Just say no to jihadi-dumping in your backyard
There’s going to be a big showdown in Standish, Michigan, Thursday over the Obama administration’s plans to dump Gitmo detainees at the local prison.
Just got word of an emergency town hall. Read:
EMERGENCY TOWNHALL MEETING
ON GITMO DETAINEE TRANSFER TO STANDISH MICHIGAN PRISON
“NOT IN MY BACKYARD – NOT IN MY FRONT YARD”
STANDISH, Michigan (August 19, 2009) – Michigan citizens concerned about the controversial federal plan to transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainees to the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility will hold an emergency town hall meeting this Thursday, August 20, at 12:00 noon, in Resurrection of the Lord Church, 423 W. Cedar St., Standish, Michigan. The meeting is open to the public and press.
The town hall meeting will address legal, economic and security issues that could affect the Standish area community, the State of Michigan and the nation as a whole. Slated to speak are U.S. Representative Peter Hoekstra (R-Holland), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee; David Littmann, Senior Economist, Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Debra Burlingame, Founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America and sister of the pilot of the plane which was crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001; and Thomas Kerrins, chief steward for Standish for the Michigan Corrections Organization. Invitations were also extended to Governor Granholm and other state and local officials.
Residents of the Standish area community and citizens all over the State of Michigan have raised many questions and concerns about the federal government’s plan to use Standish prison to house Gitmo detainees:
* The Michigan House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on August 12 included testimony that some 300 state prison-related jobs for Standish area residents would be eliminated, to be replaced by military and federal personnel.
* The Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on August 18 passed a resolution asking “the United States Congress to make certain intelligence information regarding Guantanamo Bay detention camp detainees available to the Governor and Michigan State Legislature.” Elected officials in both parties and at all levels, including the Governor, Congressional delegation, state legislature, county and municipal officials, have raised concerns that the administration is not disclosing the security risks that will result from transferring the Guantanamo terrorist detainees to Standish. U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra’s testimony to the Committee can be viewed at http://hoekstra.house.gov .
* Although the transfer plan was first announced over two weeks ago, repeated requests by Michigan residents and officials to the Obama administration to let the public know details about this increasingly controversial plan have not received a response.
* Americans as a whole share these concerns: a June USA Today/Gallup poll showed 2/3 of Americans oppose the relocation of Gitmo terror suspects to the US.
* Also opposing a transfer of Gitmo detainees to the U.S., the community, business and political leaders in Kansas passed resolutions and issued statements unequivocally opposing the transfer of Gitmo inmates to Ft. Leavenworth. This unanimous opposition by Kansas officials is under consideration as a possible model for Michigan residents. Their statement of opposition can be viewed at https://www.lvks.org/egov/docs/211731229029206.pdf .
Michigan residents began organizing the August 20 emergency town hall meeting this past weekend by distributing leaflets at local community groups, churches and unions, and through neighborhood word-of-mouth.
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More details from the Detroit News:
The battle over whether Michigan should accept — if offered — Guantanamo Bay terror suspects continues at a town hall meeting Thursday in Standish hosted by critics of the idea.
One of the chief critics of the idea, Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, will be there to repeat his warnings that taking the prisoners would make the community a magnet for terrorists. Hoekstra is running for governor.
The Obama administration is looking at the maximum security prison in Standish that Michigan is shutting down as one possible place to move the detainees once Guantanamo Bay closes. President Barack Obama is hoping to close the military detention facility by early next year.
The possibility that Gitmo detainees will be housed at Standish increased after a similar plan to take prisoners from California fell through…
…Also participating are David Littman, senior economist at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Thomas Kerrins, chief steward of the Standish corrections officers union; and Debra Burlingame, Founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America. Burlingame is also a former attorney, a director of the National September 11 Memorial Foundation and the sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
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As Major O said, the MAIN problem is what rights these terrorists have once we put them on American soil, not any security concerns about escaping, although those points are valid as well…They were put in Club Gitmo for that very reason(not American soil). It’s been pointed out before. You cannot give prisoners of war our constitutional rights and access to our legal system and the team of top liberal lawyers waiting in the aisle. It’s called common sense and RSS and lgm must not have any and so I understand their attitude towards this.
Sugarland Texas Tea Party sign: I would rather be a right wing extremist with common sense than a Harvard grad with none…
You listen to someone as smart as Rush and still have such stupidity. My gosh, you are dense.
Off Topic, but of interest.
Watch LIVE at 2:30 P.M. Eastern: Strategy Meeting with the President
President Obama will be holding a special strategy meeting today at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time for all Organizing for America supporters. UPDATED: Click here to watch the program live online.
(the below note was sent to SEIU members at …………….redacted by Flyoverman
Thanks again for signing up to be a part of the OFA National Health Care Forum with President Obama.
The event is today (Thursday, August 20th) at 2:30 p.m. ET/ 1:30 p.m. CT/ 12:30 p.m. MT/ 11:30 a.m. PT.
You can watch the forum live at:
http://my.barackobama.com/watch
This is an incredible opportunity to huddle with the President and discuss how we’re going to pass real health insurance reform this year. Glad you can make it.
Actually lgm, I prefer the story in First Samuel 8:4-18. It’s your future.
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4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. 5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead [a] us, such as all the other nations have.”
6 But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.”
10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle [b] and donkeys he will take for his own use.
17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.”
My favorite part of that comment was where he started with “In a related story” and proceeded with something not at all related to the topic.
Although, he did remind me to tune into Rush, so kudos to him for that.
Why such a scardy-cat Ms. Malkin??? Do you realize how weak this makes the USA look…? Like those guys are too much of a menace to be on our territory?
Wuss!
Just stop it with the “I’m all scared” bs and let’s be the tough Americans we are. Sheesh! Bunch of babies.
We’re Americans. We’re bad asses. Let’s start acting like it. Send those Guantanamo detainees to the states. Bring it on.
Why don’t we send them to lgm’s and RSS’s homes?
I’m willing to bet that lgm won’t have a head after one day.
Willing, lgm?
Tough talk, but not all of us are bad a***s. Think especially of the elderly and children.
I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or not.
Why should we, the taxpayer, pay to move them out of Gitmo? Why should we put America’s enemies within our borders? Why should we give them the opportunity to try and recruit from the criminal populace? That’s not fear, that’s just good tactical sense. They don’t belong in our criminal system.
The following are just a few examples of homegrown Islamic extremism in the U.S. alone in 2008:
• A convert from Long Island joined al-Qaida (disclosed this past week) and gave the group information about Long Island trains and New York City’s subways.
• A plot to kill hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix formulated by assimilated American Muslims who have lived here for 25 years (all convicted).
• A plot to operate a terrorist training camp in Oregon (pleaded guilty).
• A plot to blow up two synagogues and a National Guard plane in upstate New York by prison converts (scheduled for trial).
• A plot to blow up buildings by the Liberty City 7 (all convicted).
• The cases of young Somali teenagers raised in the U.S. going overseas to become suicide bombers.
And these are just some of the ones that were caught. There are many other sympathizers and potential threats out there. Oh but there are no Al Qaeda terrorists in the US according to some ignorants of reality. Talk about a giant hit to credibility. Slugged out of the park.
You don’t have to be a Harvard grad or Editor of the Harvard Law Review to figure out a rose by any other name is still a rose.
A prison in Michigan will get the same nasty comments from those who dislike the USA as Gitmo…….DuuuuuuuH!
However, it IS one step closer to releasing them into the States (along w/full reparations and lifelong bennies courtesy of US taxpayers, of course).
Of course, doing the sensible thing (keeping the a$$wipe at Gitmo) is our of the question …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Most likley Ahmed knows quite a few terrorists inside the US (Atta and Moussoui were hiding in the country for YEARS before they did their deeds), he speaks the same language as other al-Qaeda goons, and has committed the same level of crimes as Cliff.
He’s Every bit as dangerous, and if you think he’s so harmless, then maybe we should just put him into your care.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
RWR,
What part of the term “Beslan” don’t these idiots understand?
Honestly, I don’t think they have any idea just how much these people hate these idiots just because they are Americans.
They’re so wrapped up in blaming all the world’s problems on George W. Bush that they forget that terrorists HATE FREE PEOPLE and have as their life’s work KILLING AS MANY FREE PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Roger that, RWR.