Where we were

Talk of F.E.M.A. camps, coffins, and mass graves is becoming more of a norm in the media than one would care to admit.  But is all this talk just simple conspiracy theory, or is there something else behind the reports, and YouTube videos?  Could it be possible that the US Government is gearing up for something big?

Concentration camps can be found littered throughout the pages of American history.  The Natives suffered the wrath of our young government on more than one occasion within the confines of forced relocation and sanctioned territories.  On December 29, 1835 the Treaty of New Echota was approved by Andrew Jackson, Congress, and a relatively small political party of Cherokee.  The treaty sought to remove the tribe from Georgia and the surrounding area in response to a land dispute over the Indian Removal Act of 1830.  In 1838, Jackson’s successor President Martin Van Buren, ordered that federal troops (consisting of Army personal, militia members, and volunteers) escort approximately 13,000 Cherokee people from their native land to issued Indian Territory (Oklahoma).  This journey took the lives of more than 4000 Cherokee, and is commonly remembered as the Trail of Tears.

From 1917-1918 Hot Springs, North Carolina became the site where German nationals were held on the basis of being suspected “alien enemies.”  On April 6 1917, President Woodrow Wilson announced that the United States would engage in the First World War.  At the time of declaration German ships were docked at American ports, just as German immigrants were waiting on Ellis Island.  With the use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 President Wilson was able to seize and detain crew, cargo, and immigrants.  The Act grants the President, in a time of war, the authority to arrest and detain any and all peoples of “enemy ancestry.”  Thousands of Germans were held in an internment camp on the grounds of the Mountain Park Hotel in Hot Springs North Carolina.

The year was 1942, and by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s stroke of a pen Executive Order 9066 authorized the Secretary of War, and military commanders to setup and control vast regions of American soil.  The subsequent actions led to internment camps and the detainment of over 110,000 Japanese, many of which were legal citizens.  Families were forced to sell what they could or abandon property in order to report to the designated stations within the time allotted.  On March 11, 1942 Executive Order 9095 created the Office of the Alien Property Custodian; this order gave the federal government authority over all alien property and assets. Many accounts were frozen, creating immediate financial difficulty, preventing most from moving out of the zones created under order 9066.  Many Japanese were left with only the clothes on their backs.

George Orwell’s infamous 1984 novel turned blockbuster, did more than spur the public into a hodgepodge of conspiracy theorists.  The date interestingly coincided with a government plan in support of CoG (Continuity of Government) known as Rex 84.  Stated bluntly, CoG could be defined as a means to keep the Federal government running in the course of decapitation of the executive and/or legislative branch(s), use of W.M.D’s (weapons of Mass Destruction) within the US (which could result in decapitation), or civil unrest (revolution).  Rex 84 is but a part of the equation of CoG, and not the entirety.

Diana Reynolds’ article “The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC,” which was published in Covert Action Information Bulletin #33 in the winter of 1990, still stands as the most popular public report on Rex 84.  At the time of publication she was reportedly a Research Associate and Program Director at the Edward R. Murrow Center, The Fletcher School, and Tufts University.  No other information is readily available as to her current whereabouts and/or occupation.

As quoted from said article:

The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan; otherwise known as  a continuity of government plan) indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies, along with other NATO nations, conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense.
The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial law.

Public awareness of Rex 84 and CoG initiatives broke into mainstream during the Iran-Contra scandal and congressional hearings in 1987.  The controversy hit the airwaves when Jack Brooks (D-TX), claimed that he read in Miami papers of a CoG plan that would suspend the Constitution.  Upon delivery of a question to Lt Col. Oliver North pertaining to his knowledge and role in the above-mentioned plan Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) immediately snubbed the inquiry, asking that the topic “not be touched upon at this time.”   The article of which Rep. Brooks was referring to was published on July 5, 1987 in the Miami Herald written by Alfonso Chardy titled, “Reagan Aides and the ‘Secret’ Government.”

Lack of information regarding Rex 84 and CoG operations has led seekers of political history down a rabbit-hole of speculation, theories, and misinformation.  This conundrum is perpetrated through the government’s denial and classification of the facts.  Whereas it is clearly evident that the US Government has built, operated, and detained people in internment camps; is it crazy to think that plans are in place to do so again?  Perhaps a detailed review of current operations and initiatives could clear up the picture.

To Be Continued…