I'll bet the Gitmo Detainees are happy.
Posted on 11/14/2009 6:48:52 PM PST by topfile
WASHINGTON — A nearly empty state prison in northwestern Illinois has emerged as a possible site to house detainees transferred from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the Obama White House told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday.
Gov. Quinn and Obama discussed the federal purchase of the Thomson Correctional Center when Quinn was in Washington on Nov. 4 and visited the White House. Quinn and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will outline proposals for the future of the prison at press conferences in the Quad Cities, Chicago and Rockford on Sunday.
Durbin’s office has been quarterbacking the potential sale of the prison through a series of meetings between the White House and Quinn, who is looking to generate revenues for the cash-strapped state. State government could realize at least $200 million from a sale.
The Thomson complex is the Illinois Department of Corrections’ newest maximum-security prison. Built in 2001 for $145 million, the 1,600-bed facility has zero inmates. The facility’s minimum-security operation has about 200 prisoners.
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The closing of Guantanamo has touched off a political storm for Obama, who made shutting the prison in Cuba a signature pledge of his presidential campaign. Obama promised on his first day in office to close the prison in one year, but it has proved more difficult than Obama or his advisors ever contemplated, especially since other nations have balked at accepting detainees.
Holder on Friday, discussing the Guantanamo closure said “I’m not sure we are going to be able to complete that process by Jan. 22.”
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Consolation prize for losing the International Summer Olympics.
Make sure these “special” prisoners get work release and weekends in town.
Wouldn’t having a Muslims only prison be discrimination?
The Fed is buying a State Prison in Ill? Who’s Obama paying back?
No doubt involving the payment of millions of dollars per year per prisoner...
Exactly - MAO-bama is funneling more taxpayer money to his mob cronies.
I'll bet the Gitmo Detainees are happy.
Blagojevich
Hoops anyone?
Does the chosen prison win the contest, or loose the contest?
Too good for ‘em. Bring back Joliet.
Can we say....
“Follow the money...”?
There will be beaucoup dollars following those monsters
to Illinois for the prison system and the state government;
a little gift from their favorite son! GRRR!
It is also within an hour's drive to yours truly. Thanks for nothing, Barack.
Sweet Home Chicago
Chicago, Chicago, a wonderful town
Hey, if you can’t get the Olympics, this has to be the next best thing!
BINGO.
Good! Maybe it’ll be ready to receive those Chicago crooks that are in the White House.
I wonder if Obama is rushing on the Gitmo Terrorists in preparation to pull a “Jimmy Carter” and give the base back to Cuba. Remember Jimmy and the Panama Canal?
Probably true.
If I had my choice on who watched these scum it would be Sheriff Joe since Gitmo is history.
I don’t want them on US soil, but if it’s gonna happen, northern Illinois (winter) is probably as close to torture for these guys as we can hope for, given that they are used to slightly warmer climates. If we can’t have northern Minnesota or the North Slope, that is.
Then have Sherriff Joe put them in pink boxers and sleep in tents in the winter.
VS.
Gitmo 
Home 
Illinois is a deep blue state, so he knows they won’t mind enough to turn red. Good choice for Obama.
A full 3.5 hours from me. I feel so safe.
Payola trumps national security. I’m shocked (not).
Housing for these criminals will go to the preferred bidder.
Oh yea, lest I forgot to mention...millions of dollars are involved for the winning bidder to house these criminals.
“Make sure these “special” prisoners get work release and weekends in town.”
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Can you say Willie Abdul Babaganush Mohammed Horton?
And how is a televised civilian trial that muslims worldwide will watch going to improve their opinion of America? If the terrorists are found guilty, then other terrorists worldwide will say that it was fixed and use it as a recruitment tool. If the terrorists are found innocent, then other terrorists worldwide will hold it up as a win and will use it as a recruitment tool.
Just another stray thought. A lefty judge presiding over a civilian court would always set a criminal free if he hadn't been read his rights. The only reason a lefty judge wouldn't set these terrorists free from the start is because it would look bad for Obama. Lefty judges apply the law to suit their feelings.
But where are they going to house us who are without health insurance? Maybe there are other countries who will take us. The Bahamas? Hmmm......
I rather see them in Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX)in Colorado
The unions that will be running the place for decades.
Castro could die at any time and the US needs to be there to abort any seeds of liberty. 0bama will hang onto Gitmo until he's sure that Castro's communist successor is in place. Just in case the Cubans get any ideas like Honduras had, about removing dictators. If the new dictator is young and good for decades of tyranny, then yes, 0bama will hand over Gitmo.
But it’s only 20 minutes from a nuclear power plant.
And not one red cent will be seen by the people who paid for it in the first place!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4232000/4232691.stm
Red Brigade in Japan:
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/jra.htm
Red Brigade in Italy:
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_red_brigades.html
Italy’s Red Brigrade and Aldo Moro
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4232000/4232691.stm
Red Brigade in Japan:
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/jra.htm
Red Brigade in Italy:
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_red_brigades.html
Soviet Union sponsored much of this terrorism. Curious how many petro-dollars will sponsor terrorism to release KSM? Just wondering what kind of violence your have instigated against this the USA with your short sighted, ideological leadership Obama? It looks like your ideological stupidity will toss you into “the ash heap of history”.
I learned of this yesterday at our annual Golden K Chili Day dinner. Carroll County is just West of us (Ogle County). Our county sheriff stopped by for chili and asked our opinion. Boy, did we give him an earful. He’s against it, our congressman, Don Manzullo, is against it (Carroll’s in his district). But I suspect the fix is in. The sheriff’s going to a meeting tomorrow morning with the governor. The governor sees $ signs. All we see is terrorists in our back yards.
One writer on our congressman’s Facebook page said that if they’re housed there, they should make them wear antlers when out in the prison yard. Good idea!
They're in Chicago. Not out here.
They’ll probably become members of Trinity United Church of Christ. Rev. Wright can be their spiritual advisor.
I just heard Glen Beck say Obama wants prisoners released for community service.
Would Obama release the terrorists to integrate them into society and fill spots in his organizing for america, serve.gov, americorp?!?!
Why is Obama talking about both within two weeks? Why would anyone want most felons volunteering? Some of the Volunteers help old people, work in hospitals, work around money.
Oh wait, Obama wants his rathke brothers to work in volunteerism (acorn) and hand them millions in tax funding to steal and launder around. To Obama that system works well. So let’s let prisoners out for volunteering. They will come in handy when I start my army and I need thugs to get out the vote and stand around at the polls with batons.
But there will be a exception, the no insurance buyers will be excluded and must do hard time. This is the way these fascists think. That is my take on it, not Glen’s.
Beck is saying so much is going on now, no one is talking about Obama’s speech to native indian tribes. A speech eerily similar to Van Jones, give them the wealth!
Obama knows he is going down. He will now proceed to throw as much as he can at us at one time hoping to see some of his agenda stick.
Why not put them in the Obama mansion that Tony Rezko got for him? It’s not being lived in, it’s surrounded by police and Secret Service, and it’s the least we can do for our Islamic friends...
29.1 miles from where my children live.
23.9 miles from a nuclear power plant facility.
Feeling uneasy about this is putting it mildly.
One person said that a lot of people in Illinois would be glad to have the prison come there because it would mean 3000 new jobs for a state that has a lot of unemployed. What do you want to bet those 3000 jobs would all be union, probably SEIU member! Someone needs to ask the question: "how much is it going to cost us to keep these guys in the U.S.?"
Another person said that we had spend 24 billion dollars to remake Gitmo for the muslim prisoners. Now, we will close that and spend no telling how many billion to make this new prison acceptable to the muzzies. And guess what, more union jobs and contracts to do the renovating!
The way the city’s going, i’m surprised they have any room in prisons across the whole state.
One person said that a lot of people in Illinois would be glad to have the prison come there because it would mean 3000 new jobs for a state that has a lot of unemployed. What do you want to bet those 3000 jobs would all be union, probably SEIU member! Someone needs to ask the question: "how much is it going to cost us to keep these guys in the U.S.?"
Another person said that we had spent 24 billion dollars to remake Gitmo for the muslim prisoners. Now, we will close that and spend no telling how many billion to make this new prison acceptable to the muzzies. And guess what, more union jobs and contracts to do the renovating!
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