Don M, I'm sure GUEST was referring to me. GUEST is actually our belovéd, bewildered Dreaded Guest, passionate lover of deep-laid conspiracies—in fact, never met a conspiracy he/she/it didn't believe in—who is trying to separate his/her/its association with previous expressions of nincompoopery by abandoning the "Dreaded Guest" sobriquet and attempting to become even more anonymous by identifying him-/her-/itself merely as "GUEST." But writing style and form of excessive assertion are as precise identifiers as fingerprints.

Obviously Dreaded Guest (aka as merely "GUEST") is still smarting over my comments some threads ago about the Magnuson Park "concentration camp" issue.

Seattle's Magnuson Park is the former Sand Point Naval Air Station, donated to the City of Seattle by the Navy when the air station was decommissioned a few years back. The City of Seattle's Department of Parks and Recreation administers the area, and it has turned it into a very pleasant park on the shores of Lake Washington, replete with play fields, picnic areas, a "sculpture garden," and other recreational areas and activities. The numerous buildings are now housing classrooms, meeting rooms, and halls that can be rented for parties, dances, and other events (a couple of years ago, one of my wife's friends had her wedding reception in one of the halls). It is now a combination park and community center. The nearest thing to a Federal Government agency that still resides there is the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They have offices and facilities there. Many other organizations have offices and facilities there. See links below.

What has Dreaded Guest still smarting is that he/she/it maintains that the government is using the former Sand Point Naval Air Station as a concentration camp for dissidents, protesters, peace activists, and other "political prisoners." The nearest thing there is to a concentration camp at Sand Point is an eight-cell brig where naval personnel who went out on the town and got a bit over-enthusiastic while in their cups could sleep it off after being hauled in by the shore patrol or the Seattle Police. The brig is no longer used as a brig, and even if the government wanted to, it's much to small to be used as a "concentration camp."

I live here, I've been to Magnuson Park many times, and I've seen the facilities. Dreaded Guest, not a resident of this region (thereby knowing all about it), has not. But on a previous thread or two, Dreaded Guest tried to support a conspiracy theory by claiming that the government maintained a concentration at Sand Point in Seattle. And naughty me, I had the bad grace to pee in his/her/its beer by providing links showing that the "concentration camp" (adjacent to a residential area, by the way) does not exist. If the government actually did maintain a concentration camp around here, areas within Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, would be more likely.

Here's the pertinent poop on Magnusen Park / Sand Point—(Seattle's Infamous Concentration Camp):—

Seattle Historylink file
A sampling of the activities at this "concentration camp."

Have a nice day.

Don Firth