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A several-year-old conspiracy rumor about the U.S. government's supposedly having stockpiled thousands of plastic coffins (or coffin liners) for use in conjunction with FEMA internment camps was resurrected in January 2014 by an article positing that the Obama administration had quietly ordered $1 billion worth of disposable FEMA coffins: Examples: [Collected via e-mail, January 2014] Obama has been operating behind the scenes to prepare an action in case of an American revolt that will not only squash a revolution, but kill many of its participants. The first step of this action would be to disarm the American people, and throw anyone that is, or might be, a threat into a detention center — a FEMA camp. During the course of the revolt, many will die, both in battle and in the camps — an inevitable circumstance Obama is already preparing for.The current President of the United States, amongst other things, has already ordered $1 Billion dollars worth of disposable coffin liners. Around the country is stored the 5 million, what will be, FEMA coffins in various locations. This rumor resurfaced in October 2014 during the midst of public concern over an outbreak of Ebola, with claims that the coffins (or coffin liners) were being stockpiled in anticipation of a large number of fatalities from that disease in the U.S. However, the story and pictures are several years old, the objects shown have nothing to do with Ebola or FEMA or any other agency of the U.S. government, and the pictured items were around long before Barack Obama was first elected to the presidency of the U.S. in 2008. What's shown in the photos displayed with the FEMA camp story are not plastic coffins or disposable coffins, but rather what's known as burial vaults or grave liners. These liners don't hold human remains in themselves; they're a protective shell that coffins are placed into before interment in areas where water seepage or ground subsidence is an issue. As the Morgan County Citizen reported in 2008, tens of thousands of these liners were stored on leased land in Madison, Georgia, back in the 1990s by their manufacturer, the nearby Vantage Products Corporation (based in Covington, Georgia), for distribution to other areas on an as-needed basis. Since the coffin liners are made to withstand the elements, there was no need for Vantage to store them indoors, so they simply leased a large, unused outdoor field for use as a warehouse. Nonetheless, Vantage's storage situation eventually gave rise to wild conspiracy theories which flared up in 2008, rumors that claimed some half million of the liners (about ten times the actual number being stored in Georgia) were the property of the U.S. government and were being stockpiled in anticipation of a biological disaster, the implementation of martial law, or the imprisonment of thousands of U.S. citizens in FEMA-run concentration camps: (Images from Google Maps show that the liners are now gone from the Madison location; the last of them was apparently removed sometime around 2010.)
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