The United States government is not new to being the center of conspiracies. The agency FEMA has been criticized for planing to place US citizens in Concentration camps. FEMA stands for Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA is an agency apart of the United States Department of Homeland Security. FEMA was created in 1979 with the purpose of of maintaining government stability is times of disaster. These disasters includes events as common as hurricanes and flooding to the extreme of nuclear war.
The conspiracy surrounding FEMA is that in the time of disaster, Marshall law will be declared. Once Marshall law is declared, FEMA would become the governing body and the constitution would be suspended. Suspending the constitution would allow FEMA to place citizens in concentration camps.
Some conspiracy theorist believe that the concentration camps would be advertised as a safe place for citizens but in reality the conditions would be poor and citizens would be subjected to intense labor. Others believe that the concentration camps would be used to hold political activist who spoke against FEMA, these activist are described as constitutionalist/patriots. In extreme theories the political activist would be sent to concentration camps to be killed.
Conspiracy theorist have connected FEMA to the plot of a New World Order (I discuss the New World Order in a previous blog). The concentration camps would be used to reduce the population. This extreme take on first theory suggest that all citizens will who are not deemed fit will be rounded up and killed.
The first mention of this conspiracy was in 1982, three years after the agency was established. A news letter published by the Posse Comitatus warning the public that hardcore patriots would be detained by FEMA in concentration camps. The theory was carried on by the now disbanded Militia of Montana. Their leader, David Fletcher would often speak if this theory in meetings, suggesting the concentration camps were going to be built in Northern Cascades.
FEMA has spoken against the concentration camp theories. . Press Secretary Alexa Lopez replied, “We are currently focusing our efforts on providing assistance to disaster survivors, and the ongoing response and recovery efforts in Louisiana. As to your first question, over the years there have been many myths or rumors surrounding FEMA, and I am glad I have the chance to set the record straight with you. There is absolutely no truth to these rumors—they are nothing more than conspiracy theories.”