FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
underway, and it was reported by The Spotlight, that it was being
prepared for conversion into a massive civilian detention center. The
office of Sen. Alfonse D’Amato (R-NY) announced that a large part of
the base was going to be turned over to the National Guard, who, it
was believed, would oversee the facility. At nearby Fort Drum, the
location of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division (who have been utilized
as UN ‘peacekeepers’) was also slated to be used as a detention
facility.In 1997, it was revealed, that since 1989, a Civilian Inmate Labor
program was in place at Fort Bliss (TX), Fort Dix (NJ), and Camp
Atterbury (IN), where the Army was using incarcerated civilians to
perform building maintenance and renovation, landscaping and
grounds work, and custodial work. Under the facade of Civilian Labor
Camps, it is believed that some detention facilities are being
established or renovated.In the mid-1990’s an important discovery was made that really hit
home about Government’s plans for martial law. At the Amtrak Railcar
Repair Facility at Beech Grove, in Indianapolis, Indiana, there were
about 10 maintenance barns, covering 129 acres, which is secured by
2 separate fences that lean inward. There are 3 helicopter 25-knot
aviation wind socks (as opposed to 10-knot socks which are required
for chemical storage), high security turnstiles, and high intensity
security lighting. The box car building fence was marked with a “Red/
Blue Zone” sign.One of the barns is large enough to put four box cars in it, and at the
top are motorized vents to vent fumes out of the building after the cars
have been fumigated. Since the initial observations and photographs
were taken in August, 1994, a January 27, 1995 article in the
Indianapolis News about the lay-offs at the facility said: “Late last year,
Congress ordered Amtrak to spend at least $5.9 million patching holes
in the roof and fixing masonry on the walls of the giant machine sheds
at Beech Grove.” Now they are airtight and have been outfitted with
newly installed 6 inch pipes, and 2-story hot air furnaces. It was done
with the “hopes the yard may be able to solicit work repairing private
train cars, and perhaps subway cars from Washington, D.C., or other
urban areas.” Yet the complex was closed.