Posted on 05/23/2013 1:14:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Calls for Gitmo Inmates to Be Transfered to the United States Daniel Halper May 23, 2013 2:01 PM
In a speech today, President Obama is calling for the transfer for Gitmo inmates to the United States.
"The original premise for opening GTMO – that detainees would not be able to challenge their detention – was found unconstitutional five years ago. In the meantime, GTMO has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law. Our allies won’t cooperate with us if they think a terrorist will end up at GTMO. During a time of budget cuts, we spend $150 million each year to imprison 166 people –almost $1 million per prisoner. And the Department of Defense estimates that we must spend another $200 million to keep GTMO open at a time when we are cutting investments in education and research here at home," Obama will say.
As President, I have tried to close GTMO. I transferred 67 detainees to other countries before Congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries, or imprisoning them in the United States. These restrictions make no sense. After all, under President Bush, some 530 detainees were transferred from GTMO with Congress’s support. When I ran for President the first time, John McCain supported closing GTMO. No person has ever escaped from one of our super-max or military prisons in the United States. Our courts have convicted hundreds of people for terrorism-related offenses, including some who are more dangerous than most GTMO detainees. Given my Administration’s relentless pursuit of al Qaeda’s leadership, there is no justification beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should never have been opened.
Today, I once again call on Congress to lift the restrictions on detainee transfers from GTMO. I have asked the Department of Defense to designate a site in the United States where we can hold military commissions. I am appointing a new, senior envoy at the State Department and Defense Department whose sole responsibility will be to achieve the transfer of detainees to third countries. I am lifting the moratorium on detainee transfers to Yemen, so we can review them on a case by case basis. To the greatest extent possible, we will transfer detainees who have been cleared to go to other countries. Where appropriate, we will bring terrorists to justice in our courts and military justice system. And we will insist that judicial review be available for every detainee.
Even after we take these steps, one issue will remain: how to deal with those GTMO detainees who we know have participated in dangerous plots or attacks, but who cannot be prosecuted – for example because the evidence against them has been compromised or is inadmissible in a court of law. But once we commit to a process of closing GTMO, I am confident that this legacy problem can be resolved, consistent with our commitment to the rule of law.
To stir up his base.
Once he gets his Muzzie friends on U.S. soil, you can forget about military commissions or anything else of the Bush-era apparatus for restraining these goons.
The terrorists will get themselves skank Communist lawyers from the Kunstler Center and the ACLU, they'll get their venues moved to East Coast towns with big Moo populations where hooked-up muftis can threaten and menace judges and jurors, and the attorneys can tap-dance through the phony dumbshow "prosecution" the Regime will put up.
Bottom line: Every one of those raggie terrorists gets turned loose, free as a bird, on U.S. streets, to hook up with his jihadi buds and go blow someone up.
Count on it -- and that's what Obama is working for, too.
Appeals, appeals, and more appeals .... so that Obama will be out of office when the tidal wave of Afghan terrorists is turned loose on American streets.
You’ve nailed it. They will be brought to the U.S. and turned loose.
BHO2 is Muslim Marxist.
And now he's got a surefire way to bust the raggies loose right in the center of the Main Target.
And by the time it happens, it won't have his fingerprints on it any more (at least, he can say that).
According to reports, Obama has devoted many hours of his presidency to personally choosing Islamofascist terrorists as targets for drone strikes.
So far, more than 4,000 such terrorists, including at least four American citizens, have been annihilated by Obama, with no thoughts about due process, Miranda rules, etc.
Yet we’re now asked to believe that Obama cares so deeply about the poor Islamofascist terrorists forced to endure a life a leisure in the terrible Gitmo that he wants to bring them to the U.S. for civilian trials and apparently better treatment, and also to save money for American taxpayers.
Why doesn’t Obama solve many problems at once by simply freeing the Gitmo inmates and transporting them to Syria to fight alongside their terrorist friends who are trying to overthrow Syria’s dictator? This would be much less expensive than sending them arms, and it would also give the impression that Obama has a policy on Syria.
Stellar plan.
Really? I must have missed that point, thought it was the pat motivation of us being in Afgan...got a link? I honestly don’t recall that being one of their beefs.
As for barry’s point regarding the rules of law....bwwhahahaha, kinda like he followed laws going into Egypt, Libya, Mali etc...Lord only knows where else he has our brave men and women. Oh wait, I guess he’s not talking about OUR laws, but that loving ‘global world’ law nonsense.
I think the one who survived mentioned Guantanamo.
Alcatraz!
Of course, as the box is a bit small and we have so many public parks, one would have to divide them up.
So, we get 1/2 a toilet? This is an important detail to clear up.
Obama is force feeding them goop, he owns it, does it cause less indigestion in Ohio or where ever?
Obama does want this GITMO issue to stain his future envoy mission to celebrate communism in Cuba and tribute to Che.
Of course, they’re now eligible for Obamacare, and parole.
Thanks Sub-Driver.
Bring them here...give them a 60 second head start, and declare open season on them.
Zero is calling in his reserves to defend him from the upcoming impeachment.
Fine.
Put them in a prison near DC. Or some totally liberal city. Maybe Chicago. Or Detroit. Because once they’re in the United States the prison they’re in will be a target... and the city that prison’s in will be a target.
Go for it Obama, maybe your friends in Hollywood would like them - but don’t stick them in some conservative State. Conservatives are sick of being targeted.
No they get quarter coffins. The picture is of a homemade composting toilet.
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