The John Murtha Jihadi Correctional Facility
My syndicated column today smacks Jack Murtha upside his thick head. How would he like 250 Said Ali al Shihris roaming around Johnstown, Pa.? Very much, apparently. Looks like Pennsylvania will need that National Terrorist Registry — and quick.
Meantime, here’s the latest on the FBI raid of Murtha’s earmark contractors at Kuchera.
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The John Murtha Jihadist Correctional Facility
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
Get this: King of Pork John Murtha, the 19-term Democratic congressman from western Pennsylvania, now wants to welcome a flood of Guantanamo Bay jihadis into his district. I don’t want to hear a single word of protestation from the constituents who put this money-grubbing, security-undermining fool back into office. As you vote, so shall you reap.
Murtha audaciously expressed his hope to house Gitmo detainees after President Barack Obama circulated his draft executive order to shut the facility down by the end of the year. “Sure, I’d take ‘em,” Murtha glibly retorted. “They’re no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo.” Murtha blustered that there was “no reason not to put ‘em in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners.”
Before we unpack all that ignorant nonsense, let us pause to illuminate Murtha’s motives. He is driven neither by a warped sense of patriotic duty nor by misguided human rights compassion for al Qaeda’s footsoldiers. No, what fuels him is unabashed greed and a lifelong edifice complex. The money-grubbing Murtha, you see, just can’t wait to snatch up federal tax dollars to build a new maximum security prison for the Gitmo gang — no doubt with his name and face plastered all over it. Welcome to the John Murtha Jihadist Correctional Facility.
Forget about the increased risk Murtha would subject his district to by volunteering it as a highly visible terror target. Forget about the disgusting affront this pork grab poses to the families of those who died on United Flight 93 — which 9/11 terrorists crashed in Shanksville, Pa., represented by none other than Murtha at the time. There’s a shining prison on a hill to be built and Murtha will sell out his neighbors’ safety to make sure it’s built on his hill.
Murtha’s got logs to roll and wheels to grease. National security is an impediment, not an imperative. Would you expect anything less from the shameless politician caught on tape in the 1980s Abscam congressional bribery scandal mulling payoffs from FBI agents posing as Arab sheiks? (“How much money we talking about,” Murtha asked one of the bagmen.” “You know, we do business for a while, maybe I’ll be interested, maybe I won’t.”)
Murtha’s contempt for the people he serves should surprise no one. This is the man who called his own voters “rednecks” and who has refused to back down from his smears of the exonerated Marines who served in Haditha, Iraq as “cold-blooded” murderers. This is the man who denies that we are combating al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. This is the man who lives in fantasy world where re-deploying American soldiers to Okinawa is a viable defense plan.
Murtha can’t see any reasons for keeping Gitmo detainees from flooding our regular prisons and preventing them from exploiting our civilian court system because he is willfully blind and stone-stupid. John Murtha, meet Lynne Stewart. She’s the disgraced jihad lawyer convicted last year of abetting her terrorist client and 1993 World Trade Center bombing/NY landmark bombing plot mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman. Stewart helped smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence from the imprisoned sheik to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client’s court-ordered isolation. While Rahman’s court-appointed translator conveyed the message during prison visits, Stewart made “covering noises” including shaking a water jar and tapping on the table. A draft fatwa was discovered in Stewart’s office; she also signaled Rahman’s wishes to his jihadi organization in an interview with Reuters news service. The publication of those comments ushered in a new wave of bombing attacks by Rahman’s previously dormant terror oufit. The left-wing radical Stewart remains unrepentant and clings to her belief that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an “armed struggle.”
Now, imagine a traitorous bleeding-heart Lynne Stewart assigned to each and every one of the 250-odd Gitmo detainees. Imagine the risk of similar jailhouse collaborations to innocent men, women, and children at home and abroad. Imagine the three-ring, O.J.-like circuses these trials will cause in your backyards. It’s easy if you try.
Prosecuting suspected terrorists like petty thieves or drug dealers is fraught with peril. The Democrats have learned nothing from the failed law enforcement strategies of the feckless Clinton era. Confiscated Al Qaeda training manuals have revealed that recruits are instructed in how to manipulate the Western legal system if they are captured. As I’ve noted before, affording accused Al Qaeda operatives the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial threatens to compromise classified information necessary to prosecute future terrorist trials. Other rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment — the right to subpoena witnesses and compel them to testify, the right to an attorney — can interfere with interrogations of captured suspected Al Qaeda agents. And while the lives of those directly involved in say, a mob trial, might be endangered, the entire nation may be at risk when we allow suspected members of a terrorist network to engage in the discovery process and in privileged communications with attorney-abettors.
Who will be accountable when these prosecutions run amok? When convicted jihadis wreak bloody havoc from behind bars? And when Gitmo recidivists wage war anew once released? John Murtha doesn’t give a damn. Do you?
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Salt said (#99):
If the Saturn V rocket generating millions of pounds of thrust can be called a “candle”, an international terrorist can be called a bad guy.
You don’t have to have “contempt” for conservatives to disagree with them. I can see that you might want to bend the rules in the interest of stopping terrorist tragedies. Who knows, maybe someday the “ticking bomb” scenario might actually happen and Jack Bauer might do the right thing.
But I think the Bush administration was far too willing to violate US and international norms of civilized behavior. I don’t yet believe statements from some that these acts resulted in preventing attacks. I don’t regard the Bush administration as a credible source, given the WMD fiasco and all that.
I also think the US has paid a huge price, in terms of safety, for violating Judeo-Christian norms of behavior toward our enemies. Terrorists are made, not born.
So you are more concerned with how we look than the violation of some “norm” of innocent people being killed?
Liberal thinking on parade!
As for accepting statements concerning preventing acts of terrorism…how can you ignore that yet jump to conclusions of jihadi innocence which is based on less evidence?
Blah, blah, blah WMD. If wanted to appear credible at all on this LGM, you would go to the UN web site and do a couple searches on what UNSCOM found in Iraq after the first Gulf War.
Many in the surrendercrat party based their vote to authorize force on that information, and now want to ignore it.
If you cannot even perform a couple simple searches, then enjoy your ignorance. You just have zero credibility on the subject.
You are partially right that terrorists are made, but wrong to think it is somehow the US’ fault.
How were they made hundreds of years ago when they were pillaging other cultures?
Terrorists are made by other Islamofascist thugs and have been for hundreds of years.
Being a liberal, I would expect you to automatically think the US was at fault.
Tragedies? Really? A premeditated act is NOT a tragedy! These acts are not happenstance events of misfortune! Terrorist acts are acts of pure evil…murderous events that foment glee from those who perpetrate them. The only thing tragic is that innocent lives are lost to these inhuman pieces of crap.
US and international “norms” of civilized behavior? What the hell are you talking about? There is NO country on Earth that would ever respond to the mass murder of it’s civilians by “civilized” behavior! “I say, old chap, you had better stop killing our people, or else! If you have a problem, let’s talk about it before you ever do that again.” (Have you ever even been in a fist fight, or had to protect yourself, physically?)
Why do I get the impression that it wouldn’t matter to you if you saw undeniable proof, that you would claim that “information still could have been falsified?” Liberals fear being wrong, more than death itself (and are willing to bet everyone’s life on it.)
What huge price? The “tragedy” of saving the lives of the innocent? What exactly do you think normal Christian or Jewish “behavior” is towards OUR enemies? And what do you mean “our” enemies? Clearly, you don’t consider terrorists “your” enemy, do you?
Stop making civilization the creator of terrorists! The creators of these particular terrorists are the leaders of a warped cult/religion that enslave those under their influence! Using real or perceived “wrongs” by civilized countries is simply rationalization for their acts of evil. It’s pathetic that you and many other liberals are filled with so much self-loathing and guilt, that you buy into their jealous nonsense.
It is time to get to work!
Who is running against John Murtha in 2010?
And what can we do to help him/her?
The 2010 campaign season needs to start NOW!
Once again, LGM lives up to the Blame-America-First, fallacious reasoning employed by liberals.
A thousand years ago, there was no America.
The jihad started then. Fools like you excuse their evil because you have issues with our country.
Good post.
Yep, for nearly 1400 years.
The jihad started nearly 1400 years ago.
Good post.
Leave it to LGM to make a total fool of himself. At least you are good at that LGM.
Republicanvet said:
Well, you see, Islam came out after Christianity. Before there were Christians, there weren’t any Muslims.
So naturally, it is all the fault of Christianity. “Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state… We invaded two countries and killed innocent people.”
And now, back to reality.
Murtha is a joke the voters fools
Hey LGM…ever hear the saying that: “it is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”?
Get it?
You’re a common dime-a-dozen troll. Be on your way. Markos and Arianna are waiting for you.
Here’s the latest results from the poll conducted by the local Johnstown, PA newspaper…
It seems Komrade Murtha is not keeping the best interests of his constituents in mind when he speaks out of his arse about bring the Gitmo gang to his home town.
Ex-marine Jack@$$ John Murtha needs to spend time in jail with the detainees from GITMO…the guy has done so much to disgrace the US Marine Corps and those that serve in uniform, and to the people of his district in PA…
How about we dropped all these Terrorists on Rep Murtha’s front doorstep and he can deal with them?
lgm is right about something – mark your calendar.
Most middle eastern terrorists were made because of the meddling by the Carter Administration, and now, thanks to the stupid left, the man that destroyed east/west relationships, the man that turned Iran into an islamist hellhole, the man who formed the Taliban, the man that armed Osama Bin Laden, the man that turned the US into the primary target for addleminded middle class islamofascists – Zbigenew Brzezinski – is running the United States again.
Thanks again Democrats, for all your stupid selfish actions.
You are partially correct. People are not born as terrorists, but they are not made either. People are born with the propensity to do wrong. Some of those people choose to do right, but many choose to indulge their wrong-ness. Some of those choose to go the whole way and become “terrorists”.
Why did Obama close GITMO without and “exit strategy”?
Hah! I just got that. Nice one, MM.
I am sure you are aware he did not close Gitmo. He ordered it to be closed within a year, which presumably is enough time to develop an exit strategy.
Because he is a fool that thought appeasing Code Pink and all the other leftist terrorist apologists was more important.
After all, they’re all innocent according to some.
So all those people who died on 9/11 should be treated like 3,000 separate homicides/assaults/robberies/rapes, right? Is that your approach? So the two friends I lost, whose bodies were never found, should be treated as casually as any court case?
You utterly have no clue. You don’t have any more access to what happened when we went to Iraq than any other uninformed citizen. You derisively view former Pres. Bush and his administration when you really have no clue. You, and the other millions of uninformed Americans, would rather see an intelligence failure as a lie than face the reality of the unknown implications of Al Qaeda’s organization and where they’re going to strike next.
What the hell are you talking about? What price have you paid? Try saying that in front of military families with a straight face. I dare you.
Do you even know what goes on in our military and civilian intelligence industries? Security is number one and they’re always on the watch. Always. The strain that both they and their families are under trying to keep your lame a$$ safe is enormous.
You’re just another self-absorbed, in love with yourself, know-it-all, self-righteous academic whose world only reflects an insular reality. Just stop talking. Liberals sound so dumb when they talk about military/civilian intelligence, security, and the Iraq War from their quarterback, lazyboy armchairs.
You represent two types of Americans that are particularly loathesome to anyone who’s ever served in a the military on a war footing:
1. Self-important Americans who play the “I know better than you” game yet who’ve never worked in the military/civilian intelligence fields.
2. Uninformed Americans who are so dumb they can’t think for themselves, do any research for themselves (like milblogs), and let vainglorious “journalists”/politicians tell them what to think.
Which one are you, Lgm?
I agree. We should not have opened Gitmo. We should have beheaded them. Eye for an Eye. Then buried them the Christian way. Six Feet Under.
Unfortunately we are too “nice” to take the take no prisoners attitude. Because if we would wack every enemy combatant on the field of battle we would soon run out of targets. Libtards don’t like that idea. It’s called winning! I, for one, don’t care if the French or anyone else doesn’t like us. Just don’t mess with the US and we’ll all get along fine.
Okay, but then what to do with the hundreds of Gitmo detainees that weren’t captured in battle?
Good morning Chappie!
It depends on what they were doing to get caught. If they are planning to kill innocents then they make themselves a combatant. The terrorists choose a despicable and cowardly way to wage their war or, as they call it, jihad. So you wack them just like the rest. The rest of them? Well, I don’t think there will be a whole lot of those.
Sound brutal? Yep, war is hell. And it’s not for the spineless.
So are we just to take the word of Afghans or Pakistanis who were promised huge bounties in return for turning over Al-Quaeda or Taliban members?
Is their word that these people are such good enough to give them the bullet?
OK, so how many of the Gitmo crew do you want to bring to US soil so they can lawyer up? Got an extra room? Maybe you and that scum sucking Murtha can come up with an exit strategy for that. Maybe you think just turning them loose and saying “Sorry, our bad.” will keep America safe. I would sleep better bulletizing a couple hundred than having just one of those guys take part in killing 3000 more civilians.
That is my opinion.
No less than we state-side, when we allow criminals to testify against their cohorts for lighter sentences. Not every Pakistani or Afghan can be on the take. And our boys that brought them in can’t all be wrong or gullible to disgruntled neighbors – at least give our guys in the field credit.
I’d be happy to keep them at Gitmo if they were guaranteed certain procedural protections and a meaningful opportunity to challenge their detention. but that was the whole point of Gitmo, wasn’t it? A place under US control that the government could claim wasn’t under US control.
This stupid “we want to turn them loose” meme that you rely on is absolutely inane. But again, wrap yourself up in lies and delusions, if it helps you sleep at night. But just know you sound like an idiot. i guess if you’re cool with that…
Of course not. But you throw out huge financial incentives to people living in a poor, tribalized society and you don’t expect there to be a few mistakes? That is no reflection on “our guys”. But once our guys have done their job, why should that stop our government from doing theirs and actually have to show these guys are a threat?
Watching FNC and Sally Quinn states that nobody knows who those people are at Gitmo or even why they are there anymore. So speculation that they are all dangerous bad guys and that is the reason Gitmo should not be closed is wrong headed thinking.
Her comments are so like the dimbats. Just because a “reporter” doesn’t know means nobody knows. I’m quite sure Obama doesn’t know because, before he became Pres/Messiah he had no real interest in knowing and still doesn’t. He followed up on a vapid “campaign” promise to look good without thinking about consequences–just a nice sound bite.
Every one of the military officers at Gitmo knows exactly who each of the detainees are and why they are there. They also know the havoc these detainees will reign when they are sent to US soil. Maybe Ovmit should make a phone call and find out exactly who he is unleashing on innocent Americans. I suggest that they all be sent to Hyde Park I understand that there is a large empty house available with extra land where they will be real comfortable. Right in the neighborhood of another terroist. They should all get along just fine.
Looks like I caught someone befor their coffee. Look if you think that it’s me and my ilk that are the ones saying that we should just let them go try again. If you think that we are just making it up to make you and your’s sound rediculous, nice try. It is the lefties that think that these people are just misunderstood by-standers that weren’t doing a darned thing and the big, bad Americans just wisked them away to a faraway land. Just like the bad guys on COPS. After being chased and tackle by the man they ask, “What’d I do?”
I may sound stupid but if they would have been shot in the first place we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
It is amazing how one can continue to ignore verifiable, indisputable FACT that so many of those in Gitmo were nowhere near a battlefield when they were apprehended by Pakistani or Afghans and turned over to the US.
Do the delusions feel nice and warm and comforting?
chapoutier said:
Yeah, like KSM. He wasn’t captured in a shoot out in an open battle field. He was just an innocent guy trying to get some sleep when people barged in on him, IIRC.
I think law school rotted your brain, Chap. The battle field as defined by the terrorists themselves as anywhere they are. That would mean your backyard is as good as Iraq or Afghanistan. And just so you know, you are the enemy in their eyes. So shove your head in the sand or up wherever you please but know this: they will kill you given the chance. Oh, yea! Study the meaning of jihad and unless you sign up for their way of thinking they want you dead. Kind of makes a Christian less offensive, doesn’t it?