documents from that course can be found on FEMA’s website:
edit on 27-1-2011 by EssenSieMich because: sp
Interesting, indeed! It’s quite unsettling that FEMA is educating police officers around the nation that citizens may have to be placed into CAMPS at some point (for their own safety, of course), and that this practice is completely normal.
Originally posted by backinblackI don't really know why people are even surprised or reject the existance of FEMA camps..
We have been indoctrinated for years to accept placing people in prisons for even the smallest of crimes.
Sometimes merely for the crime of being poor..
So there are already tens of thousands of normal people locked up as we speak and yet we accept that with barely a whimper..
Originally posted by Golf66
That said; I am curious where and when people in America were locked up for the crime of being poor? Are you talking about vagrancy laws, panhandling or something?
Not sure I'm willing to buy that we are locking away the poor in debtor prisons yet.
That said; I am curious where and when people in America were locked up for the crime of being poor? Are you talking about vagrancy laws, panhandling or something?
Not sure I'm willing to buy that we are locking away the poor in debtor prisons yet.
Debtors' prisons on the rise in the US
By David Brown
27 October 2010
Both the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Brennan Center for Justice released reports in early October on a disturbing trend in the American justice system: the abuse of jail sentences and probation to collect more money in fines for cash-strapped courts.
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_areAs someone who has had first-hand experience with homelessness at various times since 2001, I can tell you it is a fact that "the poor" are indeed being locked up for "being poor". Homeless "camps" in Ann Arbor are routinely broken up by the local police and people are routinely taken to jail simply for being a member of the lowest of the lowest class.
Originally posted by backinblack
So there are already tens of thousands of normal people locked up as we speak and yet we accept that with barely a whimper..
If so they are being locked away for being poor - if they are actually charged with crimes then it's not for being poor its for violating that statute/law.
Originally posted by backinblackOR, they ARE being locked up for being poor but the legal system is merely inventing other charges to cover the real reasons...
Or do you think the Justice System is trully just.???
Originally posted by Golf66
So you are saying that the police are arresting people for being homeless and poor or for trespassing, littering, violating vargancy laws, urinating in public, drunk an disorderly or panhandling etc...?
So you are saying that the police are arresting people for being homeless and poor or for trespassing, littering, violating vargancy laws, urinating in public, drunk an disorderly or panhandling etc...? There is a huge difference - do the charges read - being poor?
vagrancy Law Definition n
A vague, poorly delineated set of minor offenses (dating from the downfall of feudalism in England, when there was an acute shortage of laborers), such as being in a condition of unemployment, wandering from place to place with no apparent purpose, and having no visible means of support. More recently, the police have utilized vagrancy statutes for arresting persons thought to have committed a crime, when lack of probable cause for the personÂ’s arrest is lacking. Vagrancy statutes have not been well received by the courts, due to their abuse, and have often been declared unconstitutional due to their vagueness, and their ignoring of due process.
If so they are being locked away for being poor - if they are actually charged with crimes then it's not for being poor its for violating that statute/law.
I'm not saying harassing the poor and homeless is ok
2) No, I do not consider the system just that is why I was asking; however, vagrancy, trespassing, public nuisance and other laws don't seem to be unjust to be but then again I have never been homeless.
Originally posted by backinblack
Isn't it odd that local councils suddenly enact those laws just prior to a major event in town??
Like hiding the mess??
I find that criminal in itself...