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 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."
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."
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.
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
- Fear Communist regimes
- Oppose a "one world" government
- Bemoan the decline of U.S. stature in the world
