Posted on 02/15/2011 5:02:49 PM PST by Syncro
Berkeley, Calif., home to the hippie movement of the 1960s, is considering rolling out the welcome mat to freed Guantanamo Bay detainees.
The City Council is poised to vote Tuesday night on a resolution that would invite "one or two" detainees to live in Berkeley once they are cleared of wrongdoing and released from the U.S. detention facility in Cuba.
It would also ask Congress to allow cleared Guantanamo detainees to resettle in the U.S.
The city reportedly has its sights set on a Russian ballet dancer and an Algerian who was a top-rated Italian chef in Austria. They would live with local families and receive help from nonprofits...
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Berkeley Votes Tonight on Settling Former Cleared Guantanamo Detainees
Tonight's the night, Berkeley watchers. The City Council will consider a resolution inviting former Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared of illegality to take up residence there.
You can peruse the resolution here. It reads: (It can be read at the link)
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---It can be seen on the web, live streaming: See link below---
City Manager Phil Kamlarz, however, is not in harmony with the cause, citing federal law prohibiting the settlement of former detainees in the U.S.
If you want to know before most people how it all comes out, watch the City Council action live on the web, starting at 7 p.m.
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This issue, of course, has provided amble fodder for Berkeley-bashers, who no doubt imagine Osama Bin Laden getting his own table at Chez Panisse. Here's a snippet from an American Thinker blog post called "Plant a Tree and Hug a Terrorist:"
...in response to the recommendation of the Peace and Justice Commission, the Berkeley City Council plans to vote on a motion to share a cup of sugar with a terrorist. According to Peace and Justice Commissioner Rita Maran, the proposal is a way to welcome to the community "the kind of people you'd like to have living next door to you or dating your cousin."
Receiving "new neighbors" from Guantanamo Bay could make the home to heiress/bank robber Patty Hearst, the late LSD guru Dr. Timothy Leary, and deceased Communist-poet Allen Ginsberg even more notorious than before.
I can hear the detainees now. “ANYWHERE BUT BERKELEY! THAT’S TORTURE!”
I would love to see a study commissioned as to what conditions create a mind like Wendy Kenin, Chairwoman of the City Peace and Justice Commission, who proposed this nonsense, that is so devoid of common sense and a sense of reality. Was it something in her childhood? Perhaps, parents that were strung out through her formative years.Is it an overwhelming craving for attention through senseless rebellion and thoughtlessness? What is the root cause of her nerouses? Then I would like the study extended to most residents of Berkeley.
Berkley sounds fine to me...biggest collection of morons outside of SF. I would suggest they be watched, or they will convert every libtard there and teach them bomb making techniques. Geez...
Only after they do their first ten years in Madison, Wisconsin!
The other terrorist is a chef from Algeria. Which liberal restauranteur in Berkeley will hire him first to lace the quiche with anthrax?
Oh, wait. Wrong thread.
Or....perhaps not.
I almost think it would be hilarious if they welcomed a bunch of those guys in, and they proceeded to turn that town into a smoldering crater.
Kinda like the Obamas hanging out with Ayers and his wife, unrepentant domestic terrorists that just happen to be people “that live in the neighborhood” according to Obama.
They are little mistreated puppy dogs to the Berkeley mindset, that need to be cuddled and stroked for the bad treatment they have gotten.
If this works, they will lay low for a while and then disappear and go underground and plan their revenge on the USA. Or just stay in Berkeley and recruit some terrorists there. I'm sure they could find many sympathetic to their cause.
They sound like racists in Berkley - they should take ALL the Gitmo terrorists.
Often, domesticated animals quickly die when exposed to the outside world. Living a sheltered and protected life dulls their survival skills.
The Berkeley idiots are a fine example of this phenomenom.
Berkeley can have them all as long as they are confined to that particular city. Great place for them.
These hateful prisoners are going to feel out of place amongst the radical America haters in Berkley.
In related news, the Berkeley Council voted to start a shelter for rabid animals in the hopes of placing them with citizens. Good luck on both.
Say what you will about Berkeley, but they somehow manage to keep outdoing themselves.
That can’t be easy.
They don’t call it Berserkly for nothing.
I think they should replace the whole Berkeley City Council with Gitmo detainees. I’d love nothing more than to have Sharia Law imposed on every Student and Faculty member at UC Berkelely. If anyone deserves to be ruled by IslamoNazis it is that group.
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