Beware the evil grain bins of the NEW WORLD ORDER!

[gimpface]

A couple of years ago my fiance had to do some research on the Denver International Airport for an art class. Yes, an art class. The DIA has some awesomely freaky murals.
Anytime we'd google it, all these entertainingly weird-ass conspiracy sites came up, most of which claimed the DIA had huge underground areas to be used as concentration camps (some of this is due to the scary murals). The DIA undoubtedly has large underground areas (as nearly all large airports do), but I sincerely doubt they are containment facilities. However, the idea of concentration camps of American soil does have a certain amount of merit, mostly due to a chapter of history straight out of Orwell.
In 1984 (No kidding, that's the actual year) an emergency plan called REX-84 was concieved by none other than Col. Oliver North himself. This plan called for martial law, the "temporary" suspension of constitutional rights and controlling the movement of the public. Luckily this plan was shot down for being grossly unconstitutional.
This is where the world of verifiable fact ends and all the theories begin. There are many sites that claim there are currently unoccupied camps constructed and maintained, waiting for prisoners. Here's one such site:

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name ... e&sid=1062

Scroll down to the locations section and have a look at the Arkansas listings...

"Omaha - Northeast of Berryville near Missouri state line, on Hwy 65 south of old wood processing plant. Possible crematory facility."

This caught my eye, as I only live a few miles from there. So I did a little research. First I had to find the wood plant mentioned. I happened upon this EPA report

www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6sf/pdffiles/0600124.pdf

which not only describes the location of the site in detail, but which might also reveal one possible source of this rumor. If you have a look at the report, some of you will be looking at familiar territory... it's the north end of the train tunnel at Cricket AR!
According to the report, after the ARKWOOD plant was closed down the soil and ground water was polluted with PCP and dioxin from chemicals dumped in the railroad ditch, on the ground, and in a sinkhole on the property. The original plan to fix the site was to fence in the area and build an incinerator on site to dispose of all the contaminated soil by burning.
However, the locals didn't like the idea of toxic fumes being produced so close to the elementary school, so an alternative was found: the soil would be shipped off to be incinerated elsewhere, which would also be cheaper than building the facility on-site.
The incinerator was never built and the EPA remediation ceased in 1995 (mission accomplished). So what of these rumors? I headed out there the other day to see for myself.
The EPA mandated fence is all around the perimeter. The only buildings on site is a shed, a small office type building, and three large grain bins. I was too much of a puss to hop the fence in broad daylight and the site has signs of being occupied (electric lights still working, trash barrel out front, etc.). I did snake around the fence to the back of the bins close enough to read a sign posted on a hatch. It said "DO NOT ENTER, YOU CAN SUFFOCATE UNDER THE GRAIN IN THIS BIN!".
Disappointed, I slid down the slope and checked out the tunnel instead.

[Willard]

I hate conspiracy theorists... a bunch of crack pots if you ask me... All they do is stir up things that arn't there and make people nervous for no reason.

[Mindscape]

Hey!

Oh. Right. You meant someone else.

[ann_marie]

A couple of years ago my fiance had to do some research on the Denver International Airport for an art class. Yes, an art class. The DIA has some awesomely freaky murals.

I did a search on google/images and only found two pics. Do you know where I can find more?

[gimpface]

Here's some:

www.cephasministry.com/news_pulse_9.2003.html

http://www.geocities.com/Baja/5692/murals.html

That's a start.

[ann_marie]

I would not get on a plane after seeing those murals. Totally creepy.

[gimpface]

interesting side note...
Ever since making this topic there have been weird clicks on my phone that weren't there before.
Since I'm not a fan of conspiracy dorks, I'll take the L. Ron Hubbard approach and blame it on Thetans.

[gimpface]

Come to think of it, I'm not a big fan of L. Ron Hubbard either. I'll blame it on a gypsie curse.

[David Keetz]

sadly enough, deep down i half way buy into the conspiracy theory crap...but that's the price we pay for having a government big enough to "protect" us from the rest of the world.....they could, if they were so inclined, gather us up and eradicate us....and it starts with the "nobody who'll be missed" sort of thing.

ever watch the "fleecing of america"? ever wonder exactly what those multi million dollar "empty" facilities are for? ........that news segment is the main source my conspiracy theory arguments.

[gimpface]

Fleecing of America? Never heard of it. What be it?

[David Keetz]

it's a segment on the national news that comes on at 5:30 on KY3...it basically talks about how the government is spending millions on seemingly worthless projects. e.g. building highways that apparently don't go anywhere or huge facilities in the desert for really stupid sounding causes.

[gimpface]

Oh man... that sounds awesome! I'll have to check it out. I'm usually working at that time though. Do they have a website?

[Sertile]

It's just the NBC news. Go to their website and see if they have any kind of archive or anything. There's so much bureaucracy in the federal government, no one actually knows what they're doing half the time, even the people in charge.

Anyway, great story Gimp! I take it you never located the camp then, if it exists. I'm not really a believer in conspiracy theories, as I believe the government is too inept to successfully maintain a conspiracy of any size or importance, but I do quite enjoy them nonetheless. Let me know if you find anything! That's something I'd definitely make the trip into AR for!

[Willard]

I am a conspiracy theory...

[gimpface]

Nah, there's nothing there worth seeing (although I did take some photos). I took one photo that I believed would explain everything, but it didn't turn out very well. The shotgun shells were too blurry, and I didn't manage to get the pile of beer cans in the picture at all.