Posted By Pete Kotz pete.kotz@clevescene.com> on Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:10 am
- Ohio Emergency Management Agency
Gov. Mike DeWine was getting bombarded with worried calls. A flurry of internet rumors had set the Republican faithful aflame. Ohio, along with the federal government, had supposedly set up secret “FEMA camps” to enforce Covid quarantines, with the draconian goal of instilling thoughtfulness toward others.
So last week, the governor took to the podium to dispel the rumors. No, Ohio had not built FEMA camps, he claimed. Yet survivors of the camps would tell a different story. It seems the horrors are real.
One night, Bob Kettering was sitting in his Zanesville living room, watching his Grand Ole Opry box set on VCR. Suddenly, black-clad government agents burst into his home. Kettering was blindfolded, given a knock-out drug, and shoved into a waiting van. He would awaken to find himself locked away in a Sheraton outside Dayton.
The hotel had been confiscated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), he says. Kettering and his fellow inmates were placed under 24-hour guard. He would soon discover the reason for his abduction. Kettering had been caught on government surveillance cameras entering a United Dairy Farmers without a mask.
The conditions were excruciating. If he didn’t wake early enough, the complimentary breakfast bar would run out of cheese Danish. He’d be forced to eat raspberry instead. The pay-per-view system was loaded with rom-coms, seeming to purposely exclude great auteurs like Willis and Van Damme. Popcorn in the lobby was served without butter.
“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” Kettering says.
Fellow inmate Josh McCloskey confirms the atrocities. He’s a senior at Miami University, majoring in business administration. One night he was on his way home from a party. “It was at the Lambda Phi house,” he says, “totally off the chain.” Federal agents grabbed him in the dark….read more.