How soon before Blackwater steps up to help in CA?

[Duer 157099]

Just like they flew into NOLA before FEMA arrived, how soon before they show up in San Diego to "help out"?

How soon before we start funneling billions more to the "private sector" to fill in because the National Guard is no longer available?

This just all seems so damned orchestrated. (not the fire, but the lack of public resources for appropriate response).

[movonne]

1. How did the fire start?

[soothsayer]

5. I think some are natural, some are arson. As per usual. Dry conditions

and those rascally Santa Ana winds!

[nykym]

2. Right after

they firm up thier alibi as to how the fire started. Thier new compond is not too far away and the town board is in hot water for allowing it to go forward, in fact I thought I saw something about a special election to replace them HMMMMMMMMMMMM!

[Duer 157099]

4. Right. I wouldn't put it past them

Clearly some of the fires have legitimate accidental origins, but it's not unheard of for opportunists to jump on a bandwagon.

[robertpaulsen]

3. Hmm...are there any KBR detention camps in the area?

Writing from my desk in downtown LA, I'd like to know:

Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps

News Analysis/Commentary, Peter Dale Scott,
New America Media, Feb 08, 2006
Editor's Note: A little-known $385 million contract for Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for "an emergency influx of immigrants" is another step down the Bush administration's road toward martial law, the writer says.

BERKELEY, Calif.--A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities."

The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when.

To date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded that this is a "contingency contract" and that conceivably no centers might be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.

For those who follow covert government operations abroad and at home, the contract evoked ominous memories of Oliver North's controversial Rex-84 "readiness exercise" in 1984. This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000 imaginary "refugees," in the context of "uncontrolled population movements" over the Mexican border into the United States. North's activities raised civil liberties concerns in both Congress and the Justice Department. The concerns persist.

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77

[Elspeth]

6. DON'T EVEN THINK THAT!

That scares me more than the fires.

[flordehinojos]

7. they won't. not unless the displaced people are living in some sort of 9th ward kind of neighborhood

and, i don't think malibu fits that description.

[spanone]

8. rethuglicons love that pritization, they sure do.