A discussion of involuntary incarceration seems appropriate at this point, as Israel continues to bombard the Palestinians who are in effect their prisoners. In 2006, Israeli senior official Giaora Eiland described Gaza as a “huge concentration camp.” That’s not a “conspiracy theorist” saying it- it’s one of our beloved allies.
That same year, 2006, a much ballyhooed election was held on the West Bank in Gaza. The Americans, under the great Dubya Bush, pushed for such an election, and called it “democracy promotion.” However, as often happens, “democracy” didn’t go the way they wanted, as the dreaded bogeyman Hamas won the election. Even Jimmy Carter gave his imprimatur, declaring that it was “honest and fair.” Except that the “wrong” people won. Can’t have that in a “democracy.” So the forces of freedom, meaning America and Israel, instituted one of their notorious blockades on Gaza in retaliation. Israel has the right to defend itself against a vote! But as with the murderous embargo of Iraq, it was “worth it.” It’s a “democracy” thing, you wouldn’t understand.
Something similar happened in the 1980s, when demonized Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos won an election, overseen by international observers. Including the vaunted Jimmy Carter, who is something of an election specialist it seems. Despite no credible evidence of fraud, the U.S. simply captured Marcos and whisked him away, then installed puppet Cory Aquino in power. Imelda Marcos barely had time to collect her thousands of shoes. Elections aren’t sacrosanct if those running them don’t like the results. Even the “most safe and secure” election in history, in 2020, was questioned by many. Well, probably 100 million or so. Those “threats” to democracy were imprisoned. Some are still being prosecuted.
We hear a lot about the Nazi death camps. That’s what they call them. Or maybe the extermination camps. I won’t delve into that here, other than to say that we ought to be able to question everything. But for a much longer period of time, the Soviets and the communist Chinese had their gulags. Mainstream estimates state that Mao’s Red China incarcerated some fifty million over a period of eighty years, with twenty million dying. But for some reason, there has never been a single Hollywood film chronicling that particular holocaust. Again, according to official sources, twenty million or more Russians perished during the reign of Joe Stalin alone. You know, our loyal ally from the “Good War.” Uncle Joe. And no movies about that, either.
And, at the same time as Auschwitz and Dachau, we set up internment camps here in the good old U.S.A. Most people think that only Japanese-Americans were forcibly sent to these camps, which unlike all others around the world were for their own good. Totally ignored were, and continue to be, the German-Americans and Italian-Americans who also lost their freedom in a country that was bragging about fighting for it. And no reparations were ever paid to their families. As I will chronicle in my upcoming book The American Memory Hole, at least a billion dollars worth of German and Japanese businesses was confiscated by the U.S. government. So was all their personal property, including their homes. And they were never compensated.
The Japanese themselves ran concentration camps in several countries, including China, Formosa, and the Philippines. Supposedly brutal medical experiments were conducted within them, but unlike the supposedly brutal medical experiments of the Nazis, Hollywood (and the court historians) have shown a decided lack of curiosity about the subject. The lordly judges at Nuremberg, where the vanquished was tried in court by the victors for the first time in world history, showed little interest at all in the Japanese and any perceived war crimes. It was all Nazi, all the time, as it still is. And yet they were so sneaky, what with the Pearl Harbor psyop and all.
America has a long history with concentration camps. After Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, tens of thousands of various native tribes were forced from their homes into prison camps in Alabama and Tennessee. Thousands died there, and also on the infamous “Trail of Tears,” a march of some thousand miles. Jackson, a genuine hero in fighting the bankers, nevertheless called this brutality “benevolent.” U.S. leaders love to do this kind of thing. Witness their continued affinity for “democracy,” as they punish dissenters for “threatening” it. In 1862, Governor Alexander Ramsey declared, “The Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state.”
I wrote extensively about the incarceration of northern dissenters during the Civil War, by Abraham Lincoln, the secular saint of our “democracy,” in Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963. Untold thousands of citizens were arrested by soldiers, some in the middle of the night, some at church, without charges. Honest Abe had suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, after all. When the Supreme Court ruled this unconstitutional, he threatened to arrest the Chief Justice. He had to. What else was he to do, when the “union” was threatened by “free” citizens who no longer wanted to be a part of it? Sure, there was that whole “consent of the governed” thing, but there was an insurrection going on. Just like in 2020. Ask Joe Biden about it.
One could argue that the Reservations the surviving American Indians were herded onto are in effect open air concentration camps. Very similar to what we see today on the West Bank, minus the relentless bombing of civilians and bulldozing of homes. It never ceases to amaze me how Native Americans are so ignored within our midst. It sure seems like Apartheid to me, but what do I know? I can’t stress enough that I’m a mere community college dropout. Why is assimilation with the population not encouraged for this particular group? Where are all the interracial Native American-glistening White couples on television commercials? The local Native American news anchors? No more great Indian athletes after Jim Thorpe, perhaps the greatest of all?
The concentration camps for German-Americans during World War I have been totally forgotten, by the court historians, and the historically illiterate American public. Seems like great fodder for drama; a play or movie with sympathetic, loyal American citizens, spat on and called racial epithets like “kraut” by drooling fellow Whites. But alas, Hollywood has bigger fish to fry. Nonwhite Snow White, Black Little Mermaids, and the like. We know what happened during World War II, but in 1950, the Subversive Activities Control Act created six concentration camps, meant for communists, peace activists, civil rights leaders, etc. However, they were closed without ever being used. Kind of like those makeshift hospitals for COVID.
The U.S. set up concentration camp for peasants in Vietnam. And the “War on Terror,” declared by the U.S. after the obvious “inside job” of 9/11, resulted in atrocities at military prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Most of the men and boys incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay were admittedly innocent. They were simply held as political prisoners and often tortured for information. Some were held without charges for as long as seventeen years. We all saw the photos of the naked males piled on top of each other, some with that pretty female U.S. soldier smiling and pointing at their genitals. War is Hell, as war criminal William Sherman said. And never let us forget that they hate us for our freedom that isn’t free.
They set up those FEMA camps for some reason, under “REX 84.” All of us have speculated on how they’ll perhaps be utilized when the corrupt elite finally drop all pretenses and openly demonstrate their satanic savagery. I’ve joked that I would love to meet all of those who have contacted me, especially the ones who’ve become friends, but live far away. But I don’t want it to be in the FEMA camps. Which is all too frighteningly possible. I am under no illusions that my extended family or real life friends would hesitate to turn me into the authorities as a hopeless Thought Criminal. They wouldn’t have to offer them much incentive. A free Starbucks coupon would probably work. Everyone has their price.
