Detention camps trample our rights

I’m writing to address a subject that too many people in this country don’t know about. The issue is the presence of over 800 empty detention camps built across America by Halliburton.

The mainstream media haven’t covered this issue, but because they haven’t doesn’t mean this is some wild conspiracy theory. These camps exist in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and have been investigated by various people who have taken notice of such features as one-way turnstiles, barracks, guard towers and barbed wire facing inward to keep whoever is meant to be locked up there from escaping. Also, each of them is easily accessible by road, rail, water and air or by some combination thereof.

Given the steady stripping away of civil liberties since 9/11, this could only mean that it will be American citizens, we who will be sent to these camps. Between the so-called Patriot Acts, the Military Commissions Act of 2007 and the passage of the defense budget in the Senate that “authorizes” the military to arrest and detain suspected “domestic terrorists” without formal charges, the chance to be tried or to have communication with anyone, we face the real danger of the gulag becoming a reality.

I implore every reader to investigate this further. I’m a messenger sounding the alarm, but it’s up to each and every one of you to make the time to check this out and learn of the perils our nation is in.

Gary Dunlap

Rolling Meadows