Sept. 8, 2005 [Day 11]
At exactly 14:55 hours Mountain Daylight Time, and that would be post meridian, I received the call that I had been waiting on all day. The Office of Governor Super Jon Huntsman of Prison State Utah returned my call.
I would be allowed to have my highly anticipated questions and answer session with Super Jon’s official spokesperson and bon vivant, one Tami Kiguchi.
(Is that accurate enough for you, Democratic Underground? I’m referring to the actual time and exact name of Super Jon's spokesperson. I admit that I might not have the spelling for Kiguchi exactly correct. The reasons for this oversight should become apparent shortly.)
Ms. Kiguchi informed me that Governor Super Jon and Prison State Utah did not appreciate me referring to the internees at Internment Camp Utah as insurgents, or detainees.
I asked Ms. Kiguchi how one might go about getting access to the detainees -- sorry, internees at Internment Camp Utah.
“No chance” according to Ms. Kiguchi. If and when the internees are “out and about in the community,” one can have access to them then.
Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out. One would have to guess, I suppose.
Now, I explained my visit to Detainment Camp Utah from Tuesday, and Ms. Kiguchi got a little pissed. “They are not detainees!”
According to Ms. Kiguchi, the poor souls that are being kept in containment by Prison State Utah are sorely stressed and in need of Prison State Utah's care. They do NOT need to be bothered by the likes of me. Okey-dokey! Prison State Utah is actively pursuing a policy of containment with the New Orleans internees and Prison State Utah doesn’t want them being bothered by... me.
As I tried to ask how might I get the proper credentials to get into Internment Camp Utah, Ms. Kiguchi reinforced my initial, rather unpleasant experience at Detainment Camp Utah by informing me that should I set one foot on the military property, I would be summarily arrested.
The internees are being held by Prison State Utah and they will not be bothered. Prison State Utah, the military, and mainstream media have access to the internees, but regular human type folk do not have such access, and especially me, I will not be allowed access. But, if one can somehow hook up with the internees when they are on the outs if you will, well then a grand time is guaranteed to be had by all.
Here’s the tricky part. The New Orleans internees do not know Utah and especially Salt Lake County or Utah County. They didn't even know they were being brought here, until they got here. The internees certainly do not know a soul here, except for Prison State Utah officials, the military who guard them, and the mainstream media-types who are allowed to chat with them. Contact with any regular type humans, let alone the likes of me, would and possibly could be highly un-reassuring, so Prison State Utah is going to a huge expense to keep the internees’ world controlled and comfortable for them.
Prison State Utah does not want the internees to have to experience anything except for what Prison State Utah wants them to experience.
If I’m not mistaken, this is still America. The land of the free and the home of the brave and all manner of hyper-jingoistic spew like that. But not for the internees at Internment Camp Utah.
These poor souls from New Orleans are being kept close to incommunicado by Prison State Utah. Are they allowed one phone call? Are they undergoing some kind of mystical rehabilitation and Prison State Utah and the military doesn’t want them bothered or questioned or asked about their experiences?
It’s more than a little obvious to me that there is something going on here that doesn’t quite meet the usual democratic standards. Usually, when Americans are rescued from dire circumstances, they're free to go. Are these people free to go?
Maybe the usual democratic standards are gone by the wayside, and this is an experiment in the wholesale detainment of Americans. That would figure, and that would answer many questions. There aren't thousands of internees behind the barbed wire and guards here in Utah, but are the other internees from New Orleans being kept incommunicado by the Prison States they are being kept in?
So many questions and so few answers. But you will find a growing number of really pissy Prison State Utah officials that are so pissed off at me, I just might be a dead man by weeks' end. I am certain that would please the Democratic Underground immensely. It would please Tami Kiguchi and it surely would please Prison State Utah’s Governor Super Jon Huntsman.
So in conclusion, as I badgered Tami Kiguchi about why Prison State Utah is keeping the internees out of sight and out of mind, but in complete control by Prison State Utah, she slammed her phone down and that was the end of my official question and answer session with Prison State Utah. Tami can slam that phone really hard too. It was loud and I’ll bet that phone will be left with a mark for quite a while.
So I didn’t get to confirm the correct spelling of her name, and Democratic Underground may just get the last laugh on that one.
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I asked Ms. Kiguchi how one might go about getting access to the detainees -- sorry, internees at Internment Camp Utah.
“No chance” according to Ms. Kiguchi.
If and when the internees are “out and about in the community,” one can have access to them then.
Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out.
One would have to guess, I suppose.
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