America In Danger – The Blog

Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of “an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.

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In Utah students don’t only carry guns to school, but are encouraged to for their own safety.

Rob Morrison, a BYU student from Ontario, Canada, doesn’t think that having guns on campus would necessarily stop a potential killer.

“The people that do it want to commit suicide anyway,” Morrison said. “But it would give students a chance to defend themselves, and at Virginia Tech, it could have ended sooner than it did.”

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