Vatic Note: Normally, I am a big fan of Mother Jones and their offerings. They do not deal with most issues from a right or left perspective since that is a long dead paradigm and they appear to know that viscerally. They hit at the core of these issues which has aided many into learning about what is truly going on. This article, I decided to put up to show how transparent now, that propoganda and provocateuring is after all that we have seen for 10 years, it now smacks you right in the face. I realized we need to do one more time of analyzing this type of article in order to show others what to look for and what to critically think when reading such tripe. Ask first when it begins with a "grabber headline" that misleads about what the articles purpose is. That is usually the first signal, that there is an objective to it all. Then as you get into it ask, "Is this article dealing with a serious main informative issue that leads to either understanding or solutions to the CORE SERIOUS PROBLEM". If its just slamming one side or the other for their 'PERCEIVED' unreasonable behavior, then pass on it, since its definitely a propoganda piece. I have included my VN:'s through out the piece to point out obvious misleading statements or inaccurate statements all GEARED TO MAKE THE POINT OF THE ARTICLE, which is division between the right and the left. I hope I was able to achieve my objective here. SHE GAVE A LIST OF LINKS, SO LET ME DO THE SAME, MINE ARE MORE OFFICIAL.....this isn't even 1/10th of what I have showing this new police state we are inheriting, so I guess the conspiracy theory of the conspiracy theory isn't working either. hehehe
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645
Army National Guard Advertises for “Internment Specialists”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=14612
"Inside source reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago". (what a coincidence, they are holding such exercises in Chicago this week for the entire week, hmmm)
http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/02/11/inside-source-reveals-fema-dhs-prepairing-for-mass-graves-and-martial-law-near-chicago/
Calm political protest turns chaotic as Denver police use pepper spray and batons on trapped crowd
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2124
Mr Anderson is the pastor who was beaten and tasered by Border Patrol agents and Arizona DPS officers at an internal suspicionless Border Patrol checkpoint East of Yuma, Arizona earlier this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJF5cUWXA_A&feature=player_embedded
Congressman tells us: We Are Under Martial Law NOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7B4laX1E70
Excessive use of force by police: a survey of academic emergency physicians
http://emj.bmj.com/content/26/1/20.abstract
BP Oil Spill: A Slippery Slope to FEMA Detention Camps?
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/bp-oil-spill-fema-camps
A government plot to round up citizens by force, "alien hybrids" on the move, and other rumors inspired by the Gulf tragedy.
By Stephanie Mencimer
Thu Jun. 3, 2010 3:00 AM PDT
Is there a covert government plan to forcibly evacuate up to 50 million people from the Gulf Coast and move them into FEMA trailers somewhere in Missouri and elsewhere because of the oil spill? Some of the nation's survivalists are convinced that the Obama administration is plotting just such an operation. Last week, Greg Evensen, a former Kansas state trooper and a regular on the "Patriot" movement talk circuit, appeared on the Internet radio show "Shattering the Darkness [1]" to warn listeners that government is moving to evacuate basically everyone from the coast of Texas to Cape Cod. Evensen says the move will come after these areas become uninhabitable due to an "oversaturation of benzene" from the chemical dispersants BP is using to try to clean up the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.
Yes, even an eco-tragedy can breed conspiracy theories. (VN: Yes, even a left publication can be part of the disinformation and propoganda brigade, can't it? Not a word about how even on FEMA's own site, they announced that they were preparing for just such an event. So this author is simply looking to continue the neocon need for a divide between the right and left that the neocons need so very desparately to get our millions of guns from us before they start their third world war. SPLC and the ADL did a poor job of trying to work the left up to be afraid of the right and it didn't take off. I guess all that dumbing down for years and brain washing has not done the job. They should fire that psychologist who said it would. LOL, well maybe after reading this article from a normally excellent publication, I should qualify that.... maybe it works for a minority on both sides, the right and the left, but thankfully not a majority. )
Interviewed by a man known only as "the Hawk," Evensen predicted on May 27 that the evacuations would begin sometime around June 15, after the government brings together "people who can be engaged in combat"—possibly including foreign troops—and stations them at 500-mile intervals. He predicted that people as far north as Cape Cod might have to be evacuated, given that the oil is likely to end up "on beaches of England." These events, Evensen warned, would show the "rolling thunder effect of how it will bring America to its knees," to which the Hawk responded, "This could be larger than anything we could ever imagine."
In an interview with Mother Jones, Evensen explained that he had heard about this massive governmental operation from a "buffet meal of state and local law enforcement" sources, many of whom find him—rather than the other way around—thanks to his media appearances and Internet postings. (Evensen lives in Michigan.)
The podcast of this show soon made its way into the Tea Party world and was circulating on various listservs this week, with headlines like "Forced evacuations of 40 million begin in less than two weeks. Anyone within a thousand miles of the Gulf of Mexico needs to listen to every word of this." John Kaminiski [2], a "truther" who believes Jews blew up the World Trade Center, warned in an email [3] that "If you don't leave now, you will never make it. You will either die on the road, or in a FEMA camp. The troops are already in place." (VN: in fact we had pictures but because it hit the net, nothing happened, I KEEP REMEMBERING THE 5 MISSING NUKES, DON'T YOU??? CHERTOFFS WARNING JUST PRIOR TO THEM GOING MISSING TELLING US HOW 5 AMERICAN CITIES WERE GOING TO ATTACKED BASED ON INTEL BY THE TERRORISTS and if it had not been for the net when the leak about WHO LOADED THOSE MISSLES AND ON WHAT MILITARY CARGO PLANE THEY WERE LOADED, WE MAY WELL HAVE HAD THAT ATTACK, and now every single person on that base who were involved in those nukes being loaded are all dead within a year of that happening. Gee, I wonder what happened? We were wrong or did we stop the false flag that was planned by the neocons that Kaminski mentions)
One wonders how many Tea Partiers listened all the way through to the end of the Hawk's show. Those who did might have questioned Evensen's claims after he started discussing "previously unseen ground units," possibly made up of "alien hybrids" masquerading as US troops, that were "emerging from areas in the Southwest and heading in an easterly direction." From the oil spill to FEMA camps to an alien invasion—it's the X Files gone green. (VN: Fortunately, I missed that one, but these days, I seriously wonder... who knows because these people certainly are not human by any means, so he could have something there.)
The giant spill has already inspired plenty of dubious speculation on the right. Early on, Rush Limbaugh suggested that "environmental whackos" had blown up the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to prevent more offshore drilling, a theme echoed by other conservative talkers [4]. (VN: True, but the right has pegged these neocon hired shills and do not listen to them anymore, the grassroots right figured out who owns BP or traded in the stock etc, so that never flew, in this the grassroots right and left are united, much to the chagrine of the neocons in play here.)
Evensen has all but made a franchise out of predicting when and where government troops will round up the American people and pack them off to FEMA detention centers. Described by the New York Times as a militia leader, he makes the rounds of "Patriot" radio shows with such folks as Oath Keeper member [5] "Sheriff" Richard Mack, and he features commentary by Larry Pratt on his website. Pratt, whom Evensen calls an acquaintance, is also a longtime militia hero and founder of Gun Owners of America [6].
Last year, Evensen repeatedly suggested that the government was planning to set up roadblocks to force people to get the H1N1 vaccine or tag them with a steel bracelet with a microchip that would indicate that they’d been vaccinated. Anyone who refused, according to Evensen, would be hauled off to a camp [7]. (VN: That is the beauty of the Net, I watch them put up gates right here in my town at the side of the highway for that very reason, what happened is the pandemic never materialized and thus the road blocks could not be justified, but they certainly began using them in California which we published with pics and all)
When none of that happened, Evensen had to make a retraction. But that didn't seem to dampen the demand for his survivalist seminars or radio appearances [8]. And Evensen says that he doesn't claim to be 100 percent accurate. "We're watchmen, if you will," he says, explaining that he just puts information out there for people to assess for themselves. He doesn’t mention that doomsday predictions are good for business: He sells DVDs on "Castle Defense" and other "defensive planning" materials on his website (along with CDs of "Hymns from the Heartland," performed by Evenson himself)—all of which can be purchased with gold in lieu of currency. He says he also offers seminars and survivalist trainings across the country.
For the record, Larry Chambers, a Coast Guard petty officer at the DeepWater Horizon Incident unified area command in Robert, Louisiana, says that he’s never heard of any plans for the government to evacuate the entire Southeastern coast. "That's not going to happen," he says. (But isn't this what you’d expect him to say?)
Chambers explains that the government is making contingency plans to evacuate people in the event of a hurricane—which it has real concerns about because of how heavy winds might affect the clean-up effort, and because of the large numbers of extra personnel in the region working on disaster management. "I can understand why people may even start to think about conspiracies,” Chambers says. “It’s huge. We’ve never dealt with anything like this. People are upset."
As for FEMA, a spokesperson seemed rather perplexed by my questions about whether the agency plans to detain millions of Americans in trailers in Missouri after a mass evacuation. In an email, an agency press secretary named Rachel Racusen wrote, "FEMA continues to support the lead federal agencies for the response to the BP oil spill, the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior. To date that support has included help with staffing needs, as well as coordination and recovery expertise." Evensen might take that as a "yes."
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Source URL: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/bp-oil-spill-fema-camps
Links:
[1] http://shatterthedarkness.gsradio.net:8080/052710.mp3
[2] http://johnkaminski.info/
[3] http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=5857&start=10&sid=f33323f2fb376717c252229d67edbb70&view=print
[4] http://mediamatters.org/research/201005030027
[5] http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers -
[6] http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/gun-activists-take-aim-obamacare
[7] http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=4431 http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/plans-for-vaccine-bracelets-to
[8] http://www.calltodecision.com/ahd.htm
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645
Army National Guard Advertises for “Internment Specialists”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=14612
"Inside source reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago". (what a coincidence, they are holding such exercises in Chicago this week for the entire week, hmmm)
http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/02/11/inside-source-reveals-fema-dhs-prepairing-for-mass-graves-and-martial-law-near-chicago/
Calm political protest turns chaotic as Denver police use pepper spray and batons on trapped crowd
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2124
Mr Anderson is the pastor who was beaten and tasered by Border Patrol agents and Arizona DPS officers at an internal suspicionless Border Patrol checkpoint East of Yuma, Arizona earlier this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJF5cUWXA_A&feature=player_embedded
Congressman tells us: We Are Under Martial Law NOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7B4laX1E70
Excessive use of force by police: a survey of academic emergency physicians
http://emj.bmj.com/content/26/1/20.abstract
BP Oil Spill: A Slippery Slope to FEMA Detention Camps?
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/bp-oil-spill-fema-camps
A government plot to round up citizens by force, "alien hybrids" on the move, and other rumors inspired by the Gulf tragedy.
By Stephanie Mencimer
Thu Jun. 3, 2010 3:00 AM PDT
Is there a covert government plan to forcibly evacuate up to 50 million people from the Gulf Coast and move them into FEMA trailers somewhere in Missouri and elsewhere because of the oil spill? Some of the nation's survivalists are convinced that the Obama administration is plotting just such an operation. Last week, Greg Evensen, a former Kansas state trooper and a regular on the "Patriot" movement talk circuit, appeared on the Internet radio show "Shattering the Darkness [1]" to warn listeners that government is moving to evacuate basically everyone from the coast of Texas to Cape Cod. Evensen says the move will come after these areas become uninhabitable due to an "oversaturation of benzene" from the chemical dispersants BP is using to try to clean up the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.
Yes, even an eco-tragedy can breed conspiracy theories. (VN: Yes, even a left publication can be part of the disinformation and propoganda brigade, can't it? Not a word about how even on FEMA's own site, they announced that they were preparing for just such an event. So this author is simply looking to continue the neocon need for a divide between the right and left that the neocons need so very desparately to get our millions of guns from us before they start their third world war. SPLC and the ADL did a poor job of trying to work the left up to be afraid of the right and it didn't take off. I guess all that dumbing down for years and brain washing has not done the job. They should fire that psychologist who said it would. LOL, well maybe after reading this article from a normally excellent publication, I should qualify that.... maybe it works for a minority on both sides, the right and the left, but thankfully not a majority. )
Interviewed by a man known only as "the Hawk," Evensen predicted on May 27 that the evacuations would begin sometime around June 15, after the government brings together "people who can be engaged in combat"—possibly including foreign troops—and stations them at 500-mile intervals. He predicted that people as far north as Cape Cod might have to be evacuated, given that the oil is likely to end up "on beaches of England." These events, Evensen warned, would show the "rolling thunder effect of how it will bring America to its knees," to which the Hawk responded, "This could be larger than anything we could ever imagine."
In an interview with Mother Jones, Evensen explained that he had heard about this massive governmental operation from a "buffet meal of state and local law enforcement" sources, many of whom find him—rather than the other way around—thanks to his media appearances and Internet postings. (Evensen lives in Michigan.)
The podcast of this show soon made its way into the Tea Party world and was circulating on various listservs this week, with headlines like "Forced evacuations of 40 million begin in less than two weeks. Anyone within a thousand miles of the Gulf of Mexico needs to listen to every word of this." John Kaminiski [2], a "truther" who believes Jews blew up the World Trade Center, warned in an email [3] that "If you don't leave now, you will never make it. You will either die on the road, or in a FEMA camp. The troops are already in place." (VN: in fact we had pictures but because it hit the net, nothing happened, I KEEP REMEMBERING THE 5 MISSING NUKES, DON'T YOU??? CHERTOFFS WARNING JUST PRIOR TO THEM GOING MISSING TELLING US HOW 5 AMERICAN CITIES WERE GOING TO ATTACKED BASED ON INTEL BY THE TERRORISTS and if it had not been for the net when the leak about WHO LOADED THOSE MISSLES AND ON WHAT MILITARY CARGO PLANE THEY WERE LOADED, WE MAY WELL HAVE HAD THAT ATTACK, and now every single person on that base who were involved in those nukes being loaded are all dead within a year of that happening. Gee, I wonder what happened? We were wrong or did we stop the false flag that was planned by the neocons that Kaminski mentions)
One wonders how many Tea Partiers listened all the way through to the end of the Hawk's show. Those who did might have questioned Evensen's claims after he started discussing "previously unseen ground units," possibly made up of "alien hybrids" masquerading as US troops, that were "emerging from areas in the Southwest and heading in an easterly direction." From the oil spill to FEMA camps to an alien invasion—it's the X Files gone green. (VN: Fortunately, I missed that one, but these days, I seriously wonder... who knows because these people certainly are not human by any means, so he could have something there.)
The giant spill has already inspired plenty of dubious speculation on the right. Early on, Rush Limbaugh suggested that "environmental whackos" had blown up the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to prevent more offshore drilling, a theme echoed by other conservative talkers [4]. (VN: True, but the right has pegged these neocon hired shills and do not listen to them anymore, the grassroots right figured out who owns BP or traded in the stock etc, so that never flew, in this the grassroots right and left are united, much to the chagrine of the neocons in play here.)
Evensen has all but made a franchise out of predicting when and where government troops will round up the American people and pack them off to FEMA detention centers. Described by the New York Times as a militia leader, he makes the rounds of "Patriot" radio shows with such folks as Oath Keeper member [5] "Sheriff" Richard Mack, and he features commentary by Larry Pratt on his website. Pratt, whom Evensen calls an acquaintance, is also a longtime militia hero and founder of Gun Owners of America [6].
Last year, Evensen repeatedly suggested that the government was planning to set up roadblocks to force people to get the H1N1 vaccine or tag them with a steel bracelet with a microchip that would indicate that they’d been vaccinated. Anyone who refused, according to Evensen, would be hauled off to a camp [7]. (VN: That is the beauty of the Net, I watch them put up gates right here in my town at the side of the highway for that very reason, what happened is the pandemic never materialized and thus the road blocks could not be justified, but they certainly began using them in California which we published with pics and all)
When none of that happened, Evensen had to make a retraction. But that didn't seem to dampen the demand for his survivalist seminars or radio appearances [8]. And Evensen says that he doesn't claim to be 100 percent accurate. "We're watchmen, if you will," he says, explaining that he just puts information out there for people to assess for themselves. He doesn’t mention that doomsday predictions are good for business: He sells DVDs on "Castle Defense" and other "defensive planning" materials on his website (along with CDs of "Hymns from the Heartland," performed by Evenson himself)—all of which can be purchased with gold in lieu of currency. He says he also offers seminars and survivalist trainings across the country.
For the record, Larry Chambers, a Coast Guard petty officer at the DeepWater Horizon Incident unified area command in Robert, Louisiana, says that he’s never heard of any plans for the government to evacuate the entire Southeastern coast. "That's not going to happen," he says. (But isn't this what you’d expect him to say?)
Chambers explains that the government is making contingency plans to evacuate people in the event of a hurricane—which it has real concerns about because of how heavy winds might affect the clean-up effort, and because of the large numbers of extra personnel in the region working on disaster management. "I can understand why people may even start to think about conspiracies,” Chambers says. “It’s huge. We’ve never dealt with anything like this. People are upset."
As for FEMA, a spokesperson seemed rather perplexed by my questions about whether the agency plans to detain millions of Americans in trailers in Missouri after a mass evacuation. In an email, an agency press secretary named Rachel Racusen wrote, "FEMA continues to support the lead federal agencies for the response to the BP oil spill, the Department of Homeland Security, the Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior. To date that support has included help with staffing needs, as well as coordination and recovery expertise." Evensen might take that as a "yes."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source URL: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/06/bp-oil-spill-fema-camps
Links:
[1] http://shatterthedarkness.gsradio.net:8080/052710.mp3
[2] http://johnkaminski.info/
[3] http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=5857&start=10&sid=f33323f2fb376717c252229d67edbb70&view=print
[4] http://mediamatters.org/research/201005030027
[5] http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers -
[6] http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/gun-activists-take-aim-obamacare
[7] http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=4431 http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/plans-for-vaccine-bracelets-to
[8] http://www.calltodecision.com/ahd.htm
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
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