June 04,
2020
Appeared
first on Global Research, November 27, 2019
Preparing
For Civil War?
US
authorities have for decades become increasingly prepared for mass civil
disturbances resulting from government and corporate attacks on American
society. We can recall that in the early 1980s the Hidden State launched its
open war on the middle class by the savage FED-induced recession and the
unilateral revocation of the social contract that had existed since 1946. At
that time, the US government had already anticipated widespread public unrest,
fully expecting mass protests and riots, and had made preparations to deal with
them in the form of internment camps. In a real sense, the government had
prepared for another civil war.
Like most
of the “Great Transformation”, it began during Reagan’s reign with what was
called “Rex 84”, an abbreviation for Readiness Exercise
1984, a plan by the US government to detain large numbers of American
citizens in case of civil unrest. This master plan involved the FBI, Department
of Defense, the Emergency Measures group, the Secret Service, the CIA and
altogether 34 government agencies.
It was
presented as an exercise to test military assistance in civil defense
in times of national emergency, but in fact the plan was anticipating
civil disturbances, major demonstrations and labor strikes that would affect
continuity of government. The anticipated civil unrest from the FED-induced
financial crisis that devastated the middle class was considered “subversive”,
REX-84 being an authorisation for the US military to implement
government-controlled movements of civilian populations at both state and
regional levels, the arrest of many segments of the American population, and
the imposition of martial law. (1) (2)
The Rex-84
program was created under the pretense of a possible mass exodus of illegal
aliens attempting to cross into the US from Mexico, but when the program
accidentally became public during the Iran-Contra Congressional hearings in
1987 it was revealed that it was in fact a secret federal government program
“to suspend
the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over
state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens
determined by the government to be ‘national security threats’.”
This was
part of a master contingency plan for which the FBI today has a primary list of
more than 100,000 Americans, and a secondary list ten times larger, who are
targeted to be rounded up as subversives, including labor leaders, scholars and
public figures, the incarceration designed to isolate political dissidents and
to contain civil unrest.
And these
are prison camps, ringed with fences, barbed wire and armed guards, not places
from which escape would be likely, and they were designed to hold Americans,
not Mexicans. (3)
There is no
question the US government is prepared for the possibility of widespread and
uncontrollable domestic disorder. This program in place and building
for years was encouraged by fears of a massive public uprising in the wake of
the 2008 banking fraud.
US Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia said some years ago that
concentration camps were a likely future reality for Americans and that the
Supreme Court would not do anything about the tyranny should the executive
branch think it necessary. He mentioned the World War II internment of Japanese
in the US and said of these camps,
In 2009, as
the US financial crisis deepened and concern about public unrest was
increasing, the US National Guard was posting job opportunities for
“Internment/Resettlement Specialists” to work in “civilian internee camps”
within the United States, and Halliburton [former] subsidiary KBR was seeking
subcontractors to staff “emergency environment” camps located in five regions
of the US. Earlier, in 2006, KBR was contracted by Homeland Security to build
detention centers designed to deal with “the rapid development of unspecified
“new programs” that would require large numbers of people to be interned.” (6)
(7)
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