From: bobworn@aol.com
Subject: SNET: FEMA: Operation Garden Plot & GOP Convention
Date: 5 Aug 2000 20:03:47 -0400
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Subj:    FEMA: Operation Garden Plot & GOP Convention
Date:   8/4/00 6:30:54 PM CDT
From:   freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
To:       bobworn@aol.com

[Note from Matthew Gaylor: In my library I have a copy of the US 
Army's Operation Garden Plot that details how the US military intends 
to respond to civil disturbances. One of the more sinister items in 
the plan is the detailed construction diagrams for building civilian 
prison camps.  The Army doesn't refer to them as prisons, rather 
civilian detainee centers, but the barb wire harkens back to an 
earlier era, one complete with jack-booted Nazis.  I used to think 
these contingency plans where usually just a waste of tax dollars or 
the intellectual masturbatory fantasy of the bureaucratic class, but 
not any more.]


Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:14:43 -0400
To: freematt@coil.com
From: Declan McCullagh 
Subject: U.S. military poised to respond to attack on GOP convention

Matt, FYI. --Declan

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37920,00.html

Army Battle-Ready for Convention
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

8:40 a.m. Aug. 1, 2000 PDT
PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Army is prepared to respond to
disruptions ranging from civil disobedience to nuclear
explosions at the Republican National Convention, a
confidential government document says.

The terrorism response plan includes flying giant C-5
Galaxy cargo planes loaded with military gear into Willow
Grove Naval Air Station, about 25 miles outside the city,
and assembling troops at three National Guard armories
near the downtown protest areas.

"Preparedness for nuclear, biological, chemical, and civil
disturbance events, as well as potential weather-related
disaster events, must be considered," says the Federal
Emergency Management Agency document, obtained by
Wired News from a source who asked to remain
anonymous.

A FEMA spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the
document, but said he did not have any information that a
terrorist attack was likely to happen during the GOP
convention.

"We try to plan for any event like this as we would plan
for a hurricane," said Ross Fredenburg, FEMA's regional
public information officer.

The 75-page operations manual, labeled on each page "For
Official Use Only," says: "There is a greater probability
that an act occurring during the RNC could result in
high-risk situations and possibly necessitate a tactical
response by the local, state, and federal governments."

Security is already at an all-time high for a convention,
with flight restrictions in place over central Philadelphia,
nearly all city police on duty, and guards equipped with
mirrors searching for bombs under vehicles that approach
the First Union Center.

The document, created by FEMA to supplement its usual
procedures, says that the U.S. First Army will, if
necessary, execute Operation Garden Plot to quell any
serious civil disturbances.

Operation Garden Plot has long been an object of
speculation by conspiracy theorists, but the watchdog
group Federation of American Scientists describes it as
the military's overall plan for "support related to domestic
civil disturbances" that was last used during the Los
Angeles riots in 1992.

Critics such as the American Civil Liberties Union have
protested the recent trend to use military troops for law
enforcement purposes.

The FEMA plan even goes so far as to spend 12 pages
listing hospitals and numbers of licensed beds -- including
places as far away as St. Luke's Hospital in Quakertown, a
40-mile drive.


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