-Caveat Lector- Thanks Mark! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [prj] Fwd: FEMA Concetration Camps Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:34:07 -0500 From: "Mark A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: > Patriotic Fraud > Date: > Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:18:44 +0000 > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: > The Vigo Examiner > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > EDITORIAL > > Patriotic Fraud > > On Wednesday we ran a letter titled American Death Camps. > The writer, under the pseudonym "Samuel Foster," claimed to > be a high ranking military officer who had obtained a > conscience and decided to expose a conspiracy, from an > insider's perspective, to murder up to twenty million > Americans in death camps within the next two years. > > The response from our readership has been very high. To > your credit, very few accepted the story uncritically, with > almost all requesting further information and a way to > verify the contents of the letter. This is very > encouraging, as blind acceptance of unsubstantiated claims > has been a more prevalent in the past. > > But the most representative reply we have received arrived a > full five days before we approved the publication of the > letter from "Samuel Foster." Robin Plank's thoughtful > critique is included in today's edition for your review. > Mrs. Plank's letter very well encapsulates the range of > responses received by The Vigo Examiner. > > Having received the same letter over the internet, she > identified several parts of the letter that strongly > indicated that it might be a fraud, but did not move to a > conclusion, as no conclusive evidence was present. Instead > she logically deduced a means of verification, identified a > course of action to be taken if the information was > verified, and sent her reply here.. > > For the many who have requested further information, we have > chosen to provide it in this space and by placing the long > list of alleged death camps at the end of this article on > our website, http://Vigo-Examiner.com > > In our attempt to verify the true source of the letter we > ended up with one Victor C. Forsythe, c/o Essene > Cooperative, 1705 14th St. #408, Boulder, CO. 80302, email > address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our request for further > information was answered with an apparently fabricated "AP" > article on a totally unrelated subject. When pressed to > produce information on topic we were given an old, largely > discredited list of alleged concentration camps that has > been moving around the internet for several years, not the > kind of information one would expect from a true inside > source. > > We include a small portion of that list here: > > Indiana: > *Thousands of acres* located just out of Indianapolis, > Indiana holds a large Concentration camp facility > complete with barracks, high fence, razor wire, towers, > turnstyles, a railroad, helicopter landing pads, and > what appears to be three large furnaces with 3inch > mains on one of the buildings. This is a massive > facility, still under construction with a completition > date sometime in 1996. *Ft. Benjamin Harrison* A U.S. > Army facility located on the outskirts of Indianapolis > will be used to hold prisoners of the NWO. *Ft. Wayne * > FEMA Detention facility *Terre Haute* FEMA Detention > facility. > > While descriptions of distant locations may appear ominous > because one is unfamiliar with them, when they are on our > doorstep, like the alleged "FEMA Detention facility" right > here in Terre Haute, the ridiculous nature of it becomes > apparent. > > For those unaware, the "FEMA Detention facility" referenced > is the federal prison on US Hwy 63 southwest of town. Past > reports have it served by rail links to carry off the dead > from the multi-victim death chambers. As you know, there > are no such rail links, and as locals helped build the death > chamber, we know it to be built for one at a time. > > In 1995 I hosted a visit from the famed JJ Johnson, here on > a fact finding mission to determine the truth of those > allegations. We drove to the actual sites alleged, and > verified, up-close, that they were false. Yet we have this > "insider," who should know the real situation, trotting out > the same story as the outsiders looking in, many doing their > best with little to work with. > > Our repeat request for on topic information got this reply: > > Well I just forwarded an email is all I did. Wow, are > you this way all the time? Or did your wife yell at you > this morning? Fine, I'll send something else they sent > me. But the way, if you don't like my forwards, you can > call me "Da frogulent forwarder"!!! LOL!!! Hey and > you believe we live in a democratic paradise and that > your vote really counts.....well.....welcome to > Fantasyland!!! LOL > > Visit my web site for more of my paranoid ravings. > > http://members.tripod.com/~angelman48/index.html > > So we visited the website and found what amounts to an > attempt to sell a novel for $6.00 each and requests for > donations. No evidence is provided to substantiate > anything, and no more "information" is provided. > > Does a real "Samuel Foster" as described in the letter > exist? From the evidence we have seen, we believe the > answer is no. > > So what can be concluded from this? Consider the source. > Let the buyer be ware. All that glitters is not gold. Not > everyone who claims to be a patriot is. > > The patriot movement has for years been plagued by a > willingness to believe anyone who sounds sincere and > concerned for their country. This has made them easy prey > for those who know how to sound like patriots, but > perpetrate fraud for other reasons. > > Some perpetrate the fraud deliberately for gain, like Linda > Thompson. Others do so in the false assumption that > exaggeration of the facts will help their cause, without > regard to the effect of repeatedly embarrassing those who > believe them, as happened when Linda Thompson fabricated the > "flame" coming from the tank in Waco. The actual situation > there was bad enough. It needed no exaggeration. But she > chose to falsify the facts anyway, while selling her video > of it for $20 each. And there are some who still believe in > her. > > If one were to judge the subject of concentration camps in > America by considering the source "Samuel Foster," one could > only conclude that it is false. But is it? For several > years many other sources than "Samuel Foster" have been > accumulating evidence on the subject, including photographs. > > What real evidence is there? What do the photographs > actually show? And what is the credibility of these > sources? These and other questions may be answered in the > coming weeks. But one of the best ways to evaluate this > subject is for the interested reader to review the list of > alleged locations attached to this article on our website, > then to actually visit the location nearest you. Please let > us know what you see, and how it compares with the > description. 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