A germane question, since the FEMA concentration camp story that spreads virally across the internet almost always returns to this story from January 2006: KBR announced today that the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division has awarded KBR a $385 million five-year contract to support ICE facilities in the event of an emergency. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton Co. (NYSE:HAL). KBR also held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract will be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. The contract provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the United States, or to support the rapid development of new programs. The contingency support contract provides for planning and, if required, initiatio...

... talk substantively and truthfully about their claims and concerns. For example: the FEMA concentration camp myth, to which our own Delaware gadfly liz allen subscribes, along with good ol' Glenn Beck : Continuing his assigned role as corporate media siren of the apocalypse, Glenn Beck interrupted a discussion on Russia and Iran last night on Fox & Friends to mention a heretofore no-no for national television — FEMA camps. At two minutes into the video below, Beck declares he attempted to “debunk these FEMAS camps” because he is “tired of hearing about them,” but was unable to do so. “We now for several days have done research on them… I can’t debunk them.” Beck follows this with a declaration that the United States may be headed for totalitarianism. Here's the gist of the FEMA concentration camp myth permeating the righter wings of the internet: I never thought the day would come where I would write about such a horrible subject but the fact is our government, under a...