No One’s Ever Broken Out of a Supermax

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Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 12:07 pm

President Obama:

As we make these decisions, bear in mind the following fact: nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal “supermax” prisons, which hold hundreds of convicted terrorists.

Leann LaRiva is the public information office for the federal penetentiary in Florence, Colo., commonly known as ADX Florence. It’s a supermax facility. Any escapes? “No escape,” she told me. Any escape attempts? “No attempts.”

Just saying. No one’s breaking out of a supermax by virtue of their Muslim superpowers. I like comic books as much as the next person. This is absurd.

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christopher
Comment posted May 21, 2009 @ 9:29 am

this country is such a pathetic joke ! no wonder it is circling the drain ! and rightly so ! all this fuss about these monkeys in cuba. statements like 'bring them into our neighborhood' from that ugly old repub hen from tex-ass !!
heeee heeeeee we did without a bogey man for a few years and this pathetic country has no identity. but the bogey man is back and its nice to be able to point and say ' you very bad…………we very good' take some of that TARP WELFARE $$ and buy a life, repub america ! yeah supermax is exactly that supermax……those losers in there are not leaving anytime soon.


Akira
Comment posted May 22, 2009 @ 7:37 am

Obama ignorant about McVeigh
“President” Dunham-Marshall-Soetero-Obama:

“Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal ’supermax’ prisons”

As in most things, Lord Obama is an ignorant sock-puppet.

Timothy McVeigh escaped.

Timothy James McVeigh, Loyal to the End

Susan Carlson, WLS Chicago:

“He appeared to be still breathing or what appeared to be shallow breathing, even after being pronounced dead and his eyes remained open.”

Of course these places are very useful, in that one can’t be sure such and such an alleged inmate is even where he is supposed to be.

Bill Bean to Congressman Rohrabacher on the film he shot at Camp Grafton on 1993.08.03:

“I did not realize how significant what I had was, for many years. It was not until McVeigh’s trial that I realized it was McVeigh in the tank. Even then the larger point escaped me. That point is, McVeigh was not supposed to be in the military at that time. His military record shows him enlisting in 1988, being honorably discharged from the Army, on Dec. 31, 1991. His records then show he was in the Army reserve in Buffalo New York, from January 1992 until May 1992, he was then honorably discharged from the Army reserve. After May of 1992 he was never again in uniform on any base anywhere, never again part of the military. He was totally out of military service. The FBI states the only time they lose track of McVeigh, in his entire life, is the late summer of 93. They think he was somewhere between Kingman Arizona and Decker Michigan. Probably at gun shows, meeting antigovernment rightwing militia types. But he wasn’t, he was at Camp Grafton, in uniform, learning explosives and demolition.”

In 1991, at Fort Bragg, N.C., McVeigh was allegedly an “unsuccessful” candidate for the Special Forces. Army records show that Mr. McVeigh dropped out of the program after saying he could not meet the physical demands.

Timothy McVeigh to Jennifer McVeigh, 1993.10.20, referring to himself in the third person:

”Why would Tim, (characteristically non-drinker), super-successful in the Army (Private to Sergeant in 2 yrs.) (Top Gun) (Bronze Star) (accepted into Special Forces), all of a sudden come home, party HARD, and, just like that, announce he was not only ‘disillusioned’ by SF, but was, in fact, leaving the service?’

New York Times, 1998.07.01:

[McVeigh wrote to his sister that] he and the nine others were told they might be ordered to help the Central Intelligence Agency ”fly drugs into the U.S. to fund many covert operations” and to ”work hand-in-hand with civilian police agencies” as ”government-paid assassins.” He wrote, ”Do not spread this info, Jennifer, as you could (very honestly, seriously) endanger my life.”

Timothy McVeigh, prior to sentencing, 1997.08.14:

“If the Court please, I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, ‘Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.’ That’s all I have.”

Lee Harvey Oswald, Loyal to the End


Akira
Comment posted May 22, 2009 @ 2:37 pm

Obama ignorant about McVeigh
“President” Dunham-Marshall-Soetero-Obama:

“Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal ’supermax’ prisons”

As in most things, Lord Obama is an ignorant sock-puppet.

Timothy McVeigh escaped.

Timothy James McVeigh, Loyal to the End

Susan Carlson, WLS Chicago:

“He appeared to be still breathing or what appeared to be shallow breathing, even after being pronounced dead and his eyes remained open.”

Of course these places are very useful, in that one can’t be sure such and such an alleged inmate is even where he is supposed to be.

Bill Bean to Congressman Rohrabacher on the film he shot at Camp Grafton on 1993.08.03:

“I did not realize how significant what I had was, for many years. It was not until McVeigh’s trial that I realized it was McVeigh in the tank. Even then the larger point escaped me. That point is, McVeigh was not supposed to be in the military at that time. His military record shows him enlisting in 1988, being honorably discharged from the Army, on Dec. 31, 1991. His records then show he was in the Army reserve in Buffalo New York, from January 1992 until May 1992, he was then honorably discharged from the Army reserve. After May of 1992 he was never again in uniform on any base anywhere, never again part of the military. He was totally out of military service. The FBI states the only time they lose track of McVeigh, in his entire life, is the late summer of 93. They think he was somewhere between Kingman Arizona and Decker Michigan. Probably at gun shows, meeting antigovernment rightwing militia types. But he wasn’t, he was at Camp Grafton, in uniform, learning explosives and demolition.”

In 1991, at Fort Bragg, N.C., McVeigh was allegedly an “unsuccessful” candidate for the Special Forces. Army records show that Mr. McVeigh dropped out of the program after saying he could not meet the physical demands.

Timothy McVeigh to Jennifer McVeigh, 1993.10.20, referring to himself in the third person:

”Why would Tim, (characteristically non-drinker), super-successful in the Army (Private to Sergeant in 2 yrs.) (Top Gun) (Bronze Star) (accepted into Special Forces), all of a sudden come home, party HARD, and, just like that, announce he was not only ‘disillusioned’ by SF, but was, in fact, leaving the service?’

New York Times, 1998.07.01:

[McVeigh wrote to his sister that] he and the nine others were told they might be ordered to help the Central Intelligence Agency ”fly drugs into the U.S. to fund many covert operations” and to ”work hand-in-hand with civilian police agencies” as ”government-paid assassins.” He wrote, ”Do not spread this info, Jennifer, as you could (very honestly, seriously) endanger my life.”

Timothy McVeigh, prior to sentencing, 1997.08.14:

“If the Court please, I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, ‘Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.’ That’s all I have.”

Lee Harvey Oswald, Loyal to the End


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