Posted on 08/04/2009 8:01:31 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
The Obama administration is again pushing plans to move terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility into the United States, initially to Michigan or Kansas. Despite near unanimous objections from every state and nearly every member of the House and Senate, the President appears to be adamant about keeping this one campaign promise that would endanger American lives despite his reckless disregard for all of his other campaign promises.
The Michigan option would include a $100 million revamp of the Standish maximum security prison which is slated to close due to the state’s calamitous financial situation brought to you by state liberal Democrats over the past decade.
The Obama Justice Department has reportedly identified approximately 80 detainees who can be charged and prosecuted. The problem is they’re choosing to do so in our domestic court system. Of course, they’re keeping the Bush policy for those they deem “too dangerous” to be tried: they’re holding them indefinitely without trial. There are about 150 others that they plan to just release -- despite the high rate of recidivism for returning to the battlefield to kill American soldiers.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Intelligence, talked terrorists and Michigan yesterday as news reports of plans to move terrorists to Michigan began to spread across the country.
“I hope that the press reports are inaccurate, but if they are correct the notion of transferring terrorists currently held at Guantanamo Bay to Michigan needs to end,” Hoekstra said. “The detention facility in Cuba was built for a specific type of prisoner with unique challenges. They are some of the most dangerous people in the world who pose a major threat to U.S. national security. We need to ensure transparency in the process so that state and local officials have access to the same national security information about them as federal national security officials.”
“The Democrats new economic development plan for Michigan is to turn it into a penal colony,” Hoekstra told HUMAN EVENTS. “I intend to do everything possible to prevent it from happening.”
Pelosi Names AARP as Part of Democrat August Healthcare Blitz
Yesterday, HUMAN EVENTS reported the leaked House Democrat Communication Strategy memo that included a paragraph that is now at the center of a dispute:
“The Leadership is working in close coordination with the White House and outside groups (including but not limited to HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU, AARP, etc.) to ensure complementary efforts during August. The President, Secretary Sebelius and other principals in the reform debate will be working throughout the month to hold events, promote the message in the press and move the reform effort forward.”
Pelosi staffers confirm that the paragraph disclosing the supposedly non-partisan AARP’s conspiring with House Democrats in the August blitz to propagandize the Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare was the fault of an “overzealous staffer.”
When Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Editor of the Washington Examiner, inquired of the AARP yesterday about the collusion with House Democrats on H.R. 3200 revealed in the Democrat memo, the AARP doth protest too much.
Published in his “Beltway Confidential” yesterday, Tapscott got the “overzealous Pelosi staffer” story straight from the AARP Vice President Drew Nannis:
“Hey Mark -- Based on your post and questions, I called the Speaker’s office to find out what, exactly, was going on. Below is the actual Memo that went out to members -- I was told you had your hands on an earlier draft. So I’m including the memo for your reference as well as the email address of the staffer who sent it to me -- Nadeam Elshami. So you can verify whatever you need to verify.
“You’ll note no discussion of coordination in the attached. My guess is an overzealous staffer drafted something earlier that got out before it was properly edited/fact-checked, etc. …”
That’s what we need!
A one hundred million revamp of a Michigan facility, so that we can exit a recently renovated two hundred million dollar facility on the island of Cuba!
To house the same prisoners, er - detainees, but now we’ll have to pay for heating and air conditioning in their new digs, while giving them habeus corpus priviledges.
Just place the toilets at the east end of their cells, so these cockroaches know where to point to Mecca for the rest of their lives.
A $100,000,000 prison renovation to house 80 terrorists?
Ostammer: Stark. Raving. Insane.
Isn’t Michigan where the huge Muslim population is?
Keep Gitmo open!
Just as crazy as giving Palestinian Hamas members and their families airplane tickets to USA, plue living expenses from taxpayer dollars..that was in the stimulus plan I believe, or one of bills passed by Congress. Either this is plain stupid, or intetionally devious, you guess?
$100M and it gives terrorists Constitutional rights
The republicans need to get rid of Mitch McConnell as their Senate Minority Leader. This guy is a joke of a leader.
Let's subcontract the job to Israel.
Priceless. :)
Now we get to pay for TWO facilities.
God, make this mad man go away.
Great idea.
Intentional, to be sure. I guess ostammer wants more of his own kind around him.
Ostammer: Stark. Raving. Insane.
I know. I mean, who spends money by the millions anymore; it's so 90s.
Nowadays, under the Obama Plan, the only way to fund any project is by the billion.
I saw one of these astroturf commercials today.
IT WAS BS ABOUT BIPARTISANSHIP.
Why?
Democrats do not need a single republican.
NEWFLASH TO CONGRESS..
IT IS OBVIOUS YOU DON’T REPRESENT MR AND MRS AMERICA.
your lies are just that obvious.
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