Donald Trump and the FEMA Camps Crowd
Published Aug 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM EDT | Updated Aug 24, 2016 at 11:15 AM EDT
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Obama's election in 2008 led to an explosion in hate groups spouting such ideas, and as their numbers have swelled some of their beliefs have gone mainstream, stoked by broadcasters like Michael Savage, Alex Jones and Glenn Beck; right-wing filmmakers; and a host of websites featuring screaming headlines such as: "UPDATE: All Armed Americans to Be Detained in FEMA Camps Starting In 2017!??!"
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As the minutes tick down toward the end of Obama's presidency, chatter about martial law and the commander in chief's supposed tyranny ratchets up. It doesn't matter that martial law—replacing civil authority with military authority—has been applied only sparingly in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln imposed it during the Civil War; General Andrew Jackson applied it within his encampment in New Orleans during the War of 1812; and local authorities suspended civil law during labor uprisings in 1892, 1914 and 1934. Martial law was also imposed following the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, and after Hurricane Katrina the state of Louisiana imposed a public health emergency that constituted a de facto suspension of civil authority.
But what the paranoiacs envision is something much, much broader, something nationwide—more Germany under Hitler or Cambodia under Pol Pot.
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More obscure purveyors of the FEMA camp and martial law conspiracy theories include the late William Lewis, a filmmaker who produced one of the hit films of the movement, the 90-minute Camp FEMA: American Lockdown, available for viewing on YouTube. Actor Chuck Norris's son, Mike Norris, who lives in Texas, just released a feature film (written by the owner of the Curves exercise franchise, Texas businessman Gary Heavin) called Amerigeddon, in which the American government initiates a power grid failure in order to impose martial law and seize guns.
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The RW GOP CTs against Democrats were actually THEIR intended playbook for future operation.
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