Whoever missed the first thread,
here's the link.
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KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M
By Katherine Hunt
Last Update: 12:19 PM ET Jan 24, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL: , ), said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.
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Alright. First Bush signed the Presidential Directive which will give him dictatorial powers in case of an emergency. Now he's building facilities which provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities" in case of a "national emergency, such as a natural disaster." This is getting a little...convenient? This, along with his previous directive, have me thinking that Bush and Co. know something that we don't. I thought I couldn't get more worried, but, as this administration has done time and time again, I'm once again shocked by what they're getting away with.
The complete lack of media coverage only aids my point that there's something going on which the Powers That Be don't want Joe Schmo to know about.
Just to add insult to injury (or perhaps just more injury), the entire deal is going to Halliburton, one of the companies which has ties into the White House, and has gained the most profit from this unholy mess they call the Iraq war.
I don't know what else the American people are waiting for. What more do they want? War profiteering is out in the open for all to see. Civil rights are being dismissed in the name of security, yet American remain continue to think, "I haven't been affected yet, so there's no problem." Lies, scandals, stolen elections, all for the public to see if only they were so inclined. What's going on? Is the majority of the population so uneducated that they can't see what's happening? Are we really going to let history repeat itself * ?
Doesn't anyone else smell a conspiracy? Or am I just, once again, a cynic? Isn't anyone else worries by this?
* Jews/Communists = Muslims/Terrorists; Reichstag fire = 9/11 and/or whatever the fuck might happen in the near future; Bush's Patriot Act = Hitler's Enabling Act.