Posted on 05/21/2009 9:11:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
President Obama said on Thursday that his administration wants to transfer some detainees from the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba to highly secure prisons in the United States, and that doing so will in no way endanger American security. Reiterating his determination to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, in the face of growing Congressional pressure to keep it open, the president said what has gone on there for the past eight years has undermined rather than strengthened America’s safety, and that moving its most dangerous inmates to the United States is both practical and in keeping with the country’s cherished ideals.
“As we make these decisions, bear in mind the following fact: nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal ‘supermax’ prisons, which hold hundreds of convicted terrorists,” the president said. “As Senator Lindsey Graham said: ‘The idea that we cannot find a place to securely house 250-plus detainees within the United States is not rational.’”
The “supermax” prisons, familiar to viewers of cable-television crime programs, are fortress-like structures of concrete and steel where the inmates — the worst of the worst of hardened criminals — live in near-isolation.
Speaking at the National Archives, which houses the Constitution and other documents embodying America’s system of government and justice, the president promised to work with Congress to develop a safe and fair system for dealing with those Guantánamo detainees who cannot be prosecuted “yet who pose a clear danger to the American people.”
“I want to be honest: this is the toughest issue we will face,” the president said.
“I know that creating such a system poses unique challenges,” Mr. Obama said. “Other countries have grappled with this question, and so must we.
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So does that mean we need to move their families to be near their prisions and opening up our country to these people and paying for them to be here like we do “O” aunt.
Traitors reporting on treason.
“The president said Americans should resist the temptation to indulge in “finger-pointing” over mistakes. But he offered scathing criticism of the presidency of George W. Bush, referring repeatedly to the missteps, in Mr. Obama’s view, of “the past eight years.””
But let’s not play the “blame game” ... Please! My reign is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who!
We have dipstick. They are non-citizens being held for terrorist activities. Keep them where they are, try them, sentence them to death, or send them back where they came from.
Are they going to be kept in strict solitary confinement at all times? Will they have access to lawyers who they can use to ferry messages back to sleeper cells and terror networks, will they be able to interact with domestic criminals who they can recruit to their cause? Of course this is rhetorical, we all know the answers already. Obama is aiding our enemies. He thinks we deserved 9/11. He thinks we deserve another.
“OBAMA: As Senator Lindsey Graham said: ‘The idea that we cannot find a place to securely house 250-plus detainees within the United States is not rational.’”
Senate resoundingly says no. Can’t remember on House if at all. Obama says yes. I wonder who will win.
So then we will have radical mooselimb extremists mixing in with the general prison population and proselytizing to the disaffected. Excellent idea.
...Where they can recruit.
...and receive visits from Hamas, Somali AQ trainees, and ‘others,’ including democrat socialists.
Maybe Code Punk types will write them love letters, and Cindy Sheehan will propose marriage.
His “new direction” on terror will be to focus the efforts of the DHS on conservatives, since they are a bigger “threat” to the fascists’ power.
Put them literally in your and Feinstein’s backyard, Barry, kkthx.
Totally agree with your post. Absolutely.
Exactly! He was also the first Republican to say we should nationalize the banks and the Obama admin. and the Dems hop right on his words to _use_ them for their own propaganda.
Yet Scarborough, Brooks, Frum, et. al. hold these idiots up as the ideal for the "big tent Republican party". I can tolerate a few clowns in the circus but those that want to burn down tent and the structure that hold it up, have got to go.
Graham, if he has any moral pinnings at all, should be honest and change party affiliation now.
Surrender by any other name is still surrender. Setting these monsters free and holding them in US prison is a pandora's box of disaster that will haunt us for decades.
I hear that DiFi wants them...then again maybe it was one of those royal we things. Never mind...
So there was no GITMO, no waterboarding, pretty much no nothing before 9/11 - so how did the policies to prevent further attacks make us less safe - especially when we had numerous attacks when we did nothing...and no attacks after we took action?
Why do they even think this argument makes sense and why would they even say it? Did they take a position simply to oppose Bush and now are stuck trying to defend it?
Send them all to my place.........I’ll take “real good” care of them!
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