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   From: oO@oO.com   
      
   Dachau's 73rd "Grand Anniversary" Celebrated   
      
   Feds Schedule $385 Million Concentration Camp To Be Built By Halliburton   
   Subsidiary   
      
      
   By CLANCY SIGAL   
      
   I am not one of the "Hitler is here!" crowd. From personal experience of   
   federal-and-local harassment, threats of jail, being run off the road by J.   
   Edgar's hotrodders, blacklisting from jobs and a long look at my FBI file,   
   where I'm listed as a lefthanded, lisping incendiary leader of a mysterious   
   Red 'Cell With No Name' alias the 'Omega cell' (I'm not kidding), I have   
   felt the heavy hand of the ignoramus on my shoulder. Even unto emigration to   
   Britain where, at one time, I enjoyed the attention of Scotland Yard,   
   Special Branch, MI5, U.S. army counter-intelligence, CIA, and U.S. naval   
   intelligence--all at the same time, stumbling over each other as in an   
   Inspector Clouseau movie.   
      
   So you get hardened. Shrug it off. Resist paranoia. Fill your wallet with   
   the telephone numbers of lawyers. And wait for something to happen when   
   nothing actually does, at least to you.   
      
   Then your eye falls on a barely-noticed article in a local Southern   
   California newspaper. You call the reporter, and he guides you to his   
   reputable source. And the stomach-tickling fears start all over again,   
   especially when--coincidentally--a Germanophile friend researching in the   
   archives digs up the following from a Munich newspaper dated 1933.   
      
   First, the American news item:   
      
     The federal government has awarded a $385 million contract for the   
   construction of 'temporary detention facilities' inside the United States as   
   part of the Immigration Service's Detention and Removal Program. The   
   contract was given to Kellogg, Root & Brown, a subsidiary of Halliburton.   
   The camps would be used in the event of an "emergency", said Jamie Zuieback,   
   an Immigration service official.   
      
   The following article appeared in a Munich newspaper in 1933 to mark the   
   "grand opening" of Dachau, Germany's first concentration camp. This month   
   marks the 73d anniversary:   
      
     Münchner Neueste Nachrichten,   
      
     Tuesday, March 21, 1933   
      
     A Concentration Camp for Political Prisoners in the Dachau Area   
      
     In a statement to the press, Himmler, Munich's Chief of Police announced:   
      
     On Wednesday the first concentration camp will be opened near Dachau. It   
   has a capacity of 5000 people. Here, all communist and-so far as is   
   necessary- Reichsbanner and Marxist officials, who endanger the security of   
   the state, will be assembled. In the long run, if government administration   
   is not to be very burdened, it is not possible to allow individual communist   
   officials to remain in court custody. On the other hand, it is also not   
   possible to allow these officials their freedom again. Each time we have   
   attempted this, the result was that they again tried to agitate and   
   organize. We have taken these measures without concern for each pedantic   
   objection encountered, in the conviction that we act to calm the concerns of   
   the nation's people, and in accordance with their aims.   
      
     Himmler gave assurance that in each individual case, preventive custody   
   will not be maintained longer than necessary. It is obvious, however, that   
   the astonishingly large quantity of material evidence seized will take a   
   long time to be examined. This police will only be delayed, if they are   
   continually asked when this or that person in preventive custody will be   
   released. The incorrectness of rumors frequently spread regarding the   
   treatment of prisoners is shown by the fact that for those prisoners who   
   requested it, for example, Dr. Gerlich and Frhr. v. Aretin, counseling by   
   priests is supported and approved without hesitation.   
      
   Note: Himmler's reference to the 'Reichsbanner' is to a Social Democratic   
   group, formed to oppose Hitler's 1923 attempted putsch, that evolved into a   
   fairly ordinary get-together society. The 'Dr Gerlich' mentioned at the end   
   (who was permitted to see a priest) was a devout Christian anti-Nazi shot by   
   the Gestapo at Dachau in 1934, his body burned. His widow refused his ashes.   
      
   Clancy Sigal's memoir of his mother, A Woman of Uncertain Character (The   
   Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be   
   a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son will be published by Carroll &   
   Graf, $25, this coming Mother's' Day, May 14. His Zone Of The Interior is   
   finally being published in the UK, by Pomona at £9.99. In May Sigal can be   
   reached at clancy@jsasoc.com.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)