Posted on 08/20/2009 4:00:42 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
Many of the 300 people who attended today's meeting in Standish, Michigan were already against moving Gitmo's detainees there; the rest left with more questions than they came with, according to town hall organizer and long-time Standish resident Dave Munson. I spoke with Mr. Munson this afternoon, after the meeting. He said, "The Department of Defense needs to come up here and be honest with us about how this would effect our community."
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U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland and a candidate of Michigan governor in 2010, took the podium first and urged the people to push for transparency. Hoekstra has been one of the most vocal opponents of bringing Guantanamo detainees into the United States. "These are people who are committed to destroying our way of life," Hoekstra said. "There is a reason we picked Guantanamo - you can't get there."
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"What you do here, make no mistake, they are watching in Washington," [9/11 family member Debra] Burlingame said. "And if we can kill it here, maybe we can kill it everywhere and keep Guantanamo open."
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Good.
I did spot Debra on Fox in MI.
God Bless Her. She must give Holder nightmares!
Maybe they finally recognized that we have the largest Arab population in the country only about 200 miles away.
Gitmo north ping
Li'l Pete is running for Governor! Love it. I went to college with him. Pete is fantastic and very very smart.
Question for DoD reps trying to push this:
“When these guys beat the rap claiming tainted evidence and have to be released into the US population because their homeland torture them, where will you release them?”
Ping!
More like “the DOD rep.” As in Phillip Carter. Google his name along with ‘detainee.’ Piece of work he is.
What does it matter what the people want? This is Obama’s administration we’re talking about.
As long as we can keep the detainees on the Lake bottom, I’m all for it.
Is Debra the sister of the pilot of AA 77? If so heard her on WJR this morning.
Sure don’t want those Clmyers in MI, well maybe early Nov. 15th, wearing brown jackets in the woods, when “America’s lagrest standing Army takes to the field”!!!
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Yes, she is the sister of the pilot of AA 77.
No no no. Wimpy American Syndrome. We should be saying....
Yes yes yes, bring them so we can chop them up and feed them to hungry American pigs. Then send the manure back to Mecca.
Thats what we need to be saying, not crying like a bunch of babies, pleading with our deaf dumb and blind reps.
Bring ‘em and we will kill ‘em. Simple and Cheap.
This is another of Obama half-baked ideas.
Once you bring them to US soil, they become entitled to constitutional rights and release by judges. Given what clowns some judges have been, you better rethink whether we want that to happen. They will be released into your cities to maim and murder because they still hate America.
Leave captured “Islamic terrorists” at GITMO.
Didn’t he say he wasn’t going to allow any of those terrorists to be held in US prisons?
“These are people who are committed to destroying our way of life,” Hoekstra said.
Sounds like the obama administration.
I’m not sure I understand. obama wants to give us the detainees. Is this supposed to be a reward for delivering Michigan votes? I don’t think we can handle any more “rewards” - first our auto industries get handed over the the government, more and more job loss, and now imported criminals. The obama years aren’t going well for us up here.
Sorry - s/b “imported terrorists,” not “criminals”
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