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UN Troops Planning to Move on U.S.?
The Internet is notorious for spreading tall tales, but you can always count
on The SPOTLIGHT to get to the bottom of these stories-fact or fiction-and
only publish what is the truth.
EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLIGHT
By Christopher J. Petherick
A federal prison in Texas fitting is government vehicles for a possible UN
police force to occupy the United States, according to the Internet rumor
mill.
The SPOTLIGHT contacted prison officials at the purported location and found
out the story was bogus.
Early August, a rumor was circulating over the Internet that a prison in
Bastrop, Tex., was storing "nearly a thousand white buses and sport utility
vehicles" fitted with shackles and cages on its grounds.
Assumptions ran wild that the vehicles were to be used by a UN police force
to incarcerate American citizens.
A web site at www.alltexas.net/news/ stated the following:
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 UN roundel. None of the vehicles observed in the
storage area appeared to have any markings at all other than window stickers
with equipment data.
Soon others from opposite parts of the country posted pictures on the web,
with descriptions such as: "One of many images sent to us showing many
school buses being painted from the normal yellow color, to a white color
and the words 'UN' in black painted on the sides of them."
The photograph was said to have been taken at a Chevy/Oldsmobile car
dealership in Lafayette, Ga.
The purported "UN" painted on the side of the bus, appeared as though
someone had scrambled into the car lot and hastily spray painted "UN" in
black on the lower-right-hand side of the first bus in a row of five.
THE "OFFICIAL" STORY
The SPOTLIGHT spoke with Public Information Officer Timothy Stewart at the
Federal Corrections Institute in Bastrop, Tex., who clarified the rumors
regarding his prison.
"We made up a press release, because we received so many calls about the
vehicles," Stewart told The SPOTLIGHT.
"Federal Prison Industries has obtained a contract with INS to retro-fit
their vehicles with aftermarket items," an official release from the prison
says. "Future plans call for remanufacturing of INS and Border Patrol buses
and other INS vehicles."
Three hundred inmates would be employed to perform the work at the UNICOR
factory, a government corporation.
Stewart said the vehicles were being held for Border Patrol agents, who
would use them along the U.S.-Mexican border to apprehend illegals
attempting to cross into the United States.
Stewart denied the vehicles were being repainted and fitted for a UN police
force to serve on the border.
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