JC> SB> I haven't heard anyone discuss gas ovens yet.  I have heard them
  > SB> discuss forced work programs in connection with the camps. I have 
heard
  > SB> people discuss minorities in connection with the camps.
JC> Again, if prisoners in the "normal" corrections system are made to work 
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  > help pay for the cost of their incaceration, I suppose some could call 
that
  > "forced labor". Oregon is trying now to implement such a program that was
  > approved by the voting public in a general election. As for minorities, I
  > believe anyone in prison (in Oregon) now has either been duly convicted 
n
  > court of law or is awaiting trial. The fact that "one" side is "blaming" 
th
  > "other" side, leads me to believe that the rumors are totally false.
I expect they are.  The government can easily convict people in
theregular court systems by planting false information, etc.  It
doesn't, at this point, need the concentration camps, to take political
prisoners; and I really don't think it's ready to eliminate an entire
group of people by killing them off, at least not at this time.  It
certainly has tried that in the past (with the Indians).
JC> There are probably radical fringes that think day care or public school 
s
  > a concentration camp. There are also people that think the world is gonna
Or at least have strong opposition to them.
                           Sondra
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