Disgraced ex-judge Alcee Hastings can hardly wait to throw his political opponents into concentration camps. As the Washington Examiner reports:

Rep. Alcee Hastings - the impeached Florida judge Nancy Pelosi tried to install as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee until her own party members rebelled - introduced an amendment to the defense authorization bill that gives Attorney General Eric Holder sole discretion to label groups that oppose government policy on guns, abortion, immigration, states' rights, or a host of other issues. In a June 25 speech on the House floor, Rep. Trent Franks, R-AZ, blasted the idea: "This sounds an alarm for many of us because of the recent shocking and offensive report released by the Department of Homeland Security which labeled, arguably, a majority of Americans as 'extremists.'"

Another Hastings bill (HR 645) authorizes $360 million in 2009 and 2010 to set up "not fewer than six national emergency centers on military installations" capable of housing "a large number of individuals affected by an emergency or major disaster." But Section 2 (b) 4 allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to use the camps "to meet other appropriate needs" - none of which are specified. This is the kind of blank check that Congress should never, ever sign. I wonder if Hastings plans on transporting his victims in boxcars, with a shower at the end of the trip. This could be why the Democrats can hardly wait to empty Gitmo. Progressives are master of projection. They spent eight years attacking Republicans for the Patriot Act. They spent eight years attacking George W. Bush for allegedly planning to gut the Bill of Rights. And when the Democrats get into power they set out to do everything they accused the Republicans of. H.R. 645 is the fruit of Hate Crime legislation that has wide support on the left. Everyone they hate will now be declared a "domestic terrorist."

Update: Yes, very evil. The anonymous reporter Zombie provides this expose on what passes for science in the Obama Era:

"Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens.

The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both?

These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:

• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force."

Here is just one quote from Holdren's Mein Kampf:

If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility—just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns—providing they are not denied equal protection.Just another reminder that the eugenics movement of the twentieth century was a respectable Progressive cause; just as today, it's a respectable environmentalist cause. The above quote should be read with the so-called Cap and Trade bill in mind. The book in question is titled: Ecoscience. Its call number is: HB871 .E35 1977. The K-State university library has a copy, but it is checked out. I'll be checking it out next.

Crossposted at The Dougout