Posted on 02/03/2009 8:10:33 AM PST by Kaslin
When I heard about the possibility that the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Gitmo) will move to Alcatraz Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, I got excited. Ideas from economic stimuli to renewed patriotism started flooding my mind.
Here are the top 10 reasons I believe Gitmo should be moved to Alcatraz:
10. D-Block. Not the hip-hop group, but the row of solitary confinement cells at Alcatraz. Need I say more? (Of course, "Gitmo and the Golden Gates" might make a hit rap song, too.)
9. It is rumored that "Dirty Harry" (Clint Eastwood's notoriously tough San Francisco cop character) still roams the streets with his .44 Magnum. Would terrorists really try to escape if he were across the bay? Do they feel that lucky? Well, do they?
8. It would give Congress something better on which to spend those hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout money than the absolute waste of more Wall Street bonuses and partisan pork.
7. My buddy the Governator needs a bailout, and the new "Hasta la Vista, Alcatraz" tour could be a gigantic boost for California tourism.
6. It's about time for a sequel to "Escape From Alcatraz," called "Bet Your A-- That You Better Stay on 'The Rock.'"
5. Tony Bennett wants to produce his new smash single, "I Left My Terrorist in San Francisco."
4. The only text in the prison library and school would be my latest book, "Black Belt Patriotism -- How to Reawaken America," with daily memory tests to see whether the detainees can recite the appendices containing the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and the Ten Commandments.
3. Because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was a big advocate for Gitmo's closing and seeing as her district includes Alcatraz Island, let her deal with its aftermath. Pelosi even could help guard the captives with binoculars from her San Francisco high-rise.
2. Recently commuted border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean need new jobs and are willing to train and head up Alcatraz's new team of correctional officers.
1. I'm volunteering to be the new warden, and I pledge to make "The Rock" a Chucktatorship.
Are you with me?
All joking aside, remember when America was known as being tough and compassionate? Will we now polarize from waterboarding to being pantywaists?
Do most really believe it makes sense to shut down Gitmo for world adulation, while we possibly put Americans at greater risk by relocating these jihadists within our borders?
Is Time magazine serious when it suggests six possible domestic military facilities, from New York City to San Diego, as the new home for these enemies of the state?
Was Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., serious when he told Fox News last week that he'd offer his own district as a future dwelling place for the 245 Gitmo terrorist detainees? He said: "Sure, I'd take them. They're no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo. … There's no reason not to put them in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners."
Do Americans really want terrorists -- such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11 -- on our soil?!
In Robert Spencer's excellent new book, "Stealth Jihad," he documents well how radical Islam is subverting America via intentional and pervasive subtleties throughout our culture. Rather than crashing into our buildings with planes, they're breaking down every stratum of society using our tolerance and passivity. Rather than overpowering America through combat, they are influencing Americans of all ages by saturating the soils of our minds that there is nothing to fear from extreme Islam's theology or presence. We've shifted from protecting Americans to defending the terrorists. Our universally accommodative spirit literally is opening the doors for those who seek to destroy us, and Gitmo is just more proof of that.
While we worry about the way the rest of the world sees us, we are stomping upon the souls of Americans. Have we forgotten so quickly? Can our politicians not see? Have we lost our 9/11 minds? Gitmo's closing and future relocation reflects upon the families and friends of those precious souls who sacrificed everything on the battlefields of the Middle East, in the Twin Towers, on Flight 93 and at the Pentagon. We've memorialized their sacrifices; let's not bury their memory.
LOL! Someone suggested this to Pelosi and she went totally mental. It was hilarious. She starts screaming “it is a park!” She went crazy. I wish I could find the video.
Corrupt old bag. NIMBY.
All the supposed ghosts there might terrify the prisoners as well, a plus.
The place is creepy even without ghosts, enough to make you lose your mind.
May I humbly suggest that we reassign the detainees terrorists to Bikini Atoll? If they get rambunctious, we could always resume testing ...
-A. Bustard
I live here, and I’ve never visited Alcatraz — just passing by it on a boat creeps me the heck out (especially at night). But man, oh man, do the tourists line up for tour.
Let’s leave the terrorists at Gitmo and put Murtha and Pelosi in Alcatraz.
This is the best reason. Those hippies want it closed, let them deal with the unintended consequences.
“The Park” is a reminder of how we used to treat hardened criminals.
I would love to see them escape from there.The sharks would get them first.
Well, wouldn’t the fact that Alcatraz is a park demonstrate precisely how humane we are housing these esteemed guests there instead of some drabby old prison?
And think of the possibilities....paid tours available to the public so that we can pay our respects to the vermin. I think this may be more stimulative than anything in the pork bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1t9vi_mc8
Everyone should view this YouTube clip you linked. Here is Nancy Pelosi calling Obama “brilliant” for the decision to close Gitmo, while at the same time acknowledging that nobody has the slightest idea what to do with the inmates. The decision is “brilliant” because it “gives us the opportunity to review [why the people are there are there]”.
Nancy? Nancy? Does the concept “crazed, murderous s**thead captured in the heat of battle and mistakenly spared from a bullet in the head” mean anything to you?
So here we have it: from the very top of the Dem leadership to the street level folks who expect their mortgages and car payments to be paid: Obama is “brilliant” for having these ideas without the faintest idea how they will be implemented nor how they will work.
Let’s just hope they don’t implement some “stupid” ideas if this is the standard for “brilliance”.
We are sooooooooo screwed.
I would be p*ssed if I were a detainee. It gets cold in SF!!
LOL
there ya go!
....No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
They would automatically be afforded protection under our laws and court system. Unacceptable.
Put ‘em in ANWR.
I want the citizens of San Francisco to get what they demand, put these “abused” prisoners on the mainland at the Presidio. If there is not enough room, Golden Gate Park or the Castro district are also perfect locations.
Naked.
Symbolically it would be cool, but practically it would be bad. Alcatraz was in pretty bad shape when they closed it, that’s one of the reasons, it would need massive repairs, and they’d be expensive. Then there’s the problem of where it is, any bad guys that escaped from The Rock would be surrounded by sympathizers, SF is enemy territory.
lol. Go visit in May when all the flowers are blooming and before it gets hot. It is a beautiful place, you really are missing out. The history is quite interesting, before it was a prison, it was a military fort and the officers wives planted many beautiful gardens.
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