Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Calling all Blue States!!!

Calling all Blue States!!!
Now is the time for you to come to the aid of the President.
You remember when Obama said he would close the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison camp within a year?
In August 2007, he said, "As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act and adhere to the Geneva Conventions."
You cheered and voted for him.

Well, how many of the Guantanamo inmates are you wanting to have in your states? If Senate Bill 370 and House Bill 1012 introduced in February are any indication of the attitudes toward relocating that Detainees in the U.S.; then shame on you Blue states.
During that last few months, Attorney General Holder and Secretary of State Clinton have been visiting countries in Europe asking them to take some of the detainees. These are inmates former Bush administration officials famously described as "the worst of the worst".

Attorney General Eric Holder is trying to assure members of the House Judiciary Committee and the regular American citizens that their safety is important to him and Obama and Co..What are they going to do with the 241 prisoners in Gitmo since Obama and Co. committed to closing the U.S. military prison in Cuba, is a repeated question that doesn't get a reassuring answer. The Attorney General promised Thursday to work with Congress to devise a solution to the problem as he said no final decisions had been made on what to do with the terrorism suspects. Holder went to Guantanamo in February 2009 for the first time because he is in charge of relocating Guantanamo's inmates by Obama's 2010 deadline.

Attorney General Holder said detainees would have either a military or civilian trial, but he acknowledged there may be cases in which prosecutors couldn't win a conviction for a dangerous prisoner. Holder said he is not sure whether a detainee's lawyer could argue that the client had full rights under the Constitution.

"We are not going to do anything that will endanger the American people," Holder said to the House Judiciary Committee. "If there were a sufficient basis to conclude they pose a danger to the United States, we would not release them."

A federal appeals court in February ruled that 17 Chinese Muslims, a Uighur ethic group held for years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, did not have to be released in the United States. The three-judge panel of the appeals court overturned a lower court decision by saying the fact that the detainees were no longer considered "enemy combatants" did not mean they qualified for admission into the United States; adding, "Nor does their detention at Guantanamo for many years entitle them to enter the United States."

The Uighurs were captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. China has said that insurgents are leading an Islamic separatist movement. The U.S. insists it will not hand them over to China because the Uighurs fear they will be tortured. The Uighurs were allegedly involved in weapons training in Afghanistan but have denied membership in the East Turkistan Islamic Movement terrorist group.

So, where do you relocate the 'worst of the worst'?

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