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Clark's Camps for Crises
Every day that passes seems to bring into focus that the conspiracy paranoia might have at least an increased degree of credence. Retired General Wesley Clark, the progressive Bill Clinton pal whose presidential aspiration star exploded while on the rise some time ago because of sexual scandal, has just thrown fuel on that fire of FEMA camp fears.
Clark said the other day during an interview on MSNBC: "If someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.”
He continued, “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.”
This sure seems to diverge significantly from the usual liberal, I mean progressive, course of ideological dogma. The call for such intolerant measures from a lefty of Clark's sort was, I guess we are to presume, generated by the latest murderous rampage in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in which four military personnel died at the scene and another has died since from his wounds.
The governmental, investigators have, apparently after much, much research and soul searching, determined that the attack was a "terrorist" assault. For days, the investigators, thus the White House propaganda minister--I mean spokesman--couldn't say for certain the motive of Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, the gunman of the shootings.
Every other segment of America's populace knew immediately the motive, upon hearing the gunman's name and who was murdered. But the White House communications office personnel and mainstream media hadn't a clue. This confusion was based, as always, on the need to not be too hasty--to not jump to conclusions.
So now, General Clark--in the same ideological camp as the president--has jumped to conclusions and wants concentration camps used. (I say "used" instead of "built" in honor of the conspiracy theory-prone who are certain the FEMA and other such incarceration facilities do exist and have existed for quite some time.
There is a disconnect, it seems at first glance. But, is there, really? Well...I'll have to delve just a bit into the conspiracy mindset to examine the seeming glitch. The glitch or disconnect I mean is that we have an ideology here--the general's and Mr. Obama's--that, in almost every instance of such murderous assaults on America's military personnel--and within America itself at that--refuses to recognize that radical Islam is at the core of the hatred. Yet, now, it is to be presumed, such an ideologue as Wesley Clark wants to put these same Muslim-types in concentration camps. You see the disconnect...
But, the general didn't exactly say that, at least not in any forum I've read or heard.
He said, again: “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.”
And here is where I must entertain thoughts from the many people who have emailed, or with whom I've spoken at conferences or elsewhere. These continue to express fears that the government--at least as the executive branch is currently constituted--is itching for the excuse to make use of the FEMA camp incarceration facilities as soon as a crisis of sufficient magnitude is ginned up in some "false-flag" event or occurrence.
These concerned American citizens holding mindset and ideology that is much the opposite of the ideology the progressives of this administration is foisting on them sense they are possibly facing a future exactly of the sort Wesley Clark envisions. They fear they might, because they oppose the tearing down of American morality and social structure by this government, be considered "radicals," who are "disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle."
These concerned citizens have legitimate reasons to question exactly who the general means in framing his list of disloyal people. The elitists of Clark's and the president's political party have made some rather disturbing remarks that raise red flags.
Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. (The Guardian, "Obama Angers Midwest Voters over Guns and Religion Remark," Ed Pilkington, April 14, 2008).
Here is another such expression of just who might be considered radical and disloyal. The sentiment represents many such rants against those who hold to America's conservative values.
Reporting from Washington — NPR is distancing itself from remarks made by a fund-raising executive who said the American "tea party" movement is comprised of "white, middle-America gun-toting" and "seriously racist, racist" people. In the video, which can be seen on the Web, Schiller also says NPR "would be better off in the long run without federal funding" and that that the tea party is a movement that is "fanatically involved in people's lives," "fundamentalist Christian" and "xenophobic" and that it has "hijacked" the Republican Party. (NPR "appalled’ by Its Executives' ‘Tea Party’ Remarks in Video," Los Angeles Times, James Oliphant, March 8, 2011)
After hearing these kinds of diatribes against middle America spewed by Washington and East and West Coast elitist progressives, it seems it is prudent at the very least to take notice when someone like a Wesley Clark says he wants to place "radicals and those disloyal to America" in concentration-type camps. Words and their definitions are quite important and meaningful--even crucial--as this not-so-transparent Obama government has used the language quite loosely in many, many ways.
I found an article on these matters to be of interest. Here is the link. General Clark Calls for WWII-type Internment Camps for U.S. Citizens General Clark Calls for WWII-type Internment Camps for ... Retired General Wesley Clark wants the government to send thousands of American citizens to internment camps, just as U.S. officials did during World War II. by Ste... View on www.thenewamerican...
A major crisis is shaping, particularly in the arena of national and global economics. But, other developing crises are of equal concern to those who fret over seeing the moral fiber of this once Judeo-Christian-based culture dissolve almost minute by minute.
When the church--all born-again believers in Jesus Christ--leaves the earth's troubled surface, there will be an instantaneous crisis of unprecedented dimension created. God's prophetic Word foretells the ultimate proof that will be required at that post-Rapture moment to demonstrate that one is not "radical" or "disloyal" to the regime.
"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed" (Revelation 13: 15).
There is comfort and assurance to be had in all of this. It is found only in Jesus Christ. Make Him your refuge from the coming time of unrestrained terror on this world that is ripe for judgment.
- Terry James -
