By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
![]() Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla. |
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., has introduced to the House of
Representatives a new bill, H.R. 645, calling for the secretary of
homeland security to establish no fewer than six national emergency
centers for corralling civilians on military installations.
The proposed bill, which has received little mainstream media
attention, appears designed to create the type of detention center that
those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear
could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as
occurred in Nazi Germany.
The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power,
much as the executive order signed by President Bush on May 9, 2007,
that – as WND reported
– gave the president the authority to declare an emergency and take
over the direction of all federal, state, local, territorial and tribal
governments without even consulting Congress.
As WND also reported,
DHS has awarded a $385 million contract to Houston-based KBR,
Halliburton's former engineering and construction subsidiary, to build
temporary detention centers on an "as-needed" basis in national
emergency situations. MORE….