National Guard asked to explain 'internment' jobs

National Guard asked to explain 'internment' jobs
Campaign recruiting for workers at 'civilian resettlement facility'

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Posted: August 07, 2009
11:45 pm Eastern


By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


An ad campaign featured on a U.S. Army website seeking those who would be interested in being an "Internment/Resettlement" specialist is raising alarms across the country, generating concerns that there is some truth in those theories about domestic detention camps, a roundup of dissidents and a crackdown on "threatening" conservatives.

The ads, at the GoArmy.com website as well as others including Monster.com, cite the need for:


"Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; and coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.
The campaign follows by only weeks a report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warning about "right-wing extremists" who could pose a danger to the country – including those who support third-party political candidates, oppose abortion and would prefer to have the U.S. immigration laws already on the books enforced.

The "extremism" report coincided with a report out of California that the Department of Defense was describing protesters as "low-level terrorists."

The new ad says successful candidates will "provide external security to … detention/internment facilities" and "provide counseling and guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program."

Officials at the state and federal National Guard levels told WND they were unaware of the program, although one officer speculated it could be intended for soldiers trained in the U.S. and dispatched overseas to "detention facilities." From the national level, WND was told, officials were unaware of any such "internment facilities" at which there could be jobs to be available.

At a NationalGuard.com website, a front page video describes the position thoroughly.

But one of the critics was a YouTube contributor who identifies himself as jafount and titled his video, "Want a job putting people into camps?"

Alarmed by the ads, he said it, the idea "just absolutely blew my mind."

Citing a promise that successful applicants would be trained in "search and restrain procedures," he said, "That's code for violating the 14th Amendment."

Likewise, he said, "use of firearms" is "code for depriving somebody of their life.'

"This is the real deal, I think," he said, citing, among others, the NationalGuard.com link.

"I saw something that didn't sit right with me. I posted it so other people can investigate," he said.

A commenter on the YouTube site pooh-poohed the whole suggestion.

"You have … put out a relatively benign fact, twisted it into something sinister, and then did a tinfoil-hat connection to give a false impression," the forum participant wrote.

The ads list as "advanced responsibilities" issues such as supervision and administration, responsibility for the "prisoner/internee" population, "custody/control for the operation of an Enemy Prisoner of War/Civilian Internee (EPW/CI) camp," and work on "custody/control for the operation of detention facility or the operation of a displaced civilian (CD) resettlement facility."

An editorial at CanadaFreePress.com raised some overall concerns:

Let's look at some of the evidence we have of the U.S. government's intentions to establish the infrastructure that could be used to house large numbers of political dissidents, so-called terrorists and other individuals the U.S. government wants locked up.

HR 645 the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act is a proposed bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would authorize FEMA to build no less than six National Emergency Centers throughout the U.S. on closed or open military facilities. These facilities are to be designed to house large numbers of people. Why would emergency centers need to be built on closed or open military facilities unless there was a need to keep people from coming in and out of them?

KBR was granted a government contract a few years ago to build facilities to house illegal immigrants. Now with illegal immigration becoming less of a problem with the U.S. economy in the toilet, these facilities can now be used for other purposes.
"This is just another step in the U.S. government's long term plan to build the infrastructure that could be used to contain wide spread popular revolt. Combine this with the swine flu fear mongering and the potential for a mass swine flu vaccination operation and it is easy to see what might happen. Refuse to take their poisonous vaccine and you might risk being locked up as being a hazard to public safety. With the economy in the toilet and more and more people not trusting either political party or the corporate media, the 'powers that be' realize that they need to continue building their martial law apparatus. These Army National Guard job listings are just another piece to that puzzle proving what we already know is being built," the editorial claimed.

At the Examiner, a commentator wrote, "Correctional/internment facilities? I have to admit that the U.S. government is good at one thing: creating fluffy names for evil acts. During WW2, of course, the U.S. didn't have concentration camps, we had 'relocation centers' for hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese citizens."

The jobs also were listed at Jobsearch.money.cnn.com, employmentguide.com and freedomsphoenix.com.

WND reported when the DoD eventually withdrew a training manual question that linked protesters across the United States to terrorism.

That followed by only weeks a Department of Homeland Security report that described as "right-wing extremists" those who oppose abortion and support secure national borders.

Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center, has told WND that as part of his organization's research for its lawsuit over the DHS "extremism" report, it has discovered additional information that it is withholding now but will include in a pending amended complaint.

Thompson said one of the things that sparked the organization's curiosity was a reference by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano in the original report to not only government resources but also non-governmental resources.

Thompson said the information he has "creates even more concern that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is unconstitutionally targeting Americans merely because of their conservative beliefs."

The earlier DHS report was "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." WND has posted the report online for readers to see.

The report linked returning veterans with the possibility of terrorism, and when it was released it created such a furor for Napolitano she has given several explanations for it, including that she would have reworded the report and that it was issued by a rogue employee.

She later apologized to veterans for having linked them to terror.

But Thompson noted that the report also targeted as "potential terrorists" Americans who:


Oppose abortion


Oppose same-sex marriage


Oppose restrictions on firearms


Oppose lax immigration laws


Oppose the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs


Oppose continuation of free trade agreements


Are suspect of foreign regimes


Fear Communist regimes


Oppose a "one world" government


Bemoan the decline of U.S. stature in the world


Are upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India, and more
Thompson told WND no apology has been offered to the members of any of those classes of citizens.

Thompson said the original "extremism" report was "the tip of the iceberg. … Conservative Americans should be very outraged."

The Thomas More Law Center filed its lawsuit against Napolitano and the DHS on behalf of nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, Gregg Cunningham of the pro-life organization Center for Bio-Ethical Reform Inc. and Iraqi War Marine veteran Kevin Murray.

It alleges the federal agency violated the First and Fifth Amendment constitutional rights of the three plaintiffs by targeting them for disfavored treatment and chilling their free speech, expressive association, and equal protection rights. The lawsuit further claims that DHS encouraged law enforcement officers throughout the nation to target and report citizens to federal officials as suspicious rightwing extremists and potential terrorists because of their political beliefs.

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Vaya con Dios

I am in the National Guard. I will try and make a couple of phone calls tomorrow and see what I can find out about this new position they are advertising.


snakeman

OK, everyone relax. The new position is simply one that replaces the older Army "Guard Company" in the Military Police. It has been on the burner for some time.
It came about because of the various unfortunate instances of Army/Guard personnel mistreating (allegedly) prisoners in their custody. The reason that it came out first in the Guard is that the National Guard is the primary supplier of combat Military Police in todays Army. The Army Reserve supplies many support units, the Guard provides primarily combat units and Military Police is a Combat Arm. Several states are going to be incorporating the new position into Military Police Units that are larger than company size units.
For those of you who did not know, the Reserve and National Guard comprise over %50 of our total forces, but only comsume some %8 of the defense budget(unless called to active duty, then their money comes from the regular forces budget).
In short, most prisoner guards have simply been military Police personnel assigned to guard duty, with very little specialized training. That hasn't worked out so well, so a specialist position is being created. Eventually that specialized position (or MOS) will also apply to regular units, but probably not in the same numbers as in the Guard-the reason is that we only need a lot of prisoner guards when we have a lot of prisoners. with the War on Terror we can look forward to more GITMO style places for confining terrorist "hostile forces", except that they will probably be in the US(great call Obama).
How am I so familiar with this stuff? I spent some time of my active duty as the Corrections Officer at a very large army stockade. The Corrections Officer is the guy in charge of the stockade. In those days we frequently used former prisoners in the stockade as guards when they were released, if they had little time (less than a year) on their enlistment. At least they knew the routine, and the rules. After active duty I commaded an MP Company in the Guard, then what was called a Guard Company, (just MPs who were prisoner guards).
Remember that the constitution prevents the use of the military in civilian law enforcement-that is why the Guard belongs to the govenor of the state till it is federally activated. Prior to being federally activated they may be used for things like riot control and floods/hurricanes etc...
Remember during Katrina the gov of LA cried that she has no Guard Units to send to the hurricane scene because the big bad Bush had sent them to Iraq?

No, no. Never let a good paranoid fantasy from WorldNutDaily get in the way of reality.

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I wish people would make up their minds. If it is FEMA that is going to run the concentration camps, the guards would either be FEMA employees or private security (Wackenhut). It's a different budget for people to tap, graft and manipulate.

World Net Daily pretty much makes things up as they go along. If the Army was getting new uniforms (which some units are), there would be a piece about "urban stormtroopers get new gear to blend in to American cities as part of planned mass round up and forced flu vaccinations as prelude to martial law".

I get all my news for the Huffington Post.

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Sure you did

Maybe I'm missing something here, but when I was in the army 95C (now 31E) were the corrections specialist. They go through OSUT with the MPs at Leonard Wood. Does the National Guard have something different?

Here is the Army version. Under requirements does not list bi-lingual.

GoArmy.com > Careers & Jobs > Internment/Resettlement Specialist (31E)

I'm holding out for a job flying one of those black helicopters that will be needed during the mass arrest and detention of most American citizens!