Originally posted by MoonMine
Originally posted by detachedindividual
What would you prefer, massive numbers of rioters and looters armed to the teeth robbing/murdering/raping whoever they find allowed to roam free, or
having them detained in camps because the prison population is overflowing?
This is a very, very dangerous chain of thought you have there my friend.
Who is going to decide who is a rioter and a looter? Or a terrorist?
What would stop the Federales labeling YOU a rioter?
How would you defend yourself?
"What will it be, Peace... or War?"
-Adolf Hitler, while forcing the Enabling Act of 1933 past the Reichstag.
That's my point! That is what you need to be concerned about.
Will you be deemed to be an "insurgent" or "enemy combatant" merely for protesting against your government?
I won't be, because I'm in the UK.
I entirely agree that these camps will be used in a civil unrest scenario. I get that. I don't dispute it.
But, the principal is that they SHOULD be used to detain truly dangerous people, those who will do harm to others for a few $.
They SHOULDN'T be used to detain protesters who wish to gather outside regional government offices and demand that their leaders stand down.
That is the point I am making here.
People need to really decide if these FEMA camps are such a bad idea.
Personally, they're only a bad idea if those being detained have done nothing to require it. That is why I say that this is what you need to focus
on, not the fact that these camps exist, but who will they wish to put in them.