Homeless? Lost everything? How'd you like to spend 5 months here?

[mr blur]

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html

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I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp

I'm extremely depressed to report that things seem to only be getting sadder concerning the people so devastatingly affected by Katrina last week. Two car loads of us headed over to Falls Creek, a youth camp for Southern Baptist churches in Oklahoma that agreed to have its facilities used to house Louisiana refugees. I'm afraid the camp is not going to be used as the kind people of the churches who own the cabins believe it was going to be used.

Jesse Jackson was right when he said "refugees" was not the appropriate word for the poor souls dislocated due to Katrina. But he was wrong about why it is not appropriate. It's not appropriate because they are detainees, not refugees.

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[Boomer]

1. Chilling.

Absolutely chilling.

[ewagner]

2. Whoa!

Some of this I understand but I am still flabbergasted by the FEMA paranoia...and type-casting of the "type" of people they were expecting.

This is getting scary!

[cally]

3. This report finally put me over the edge

I just feel so hopeless. Why is the US treeting citizens like criminals? (I know the answer but I'm shocked.)

[ohio_liberal]

5. It's because they're black and poor

That's all there is to it.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. It isn't a "report"

It's some shit that some dickhead on AboveTopSecret said, and even half of the crackpots on *that* board don't believe a word of it. Use some common sense, please.

[ohio_liberal]

4. This kind of shit is going to cause major problems

You can't detain people for 5 months in the middle of nowhere. There ARE going to be riots, and it's not going to be over 10 apples.

[gollygee]

7. abovetopsecret.com?

If that is true, then I'm disgusted and astonished. But I'm going to have trouble believing anything from that website.

[JHB]

8. Anyone else see a self-fulfilling prophecy?

The "hosts" have obviously trained to keep a tight reign on things, and there is a level of justification for that, since perceived "favoritism" in such a closed environment can create the sort of tensions that one can point to as contributing factors to various riots in the past.

But my spidey-sense is tingling that they're going to keep up this "worst case scenario" attitude for too long, and create the very conditions that they've been "trained" to avoid.

For Gosh Sakes, let the church groups in and let these people interact with people who don't double as "the guards".

[tgnyc]

9. Holy shit