Personal perspective and reflection on the Defense/Detention Act

A skeptical non-list friend  this morning who wasn't initially concerned about the just signed Obama Defense/Detention Act, re-thought and changed his position after he looked at this Link of mine:  

http://www.hunterbear.org/fightback_minemill.htm

The depicted concentration camp was at Florence, Arizona, on the highway between Tucson and Phoenix.  And it was indeed staffed and ready to go.  We saw it many times, driving back and forth.  After I secured, via FOIA/PA, a huge number of heavily redacted documents from my FBI national and regional files, I realized that I could have easily wound up in that camp, or another, during a Presidentially-deemed period of "National Emergency."  I'd been placed on several high priority "subversive/security" lists -- which would have easily been my ticket to the barbed-wire hotel." [Actually, I wasn't surprised at the revelation.]

Any dissident who went through the Red Scare era, or anyone who has studied it with reasonable care, isn't going to take this Detention Act at all lightly.

It has to be fought, militantly and sensibly, along with all of the other signal violations of civil liberty that have poisoned our democratic well during this current period of spontaneous and concocted fear and hysteria.

Solidarity.

Hunter Bear


HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´ 
and Ohkwari' 
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)
 
For the new, just out (11/2011) and expanded/updated
edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- 
with a new and substantial Introduction by me:
http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm
 
Our community organizing course:
http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm
 
Personal Background Narrative (with many links):
http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm