Posted on 09/09/2005 5:12:49 AM PDT by 12B
I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp
I'm extremely depressed to report that things seem to only be getting sadder concerning the people so devastatingly affected by Katrina last week. Two car loads of us headed over to Falls Creek, a youth camp for Southern Baptist churches in Oklahoma that agreed to have its facilities used to house Louisiana refugees. I'm afraid the camp is not going to be used as the kind people of the churches who own the cabins believe it was going to be used.
Oklahoma Freepers feel free to debunk this garbage.
This thing is all over the web.
Falls Creek is a really big Southern Baptist camp in OK.
I'm Catholic and I bet those Baptists are treating the evacuees pretty well.
Of course, they may actually have worship services available to those who want them. (Shocking!) That probably looks like brainwashing to a Lefty.
Unfriggin' real BUMP!!
FWIW - Falls Creek is in standby mode. They were expecting 3000 people, but no one ever showed up. FEMA told the Falls Creek volunteers that the facility wasn't needed at this time.
The FEMA death camp conspiracy theories popped up almost as fast as FEMA was created. Sadly there are some freepers who believe the garbage.
Here's what I found while digging around.
http://afrikan.i-dentity.com/wwwboard/messages/2038.html
http://www.tpo.net/conspiracy/FEMA.shtml
http://www.sharelynx.com/papers/holocaust.php
Scammed from the ultra right black helicopter folks. This is as old as the hills, I'm guessing at least 10 years old. Finally it makes it to the leftist boards, long after being debunked for what it is. Not an original idea in their heads.
Raco field in Michigans upper peninsula is one of the supposedly super secret FEMA death camps. The strange part is that local classic car enthusiasts hold shows within the confines of that super secret site.
Most of the Refugees are URBAN folks. I'll bet they are holding out for an inner city home. The local bank has been cleaning up our "used to be" low income housing for some families and I'll bet no one shows up to live here. Fact is it is 35 miles to the nearest Walmart. Very rural/farm oriented neighborhood in SW Oklahoma that needs people but has hardly any jobs.
Art Bell alert.
That's because they want to believe it's true. They love these conspiracy theories and freely spread them around. Some people just seem to have a need for it.
Luckily, this is only a few hours drive for me, so I can visit my friends and relatives when they get "detained".
I don't have any love of FEMA because I see it as one more unnecessary bureaucracy but entirely non malevolent. FEMA is about to embark on the largest megabucks giveaway this nation has ever seen and that doesn't sound like the action of people who are planning to kill people by the thousands.
Maybe we can have a FEMA FReeper reunion when all of us Michigan FReepers are shipped off to Raco. Ive always loved the UP.
I don't think the folks who wrote this were lying about what they saw and were told, but I do think that their conclusions are politically colored.
One of the respondents got it right, I think, in a reply post guessing the reasons for no leaving & returning to camp, no cooking by the inhibitants, etc. Lawsuits up the wazoo waiting to happen if anyone gets hurt and riots if one cabin appears to get more or better than another.
Dang. Even Rivero is on that thread
Well, I do know the pictures are of Falls Creek, and I know that people who were organizing to help out there were told they would not be able to. I know that some were told to stop collecting items to send and that some were told that the camp wasn't going to be used after all. FEMA pretty much took the place over and will not allow the churches who own the place to do what they had originally planned to do, which was to care for these folks the way human beings should and the way their faith commands them to do. The three I know are regretting the decision to offer the place to FEMA. Some of the members I know are not pleased with the current outcome at all. About the only part of this post I found hard to believe was the part saying the evacuees would not be allowed to leave--I don't doubt the writer could have been told that by someone there, and if it some of the crowd we've seen among the evacuee crowd, I would say that is prudent. If I lived nearby, I would stand an armed guard over my family and possessions the whole time. I don't doubt that the government may have planned to use the fairly secluded place to bring some of the troublemakers in the larger urban shelters. It would make sense to me. On the other hand, if the goal is to put people in places where they can more easily find permanent homes and jobs, this camp is not the place to send them. A better way to help may have been printing fliers describing the place as a secluded church camp in OK and offer help to families who found that preferable to their current situation. Then care for the people and camp as a church group and leave FEMA the hell out of it. I don't really blame FEMA--they are just doing what big government does. They are getting in the way of good people who just wanted to do a good thing.
LOL. Good idea. We could all share stories of the good old freeping days! =)
I would be interested in knowing if it is really even FEMA running the camp. Most of the news reports and the Baptists website say it is being administered by the American Red Cross.
So far I haven't been able to ascertain if there really is a connection to FEMA or not. Any further input would be appreciated.
So what are they gonna do? Make'em pray? Is THAT what this is all about? They make it sound like they're going to shower them in Zyklon-B.
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