What More Can American Citizens Do For President Bush?

Hey, JFK may have coined, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country?" but the Bush Administration seems to have a way to make this happen!

From Joe at Hard-Boiled Dreams of The World tells us all about The Civilian Inmate Labor Program (maybe a breaking and entering charge will automatically send you to Iraq as a cop?):

File this one under Sounding More and More Like Nazis. From the U.S. Army’s own website, this 2005 document, The Civilian Inmate Labor Program, provides how-to guidelines for using military bases to lock up US citizens and put ‘em to work!

This regulation provides guidance for establishing and managing civilian inmate labor programs on Army installations. It provides guidance on establishing prison camps on Army installations. It addresses record keeping and reporting incidents related to the Civilian Inmate Labor Program and/or prison camp Applicability. This regulation applies to the Active Army, the Army National Army management control process. Contents (Listed by paragraph and page number) Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve unless otherwise stated.

Coupled with the massive detention camps Halliburton is building on US soil (contract worth $385 million—your tax dollars…) to prepare for martial law, and it looks like…well, draw your own conclussions.