rssProminent Illinois Lawyers Urge State Lawmakers to Permit Gitmo Detainees in Illinois Prisons
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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Former congressman and federal judge Abner J. Mikva and former Illinois U.S. Attorneys Thomas P. Sullivan and Dan K. Webb today sent a letter urging Illinois members of Congress and state officials to support the use of federal and state prisons, including the one in Thomson, Ill., to house Guantanamo detainees before trial and after conviction.
“While we oppose military commissions and preventive detention, and thus also oppose using prison facilities in connection with these purposes, we strongly reject charges that our country’s prisons cannot securely hold terrorism suspects or other dangerous individuals. … We urge the elected officials of Illinois to reject the irresponsible fear-mongering and partisan politics that have bogged down the inevitable, and necessary, closing of Guantanamo.”
The letter, organized by the bipartisan Constitution Project, is part of a broader effort of prominent judges, prosecutors and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to urge the Obama administration to try terror suspects in federal courts and not to adopt a system for future preventive detention.
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Comment posted December 1, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
I live not far from Thomson, Illinois. The only people selling fear are the Senators, Congressmen, and other politicians who want to put these hundreds of sworn enemies of the United States into my underbelly. They aren't detainees, or prisoners, they are dedicated, trained, combat veterans, sworn to kill all of us as soon as they can get their hands on a gun or other weapon. Washingon isn't adding to our domestic tranquility. It is trying to destroy it. Labeling people with reasonable concerns, calling your own constituents names is a sure sign of the weaknesses of the argument for putting these terrorists here. If it were such a good idea, why do you have to mock the people who oppose it? This kind of naive thinking led to the Beirut barracks bombing, the African embassy bombings, the Iranian hostage crisis, the first bombing of the Twin Towers, and ultimately to 911 itself.
There is no reason to belittle us because we care more about our wives, our school children, and our fellow citizens of Illinois than you do.
Sincerely yours,
Jim French
Comment posted December 1, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
I live not far from Thomson, Illinois. The only people selling fear are the Senators, Congressmen, and other politicians who want to put these hundreds of sworn enemies of the United States into my underbelly. They aren't detainees, or prisoners, they are dedicated, trained, combat veterans, sworn to kill all of us as soon as they can get their hands on a gun or other weapon. Washingon isn't adding to our domestic tranquility. It is trying to destroy it. Labeling people with reasonable concerns, calling your own constituents names is a sure sign of the weaknesses of the argument for putting these terrorists here. If it were such a good idea, why do you have to mock the people who oppose it? This kind of naive thinking led to the Beirut barracks bombing, the African embassy bombings, the Iranian hostage crisis, the first bombing of the Twin Towers, and ultimately to 911 itself.
There is no reason to belittle us because we care more about our wives, our school children, and our fellow citizens of Illinois than you do.
Sincerely yours,
Jim French
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