There is a voice in my head that keeps saying "There is a concentration camp in the swamps of Florida." When I'm shopping for groceries. When I'm taking a shower. "There is a concentration camp in the swamps of Florida."
Here is a tiny victory in a much bigger battle. There was a tension I've been holding in me ever since this place opened that I didn't even know was there.
newsweek.com/ron-desantis-wast…
Ron DeSantis Wasted $250 Million on Alligator Alcatraz as It Faces Closure
A federal judge has ruled that the new Florida detention center must close within 60 days.James Bickerton (Newsweek)
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The largest single contract, at $78.5 million: Jacksonville based Critical Response Strategies which is responsible for hiring corrections officers, camp managers and IT personnel.
criticalresponsestrategies.com…
Longview Solutions Group was awarded $25.6 million for site preparation and construction
longviewsolutionsgroup.com/
IT company Gothams has a $21.1 million contract to provide access badges and detainee wristbands.
gothams.com/
Gothams | Complex Challenges. Elite Response.
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Surely that's too woke?
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It's a absurd American euphemism for "prison guard"
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Timo
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Thanks for these links. I don't know how I missed them in the article. 😬 Critical Response strategies appears to be a shell company, and is only 4 years old. Will Adkins, who seems to be in property development, is listed as the principle. But other people have been looking for who owns these companies. jaxtrib.org/2025/07/16/jackson… I don't know if this is the same Will Adkins. waterfrontgrp.com/
Jacksonville firm with $78 million ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ contract has obscure origins
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I searched for the links they weren't in the article.
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I couldn't find any photos of the owners or contact info like address or phone number on two of those sites.
I do hope to get their names out and that they get snubbed at least by some people.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •They're building another concentration camp over in texas.
nbcnews.com/news/asian-america…
So this threat is not ended yet.
Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
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It was a more than a PR stunt. It was a trial balloon to see if they could get the public to go along with having it all out in the open operating at full capacity.
Dammit now you have me wondering if they didn’t fight back hard enough against the lawsuit just to let it go away without needing to admit it was wrong and disgusting.
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It looks like it will close. It was in a wetland and they skimped on sewage treatment. It was a blight on many levels.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Michael Bacon
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •every single time we make them take two months to do something they wanted to do in a week, that’s a win. That’s two months that they aren’t doing something else terrible. Every time we make them take a concentration camp apart and spend more money building another one, that’s a win.
It’s nowhere near enough, but I guarantee things would’ve gotten much worse much faster and hurt many more people by now if not for these little wins.
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And if your arm gets twisted till you have to say you might do it, maybe say it then don't do anything.
And if you ever do? Do it wrong.
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My favorite instance is this is the French automaker who's factory was taken over by the Nazis to make Nazi jeeps/tanks. He designed an oil dip stick that is functional for inspection but after driving the auto for a bit, no longer works as intended, so a lot of Nazi autos would do whatever it is that happens when you never change the oil. They blamed this on "French incompetence" and never considered that it was designed to fail.
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