Posted on 01/07/2010 5:34:24 PM PST by Kaslin
Detainees: On the same day three inmates break out of an Illinois prison, a state legislative panel approves selling another Illinois prison to the feds to house former Gitmo detainees. What is wrong with this picture?
Only two weeks after a failed al-Qaida attempt to bomb a plane bound for Detroit, an Illinois legislative commission voted Wednesday to support the sale of the abandoned Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., to the federal government to house other terrorists who want to kill Americans.
What caught our eye is that on the very same day, Illinois experienced a good old-fashioned jail break. Three prisoners, whom authorities described as armed and dangerous, escaped from the Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, Ill. U.S. marshals didn't immediately say how the trio, incarcerated on a variety of drug and weapons charges, got out. It should give us all pause.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin thinks moving people like the crotch bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to a prison northwest of Chicago, near the former Sears Tower and a nuclear power plant, is a dandy job-creating idea.
Durbin and his ilk say we might even create as many jobs as lives were lost on 9/11 due to other crazed jihadists.
"This is about doing what's right for our troops, for our national security and for the people of Illinois," Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and Durbin said at a joint press conference after the commission's decision. "We will continue doing everything we can to make this sale a reality and bring the jobs and other economic benefits to our state."
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What’s scary is what I heard on the radio one day from a caller, I think it was on Rush, that said that the prison (Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill.) is only 20 miles from a nuclear power plant.
If that’s true then I can’t help but question obama’s motives for wanting to send terrorists to a prison just 20 miles from what could end up being our worst nightmare.
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