Re: Forced into a government camp?

Jeff McCann wrote:
How may people here feel that being forced into a government camp is a
realistic risk, given something like the following scenario?

1. An unprecedented series of natural disasters strike your entire
region, e.g., several category 5 hurricanes or several 7+ Richter Scale
earthquakes.

2. A series of terrorist attacks with dirty bombs, chemical releases, or
the like strike cities all over your region.

Assume that the remainder of the country is not directly affected and
the governments in Washington, D.C. and your state Capitol are up and
running more or less normally.

Further assume your general part of town is not at risk from any
chemical, radiological or other looming threat requiring emergency mass
evacuation but is generally just damaged and without water, power, etc.
You, however, have your supplies and simply prefer to stay at home, or
plan to pack up and evacuate to your pre-planned location outside the
disaster area or your own.

Do you suppose you will be required to relocate to a government refugee
camp and not be allowed to leave, or be prevented from leaving the area
by foot, bike car a whatever, on you own?

Jeff


There's one truism concerning government. It can always be counted
on to expand its power over individuals. In so doing, history instructs
us to run for cover. Well, there's no where left to run to.

Here's my take but consider that it doesn't represent more than a few
percent of the US population.

Many billions of dollars have been funneled to the states since the
late 1990s under the guise of 'emergency' planning and related
strategies. As a result key municipal and county governments are flooded
with personnel and equipment. Jurisdictional task forces blurred the
line between federal and state governments and thousands of state
personnel have been federally deputized.

The old guard has retired and been replaced with people educated
by 'sensitized' public schools and conditioned to situational ethics.
More recently these replacements are graduates of the military school of
preemptive urban warfare and share the belief that the critical citizen
is Public Enemy Number One.

Politicians and bureaucrats now act out bizarre fantasies and run
rampant with corruption to the cheers of ethnic collectives and
sexually modified groupies. With the passage of the infamous Patriot Act
and the illicit PD51, the citizens of the US no longer have the legal
protections of their fathers. This won't matter since recent
generations no longer see my America as anything more than a problem to
be swept under the rug in preparation for a brave new world.

Could residents of a certain area be driven from their homes and
put into camps 'for their own safety'? You bet. That's why the
laws and money have been so directed. Homeland Security has the power
and the plans to do just that. The next Katrina-like emergency will see
an aggressive state and federal push to exercise new power, establish
legal precedent and expand their purview.

The downside is that within two decades there will be little left
of the land and way of life to which I'm accustomed. The upside is
I won't have to suffer the repercussions of a disgusting and
embarrassing tyranny - a tyranny of volunteers.



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