Dear Stupid: As they say in engineering, "If it ain't broke, then don't fix it.
Posted on 08/03/2009 3:42:36 PM PDT by Zakeet
Not in my backyard! Not in my state! Not in my country!
That was the response from politicians and business leaders in Kansas on Monday to moves by President Barack Obama to transfer terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to facilities in the United States, perhaps including Kansas.
"This is a patently bad idea," Republican Senator Sam Brownback told reporters in the northeast Kansas riverside community of Leavenworth ...
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that a government task force was considering as possible sites Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and a 604-bed maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan, that is scheduled to be closed.
An Obama administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed on Monday that those sites were being looked at but said there were "many, many options" under consideration.
"No final decisions of any sort have been made," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Administration officials reportedly have been considering building a court facility within a prison site to avoid the need to transfer defendants between sites within the United States.
Obama has pledged to close the prison at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo by the end of the year but faces strong opposition from fellow Democrats and Republicans in Congress to transferring the remaining 240 prisoners to U.S. soil for detention and trial.
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Business leaders in Leavenworth, about 40 miles from the Kansas City metropolitan area, say locating detainees near their community will depress property values, discourage new business development and put the residents at risk.
"We are not afraid of the prisoners breaking out," said Leavenworth-Lansin Chamber of Commerce executive vice president Tim Holverson. "We are more concerned with their friends trying to break them out. We don't want to be a target."
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Dear Stupid: As they say in engineering, "If it ain't broke, then don't fix it.
Come on Zakeet,
Jobs for Kansas.
Well, they can thank their former gov, Sebelius, since she endorsed 0bama for president!
Zer0 has yet to understand that the safety of the American people trumps his election pandering.
Funny how the City Of Alexandria in Virginia - which voted 70 percent for Zer0 - doesn’t want any Gitmo terrorists tried in their neighborhood at the Alexandria Federal Court.
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