South Carolina's Senior Senator, Lindsey Graham, could not be reached for comment as he was busy servicing Senator John McCain.
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Posted on 11/10/2009 9:12:03 AM PST by Crush
South Carolina's state government has learned that it will take an act of the U.S. Congress in order to stop the president from sending Guantanamo detainees to Charleston. Washington has been eyeing the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig since President Barack Obama declared he would close the detention facility popularly known as Gitmo within one year of taking office.
On Monday, S.C. Lt. Governor Andre Bauer (R) requested the state take legal action to prevent a transfer to the Palmetto State. But Attorney General Henry McMaster (R) pointed out, “The U.S. Congress is the branch of government with the jurisdiction and the legal authority to stop the president from making unwise decisions that threaten the security of our nation.” Bauer and McMaster are among candidates seeking a nomination to run for governor on the GOP ticket.
Although the move is still considered to be tentative, Senator Jim DeMint (R) along with Congressmen Gresham Barrett, Joe Wilson, and Henry Brown have sent Obama a letter opposing the transfer to South Carolina. All 3 congressmen are Republicans.
In addition, the Rock Hill Herald reported Thursday that McMaster has called for an act of Congress to prevent a transfer to South Carolina, “or any other state on the American mainland.”
Just how “unwise” is the decision to move detainees who could be dangerous to our shores?
“There is no legitimate legal, intelligence, or military reason to bring the detainees here.” writes James Galyean (R), an Assistant U.S. Attorney and legal counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Galyean, who is now running for Congress in South Carolina, helped draft the language that kept alleged terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Gaylean is running for the seat Barrett has held.
In addition to Charleston's classified naval engineering project, hundreds of millions of pounds of explosives, and reportedly...
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I love Charleston. Especially the battery and the market.
Nothing stateside beats Gitmo.
Mr. Obama just doesn’t understand the potential threat to the nation.
Keep those dirty, filthy, murdering muslim scum outta my state, and outta my country. If the liberal swine are so gung ho to have these goat fornicators in CONUS let ‘em get sent to Mass or some other NE state.
I suggest asking a terrorist.
Wasn’t South Carolina the first state to secede and the home of Fort Sumpter?
This is just another instance of Barry’s pettiness. Not only is he going to inflict these murderers onto mainland America, he’s going to add insult to injury by inflicting them upon a mostly historically conservative area. It’s telling that this is is one of the few campaign promises he’s keeping.
Yeah, Massachusetts had a perfect record of keeping prisoners from escaping. /sarc
I should have thought of that. Another reason to stockpile ammo.
Damn right!
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The choice of South Carolina to be a dumping ground for Islamic terrorists is not lost on historians and patriots.
http://bluffton.hiltonheadisland.org/history/
Literally a hotbed for political rhetoric, in 1844 some of the first cries of secession were first given voice and debate in Bluffton. Incensed planters gathered beneath what became known as the “Secession Oak” (still existing today, but on private property in Bluffton) and the secessionist movement was born. Sixteen years later South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
Man that’s just what we need, another spat with the federal gov’t over a “FORT”.. last time it didn’t end well for us .....
“Mr. Obama just doesn’t understand the potential threat to the nation.”
Mr. Obama just doesn’t give a rat’s a$$ about the potential threat to the nation.
There...fixed it!
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You got it, Bubba. Right on the nail head!
KEEP THEM IN GITMO!!!!!!!!!!
I DON’T WANT THEM HERE UNLESS I CAN USE THEM FOR TARGET PRACTICE!
There is no way they will put them in Charleston. There are too many high value targets on this base in case their terrorist buddies decide to attack the brig. This would be the stupidest thing the politicians and military could let Obama do. Just STUPID!!
We already caught two of them on a recon mission - with explosives - in Goose Creek, although one was found not guilty by a jury of effing morons in Fla..
BTW, I work with (not for) the sheriff’s office and these guys were absolutely dead-on guilty. This was a miscarriage of justice beyond that of OJ.
So they are fully aware of our facilities in Hanahan.
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