Teabagging: The Next Chapter
by digby
They aren’t going to stop with the birthing and the soylent green. The crazy knows no bounds. As we speak, they’re already working themselves up into their next frenzy:
Savage says “internment camps being planned.” From the August 10 edition of Talk Radio Network’s The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: You see, there are internment camps being planned. You may not understand it because you didn’t see it on CBS News. But I direct you to an article that came out over the weekend that will scare you to death. It came out on WorldNetDaily. I put it up on MichaelSavage.com. Now, you say, “Well, they’re making it up. They’re just scaring you.” No. It’s an ad for National Guardsmen to run internment camps.
WOR’s Malzberg: “Internment camps. It ain’t going to be for Ara — for Muslim terrorists.” On the August 10 broadcast of his radio program on WOR in New York City, Steve Malzberg said of the internment/resettlement specialist ad:
MALZBERG: But what kind of administration is this? And I think lots of us fear we know the answer as to what kind of administration this is. Internment camps. Internment camps. It ain’t going to be for Ara — for Muslim terrorists, I can tell you that much. That we know. It’s not going to be Muslim terrorists in these internment camps. What options does that leave left? Who does that leave? Who does that leave?
After noting stories about swine flu “worst case scenarios” and two governors’ opposition to Defense Department emergency powers, Malzberg said:
MALZBERG: They’re working on various levels simultaneously, ladies of gentlemen. God forbid this bird — this swine flu gets out of hand. God forbid. Because they will separate families, they will intern, they will quarantine, they will — there’s all kinds of speculation as to what they might do.
But why is the Defense Department now intruding on states’ emergencies? What’s the deal with commercials for internment camp soldiers needed, police needed? What’s going on in this country? The website to turn in your neighbor.
This is Barack Hussein Obama. Ah, uniter. Open, transparent. Yeah, right — Marxist. Marxist. And does this not sound like a Marxist government ready to rock and roll? Ready to rock and roll.
WND’s Porter: “Internment/confinement/correction camps for American civilians?” In an August 11 WorldNetDaily.com column, Janet Porter noted the Defense Department listing and wrote:
Internment/confinement/correction camps for American civilians? Maybe there’s something to all those rumors of FEMA concentration camps. After all, those internment/resettlement specialists are going to have to report to work somewhere. If you’re going to round up American citizens, you’re going to need a place to put them.
Internment and confinement are for criminals … for terrorists. And terrorists, according to DHS, are … us.
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We’ve gotten more than a glimpse of the agenda of the people to which we’ve handed the keys of power. It is unmistakably evil.
WND: Ad “generating concerns that there is some truth in those theories about domestic detention camps.” In an August 7 article, WND news editor Bob Unruh wrote:
An ad campaign featured on a U.S. Army website seeking those who would be interested in being an “Internment/Resettlement” specialist is raising alarms across the country, generating concerns that there is some truth in those theories about domestic detention camps, a roundup of dissidents and a crackdown on “threatening” conservatives.
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Officials at the state and federal National Guard levels told WND they were unaware of the program, although one officer speculated it could be intended for soldiers trained in the U.S. and dispatched overseas to “detention facilities.” From the national level, WND was told, officials were unaware of any such “internment facilities” at which there could be jobs to be available.
Examiner.com’s Dolen-Proffit: “[O]nce those ‘Internment/Resettlement’ positions have been filled, you better be quiet.” In an August 10 post, Examiner.com’s Sacramento Conservative Examiner Karole Dolen-Proffit noted the job listing and wrote:
So if you oppose firearms restrictions, are a returning veteran, reject the idea of big federal government, oppose abortion or lax immigration policies, or are currently unemployed, then you are now a target. Consider yourself warned, and once those “Internment/Resettlement” positions have been filled, you better be quiet and fall in line, or prepare for whatever the consequences may be for your “right-wing extremist” activities.
You can find the actual job listing and explanation at the link. But, why bother?
What I can’t understand is why they haven’t consulted the country’s most respected expert on the subject:
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