While the “Freedom Tower” is evidently too Toby Keith for the Cognac set at the NY Port Authority, paying the way of some enemy combatants released inside the US is, remarkably, soon to be the responsibility of every US taxpayer. From the AP:
During his news conference, Blair also said the Obama administration is still wrestling with what to do with the remaining 240 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which the president has ordered closed.
Some of the detainees, deemed non-threatening, may be released into the United States as free men, Blair confirmed.
That would happen when they can’t be returned to their home countries, because the governments either won’t take them or the U.S. fears they will be abused or tortured. That is the case with 17 Uighurs (WEE’-gurz), Chinese Muslim separatists who were cleared for release from the jail long ago. The U.S. can’t find a country willing to take them, and it will not turn them over to China.
Blair said the former prisoners would have [to] get some sort of assistance to start their new lives in the United States.
“We can’t put them out on the street,†he said.
The Weekly Standard Blog asks four useful and pointed questions. Me, I just have one: what in the fuck is Obama thinking? And what’s next, free tuition to universities, where these erstwhile official enemies of the state can study nuclear engineering and biochemistry? On our dime?
Okay, so that was three questions. Sue me.
Bottom line? Those Tea Parties are going to become more and more populated, is my guess. Things are coming to a head, people. Prepare yourselves.
(h/t STACLU)
We hate the tea parties, by the way. Hate them worse than the MSM hates them… Cuz we’re pragmatic. We can’t get real upset about this journolist, stuff, though, cuz we hope one day to be members.
I say send the wiiggers to China. Who are we to assume they will be tortured? After all, China is a strategic partner and a “most favored nation”. Have the Chinese said they are going to torture the wiiggers?
Are you fucking kidding me? I just hope that when they are released they get one of those cool Obama stimulus stickers on their clothing so we know where are tax dollars are going.
Drop them off in D.C. Somewhere along Pennsylvania avenue, is my suggestion.
Why can’t they save or create jobs for the friendly terrorists? Green jobs even!
Obstreperous Infidel, you monster!
What’s he thinking, Jeff? The question must now turn to why’s he thinking what he’s thinking, which is clearly attempted national suicide.
So: Who’s in control? How? Why? We know the voter isn’t.
At some point we have to go full circle and again embrace the fundamental truth that we must hold government in perpetual distrust if we are to stand a chance of retaining our freedoms and rights, not to mention our property.
Given that we cannot do that, even now, we’ve lost even that chance.
We need to face that truth as well. Outlaw is about to sum it all up. We’ve been had and the bilking and defrauding has been at least some seventy-five years in the making.
How can we subject poor, defenseless terrorists to that and remain a civilized country?
I wonder if they can cook?
Oh, this is going to end well…
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It will end well for them they supposedly get 72 virgins.
Why not just usher them out the gate and let them stay in Cuba? Let them float over in an inner tube to prove their love for America, like the rest of the folk down there.
This is just more of that insipid do something as long as Bush would never have done it syndrome I think. The socialist dipshit ran against Bush now he’s governing against him. Maybe there’s an update or a patch for the teleprompter what they missed.
Well, the Dubious Obama Adminstration (D.O.A.) has created another dependent group: enemies of the state.
Instead of getting pregnant to get a government stipend, one need only blow up something important to flyover America and voila! Your check will be in the mail!
Maybe Barky can move them into Aunt Zeituni’s public housing project.
I hear it’s a diverse, welcoming, progressive environment that doesn’t care about such petty bullshit as immigration status.
What’s up with Aunt Zeituni, anyway? Has she been deported yet?
Maybe Barky could spend some of his millions to at least get her out of the fucking projects.
And what’s next, free tuition to universities, where these erstwhile official enemies of the state can study nuclear engineering and biochemistry?
Study? Hell, they would probably be granted tenure.
The irony and complications will only get thicker if the administration clings to this idiocy. They’ll announce the upcoming release, which will have lots of people up in arms, a few of whom will really be armed. Then we’ll have to pay for protection as well as assistance. Maybe they’ll go into the newly formed Man Caused Incident Causer Protection Program (MCICPT) which will lead to another round of taxpayer lucre.
Suddenly, a really good Chinese Restaurant Opens in Grand Falls, MT and people start to get sick from food poisoning.
Slippery slope, I tells ya!
Did anyone here end up going to those pro-Obama budget groups that were forming up? I would love to hear some stories if someone did.
Mr. Pink, Carin went to one. No one else showed up. Heh.
So she was the only one there? Hahahahhahahahaha
The Obamabots have been known to lurk in my Condo village, Mr. Pink. I’m waiting for another opportunity to verbally bitch slap them the way I did twice just before the election. Nobody’s shown up yet, however.
I like Obama. He does clarity well. He’s giving us a clear choice:
a) imprison or kill
terroristsman-caused-disaster-causersb) give them welfare
Thing is, he doesn’t have anything else to do with them. We have them. No one wants them. We’re not going to kill them. We’re not going to release them back to wherever they came from. When you have eliminated the logical, whatever remains, however mindless, must be the answer.
I am sure glad people like David Brooks told us Obama was a moderate.
OT.. I just heard Obama is going to require all 2011 cars to get 32mpg.
Get your SUVs now guys, soon only go-carts will be sold.
Oh, and if you live in California, and want a dark colored SUV, get it now!
Heh, maybe that’s his plan for boosting auto sales in the short term…
What, no dancing ‘dillo?
I wonder how long it will be before one of the released Gitmo detainees gets a job at working for the Chinese Communist Party at “World Trade Center 1”, and then manages to get a union in place through card-check policies that then gets him preferred healthcare benefits that have better coverage than the government-imposed “free health care” I will be paying for.
I never would have believed that New Yawkahs would let something like this happen. The inmates are officially running the asylum.
Seen this yet? Coming to a head might be putting it mildly.
We had a building here in Detroit, and everyone called it the RenCen. Well, then GM bought it and you were no longer allowed to call it the RenCen despite the fact that everyone had been calling it exactly that for – oh – 20 years? It is the GM building (for now, right?) and don’t call it otherwise.
So, this meme is bullshit. It’s going to have a name, and that’s the end of it. They’re just trying to pussyfoot around their renaming of it.
But, I’m all for Outlaws calling it the “Fuck You Islamic Fascists” building.
Mike, Rush was talking about that. I’ll say it again. I hope Obama fails.
And, I hope every blue-collar union guy (and gal) that backed Obama and the Dems get a good hard look at that plan. Because … basically they’re fucked directly as their plants go overseas. We’re all fucked of course, they’ll just get fucked first.
More Hope and Change coming to a Mosque near you.
Strange question, like “How does the Sunday soup special feel about this?”
And there’s nothing to be learned by asking, even if he did have thoughts.
You can make a list of who has a hard time getting “released into the United States as free men” — lawful immigrants not personally sent for by a business with political pull, dudes arrested for pissing in bushes, prominent refugees from Islam — and who doesnt.
From it, you can discern what kinds of people the state regards as its, and which of us it considers its enemies.
Terrorist sect (of an otherwise sympathetic group) that lefties have adopted as pets (you didn’t know that? “100 Days Project.” GOOGLE IT!) — cool. Elian Gonzales — gun in the face.
Deduce, and rage appropriately…I guess.
This big eared motherfucker hasn’t a clue. At some point even most Democrats are going to see it.
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I hope you are right about the not having a clue part, because if this is all on purpose we are well and truly fucked.
Where being represented by our enemies’ allies produces a broader [and narrower] survey of possible propositions bound for analysis than we ourselves could produce. Othering. Jolly.
Cameron can you share with us more of your wisdom?
How are those Obama popularity numbers coming along, Cameron?
Oh, right.
Sure. Populated by a bunch of cranky loons who will become less and less coherent as time goes on.
Right now, the overall message seems to be “I am deeply unhappy with the American democratic processâ€.
But, I’m sure Cameron felt the same way about the protests of left for the last eight years. Right?
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Nah their protests were utterly in line with our democracy and were just citizens practicing it. Right wing protesters on the other hand are angry rage filled fascists who rail at our democracy. Context is what matters here.
PS Cameron is a douchebag.
Because BUSHITLER was completly apt way to show “I am deeply unhappy with the American democratic processâ€. Don’t you have some bankers to lynch?
Pick the target: Tea Protests
Personalize it: Crazy loons, increasingly incoherent
Freeze it: “unhapp[iness with] the American democratic processâ€.
Voila.
Looks like Cameron is just another “drop a turd and run away” coward. Imagine my surprise.
Jeff, with your love of language, it occurs that I should have posted a certain comment re this story at your blog instead of the blog I just left. I am trying to ascertain whether ‘The Administration’ has any frigging clue what they are even talking about. See the two paragraphs below which are much less likely to be given consideration at the blog where I originally posed the question.
And….in digging around on Google, am I reading correctly that the stories that have been reported re terrorists no longer being referred to as “enemy combatants” is actually, more accurately stated, that terrorists are now being referred to as “no longer enemy combatants”? There is a distinction and it appears that the term “no longer enemy combatants” is a termed used at Guantanamo.
I suppose the difference would be something along the lines of calling a murderer who is imprisoned a “prisoner” rather than a “murderer”. Right? Except, that the term “no longer enemy combatants” seems to suggest that they have been rehabilitated. Thus, entry into American society is a given….right?
(Again, and I do not proclaim to be an expert in anything, but there IS a distinction between the two terms. Isn’t there?)
BTW: It’s the 100 Days Campaign. I now have a headache at the retarded idealism of these morons.
Oh…as an add to the comment above…
If the military term used at Guantanamo is, indeed, “No longer Enemy Combatants” or “NLEC” then wouldn’t that bit of phraseology make it easier for the administration heretofor referred to as ‘The Firm’ to claim that we are holding people who are not terrorists?
Oh God. I think I’m going to be ill.
Don’t be too hard on Cameron, he/she kinda speaks the truth, partly.
So yeah, I would say a lot of Americans are at least deeply unhappy with where our “American democratic process” is headed.
“Society’s needs come before the individual’s needs.
Adolf Hitler”
In other words “Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game.”
LOON! How dare you bring up old dead white European slave owners!
And I’m perfectly happy with the process, it’s just what happened after the politicians wipe their Cameron with the constitution.
Which direction do you see our current rulers taking us, towards the principals of the Constitution, or Karl Marx, and his Rules of the Communist Manifesto?
Obstreperous Infidel- or Bed-Stuy at about 3am. Twenty years ago.
This is EXACTLY what BIG EARS DUMFUK is doing ….it’s chilling.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Karl Marx
Given the proclivities of our esteemed and learned host, that would seem unlikely.
Yep, it’s true Cameron is a Douche Bag. Let’s call him Massengil.
53. People who run blogs prevent Cameron from being wise.
um OK, but what is your excuse when the server goes down?
Stealing money from people who haven’t even been born, much less cast a vote. That’s Cameron’s idea of democracy.
We can’t put them out on the street
Why not? Doesn’t Cuba have streets?
If you ask me, these are obvious code words. Do they think if they just let them out, they’ll take over all of Cuba? Like cane toads in Austrailia? These are Chinamen, not Catholics for Christ’s sake. I’ve been to China and many Chinese do just fine living on the streets. I can’t believe the blatant racism of that Blair guy.
Well, he won’t get away with it. I’m going to post a snarky and immature rant on Conservolist. That’ll show that nasty racist who’s boss. What kind of name is Blair anyway? Isn’t Blair a girl’s name? Isn’t she one of those godbotherers now? That’s probably why he’s so racist, he’s actually a godbothering Christian woman who still thinks that because she was Prom queen that she’s all that. Well I could have gone to the Prom if I wanted too, but some of us have class. Besides, they knew that that the Yearbook staff had to get up early to get to the Josten’s award banquet in Harrisburg that Sunday. They knew it! We got fourth place in the layout category, what did all those “popular” kids get at the Prom? Gonorrhea? If I had wasted my time looking for a Prom date, going to parties and bench pressing like some dumb jock I never would have been able to get into an Ivy. And let’s face it a Communications degree from an Ivy is sooo much better than a Communications degree from some cow college. It cost at least four times as much, and everyone in my class at J-School went to one. As soon as the newspapers get their bailout money I’ll go full-time and be able to help mom and dad pay off those loans. And when I get that job, you bet those fucking hillbilly jockstraps who think they can take over the party from the people who got it this far are going to pay. You hear me? Every time I try and get one of the interns at the paper to have a drink with me I get the “Party of No” line. I’m not the “Party of No”, that’s those malignants who think they’re Republican because they voted for Reagan and go to church. I got news for them, there’s a black man in the Whitehouse now, it’s time to change with the times, eat some soul food, dig out the Sister Sledge albums and start spending some money on schools and healthcare and stuff like that. Because let’s face it, all reasonable people know that some people are just harder to teach because of all the violence and get sick more often because of all the crack and anal sex and if they weren’t such racist, reactionary hillbillies those Limbaugh fellating proto-klansmen would know that.
Wow, such grandiloquence from a coward. Which blog did you copy that from today?
JHoward, the fundamental truth is that you ultimately have no rights you aren’t willing to kill for.
It’s The Old Issue:
“And what’s next, free tuition to universities, where these erstwhile official enemies of the state can study nuclear engineering and biochemistry?”
That would be a waste of several years. Just send them to flight school.
It would be terrible if, before they are released, they had a full dental check up and while they were under a GPS tracking chip was placed in their nutsacks.
Actually, Mikey. If they’re going to do what they say, they could at least make a pretense at caring and REQUIRE that they be implanted.
Wow – that is a scary thought. If they didn’t hate the US before, they sure will hate it now! And just let them loose in the US? Where they can start or join terrorist cells…… which they might NOT have done if we had left them alone to begin with. Scary thought indeed.
We could drop them off in Venezuela….
Or maybe initiate a conversation with the Iranians by way of smuggling them into Teheran.
The welcome mat should be out according to Islamic law right…?
Hell, bring a few of ’em up here to Minneapolis- I wanna learn the Uyghur language anyways (and maybe help ’em stick it to the Peoples Republic man).
Viva la East Turkestan!
Ballgame…
As I write this blog post, a quarter past midnight Central Daylight Time on March 28, 2009, I will venture to make two political predictions: Rick Perry will be re-elected Governor of Texas in 2010 and Barack Obama will not be re-elected President….
Rick Perry is a imbecile with nice hair, and a fag.
I’ll make a prediction, you’ll still be retarded in 2012.
what in the fuck is Obama thinking?
He is thinking that if he turns these fuckers loose and they do start blowing shit up, he can just say it was because of George Bush and thor will believe it.
I’ll make a prediction, you’ll still be retarded in 2012.
Another prediction: by 2012, thor will still not have made a cogent, rational point.
Rick Perry is a imbecile with nice hair, and a fag.
I’ll make a prediction, you’ll still be retarded in 2012.
And you’ll still be a turd that hasn’t been hosed off the sidewalk.
Now we just need nishi to show up and make the troll circle-jerk complete.
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You mean he’ll be as retarded as you are now? The skidmarks belong in back. NTTAWWT