The Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinates the government’s role in preparing for, preventing, mitigating the effects of, responding to and recovering from all domestic disasters, whether natural or man made, including acts of terror. Its beginnings can be traced to disaster legislation passed in 1803 to provide assistance to a New Hampshire town following a fire. Following a string of natural disasters in the 60s and 70s, President Jimmy Carter signed executive order 12127 and merged near ten federal agencies into what we now know as FEMA. In March 2003, FEMA joined 22 other federal agencies to become part of Homeland Security. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and most notably the city of New Orleans. Federal and local authorities encouraged those who could not evacuate the city to go to the Superdome to ride out the storm where there would be assistance to take care of them. This is how your government cares for you. This is a FEMA camp.

Up on screen are photocopies of the Miami Herald. And this goes back to the 1980s when they had congressional hearings dealing with shadow government and martial law. There’s the headline. The secret government and it talks about secret summits and the plans to take over the government. And it shows the people that were in charge of the continuity of government – Dick Cheney and others. And then we have a congressional hearing where we have Congressman Jack Brooks and others during Iran Contra, bringing up the secret plans and they’re told by Congressman Inouye that that can’t be discussed it’s a national security issue.
The truth of the matter is yes you do have those standby provisions, and the plans are there. And the statutory emergency plans are there whereby you could, in the name of stopping terrorism, apprehend – invoke the military – and arrest Americans and hold them in detention camps. -Rep Henry Gonzales

In 1986, under Rex 84, they opened 12 secret army camps to test if they could keep them secret while they held federal, now they hold state prisoners as well. Federal prisoners would then be given a few years off their sentence if they agreed to not tell family about it, and to go to the labor camps. It is a labor camp. And under the revised military rules it allows any U.S. citizen to be put in it under forced labor. Here is the civilian labor camp program Army regulation 210-35. It’s exactly 30 pages long.

This sucker was set up in 1986 at 12 camps. It’s since doubled to 24. And from ’86 to 97 secretly at labor camps, U.S. citizens, non military prisoners were worked on FEMA camps. Now, this was beta testing. They would tell them, ‘You’ll be given leniency and only serve half your sentence if you agree to labor. The minute you don’t you’ll be sent back, on the military bases but you can’t tell anybody. national Security’. You see they were testing ‘Can we keep camps secret from the local police or get them to work with us? Can we keep the camps secret from the media?’ So for 11 years they kept this sucker secret. Reagan, Bush, Clinton. And then Clinton declassifies it in ’97 and they double the number.

Here is Wall Street journal, KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385 million, to build 3 1Million person FEMA camps in the United States. It says the ICE Detention and Removal Operations program can be used for illegal aliens and for U.S. citizens and for other emergencies.

The Contras. Ronald Reagan compared them to our founding fathers. In reality, Ronald Reagan and C.I.A. director William Casey were their founding fathers. Two months after his inauguration, the President approved the funds, which Casey used to create the Contras. Their ultimate goal was the violent overthrow of the Nicaraguan Government – a government the United States legally recognizes. So the war had to be carries out covertly as a campaign of terror.

Looking back it’s stunning how easily the cold war enticed us into surrendering popular control of government to the national security state. We’ve never come closer to bestowing absolute authority on the President. Setting up White House groups that secretly decide to fight dirty little wars is a direct assumption of the war powers expressly forbidden by the Constitution. Not since December 1941 has Congress declared war. Since then we’ve had police action in Korea, advisers in Vietnam, covert operations in Central America, peace keeping in Lebanon, and low intensity conflicts going on right now from Mangola to Cambodia. We’ve turned the war powers of the United States over to… well we’re never really sure who, or what they’re doing, or what it costs, or who is paying for it.

So began the morality of the cold war. Anything goes. The struggle required a mentality of permanent war – a perpetual state of emergency, and admit a vast new apparatus of power that radically transformed our government. Its foundations were laid when President Truman signed in to law the National Security Act of 1947.

The secret government is an interlocking network of official functionaries, spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers, and super patriots, who for a variety of motives operate outside the legitimate institutions of government. Presidents have turned to them when they can’t win support of the Congress or the people, creating that unsupervised power so feared by the framers of our Constitution.

Iran, 1953, the C.I.A. mounted its first covert operation to overthrow a foreign government. The target was the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq. He held power legitimately through his country’s parliamentary process. And, he was popular. Washington had once looked to him as the man to prevent a communist takeover. But that was before Mosaddeq decided that the Iranian State, not British Companies, ought to own and control the oil within Iran’s own borders. When he nationalized the British run oil fields, Washington saw red. The Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen, director of the C.I.A., decided with Eisenhower’s approval to overthrow Moseddeq and reinstate the Shaw of Iran. The mobs paid by the C.I.A., and the police and soldiers bribed by the C.i.A., drove Moseddeq from office. The king of kings was back in control and more pliable than Moseddeq. American oil companies took over almost half of Iran’s production.

Guatemala. 1954, flushed with success, America’s secret government decided another troublesome leader must go. This time it was Jacobo Árbenz, the democratically elected President of Guatemala. President Arbenz had admired Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his government voted often with the American position at the United Nations. But in trying to bring a “New Deal” to Guatemala, Arbenz committed two sins in the eyes of the Eisenhower administration. First when he opened the system to all political parties, he recognized the Communists, too. Armenz also embarked on a massive land reform program. Less than 3% of the land owners held more than 70% of the land. So Arbenz nationalized more than 1.5 million acres, including land owned by his own family, and turned it over to the peasants. Much of that land belonged to the United Fruit Company. The giant American firm that was intent on keeping Guatemala, quite literally, a Banana Republic. United Fruit appealed to its close friends in Washington, including the Dulles Brothers, who said that Arbenz was ‘openly playing the Communist game’. He had to go…

Cuba, 1961, 7 years after Operation PBSUCCESS in Guatemala, Bissell was planning another C.I.A. covert operation. On April 17, 1961, Cuban exiles trained by the C.I.A. at a base in friendly Guatemala, landed on the southern coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Th U.S. had promised air support, but President Kennedy canceled it. The invaders, left defenseless, surrendered.

Vietnam, 1968. American soldiers are fighting and dying in the jungles of Southeast Asia. But, the Vietnam War didn’t start this way. It started secretly, off the books, like so many of these ventures that have ended disastrously. The C.I.A. got there early, soon after the Vietnamese won their independence from the French in 1954. Eisenhower warned that the nations of Southeast Asia would fall like dominoes if the Communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, took over of Vietnam. To hold the line, we installed in Saigon a puppet regime under Ngo Dinh Diem. American trained commandos were trained to sabotage bus and rail lines and contaminate North Vietnam’s oil supply. Vice President Nixon brought moral support to Diem, but the situation kept getting worse. …The secret war was leading only to deeper involvement and more deception. …the action in the Gulf of Tonkin was not unprovoked. South Vietnam had been conducting secret raids in the area against the North, and the American destroyer, ordered into the battle zone, had advanced warning it could be attacked. But, Johnson seized the incident to stampede congress into passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. He then used it as a blank check, for the massive build up of American forces.

Some of the team that later joined the Iran Contra Enterprise, helped to run the secret war in Laos. As General Richard Secord later put it “Laos belongs to the C.I.A.” American planes blasted the Communists in the jungle. And on the ground, we had our own secret army, among tribesmen.

The men who wrote our Constitution tried to make it hard to go to war. Human life was at stake, they knew, and the character of our Republic. War should be soberly decided, publicly debated, and mutually determined by the people’s representatives. It is people, after all, who must fight, pay, and die once the choice is made. The Constitution was to protect them from dying for the wrong reasons. It was to protect them from killing for the wrong reasons.