In late August 1985, President Ronald Reagan put into effect an operation known as "MIC 85." Under the guidelines set forth by this operation, in the event of a terrorist act on American soil, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, would be given the authority to round up those individuals marked as "dissident individuals who are potential harmful to the American way of life", temporarily negate their civil liberties, house them in concentration camps built from closed military installations, and "beat the shit out of the Irish".