Military-civilian terror prison eyed!
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. The officials outlined the plans — the latest effort to comply with President Barack Obama's order to close the prison camp by Jan. 22, 2010, and satisfy congressional and public fears about incarcerating terror suspects on American soil — on condition of anonymity because the options are under review
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said Friday that no decisions have been made about the proposal. But the White House considers the courtroom-prison complex as the best among a series of bad options, an administration official said. For months, government lawyers and senior officials at the Pentagon, Justice Department and the White House have struggled with how to close the internationally reviled U.S. Navy prison at Guantanamo. Congress has blocked $80 million intended to bring the detainees to the United States. Lawmakers want the administration to say how it plans to make the moves without putting Americans at risk. The facility would operate as a hybrid prison system jointly operated by the Justice Department, the military and the Department of Homeland Security. Scott Silliman, director of Duke University's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, called the proposal "totally unprecedented" and said he doubts the plan would work without Congress' involvement.
By LARA JAKES, Associated Press Writer
OK how is this any different than da Guantanamo Bay Internment Camp? Except it's now on U.S. soil instead of Cuba. Obama is a liar. Well not a full out liar, but a man that bends da truth to suit his needs. He said he would close Guantanamo and he will, but only to open another "Super Prison" on da mainland. He will still house hundreds of men, without proper trials, without proper representation, and when the charges are laid the detainee will get a kangaroo style court with total anonymity.
"Ahhh who cares! Why not just shoot'em in da head, ala: "Da Russian Tribunal". They're just a bunch O'Towel Heads anyway!"
I know how some Americans feel about these men and I sympathize with you all. Unfortunately your and my Constitutions and a lil'thing called da Geneva Convention gives these men rights. But in 2005 Congress passed something called "Tittle X: War On Terror Detainee Legislation". Obama and his lackeys are using this totally bogus law, created by da Bush Administration, to keep these men locked up.
Don't get me wrong after due process if some, or all of these men are in fact terrorists and are a danger to our society, lock'em up, hang'em, shoot'em in da head, who cares?! But in fact, most of these guys aren't that at all. They are simple men stuck in a world of injustice. During da Second World War, thousands of men were put in internment camps by da "Allied Forces". There were prisoner of war camps located back here at home and abroad. An uprising of unsympathetic minds, driven by propaganda, voiced crap like... "Why should we care for these scum"..."Kill'em, they kill ours"... There was a huge outcry of right wingers that wanted these men killed and/or torchered. What do you think would have happened if we did that? I think you know? No I know you know! All of these prisoners of war went back home and became productive people in the world. German and Japanese former war prisoners remembered how we treated them and some even came back here to live.
This is a war that was crafted by the media and da corporations that owns it. We have to look long term here. We can't just stick these guys in a cell without due process and a fair trail. If any of these men are found guilty of acts of terror, give them da death penalty. But if they aren't and that's what the Government is afraid of, turn'em loose.
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