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08-10-99 03:53 PM
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White Vehicles belong to USA's--INS, not the UN.
An "Internet Folklore" rumor rampage claimed the supposed white vehicles
belonged to the UN.
The white vehicles belong to the INS, and will be used to police the southern
boarder, says Chuck Harder, who adds that he verified his information with a
reliable, high inside source in government.
<<MONDAY AUGUST 09, 1999
An invasion of U.S. by U.N. -- not!
Internet folklore story is full of globaloney
By David M. Bresnahan
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
Rumors of thousands of United Nations vehicles being outfitted behind a
remote federal prison in Texas have been spread across talk radio and
Internet web sites -- all heavy on conjecture and short on facts.
The truth was easily verified by WorldNetDaily, and the results show how
easily a wild story can use a small portion of truth to sound genuine.
Americans who have long ago stopped trusting their government, and talk
show hosts who like wild stories, were quick to accept this story without
verifying the facts.
The tale of a U.N. force being prepared as an international police force
apparently began with a genuine effort by amateur investigators to expose
what they thought was a subversive plot.
The operator of a Texas-based Internet hosting service began publishing
news stories on his website. That service then expanded to conducting local
investigations into local Texas rumors.
David Palmquist, operator of AllTexas.net, agrees that he is untrained as a
journalist, but he is trying to fill a gap that he says the local news
media has left unfilled. He published a story that told of 1,000 white
vehicles being stockpiled at a high-security prison in Bastrop, Texas.
"All the vehicles are U.N. white," said Palmquist in his article.
"Rumors have been floating in the area for months about a fleet of
suspicious vehicles being outfitted with prisoner cages, shackles and
insignia such as 'U.S. Police Force' and the U.N. roundel. None of the
vehicles observed in the storage area appeared to have any markings at all
other than window stickers with equipment data," he stated in the article.
Palmquist said an unnamed prison official told him that the vehicles were
being outfitted with prisoner cages and shackles, and that the vehicles
were for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
He disputed those claims in his article stating that, "vehicles assigned to
the INS are predominantly painted green and those assigned to the Border
Patrol are usually the same. The suitability of a high-visibility color
such as white for either agency is in question. Large, white vehicles can
be seen approaching from miles away."
WorldNetDaily received many concerned requests from readers to look into
the story. Palmquist claimed he was a frequent guest on talk shows from
coast to coast as a result of his article. He admitted to going onto the
prison property without proper clearance to take pictures from the ground,
and he also flew over in a plane to take aerial photographs.
The pictures did show hundreds of white vehicles neatly parked on the
prison property.
One call to the federal prison at Bastrop brought many answers, and a
second call to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in
Washington, D.C. found the remaining answers.
"That story could be nothing further from the truth," said Tim Stewart,
executive assistant at the Bastrop prison, which he said is a minimum
security facility, not a maximum security prison as claimed in the article.
"What we're doing here is our Unicore factory, our federal prison
industries has undergone a mission change. We previously made ballistic
helmets and vests for the military. We are no longer doing that. Our
mission change now is that we are taking brand new vehicles that have been
sold to the INS and we're retrofitting those vehicles so they can put them
on the line. Basically just fixing them up for their use. Putting in
radios, radio harnesses, and things of that nature. Stripping them and
decaling them for the INS," explained Stewart.
He said there are between 900 and 1,000 white Dodge vans, Tahoe, Suburbans
and Durangos lined up and waiting to be prepared for service. Inmates are
presently preparing the factory for the new work, so the vehicles have been
accumulating during the delay.
None of the vehicles are for use by the U.N. and none of them presently
have any marking on them. Soon they will all receive an INS seal and some
lines. White is a common color used by INS, and they will be shipped to
locations in every state of the nation when they are finished.
"The only other federal prison industry that we have here is a broom
factory. We make brooms for sale to GSA (General Services Administration).
It's kind of a two-part factory. We've had that for years," explained
Stewart.
It was late in the day when WorldNetDaily reached INS by phone in
Washington, D.C. The officials were gone for the day but another INS
spokesman was willing to explain what was happening in Bastrop even though
he stressed he was not an official spokesman.
"They were going to close the prison and put a whole lot of people out of a
job. Rather than close the prison, the DOJ (Department of Justice) came to
INS and said, 'What do you do in your field to promote the economy?'
"You know INS. We have law enforcement vehicles all over the country. We
have police cars, or patrol cars, and we have patrol 4x4s and they're all
over the country. This whole initiative in Bastrop has kept the prison
open, but we just overwhelmed them because we buy so many vehicles," he
explained.
Shortly after the conversation with the INS spokesman, Russ Bergeron, the
official spokesman for INS left a voice mail message to confirm the
information but said he would be out of the office for the remainder of the
week.
WorldNetDaily receives many tips on various news stories every day. Many
rumors are quickly dispelled with a phone call or two, however other tips
often lead to very important discoveries that are not reported in the
mainstream media.
David M. Bresnahan, a contributing editor for WorldNetDaily.com, is the
author of a new report on Y2K, the book "Cover Up: The Art and Science of
Political Deception," and offers a monthly newsletter "Talk USA
Investigative Reports." He may be reached through email and also maintains
an archive of his work.
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
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