Obama writing his own laws

To the Editor,

At the risk of sounding like some paranoid conspiracy theorist, with the way President Obama is ignoring our Constitution and writing his own laws while Congress looks on and does nothing, I would not be surprised at anything he might do---or try to do--- during his last two years in office. There are several weird, suspicious, and troubling events happening now right under our noses, like the construction of hundreds of FEMA internment camps being built in every state in the union. They are the result of The National Emergency Centers Act (HR-645) that was introduced in Congress in 2009 to authorize Homeland Security to build detention camps to hold Americans during emergencies, and for other "appropriate needs." Just what the other "appropriate needs" are was not specified. In 2010 the Dept. of Homeland Security awarded a $385 million contract to KBR, a construction company that is a former subsidairy of Halliburton, to build from three to fifteen detention centers in each state on an "as needed" basis, to be used in national emergency situations.

Missouri currently has two and possibly three FEMA detention centers, one at Richards-Gebaur AFB located in Grandview near Kansas City, which is a very large internment facility and all base personnel are restricted from going near it. Another is located at Ft. Leonard Wood Army base, and there's an unconfirmed report of a very large concentration camp facility in Warsaw, Mo. Some estimates put the total number of camps over 500. The largest of theses facilities is located just outside Fairbanks, Alaska, and is reportedly a massive mental health facility that can hold several thousand people. All these facilities are prison like structures complete with high chain link fences topped with razor wire, designed to keep people in. All are currently empty, guarded 24-7, and strictly off-limits to the public.

There's a saying that, "If you build it, they will come," and to believe that these detention centers were built to set empty defies reason. If they are to be used to house Americans during emergencies, then why are they built like prisons to keep people inside? We know they were not built to house illegal aliens, for they have unconstitutionally been granted amnesty by a stroke of Obama's pen. We know they were not built to house terrorists, for they are few in number and being held at Guantanimo Bay for awhile and released.

Another suspicious and disturbing thing is the increasing militarization of the police. Why do the police need tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, assault rifles, machine guns, and ninja hoods that hide their faces to enforce domestic laws? The police in most major cities have been given enough military armament by the government to invade and occupy a small country. Could this somehow be connected to the FEMA internment camps? Remember candidate Obama's promise in 2008 when he said that if elected President he would "fundamentally transform America?" Could he, aided by others in high positions of government, have a carefully designed plan to nationalize the police and "transform" the country into possibly a fascist, police state? Who would stop him? Congress? If Congress could stop him why haven't they done so already for violating his oath of office and the Constitution?

President Obama talked about the need for a national police force in a campaign speech he delivered in Colorado in 2008, saying "We cannot continue to rely on our military to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, and just as well funded." If a plan to change our government and take away our rights and freedom does exist and ever implemented, there will be nation-wide civil insurrection. How handy it would be if the police were nationalized. It would provide a strong, well funded force in every town and city in America to arrest and detain rebellious citizens, which would explain the need for detention camps.

Bill Cox

Fairdealing, Mo.