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The Government has built hundreds of internment camps throughout the country. The cover is that they are for illegal alliens.

They are for everyone.

The feathered fucktard is carrying the government's water, again.

Simply chilling. There have been so many signs of going in this direction. This is a courageous piece, Stephen Lemons, and once again you are the public a service. It's chilling!

correction on above:

Stephen Lemons, you are doing the public a great service. It's time for people of Arizona to wake up and take action! Everyone thinks it's not about them -- it's about the people they don't like. They better think again.

You sure won't read about this anywhere else in Arizona except the New Times. Keep up the great work in informing the people of Arizona! You are courageous, Stephen Lemons. Ignorance prevails here. It's time people get informed and flip the switch on those who promote what appears to be a form of ethnic cleansing. How sad.

I'm not certain these documents make reference, explicitly speaking, to removal of all illegal aliens. They do refer to removal of "fugitive aliens", defined therein as "individuals who have unexecuted final orders of removal from the Executive Office for Immigration Review".

Of course, the difference between illegal aliens and fugitive aliens is a slim one: it merely consists of that slip of paper (or electronic record) issued by EOIR, naming particular individuals in a "final order of removal"; so in a sense Mr. Lemons is perfectly correct to refer to plans to remove all illegal aliens this way, since in the absence of amnesty or other considerations a final order of removal is merely a matter of time for anyone known to be (or discoverable as) an illegal alien.

One document mentions that "As of August 2006, the Office of Detention and Removal Operations estimated there were 623,292 fugitive aliens in the United States", a number which they state was growing every year due to the inadequate resources (e.g., insufficient number of fugitive teams) devoted to the problem.

Certainly, as Mr. Lemons points out, the use of local law enforcement would be a way to add vast manpower and other resources without a corresponding need for federal authorizations and funding.

The same document -- dated March of 2007 -- states that "in its Detention and Deportation Officer’s Field Manual, dated
August 2003, the Office of Detention and Removal Operations stated a more
aggressive goal for the program: 'The intended goal of this manual is the
elimination of backlog fugitive … cases by the conclusion of fiscal year 2009.'"

It then goes on to add: "Whether by 2009 or 2012, apprehending and removing fugitive aliens and ensuring that final orders of removal are executed are clearly priorities for the Office of Detention and Removal Operations."

http://www.aclum.org/pdf/ICE_Fugitive_Operations_Assessment.pdf

So, apparently the intent extended well beyond 2003 (i.e., at least through March of 2007), and since *this* document is still available from its original source (see hyperlink below), it may well continue to reflect assumptions and priorities harbored at certain levels or by certain sections of the bureaucracy.

http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_07-34_Mar07.pdf

The use of corporate management at such facilities raises questions of accountability, since it is unclear whether and to what extent private companies operating under contract to federal authorities are hampered by federal rules and regulations, or (in the case of illegal aliens) constitutional considerations.

Presumably they would wish to avoid civil lawsuits, whether from illegal aliens or, if they lacked the legal standing, from groups like the ACLU acting on their behalf: and yet we find time and again (witness Uncle Joe's Gulag Maricopa) that the principle of "rational self-interest" is not always enough to prevent (or even reign in, after the fact) gross abuses of authority.

The question of rational self-interest must obviously take into account not only irrationality on the part of those involved, but also conflicting factors. We are all familiar with stories about motor vehicle companies who resisted basic safety improvements because their cost analysis indicated that implementing such improvements was more expensive than payments of the judgments from civil lawsuits (often reduced by appeals judges) brought against them. In the present case, political considerations may also influence judgment.

As for the idea that such plans are being drawn up with an ulterior motive (i.e., government camps for political prisoners to be used under emergency executive orders), there is absolutely nothing to indicate this.

At the same time, regardless of intent, it should be recognized that the creation of a network of special detention camps for illegal aliens establishes a (potentially) dual-use infrastructure. That is, it could easily be adapted to other purposes (unlike conventional prison facilities or military bases, both of which present logistical and political problems for alternative use). Such camps isolate their detainees from the general population in ways that ordinary jails do not. So, civil libertarians ready to throw illegal aliens to the wolves should think twice about the mechanics and authorizations involved.

After all, the influx of illegal aliens will continue as long as economic and other factors make it attractive. The idea that, once deported, the presence of illegals is a solved problem, is naive, since many of those deported will simply re-enter; and many never deported will continue to enter.

So what we are really talking about is the more or less permanent establishment of a new bureaucratic and penal structure, managed by private corporations and run on the enforcement end by federal, state, county, and local police institutions (provided they can all be brought on board), working together under federal control.

And of course, in order to meet the vast and continuing need to find and apprehend all of these revolving door fugitives, they will develop their "C4I" systems and procedures: "Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence".

Again, it should be understood that such an apparatus is potentially dual-use regardless of current intent. If it can be used to identify, locate, surveil and arrest persons whose deportation orders have not been executed -- a large and heterogeneous group, many with no criminal background and no firmly known whereabouts -- then it can potentially be adapted for use in any generally similar circumstance.

Abrogations of civil rights, even for supposedly temporary and specialized purposes, should be regarded with suspicion by those who value personal liberty.

I heard from "some people" that the current civil war involvement in Iraq is but a war-game for U.S. Troops who will come home all rough and ready for a coup and subsequent pacification of the U.S. populace, not just undocumented immigrants. That George W. Bush would follow his grandfather Prescott Bush's footsteps in planning a coup against the people of the United States should not seem surpising since he arranged a coup at the beginning of his presidency to get elected in the first place. The Supremes were part of that "consipiracy" as well as the Florida Republican party. Truth is stranger than fiction.

I know that Operation Endgameis real; I downloaded my copy of directly from the DHS Webpage. Shortly thereafter, they took it off the web.

We are uniquly situated here in Maricopa. If Arpaios actions are percieved as unsucsessful or politically unpallatable, that could have ripple effects across the entire nation. If he is viewed as a success, it will just spread from here. Immigrants rights activists across the nation are counting on us to draw a line in the sand.

Game on.

How many times do you need to "Thank You" the Feathered Bastard on every article? I'm sure Lemons got the message. In fact, I'm always looking forward to his articles. And this one is quite possibly the creepiest story I ever read from the F-Bastard in recent times.

But again, I'm lost because, I want the border and immigration laws enforced. But I don't want the Pro-White agenda to take hold. White Extremists are just as much of a serious problem as Illegal Aliens in this Nation.

So if the "Endgame" isn't only about detaining illegal aliens, then they're also going after folks like Dennis Gilman and other pro-open border activists types that the endgamers see as a threat to our National Homeland Security.

Realistically, that tactic of apprehending every American Activists just won't help their cause, simply because there's virtually no way in hell that they can detain every American citizen and their friends/supporter/families and their firends etc, etc. And not to mentioned the millions of Illegal Aliens. Just doesn't add up.
Somebody`s was fucking dreaming when they wrote the original endgame docs.

The Country will backfire and lead to civil war, in which our foreign enemies wish to see happened.

Which is why we need to eradicate the White Supremacists and Criminal Aliens.

What's a matter Feathered Fuckhead, afraid that you won't get any ACLU or SPLC goodies if you report the truth?

The Government encouraged the illegals to come.

The Government shut down all interior enforcement for the last 10 years

The Government allows millions to cross the border

Yet the Feathered Fucknut wants you to believe the camps are for the illegals?!

See what he is doing is propagating a lie that will cause some people to support camps (anti-illegals) and others to support expansion of the camps for non-illegals.

Its all bull shit.

Michael Chertoff is the same type of criminal that ran the Gulags in the Soviet Union.

Homeland security contracted with the Head of the KGB and the Stasi to consult in setting up Homeland Security, the Camps are for everyone.

(1) Typo alert: that should have read "rein" not reign. Sigh.

(2) U.S. involvement in Iraq cannot be training for domestic insurgency operations since in the absence of any such insurgency it would be difficult to convince U.S. troops to act against U.S. citizens.

(3) It's difficult to see who among the U.S. population the U.S. Government would need to target by means of systematic round-ups and detention in concentration camps. Certainly not pro-immigration activists or lefties (or, for that matter, their political opposites). There is no organized, significant radical movement in the United States which poses a threat now or could pose one even in the event of dire economic developments and the chaos which followed. This is not the Great Depression or the Cold War, and neither Communist nor neo-Nazi parties have any power or presence to speak of today: both organizationally and in terms of popular support such movements are impotent.

(4) Any pretext for the wholesale suspension of constitutional rights (e.g., habeas corpus, rounding up of large segments of the general population) would have to involve events whose seriousness eclipses anything so-far occurring. Isolated attacks, however destructive (e.g., Murrah Building or World Trade Center), have not been capable of justifying this.

(5) Since the Judiciary branch of government would likely oppose such actions, their support would either need to be obtained by special means or else eliminated by special means; or, military and police commanders would need to be adequately convinced of the need to take such actions despite the opposition of (say) the U.S. Supreme Court. That would all be difficult.

(6) In order to be successful, the government would need to be able to make its propaganda line convincing to most of the population (actually, to most of the so-called opinion-makers, since they are the ones who convince the population at large via newspapers, magazines, television and radio). It's difficult in a non-totalitarian society for the government to control mass media with sufficient breadth and consistency to be able to do this, in the case of extraordinary domestic actions which are witnessed by large numbers of U.S. citizens (many with access to the Internet as well, though it's easier to shut that down than the distributed organs of the conventional mass media).

(7) Assuming for the sake of argument that sufficient pretext existed and that mass media and the army could by one means or another be brought into line, it wouldn't be necessary to provoke civil war or large-scale insurgency.

Most U.S. citizens, with a relatively comfortable lifestyle, nothing beyond small arms, no combat, law-enforcement or underground resistance experience, and no organizing experience, faced with the prospect of bloody combat against well-armed, organized, and experienced police and soldiers, whether on behalf of a minority of their neighbors or for the sake of the abstract concept of civil liberties, would find the prospect daunting. The few that did not would (in their general failure) set an example to further deter the rest.

If most people felt (rightly or wrongly) that they were immune personally, while at the same time they were being given explanations by authority figures in government and media that, even if not fully convincing, engendered doubt, they might well stand by and permit it to happen. By the time they figured out that the government was eliminating its opposition (and the potential for effective opposition) piecemeal, it might well be too late to do anything about it.

None of this makes for a convincing theory of authoritarian crackdown -- of the conventional variety -- unless some very exceptional events occur.

One way that might happen is if, for one reason or another, things got so bad that the populace was ready to give away (what was left of) their civil liberties to a strong-man claiming to be able to restore order and standards of living.

A more plausible scenario is the gradual erosion of civil liberties, together with the creation of a surveillance society (using private and government agencies), and the gradual consolidation of media control. Then, in the event of serious national problems (e.g., economic collapse) the infrastructure of tyranny is there to support opportunism. Or, instead of conventional fascism a kind of "friendly fascism" of the sort written about by Bertram Gross.

There are some legitimate concerns regarding the extent to which we allow "privatization" arguments to allow those duties that really are better performed by government to be taking over by the private sector. Running jails may be one of them. Fighting wars and maintaining the peace is another. Letting corporate profits take precedence over the public good has led to fascism in the past and it may well again.

It sure looks that way.

You folks need to get out more often, get some fresh air and let some sun hit that ghostly pale skin of yours.

Conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories ?

Perhaps its wise for the Government to built these special prisons designed specifically for "criminal aliens"of foriegn decent, since they make up some unknown amounts of the general prison population. Because if we throw in extra criminal aliens into the general prison system, that could mean disaster for the White Aryan Brotherhood who`ll have to fight more Mexicans and Blacks which will eventually lead to their genocide in their prison population.
This way, it will instill fear into the White Criminals who are still free at this minute and to those who wish to become criminals will have to fight harder in prison with those extra Brown Criminals. And that's a good message. This way, the Neo-Nazis will think twice before commiting hate-crimes and acts of evil!!

Which is why, it could be one reason for the U.S. Government to create a separate prison system for the illegal aliens, who do not speak our language and understand our American culture. In order to preserve the remaining but nearly extinct Aryan Brotherhood and White Supremacists of the general prison population?

Watch this shit. It is disgusting how we, as a Nation, disregard Human Righs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khxz0kVjyOI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOIhc_oCSX4

Ya- Game on.

and your point is............?

Ammo prices are going up to. Scared that I don't have enough.

Nazi germany all over again....

Nazi Germany all over again....

Nazi Germany all over again....

When we've got a government and a party that insists the President actually is the king; that defies the rule of law on a daily basis; that politicized the Justice Department, for Pete's sake; that swore to defend and uphold the Constitution but instead has undermined it at every turn, tell me what's so tin-hat about doubting that the intent is to get rid of illegal immigrants all constitutional-like?

I'd rather be deeply skeptical and not a little alarmed than comfy-cosy with the the plan and the people who came up with it than sanguine and doubtful that our precious government can't possibly be corrupted to this degree. Nonsense. Unaccountable corruption has been the logo of this administration. We still have no idea where all the billions are going in Iraq and on the US Gulf Coast.

Put the president's personal mercenary army; the militant "fundamental Christianization" of the military academies and the forces in Iraq (according to testimony yesterday on Thom Hartmann's program); the unprecedented expansion of illegal spy powers without court supervision; the deliberate policy a nd propaganda confounding of Liberal and Leftist and civil protest with "treason"; a totally propagandized Pentagon; and the privatization of prisons (meaning their utter lack of accountability), and you come out with something that sure ain't "American" in any sense I've ever understood.

It stinks to high heaven, and we're damned fools if we don't protest the police-state harassment, detention, and disappearance of Latinos in our county. They aren't the problem in the first place. (The target for those concerned with immigration is the corrupt dans macabre of US bidness and our INS for lo these many decades, not the people lured here by that corrupt pact.) Even if they were the problem, we have artifacts of civilization like Due Process and a Bill of Rights.

If it can happen to them, it can happen to us.

When we've got a government and a party that insists the President actually is the king; that defies the rule of law on a daily basis; that politicized the Justice Department, for Pete's sake; that swore to defend and uphold the Constitution but instead has undermined it at every turn, tell me what's so tin-hat about doubting that the intent is to get rid of illegal immigrants all constitutional-like?

I'd rather be deeply skeptical and not a little alarmed than comfy-cosy with the the plan and the people who came up with it than sanguine and doubtful that our precious government can't possibly be corrupted to this degree. Nonsense. Unaccountable corruption has been the logo of this administration. We still have no idea where all the billions are going in Iraq and on the US Gulf Coast.

Put the president's personal mercenary army; the militant "fundamental Christianization" of the military academies and the forces in Iraq (according to testimony yesterday on Thom Hartmann's program); the unprecedented expansion of illegal spy powers without court supervision; the deliberate policy a nd propaganda confounding of Liberal and Leftist and civil protest with "treason"; a totally propagandized Pentagon; and the privatization of prisons (meaning their utter lack of accountability), and you come out with something that sure ain't "American" in any sense I've ever understood.

It stinks to high heaven, and we're damned fools if we don't protest the police-state harassment, detention, and disappearance of Latinos in our county. They aren't the problem in the first place. (The target for those concerned with immigration is the corrupt dans macabre of US bidness and our INS for lo these many decades, not the people lured here by that corrupt pact.) Even if they were the problem, we have artifacts of civilization like Due Process and a Bill of Rights.

If it can happen to them, it can happen to us.

Pico de Gallo -- you're right on!

Seeking Political Asylum ? Really? That's like coming home to find burglars in your home and the "authorities referring to them as first time home seekers.

Breaking and entering is a criminal offense.

Why did they come up with such a lame old school title as "Endgame" as to referring to the round-ups of criminal aliens? This title sounded much like a Cold War era stand-off between the U.S. and the USSR to see who blinks first.
Its the 21st century, not the 20th century.
Besides if its some kind of a game, then surely they won't win it by 2012. We have criminal aliens from China, Asia, Middle East, Somalia, Africa and Eastern Euro-trash, than just Mexicans from the south that needs to be rounded-up.

When HSA came for the terrorists,
I remained silent;
I was not a terrorist.

When they locked up the undocumented workers,
I remained silent;
I was not an "Illegal".

When they came for the protesters,
I did not speak out;
I was not engaged in protest.

When they came for the militants,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a militant.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

Adapted from Pastor Martin Niemöller's Poem:

"First they came.."

(1892–1984)
----------------------------

Thanks for cracking the story for real- this BS has been speculated over since the inception of "Homeland Security". I remember the models for their internal checkpoints to work alongside the national ID program- those with RFID "Real ID's" can pass through as their biometrics are being sent to the checkpoint.

The infrastructure is already there. The citizen internment camps are there. When will America get off its fat ass? You want an honest answer? Never. Better gather your companeros, your comrades, you homies, etc. and learn some survival skills- because honestly if you want to live free, you are going to live illegally. (You know the old adage- "when freedom is outlawed, only the outlaws will be free"

The proto-fascists are circling like hungry sharks, and all we can do is day "Oh well- I don't break the law- therefor I have nothing to worry about. Go ahead and take my retina scan. Go ahead and take my DNA. Take my freedom of movement- do the patriotic thing- resist these injustices and help spread peace.

Mo, you nailed it.

So: To all you pony-tailed, fanny-packed, pot-bellied Right-wing "Pa-trits" out there: Where were YOU the day Homeland Security took America's rights away?

I'll tell you. You were curled up with your Pabst Blue Ribbons in your RVs, scratching your nads and pecking out hate mails about Jane Fonda. You were lockin' and loadin' on a bunch of unarmed short little brown men, women, and children just trying to get a job. You were bitching about "lawbreakers" when you just can't wait to get up in the morning and slap your live-in GF from here to Mobile, and you haven't paid your child support in 15 years.

For all your talk about survival skills, you haven't looked at the real terrain in 40 years, and apparently wouldn't know when you're being run like pigs at a state fair if your lives depended on it.

There's REAL information out there and it's not on Fox News. While you're trying to find some 10-W--40 for your pretend-like Harley,
this Bush GOP administration has used you like tools to destroy your own living standards AND destroy your civil rights.

You know why? Because when we all live under the same set of laws, there's no such thing as just my end of this boat sinking.

So shut up about your "patriotism." It takes brains, guts, and like Paul Revere said, current and accurate information, to be a patriot. You're missing two out of three.

Pico de Gallo,

You fucking moron. The party in power is the Democrats that hold the house AND the senate...

You know what that SHOULD tell you...

There isn't a difference, so blabing on about the party in power, and acting as if Obomba is going to come in and save the day, get a fucking clue.

There are very very BAD men behind the scenes of both parties and they have no morals about killing Millions of people...

They are the same people that funded and supported Hitler

They are the same people that funded and supported the communists

And they are building DEATH CAMPS

and as long as you keep buying this Fat Fucking idiots SPLC /ADL BULLSHIT about how these camps are for illegals you might as well just apply for a job at the camps themselves...

Informed People have known for Decades about the Camps, it is a plan called REX 84 for Continuity of Government...

But Disinfo agents like the Feathered Fucknut has been pushing the Bullshit that everyone is a conspiracy theorist who believes that. And now that these plans are becomming active, he is going to push the Disinfo line that this is for illegals...

I guarantee that after the camps become active for illegals, the Governmnet will stage a false flag even to blame on American just as they Did in the OKC Bombing... That is why this column is nothing but ADL /SPLC propaganda about white supremacists and hate groups.

Fuck you feathered fucktard

Pico de Gallo,

Jerry Lewis called. Great news, you're in the running for poster child again this year.

mo and pico have summarized our predicament quite tidily. I find myself constantly perplexed by those who define "patriotism" in terms of mobilizing resentments against the external or alien menace du jour -- while the government ruling us demolishes every legal and institutional safeguard for the individual liberties that once defined America(albeit in an aspirational sense).

Some of my erstwhile professional colleagues in a patriot organization that shall (in this instance) remain nameless told me a few years ago that it was more important to close the border than to fight the police state that is coalescing around us: They literally defined "victory" in the "freedom fight" to be a police state within secure borders. You know, like North Korea.

Well, it appears the Natavists are silenced these days, rendering them speechless. It tells us its an indication of their utter retreat back into their glory holes where they belong.

None of them are effective at telling the truth.

Only to regurgitate all kinds of wached shit like that one above.

Affirmative Action and Hate Crimes Bill among other forms of weaponery to strip the power from that White Power agenda is quite possibly the greatest thing that ever happened since the voting rights for all Americans including women.

If Kristen Sinema`s proposal to add Minutemen as a "Homegrown Domestic Terrorist" group list, that itself would be another story.

Now we need to wait and see if the Natavist`s supposedly dubious "recall" efforts on Phil Gordon is in any way, shape or form, having any hint of impact, which it isn't. That's another disaster for a self-inflicted wound for the Natavists. This move alone is suicidal which is probably why the President of ACU wish to distanced himself from the likes of bigots that all of us are familiar with.

Neo-Cons and their Tin Foil Hatters believe in all kinds of shit thrown at them, notoriously Karen Johnson(R-Mesa).
Its pure comedy! Lol.

Will the person who thinks that CCA and its industry cohorts (especially GEO Group) had nothing to do with actually helping to craft the policy that puts tens of thousands of dish washers, roofers, fruit pickers and bed makers into their prisons please stand up and take a bow? They're just the sort of citizen Dubya wants more of.

Frank, you are right on! Understand the Bush family has ties to the concessions. Someone needs to spell out the profiteers in CCA and GEO. From what we hear, it's all about head count. People are treated as commodities with numbers and they are including more and more of our people -- it's disgraceful.

Article from Prison Legal News:

Immigration

National: Suit filed against immigration detention.
Immigrants Challenge U.S. System of Detention

By NINA BERNSTEIN

Published: May 1, 2008

Immigrants who spent time in detention while fighting deportation filed a federal suit on Wednesday against Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, demanding that the agency issue legally enforceable regulations for its detention centers.

No enforceable standards now exist for the immigrant detention system, a rapidly growing conglomeration of county jails, federal centers and privately run prisons across the country.

The lawsuit, filed by the immigrants and their advocates in United States District Court in Manhattan, contends that the lack of such regulations puts hundreds of thousands of people a year in substandard and inconsistent conditions while the government decides whether to deport them, leaving them subject to inadequate medical care and abuse.

The suit is based on the Administrative Procedures Act, which allows courts to force agencies to respond to rulemaking petitions. In January 2007, the plaintiffs filed a petition requesting that Homeland Security make its detention standards enforceable, but have received no response.

Homeland Security is one of the largest jailers in the world, “but it behaves like a lawless local sheriff,” said Paromita Shah, associate director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, one of the plaintiffs in the suit. ...

www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/nyregion/01detain.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Paul Wright & Tara Herivel

This is the third and latest book in a series of Prison Legal News anthologies that examines the reality of mass imprisonment in America. [The other two titles are The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the US Prison Industry and Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor, both available from PLN].

Prison Profiteers is unique from other books on the market because it exposes and discusses who profits and benefits from mass imprisonment, rather than who is harmed by it and how. Why is sentencing reform dead on arrival in every state legislature and congress? What is the biggest transfer of public wealth into private hands in recent history? Read Prison Profiteers and you will know! Hint: It has to do with prisons.

Positive: With the baby boomlet demographics, we foresee increasing demand for juvenile [incarceration] services. Negative: . . . it is often difficult to maintain the occupancy rates required for profitability.
—FROM A REPORT PRODUCED FOR THE PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRY BY INVESTMENT ANALYSTS FIRST ANALYSIS SECURITIES CORPORATION

Locking up 2.3 million people isn’t cheap. Each year federal, state, and local governments spend over $185 billion annually in tax dollars to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. Prison Profiteers looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches, guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals that benefit from this country’s experiment with mass imprisonment. It lets us follow the money from public to private hands and exposes how monies formerly designated for the public good are diverted to prisons and their maintenance. Find out where your tax dollars are going as you help to bankroll the biggest prison machine the world has ever seen.

Contributors include: Judy Greene on private prison giants Geo (formerly Wackenhut) and CCA; Anne-Marie Cusac on who sells electronic weapons to prison guards; Wil S. Hylton on the largest prison health care provider; Ian Urbina on how prison labor supports the military; Kirsten Levingston on the privatization of public defense; Jennifer Gonnerman on the costs to neighborhoods from which prisoners are removed; Kevin Pranis on the banks and brokerage houses that finance prison building; and Silja Talvi on the American Correctional Association as a tax-funded lobbyist for professional prison bureaucracies; Tara Herivel on juvenile prisons; Gary Hunter and Peter Wagner on the census and counting prisoners; David Reutter on Florida's prison industries; Alex Friedmann on the private prisoner transportation industry; Paul Von Zielbauer on the sordid history of Prison Health Services in New York; Steven Jackson on the prison telephone industry; Samantha Shapiro on religious groups being paid to run prisons and Clayton Mosher, Gregory Hooks and Peter Wood on the myth and reality of building rural prisons.

Tara Herivel is the co-editor of Prison Nation. She is a prisoner rights attorney and the author of numerous articles in the alternative press. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Paul Wright is the founder and editor of Prison Legal News and co-editor of Prison Nation and The Celling of America. He lives in Seattle, Washington and Brattleboro, Vermont.

This is an exclusive paperback printing made just for Prison Legal News.

perhaps when we write GAMEOVER the one where white supremacists and supporters are rounded up and shipped back to their ancestial homeland; shall their be overthrows everwhere on this land? power turned off. roads blocked. amerikans without running water. and a police state with arpio's doctrine clutched to the last dying breath.

then will savage-ness reign.

or maybe not. chemical bombs or nuclear flashings...

phx or nyc...

middle america.

the green skies.

ok.

I have said for the past year that Maricopa County attorney ( with the help of the Public Defenders Office )is sending all the poor who cant afford private counsel to prison ( first offenders).Looks like he wants to round everyone up ,take away their civil rights and keep them where he can see them.I say Arizonans wake the hell up, don't let the legal system use the citizens to condone locking up poor people so they can be Big Brother Watching and controlling . It is all about regulation a police state for sure.Dont kid yourself you might just be one of those people one day.Wake the hell up.Arizona is becoming one big Concentration Camp.