From: "heather" <heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: [v-nv-mobilize] Where Uncle Sam Goes If Holocaust Comes To Town
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:07:21 -0000



> Just in case you were curious about where the fatcats
> disappeared to if suddenly they ain't there....
> 
> 
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> Where Uncle Sam Goes If Holocaust Comes To Town 
> Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
> Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 
> 
> President Bush's Sept. 11 hopscotching in Air Force
> One from Florida to 
> Air Force bases in Louisiana and Nebraska before
> returning to 
> Washington 
> seemed frenetic but was, in fact, part of a fixed plan
> to safeguard the 
> chief executive and succeed in a vital mission of the
> Continuity of 
> Government Program (COG).
> 
> If the president had been sitting in the Oval Office
> at the time of the 
> attacks rather than visiting a school in Sarasota, he
> would still have 
> been whisked aboard Air Force One for an indefinite
> period of time - a 
> fact apparently not considered by critics of his
> itinerary that day. 
> 
> According to rigid operating procedures of the Federal
> Emergency 
> Management Agency (FEMA), the first line of defense
> for the president 
> is 
> not the fallout shelter beneath the East Wing of the
> White House, but a 
> flying command post even more sophisticated than Air
> Force One and 
> judged safer than any point on the ground. 
> 
> A key presidential side trip of Sept. 11 was to Offutt
> Air Force Base, 
> Neb., home to the National Airborne Operations Center
> (NAOC), where one 
> of four converted 747-200s (code named "Kneecap") sat
> ready for takeoff 
> with a full battle staff aboard. Known informally as
> "the doomsday 
> planes," the official moniker of the flying NAOCs is
> "Night Watch." 
> 
> With in-flight refueling, each of these planes can
> remain airborne for 
> as long as three days before needing to return to the
> deck for a change 
> of oil in the engines. 
> 
> If the terrorist attacks had continued, national
> command and control 
> would have left the skies and been grounded somewhere
> in a chain of 
> secret and not-so-secret shelters for the president,
> other government 
> leaders and critical personnel. 
> 
> The "Federal Relocation Arc" is a system of perhaps a
> hundred shelters 
> for the executive, legislative and judicial branches
> of government 
> agencies that sweeps through North Carolina, Virginia,
> West Virginia, 
> Maryland and Pennsylvania. 
> 
> For instance, the Pentagon's safe house is located at
> a site called 
> Raven Rock in Maryland. This sprawling 716-acre
> installation lies 650 
> feet below the surface. The staffers (about 350) go to
> work via portals 
> in the mountainside. Amenities include shopping, a
> barbershop, medical 
> clinic, dining, fitness facilities and a chapel.
> 
> Even large defense contractors, such as McDonnell
> Douglas, Lockheed, 
> and 
> AT&T, are said to have their own subterranean
> facilities.
> 
> Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
> emergence of terror as 
> an 
> ill-defined enemy's new weapon of choice, doomsday
> planners are 
> reassessing crisis scenarios. Old relocation centers
> are under review. 
> Some will be closed, with others converted to other
> uses. 
> 
> As an example, the Federal Reserve Board had its
> relocation site in 
> Culpeper, Va., until it was mothballed in July 1992.
> The 
> 43,000-square-foot radiation-proof bunker was reported
> stocked with 
> enough freeze-dried food to last 30 days. The new
> relocation site for 
> the board appropriately remains a mystery.
> 
> As far as anyone will say, Mount Weather, code-named
> "High Point," is 
> still the key facility in the sheltering arc. This is
> where the 
> president, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court justices
> may be relocated 
> in the event of a national emergency. High Point is a 
> 61,000-square-foot 
> mountain bunker near Berryville, Va. It has been
> around since the 1950s 
> and is certainly no longer secret.
> 
> On Sept. 11, after departing from Louisiana's
> Barksdale A.F.B, the 
> Secret Service urged that the president be flown
> immediately - not to 
> Mount Weather - but to Colorado Springs, where the
> North American 
> Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) underground bunker
> is located.
> 
> If Mount Weather, indeed, is no longer the jewel in
> the Federal 
> Relocation Arc's crown, it would be tough to
> duplicate. One of the 
> first 
> of nearly 100 Federal Relocation Centers, it took
> years to complete and 
> is more an underground city than an emergency bunker.
> 
> According to the Napa Sentinel, an underground
> installation with a COG 
> function is under construction near the Oakville Grade
> in Napa County, 
> Calif. Mysterious helicopter flights go in and out of
> the area. The 
> Sentinel says "the secret government site is replacing
> other 
> installations and combining them into one underground
> center." In any 
> event, the real issue is how to get key personnel out
> of Washington and 
> to these places of safety. The Marine helicopters of
> the presidential 
> squadron at nearby Quantico, Va., cannot ferry them
> all.
> 
> U.S. Patent No. 3,693,731 details an apparatus for
> tunneling by 
> melting. 
> In part it describes "a machine and method for
> drilling bore holes and 
> tunnels by melting in which a housing is provided for
> supporting a heat 
> source and a heated end portion and in which the
> necessary melting heat 
> is delivered to the walls of the end portion at a rate
> sufficient to 
> melt rock and during operation of which the molten
> material may be 
> disposed adjacent the boring zone in cracks in the
> rock and as a 
> vitreous wall lining of the tunnel so formed." 
> 
> In an allied development, MIT engineers Robert Salter
> and Frank P. 
> Davidson tout their "Planetran" concept for moving
> people rapidly 
> through very long tunnels. 
> 
> Planetran, according to Salter, is an "ultra-speed, 
> electro-magnetically 
> propelled and levitated transportation system." Such a
> system, say the 
> engineers, could rocket passengers through bored
> tunnels across the 
> United States in less than an hour "in a quiet,
> economical, 
> fuel-conservative, and nonpolluting manner."
> 
> Congress already races around in electric carts
> through tunnels from 
> one 
> Washington office building to another. A system such
> as Planetran may 
> one day shuttle government leaders in underground
> safety to locations 
> in 
> the nearby Federal Relocation Arc.
> 
> ====> "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
> servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
> go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
> Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
> chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye
> were our countrymen."