Posted on 02/10/2011 8:15:25 PM PST by JoeA
In what should amount to a surprise only to those who live in a cave, the City of Berkeley, California, will once again offer its expertise on a foreign policy issue for the benefit of the great unwashed, especially those Bible and gun-clingers in flyover country. The City Council will consider a recommendation from its Commission for Peace and Justice to extend a formal invitation to two former Guantanamo detainees to live in its fair environs. That same commission previously offered a resolution seeking “Humane Treatment and Conditions of Pre-Trial Confinement and Human Rights for Political Prisoner PFC, Bradley Manning [of Wikileaks fame].” The commission also has a subcommittee on “Oppressive States” (perhaps they mean California), and last September recommended the granting of Executive Clemency to Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of aiding and abetting in the murder of two FBI agents in 1977.
“As a municipality, this is one thing we can do to right some of the wrongs of our federal government” says Wendy Kenin of the Peace and Justice Commission. Kenin wants to invite two former detainees, Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian, and Ravil Mingazov, a Russian to move to Berkeley and live with families there. No word on whether she’s offered a room in her house.
The Berkeley love note, should it pass, appropriately on the day after Valentine’s Day, has all the legal power of spitting into the wind, as do so many of the resolutions and pronouncements emanating from Moscow-on-the-bay. Berkeley, despite its reputation as a having a well educated population, and being home to one of the world’s great universities, apparently doesn’t know the first thing about federalism, and the jurisdiction of cities. One would imagine that the town’s city council and its numerous agencies would have more pressing issues to deal with. But the Club Gitmo alumni should fit right in with Berkeley’s oh-so-PC multiculturalism: with a recidivism rate among former Gitmo inmates of some 25 percent, chances are they’ll feel right at home in a city whose crime rate is 56 percent higher than the national average.
We have a lot of illegal alien murderer inmates here in L.A. that I want to send to Berkeley. Do they have a 1-900 # for pick-ups?
Congress should approve this, as long as the GPS tracking keeps them within that city’s limits. :(
They will never learn... I believe the Gitmo detainees hate them with every fiber of their being (infidels and all), regardless of the groveling, kowtowing and butt-kissing of the liberal establishment in Berkeley.
I stopped at “Peace and Justice Commission”.
They are all truly insane.
LOL!
I watched the Reagan piece on history channel last night and they showed his dealings with Berkeley in the 60’s. It was swift and effective.
To start with, what numbskull would issue them a visa?
Second, who would let them board an airplane? Shouldn't their names be on the no-fly list?
Guess they could wetback it...
As much as I’d love to see them in Berkeley they would still be too close to my home for comfort.
>To start with, what numbskull would issue them a visa?<
Our current administration would probably demand it.
I’m sure Janet would go along with it.
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