NoTerroristsInIllinois.com
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 10:15 am
As Josh Kraushaar points out, that domain name has been snapped up by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), the GOP’s likely 2010 U.S. Senate nominee, to politick against any transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Illinois prisons. Punch in the domain and it points to Kirk’s Website and a statement warning that “our state and the Chicago Metropolitan Area will become ground zero for Jihadist terrorist plots, recruitment and radicalization” if terrorists are imprisoned there.
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Comment posted November 19, 2009 @ 12:09 am
The idea of bringing non-citizen terrorists to the continental U.S. is wrong by every measure and really a nutty idea. Guantanamo is the perfect place to imprison muslim terrorists and militay tribunals are the only appropriate way to deal with them. In addition to being legal, military tribunals are also the safest, most expeditious and economical way to try these murderers. The idea that the prison at Guantanamo is a recruiting symbol for jihadists is ludicrous. Militant muslims are dedicated to destroying us and they don't care about a symbol or water boarding that did not result in permanent harm for the worst of the terrorists.
Comment posted November 19, 2009 @ 2:13 am
Read the Constitution, you obviously missed something.
What are you so afraid of? KSM won't be allowed to spout his beliefs, and it won't be televised, either. Seeking justice in this case will put a period on this whole business.
Since it wasn't a military target that got hit on 9-11, the case for military tribunals is a mistake in this case. If you want to create a martyr, go military tribunal.
Or could it be that by giving KSM his day in court would reveal the violations of the Constitution and International law the Bush administration committed by authorizing torture? That he could get off on a “torture technicality?”
That goes for GITMO, too. keep em' boxed up, violate the Constitution by not giving them their day in court, and you are just maintaining a potential martyr, and if you don't think that has an impact as a recruiting tool, you have no concept of the mindset we are fighting.
Put all the “terrorists” on trial, and close the book. The families of the victims of 9-11 want it, and the United States of America would be better off for it.
Comment posted November 19, 2009 @ 5:09 am
The idea of bringing non-citizen terrorists to the continental U.S. is wrong by every measure and really a nutty idea. Guantanamo is the perfect place to imprison muslim terrorists and militay tribunals are the only appropriate way to deal with them. In addition to being legal, military tribunals are also the safest, most expeditious and economical way to try these murderers. The idea that the prison at Guantanamo is a recruiting symbol for jihadists is ludicrous. Militant muslims are dedicated to destroying us and they don't care about a symbol or water boarding that did not result in permanent harm for the worst of the terrorists.
Comment posted November 19, 2009 @ 7:13 am
Read the Constitution, you obviously missed something.
What are you so afraid of? KSM won't be allowed to spout his beliefs, and it won't be televised, either. Seeking justice in this case will put a period on this whole business.
Since it wasn't a military target that got hit on 9-11, the case for military tribunals is a mistake in this case. If you want to create a martyr, go military tribunal.
Or could it be that by giving KSM his day in court would reveal the violations of the Constitution and International law the Bush administration committed by authorizing torture? That he could get off on a “torture technicality?”
That goes for GITMO, too. keep em' boxed up, violate the Constitution by not giving them their day in court, and you are just maintaining a potential martyr, and if you don't think that has an impact as a recruiting tool, you have no concept of the mindset we are fighting.
Put all the “terrorists” on trial, and close the book. The families of the victims of 9-11 want it, and the United States of America would be better off for it.
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[...] Savage mentions a couple of roadblocks to Obama’s plan. Foremost is that in an awesomely pompous display of NIMBYism, the Senate voted in May against spending any money to house Guantanamo detainees in the U.S. Whether the Senate will approve funds for Thomson (likely to be tucked into the next defense appropriations bill) could depend on two competing Senatorial tendencies: their resistance to change vs. their collegiality. Lawmakers might just defer to Durbin — the detainees will be in his “backyard,” not theirs. On the other hand, Republicans might filibuster the plan in deference to Rep. Mark Kirk who is running for Illinois’ other Senate spot in 2010. Kirk is so against the plan that he’s started a Web site about it. [...]
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Comment posted September 3, 2010 @ 5:00 am
Punch in the domain and it points to Kirk’s Website and a statement warning that “our state and the Chicago Metropolitan Area will become ground zero for Jihadist terrorist plots, recruitment and radicalization” if terrorists are imprisoned there.
Comment posted November 29, 2010 @ 3:17 am
. Guantanamo is the perfect place to imprison muslim terrorists and militay tribunals are the only appropriate way to deal with them. In addition to being legal, military tribunals are also the safest, most expeditious and economical way to try these murderers.
Comment posted November 29, 2010 @ 3:17 am
. Guantanamo is the perfect place to imprison muslim terrorists and militay tribunals are the only appropriate way to deal with them. In addition to being legal, military tribunals are also the safest, most expeditious and economical way to try these murderers.
Comment posted December 29, 2010 @ 6:43 am
Since it wasn’t a military target that got hit on 9-11, the case for military tribunals is a mistake in this case. If you want to create a martyr, go military tribunal.
Or could it be that by giving KSM his day in court would reveal the violations of the Constitution and International law the Bush administration committed by authorizing torture? That he could get off on a “torture technicality?”
That goes for GITMO, too. keep em’ boxed up, violate the Constitution by not giving them their day in court, and you are just maintaining a potential martyr, and if you don’t think that has an impact as a recruiting tool, you have no concept of the mindset we are fighting.
Comment posted January 5, 2011 @ 6:02 pm
Any fanatic who doesn’t respect life doesn’t belong to this world. The Guantanamo episode attracted global attention and people across the world saw it through the movie which got involved in a controversy. Wish there was no more war, hatred and hostility.
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