re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[R. Fiero]

jbor wrote:
>. . .  it's easy to understand why Pynchon has his privileged 
>little "rebel" miss Zipi Pisk make mention of them so 
>condescendingly while she's kvetching about the lack of a 
>"major store" on the West Coast and the superior style and 
>sophistication of her accustomed Manhattan shopping haunts.

Pissing on I. Magnin's an elitist activity. Have at it.
I cannot find any mention of REX 84 in the list archive and 
didn't notice it as being anything other than a cute name that 
is  a little off.
Vineland "Rex 84"
page 353 "Nobody, Roy confessed, knew what Brock Vond was up 
to, beyond some connection with Reagan's so-called readiness 
exercise, code-named REX 84 — or maybe it was just the election 
year getting to everybody."
page 376 "Reagan had officially ended the "exercise" known as 
REX 84, and what had lain silent, undocumented, forever 
deniable, embedded inside."

REX 84 is not a topic that Lefties are familiar with but is a 
favorite of lunatic libertarians:
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There over 600 prison camps in the United States, all fully 
operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all 
staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are 
all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal 
Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be 
implemented in the United States.

The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a 
mass exodus of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, 
they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention 
centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be 
closed down and to be turned into prisons.

Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub 
programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is 
initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to 
control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an 
orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the 
federal government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming 
police state and thus will head up all operations. The 
Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the Federal 
Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation.

The camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading 
to and from the detention facilities. Many also have an airport 
nearby. The majority of the camps can house a population of 
20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is 
just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a 
massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.