Democrats Want Gitmo Prisoners Released on 'Own Recognizance'
Key House Democrats are demanding the Pentagon shut down the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and release the 385 or so remaining terrorist suspects until they can be brought to trial. "It sets us back in the war on terrorism to be maintaining Guantanamo," said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), who's heading an investigation of the facility for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. "It will enhance our reputation to close it down and to apply our system of justice to all of these detainees."
Based on observations he conducted during two trips to Guantanamo, Moran said he's recommending Congress cut funding to the detention center. “Holding these men is expensive and unjust,” Moran asserted. “They should be granted bail and allowed to go free until they can be tried in a court of law. Those who cannot afford bail should be released ‘on their own recognizance.’” Accused released “on their own recognizance” sign documents promising not to leave the court’s jurisdiction and to show up for trial.
“Not having to feed, house, and clothe these people will save taxpayers’ money,” Moran said. “Requiring them to stay within the court’s jurisdiction will stimulate the economy by injecting the private sector spending for their upkeep into the U.S. GDP. Let’s say that one or more of these men take the opportunity to plot a terrorist attack, the bomb-making materials will be purchased from U.S. businesses. This will add demand and promote economic growth.”
Moran claims that his plan will help make prosecuting these men easier. “We have to prove they actually did something that was designed to hurt American citizens," Moran said. “By releasing them, yet insisting they stay in America, we will be giving them the opportunity to further incriminate themselves. I call it ‘giving them enough rope to hang themselves.’”
While admitting that releasing these men would seem to pose a risk to the American people, Moran insisted that this could be strategically beneficial. “As Senator Clinton (D-N.Y.) has pointed out, America has lost its ‘victimhood’ status,” Moran said. “Tragic as another attack might be for those killed or injured, it would help the United States regain the sympathy it won on 9-11. The strategic benefits would be incalculable.”
A Bush administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called Moran’s proposal “pure lunacy.”
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Good Lord:How can one man be so stupid. Moran wants to set them free in America?/
Is this Scrapple face? No one can b so stupid as to actually want that. The man is raving lunatic. Next he will propose a bill that the taxpayers pay their bail.
God help us. Moran really is a lunatic. He wants to allow us to be killed in order to get "sympathy"? I can't. . . I just can't imagine what kind of a mind would come up with this.
"A Bush administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called Moran’s proposal “pure lunacy.”"
The Bush Administration official is correct. Moran actually suggested that we let them go and if they plotted an attack against us, that was OK because they would by buying from Americans and that would help the economy????
And it was ok if Americans were killed because it would give us a "victim status"????
I think I will pass on Moran's ridiculous assertions.