“FEMA camps are open for the upcoming arrests for crimes against humanity.”
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No evidence to support claims of FEMA camps for crimes against humanity arrestees
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- This is not an official press conference.
- The person in the video falsely claims to have jurisdiction "over any governments, courts and corporations."
- Claims about FEMA camps are part of a longstanding and debunked conspiracy theory.
In what looks like an official press conference, replete with two American flags flanking a podium, a man announces that he’s authorizing the opening of Federal Emergency Management Agency camps.
"The FEMA camps are federal camps to take people out of the public and into an encampment as a confinement policy because lawyers, judges, and any officers including sheriffs, and deputies, and police officers, that involve themselves in all manner of powers of attorney, are racketeering, and you are a public hazard," he says. "So in the U.S. as of now I am authorizing Donald John Trump to open the FEMA camps because we have so much evidence that so many of these people have taken money from people, held them hostage … to enslave humanity."
An April 8 Facebook post sharing this video wrote: "FEMA camps are open for the upcoming arrests for crimes against humanity."
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This clip is more than two years old and part of a much longer video. The person in the video is a London-based, self-described "chief-federal-postal-court-judge" who says he has jurisdiction "over any governments, courts and corporations." But we found no evidence that he actually has any such authority, much less that he can authorize a former U.S. president to open FEMA camps to incarcerate people accused of crimes against humanity.
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As we’ve previously reported, claims of FEMA prison camps are part of a long-running and debunked conspiracy theory.
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PolitiFact, Claim of FEMA ‘prison camps’ is part of long-running, thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory, Jan. 20, 2022
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