KBR awarded contract for US concentration camp construction

Here's a bit of under-reported news that's sure to cause some insomnia for those who still cherish our civil rights. The federal government has awarded a $385 million contract for the construction of "temporary detention facilities" to KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, for use in an "immigration emergency." One U.S. Immigration official notes such an "emergency might be "an upheaval in another country that would cause mass migration." Yeah, I bet that's what Hitler said when he built the concentration camps. It's not much of a stretch to imagine how handy these camps would be to "house" political enemies in the event of the declaration of martial law.

They already have thousands of berths across the U.S. for the purpose of interring illegal immigrants and if they need more prison space, they could release the hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders currently incarcerated our largest gulag in the world, into treatment programs. A strategy that has recently been proven to save money and contribute to the public safety.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I have a bad feeling about this. I think the SOB in the White House could be planning to suspend the 08 elections under his "war powers" and clap the dissenters into these camps. Let's face it, we're all "enemies" of Bush's state.