FEMA Concentration Camps

Recently I got a phone call from a friend asking me about supposed FEMA concentration camps. A friend of his had told him that on an early morning program Fox News commentator Glen Beck seemed to suggest that the possibility of government run concentration camps may be a reality, but then completely changed his story later that night on his own program. I hadn't heard about any of this so I promised to do a little research.

You can watch the video here.

In fact Beck admits that his initial impression was based mostly off of internet research, but decided to hold the story until he had spoken to some experts. Of course that simple explanation won't be satisfying any of the crazies. Beck says something at 4:28 that seems prophetic if you scroll down and read a few of the comments.

So what are FEMA concentration camps? According to the crazies they are just that. Apparently our government is planning on declaring martial law some time in the near future, and they need a place to intern and possibly gas would be dissenters. As far as I can tell this myth has been most widely perpetuated by this video.



The video might seem concerning if you're not paying a lot of attention (which you probably shouldn't be), but it raises one or two practical questions that says something about the state of mind of, not only the people making this film, but some of the people watching it. At 4:47 one of those “black helicopters” flies over head begging the question of why the "forces that be” would mobilize a helicopter to watch some one standing in the building's parking lot? Wouldn't it be more effective to just do it from a window?

Here's a couple of facts:

1) There are no FEMA concentration camps.

2) The facility in this video is actually an Amtrack rail car repair facility. The place fixes about 700 passenger cars a year, and employs more than 500 people. There's also the fact that this video is 15 years old. The turnstiles don't exist any more, and neither do half of those warehouses amongst other things.

If you want to do further research there's an article that addresses all of this on Popular Mechanics website. Just click here.

For my own amusement I posted a comment stating the above facts in a calm, and non confrontational manner. Not even an hour later I got this from a user named “tmac1238GX:”

"Oh thanks for stopping us in time before we defeated the already defeated dictator and caught those WMDs in mid-flight!

Why didn't you look at King Abdullah II, or Jordan in the area of Iraq yawn while Saddam was howling in his no-fly-zones?

Why didn't you look at the "conspiracy theorists" yawn? They confessed, "AMERICA IS BROKEN!" Aren't you proud you protect them with common sense?"