Posted on 02/09/2009 6:08:42 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cry of "not in my backyard" is growing louder over where to relocate terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay once the military-run prison is closed.
"We're the new Guantanamo Bay if they move to Indiana and what does that mean for us?" said Republican state Senator Marlin Stutzman, who wants detainees kept away from the prison in Terre Haute, site of the federal execution chamber.
"Does it make us a target? I don't know how their (terrorism) networks work but I'm sure they keep track of where their buddies are at," he said.
Resolutions in a few states that are home to federal or military prisons call for the detainees to be sent anywhere but there, fearing those states will become magnets for terrorism.
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If the prisoners from Getmo are heading for Federal prisons, do the states have any say?
Send them over to Obama’s house.
The Indiana senator doesn’t have to worry.
John Murtha has already promised the Gitmo prisoners shelter in Pennsylvania
No state wants them.
Confine them to the District of Columbia...
If they think getting prisoners from Gitmo will cause problems, wait until they hear how many Hamas members they get later on -
Each Dem congressperson should be permitted to have a portion of those folks in his backyard. Those dems should be honored to support their savior’s idiot decisions.
Oh, and the newspaper editors in those states should get a few too. Perhaps they can find them some ‘shovel-ready’ work to do in and around their facilities.
That’d work, anybody stupid enough to re-elect Murtha after what he said about his own constituents deserves to get them.
O’Bama will likely spend $1bil building a prison to house the Gitmo prisoners.
He’ll explain it as part of the stimulus pkg.
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The prison will become a target for terrorists seeking to break them out... and prisons are largely designed to keep prisoners in, not other people out.
[A cry of “not in my backyard” is growing louder over where to relocate terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay once the military-run prison is closed.]
Gee, no one could see this NIMBY coming. I was ready to welcome the terrorists with open arms.
It seems no one wants the Gitmo boys here in America. They also don’t want them to stay in Gitmo. My idea, if we must release them is to just open up the gates and let them out where they are. Much cheaper than flying them someplace. How could they not be happy in the workers paradise of Cuba?
Enjoy them Fidel!
Democrats have cultivated the NIMBY impulse for decades for electoral profit. Enjoy it, boys.
Aaagh. Channeling Mrs. Quirk from fifth grade -- don't end a sentence in a needless preposition! Bless her heart.
“....Send them over to Obama’s house....”
Bill Ayers should take a few. They’d fit in nicely with
his neighborhood.
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