Barry, Honey, can we talk about Gitmo?

American Thinker ^ | January 28, 2009 | Kyle-Anne Shiver

[vietvet67]

"President Obama" seems a far too stiff and stilted salutation for you, dear Sir, our most populist-appealing leader ever.  So, I'm quite certain you won't mind one little bit if I take the liberty of addressing you in the same informal manner you seemed to prefer on the campaign trail.  Your calling female reporters, "sweetie," and chatting it up with workingmen in American neighborhoods has set the tone for my conversations with you dear, Mr. President.

I love having a down-home people's president.

Now, Barry honey, can we talk about Gitmo?

Since you've discovered the power of that mighty Presidential pen, and have moved so quickly to keep your campaign promise to close Gitmo within one year, I'm getting pretty nervous down here in Georgia.  So is every other mother I know.

Now, Barry honey, I'm well aware that some in your crowd think orange jumpsuits are stigmatizing, black hoods are cruel, and denying non-citizens the Constitutional rights of citizens has tainted America's image abroad.  That you seem to agree with this fringe of your Party does trouble me, though.  You, being a Constitutional lawyer trained at Harvard and holding this opinion, scares the very wits out of me.

I'm sitting down here wishing that your attempts to channel Lincoln extended further than trains, themes, food and folderol.  When Lincoln aimed to settle the Civil War, he fought to win, don't you know.  He suspended Habeas Corpus for United States citizens, honey.  Surely you don't think Abraham Lincoln had less than the best interests of this Republic at heart.  Now, if Lincoln went this far to preserve the perpetuity of our Constitutional contract, can't you just protect our innocent children from terrorists?

When you told Jake Tapper of ABC News last June, that prosecuting individual terrorists in U.S. Courts worked just fine after the 1993 WTC bombings and that we ought to pursue this policy for all terrorists, I broke out in a cold sweat and grabbed for my babies. Surely you're aware that those public trials with the incumbent discovery process led to high-impact consequences for our national security.

You do know surely, Barry honey, that during the trial of the blind sheik, our prosecutors had to turn over a list of 200 unindicted co-conspirators, and that sure enough within a few days that list made it all the way to downtown Khartoum and was put right slap-dab into the hands of Osama Bin Laden. 

In one heartache of a New York minute, the evil Bin Laden knew which of his covert agents here had been outed.  Now, I'm not the President and I have no degree in Constitutional law, but even I suspect that this was not a good thing -- at least not for the innocent workers in the WTC on 9/11, it wasn't.

In another case, someone -- someone seemingly unimportant -- testified about delivery of a cell phone, and wouldn't you know it! The terrorists got the transcript, culled that little detail and shut down their cell phone communication network, knowing -- due to the public trial -- that our guys were onto them. 

I'm not really in favor of announcing to every terrorist cell around the globe exactly how we're waging our war against them.  Surely, you're not either, but public trials like the kind we give real citizens, would certainly do that.

Those unintended consequences can become real snafus, honey.

Now I really do hope you've taken the time to read the NYPD's report on Radicalization and the Homegrown Threat, a threat that even as I write you, breeds like a deadly virus among our very own citizenry.  Just as Lincoln had to face the ugly fact that domestic threats were real, so do you, honey.    

According to this very detailed and elaborate report, done in the interest of national security, these homegrown Islamic terrorists fly under the law-enforcement radar, have no prior records, are bred under cover of religious institutions, and prey upon the hopes of disaffected youths who are indoctrinated to see themselves in glorious terms as warriors in the global Jihad.  Most are just walking among the rest of us law-abiding citizens as secret agents awaiting their call to individual missions.

Which brings me, Barry honey, to the nit and grit of this Gitmo matter. 

Once you actually bring those terrorists to American soil and house them close to our neighborhoods and our innocent school children, won't some of these homegrown, secret warriors find that a temptation just too juicy to ignore?  Won't someone here activate cells of plotters nearby to spring their comrades?  Couldn't they take over a school and kill hundreds of innocent children the way they did in Beslan a few years back? 

You see, we ordinary American citizens don't have 24/7 Secret Service protection and the like.  We must travel the open road with only ourselves and our wits to protect us, and we've grown accustomed to having a President who gave higher priority to protecting us than he gave to protecting the "rights" of terrorists.  If you follow through with this cockamamie promise to close Gitmo, where does that leave us and our children, honey?

You're not really serious about this, are you?

Time to face facts. You're most likely going to have to rise to the levels of Lincoln and Bush to get your job of protecting America done.  And the sooner you start talking this way, the sooner the terrorists will get the message.  That Presidential pen works both ways; time to undo what you've so capriciously done.

Oh, and Barry honey, dissing Medal of Honor winners and wounded vets in favor of hip-hop artists is probably not the best way to start as protector of the people of the United States of America. 

You need those military guys and gals, honey.  Oh boy, do you need them. 

Wil-I-Am ain't going to save American school children from vicious attacks.

You must remember, Barry honey, the watchword of the Presidency: 

Prioritize.  Prioritize.  Prioritize. 

Until our next chat, I remain your faithful constituent.

Kyle-Anne Shiver is a frequent contributor to American Thinker.  She welcomes your comments at kyleanneshiver@gmail.com.      

[cripplecreek]

Gonna be real interesting when libtards figure out that the terrorists were better off in Gitmo.

At Gitmo they don’t live in solitary confinement. In American prisons they’ll have to be in solitary to prevent the other inmates from slaughtering them.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Obammie the commie's plan:

1. Pretend to try to appease the terrorists. Result: He knows this won't work.
2. They attack us again.
3. Obammie the fascist implements martial law, “for our own safety.”
4. Obammie the commie implements the draft. Result: He knows there will be protests and the nation will, once again, become openly hostile to the military (Viet Nam), rather than pretending to support the military, just not the mission.
5. With no military and martial law, Obammie the commie turns the reins of control of the US over to the UN to work out a “global solution.”

Think it can't happen? Obammie and his commies are the epitome of how fascism takes over...smooth-talking rhetoric, a reign of control founded on the ideals of hope. When that ideal is killed by reality, cynicism and anger take its place, then open hostility, and, finally, fascistic rule when the threat of losing power becomes a possibility.

[genetic homophobe]

see you at re-education camp.

[GBA]

"...Homegrown Threat, a threat that even as I write you, breeds like a deadly virus among our very own citizenry. Just as Lincoln had to face the ugly fact that domestic threats were real, so do you, honey."

Not to sound like someone who doesn't support the Prez, but he isn't exactly a homegrown President himself and while Harvard might teach the Constitution, they don't teach love for the Constitution.

He might be able to deliver someone else's well written speech, but it doesn't mean he believes what he was saying or that he is serving the best interests of We, The People as opposed to serving himself. He signed more EOs on his first day than Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton or Bush, bypassing the normal checks and balances and potentially and unnecessary putting us in danger. Makes me wonder, whose side is he really on?

[Made In The USA]

I wonder if ol’ Barry is EVER given strong dissenting opinion in his new administration. I doubt the Obomber even gives a fleeting consideration of ideas 180 degrees to the starboard side.

My guess is that B. Hussein surrounded himself with other liberal philosophers that believe they just inherently ‘get it’ and always agree with their appointed messiah.

With so much at stake and so little relevant experience - 0bammo would be well served put his administration in a slower gear and better understand the consequences of his actions.

[Doctor Raoul]

Wolveries...

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[bill1952]

Surprised?

Our president's name is Hussein and everyone here might as well shed the McCain PC crap and call him that.

Then it comes into perspective, no?

[Titan Magroyne]

>>>At Gitmo they don’t live in solitary confinement. In American prisons they’ll have to be in solitary to prevent the other inmates from slaughtering them.

Keep talking that way, you silver-tongued devil, and I could see my way clear to approving of housing the terrorists in American prisons. ;o)

Alas, you’re right that the prisoners wouldn’t get a chance at them. Just like the ‘93 jihadi still flapping his gums from Colorado’s supermax, all snug and safe in his single cell.

[cripplecreek]

Unfortunately I suspect that it won’t be long before the libtards decide that American prisons are just too tough for them and they’ll want them in halfway houses.

[Titan Magroyne]

I volunteer the half-White House.