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Major U.S. City ‘Disappears’ 7,000 Citizens In Secret Facility

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More than 7,000 people may have been “disappeared,” held and interrogated in a secret and unconstitutional detention facility in the heart of America’s third-largest city.

The Guardian newspaper is alleging that Chicago police operated a secret holding facility for more than 10 years where 7,185 were held without trial or access to lawyers.

“That place was and is scary,” attorney David Gaeger said of Homan Square – the Chicago Police Department’s secret detention facility in an old warehouse. “It’s a scary place. There’s nothing about it that resembles a police station. It comes from a Bond movie or something.”

Gaeger isn’t alone in his description of Holman.

“The reality is, no one knows where that person is at Homan Square,” Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School professor. “They’re disappeared at that point.”

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Disappeared is a term that refers to a tactic used by secret police under dictators such as Russia’s Joseph Stalin and Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. A person who was “disappeared” was taken away by police or government thugs, never to be seen again.

Chicago Police were able to do an end-run around the courts and the Constitution by simply taking suspects they arrested to Homan Square, a police evidence warehouse, instead of booking them into jail, The Guardian is alleging. That violated the law, the Constitution and the police department’s own rules, the newspaper alleged.

“It’s hard to believe that 7,185 arrests is an accurate number of arrestees at Homan Square,” Futterman said. Documents released because of a Guardian lawsuit show that that many people were detained at Homan Square between August 2004 and June 2015. The facility has been compared to one of the black sites where the CIA allegedly holds suspected terrorists.

Attorneys allege they have no way to know if their clients are there or not.

“Try finding a phone number for Homan to see if anyone’s there,” Gaeger said. “You can’t, ever. If you’re laboring under the assumption that your client’s at Homan, there really isn’t much you can do as a lawyer. You’re shut out. It’s guarded like a military installation.”

Prisoners who are taken to Homan Square are not allowed to make phone calls. They are alone with the police and completely at the mercy of interrogators.

The police use a simple bureaucratic trick to hide people at Homan Square: They don’t book suspects.

Key Obama Aide Connected to Homan Square

Police greatly increased the use of Homan Square after Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff; took over as Chicago’s mayor, The Guardian reported. Reporters have not been able to determine how much Emanuel knew about the facility, although he has defended it.

According to the Guardian, 65 percent of the people taken to Homan Square were taken there after Emanuel was elected mayor. The newspaper also reported that 82.2 percent of the people detained there were African-American, even though only 33 percent of Chicago’s population is black.

“Operating a massive, red-brick warehouse between two of the most crime-filled areas in the city of Chicago, equipped with floodlights, cameras, razor-wire – this near-paramilitary wing of the government that we’ve created, I would say that people who live close to it know what purpose it serves the most,” Gaeger said.

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    • AmbrociousXP

      The Oath Keepers along with a large crowd of peaceful people should assemble there and first demand that these people being held get released and tried fairly according to the true laws of the country. If these people are not released within 24 hours, the people will storm the building en mass, INFOWARS should be there to publicize it all.

      A FIRM yet peaceful force into the building needs to be done to flush the rotten rats out…the ones doing all of the illegal renditions.

      • akjm

        Agree, as an African-American I think the Oath Keepers have gotten a bad, undeserved rap from the press.

    • doggy do

      Lemesee: we’ve gone through the ‘Texas will be taken over’ by the country it already is a part of fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the “military exercises really a takeover of the U.S. by the U.S.’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through “texas town taken over by its own army’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ”all the school gun murders are false flags to take our guns’–I still have my seven or eight– fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘all school gun murders were done by space aliens’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone thru the ‘world will end sept 25′ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through ‘the world will end Oct. 18′ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through ‘well it didn’t end on Sept 25 or Oct. 20, but it will in November’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘everyone’s an antichrist but me, the real saviour, and if anyone says anything against me, you’re the antichrist too even though i belong in a hospital’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the “someone’s piloting a comet towards earth, and you can see them inside’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘all walmarts are now ready as FEMA prison camps’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through ‘the stock market will crash in April, June, October/take your pick of dates’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘there are FEMA prison camps all over the nation but no one can find them’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘city disappears and no one notices’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘they’re spreading poison in the contrails seen from jets even through they’ve existed since we began flying in the stratosphere’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through, numerous times, that ‘WW III is starting any day’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘anyone who disagrees with me is a CIA operative’ fearporn.
      We’ve gone through the ‘anyone who disagrees with me is a govt. operative…hey that’s a great way to disagree with anyone who provides proof, just someone made up 15 minutes ago’ fearporn.
      Who wants to add more here? I’m betting very few are, because so many of you are living in a fantasy world that is the internet.
      What you should be asking yourselves is, why do i enjoy being afraid of the boogeyman so much? It’s not halloween yet, so why?
      Does anyone reading this crap with enough sense to climb out of their ‘build your end of the world shelter now fearporn’ plans even see ANY kind of pattern here with the crap that is posted on BIN? I know batboy would. But he’s retired and living in a cave, unless he’s infected with white nose syndrome.
      It’s to MAKE THE POSTERS OF THIS CRAP MONEY, people. Nothing more. They feed on your fear. And what does that say about YOU?

      • TEXASPROUD

        Dude, quit reposting the same comment. Grow up and ACTUALLY comment on the subject matter.

        • Scanner Darko

          HA!

          You’re one to talk. You post the same damn diatribe on just about every article you speak on.

      • Rynosaur

        When you say “we’ve gone” it sounds like you’re saying they have been proven false. Please show me the evidence where these have been proven false? I don’t believe several of the ones you listed, but several others have yet to be proven false. There is sufficient evidence for chemtrails (unless you don’t count an actual meeting on them in the UN as evidence). There is also documented evidence to show that Homan square HAS been used for exactly what this article is saying, so your argument is beyond invalid, in the context of this article.

      • Nyyk4

        It really is quite sad. The life of a conspiracy theorist simply consists of living in constant fear. They all live out their full lives and spend their whole life preparing and being afraid of something that never happens. It’s no way to live, this theory based life is completely made up and is nothing but recycled rumors and theories. I am very glad I’ve never encounter one of you in person because i would without hesitation knock some sense into said person. The reason I haven’t come across one is because they all hide in fear. You people are nothing but groundhogs afraid of your own shadows!

        Great post Doggy do!

    • gmeades

      Wish more details were provided. It says “Documents released because of a Guardian lawsuit” show 7,185 people were “disappeared” into the facility. Who released the documents…? Police…? Who releases documents for the police…? It says the Guardian Newspaper is bringing the lawsuit. Since when does a newspaper bring a lawsuit against the police department…? What is the charge…? Has this been brought to the attention of the DOJ…? If these attorney’s had clients that they thought were brought to this facility, why haven’t they filed any lawsuits…? If people who live in the surrounding neighborhood know what the facility is used for, why weren’t any of them interviewed…? If 7,185 people have been brought to this facility over the course of 10 years and held without due process and not given their day in court, where are they now? Is there even one or two who have been identified who can tell their story…?

      As I said, there’s too many details missing, to many witnesses missing, to many lawyers who have done nothing and not gotten involved, no explanation of who released the documents or what else the documents contain, and no explanation of why a newspaper is bringing a lawsuit or on who’s behalf the lawsuit is being brought.

      The story is either very fishy, or this is a case of some very bad reporting here, and unfortunately there’s no way really to determine which it is. Although, this is NOT a new story, as I came across the story of this facility perhaps 2 years ago. I had the same reaction then as I do now, the story is fishy, and there wasn’t enough details provided, no witnesses, no neighbors interviewed, no lawyers involved, no one reporting it to the DOJ, and so on. The story was fishy then, and two years later, it’s fishy now.

    • justoldog

      This is happening in America??? Anyone associated with this should be fired and charged with kidnapping! -last I heard, that was illegal!

      • AllRoadsLead2NWO

        No- it is “just politics” ask billary ask anyone. The only thing worse than a used care salesman is a lawyer and the only thing worse once could be than both of those is a ‘politician’. After you live long enough, you learn to understand that politics means:
        1) Required compulsive lying.
        2) Corruption
        3) bribery
        4)Blackmail (I know sounds racist doesn’t it? lol)
        5)Extortion
        6) Murder
        7) Cover Ups

        This as you will learn are all just part of the world of ‘politics’ just ask billary, georgie or his cousin barry.
        There is nothing wrong with any of these things for they are just ‘politics’.

      • Nyyk4

        This isn’t happening, they are just rumors started by conspiracy theorists!

    • Anonymous

      You know as terrible as this story sounds, all those detained and, or disappeared are hard core dope smoking criminal Ghetto Apes. Only 7000 of them, I’m tick off there wasn’t more who vanished. I lived around those street animals grow up in Baltimore, that was many years ago and over time they only got worse. Give those police officers a medal for a job well done.

      • soulpowertothenthdegree

        Big talk from an anonymous racist pig. I bet you would not talk that crap face to face with a black person. Personally, I am white and I dare you to talk that crap in my face you punk.

    • MBKB

      HOW COME? WHOSE FAULT?

    • Anonymous

      Name of persons connected need to be gathered.
      At least so they don’t get re hired after a solution is implemented.

      This crap has gone on long enough in every state of the union.
      Get the names of these sick people so they don’t get re hired
      After a solution is found
      Every body needs to write down names and descriptions.
      For later use.

    • HfjNUlYZ

      it exsists and its true.i know many police that know about it but refuse to go on the record.its a terrible place and it may not be the only one in chicago

    • unidentified

      we hear news statistics about the high numbers of people that disappear every year could it be they end up in secret underground prison facilities for ‘unknown’ purposes, that could be really alarming, today the prisons are getting bigger and not enough of them to house the high number of criminals and even government higher private ‘companies’ (for profit) and contractors to house the criminals without adequate public notice if any notice at all

    • Болеслава

      how do you know its only restricted to chicago? seems highly unlikely.

      • Болеслава

        “and all who call upon the name of the lord will be saved” :arrow: :cool: :idea:

    • Grover

      Revolution only solution.

    • Anonymous

      If the government and powers to be police ECT have nothing to hide let the international Red Cross have an unrestricted visit to the place. Any refusal would be more than suspicious if nothing to hide and grounds for international enquiry.

    • Anonymous

      Anybody working there past or present and others places unknown at present reading this should write to the Red Cross OUTSIDE of USA anonymously giving details of the layout of place and procurers used that could have only come from a real insider. If they get many letters this alone would be a reason to ask congress for inspection.

    • nclausen

      If you want to know the purpose of this facility, try looking into the participants of Obama’s and Emanual’s bath house past. You might find that those that have close knowledge of the Obama/Michael Robinson wedding the borrowed family that supports the CIA ruse called president, might be at the core of “this evil facility. The CIA will stop at nothing to cover its lies and corruption, as the shadow continues to rule the USA.

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