Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 10:21 AM
Last week, I was surprised to hear Congressman Tim Walz (MN-1) come out in favor of holding Guantanamo Bay terrorist-detainees at facilities in Minnesota.

Congressman Walz agrees with President Obama that Guantanamo Bay should be closed and he’s willing to house the detainees right here on Minnesota soil.  The President has been unable to get other nations of the world to take them, but apparently Minnesota’s First District will step up to the plate.

Congressman John Kline (MN-2) and I introduced legislation that would keep any detainees from coming to Minnesota – anywhere in Minnesota. I am also a co-sponsor of H.R. 1012, which would prohibit the use of federal funds to transfer these terrorists to anywhere in the U.S.

It is simply irresponsible to shut down a facility that houses dangerous terrorists and transfer them to our neighborhoods. To transfer terrorists anywhere near Minnesota residents – or any American citizen for that matter, is a risk we cannot afford to take.


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Exeye writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:23 AM
But if you're going to do it...
...Minnesota's a good choice. Maybe they'll stop electing wrestlers and bad comedians to represent them.
Josh writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:28 AM
Cruel Irony
The liberality of the 1st district has been pushing for the release of the detainees for awhile now. Isn't it ironic that the people who pushed for Gitmo to release the detainees were the furthest ones away from Cuba, yet they are the ones who are going to be stuck with them. Either thats cruel irony on the part of the President, Tim Walz is trying to set an example by saying, "I'll take them...see its not so bad" in hopes of getting rid of them later, or they are both incompetant and feel that they want to effect as few of their voters as possible in population sparse Minnesota. Either way, these desert terrorists are about to freeze. Oh the irony.



Any news on how the Senators are leaning in this matter?
SJA writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:39 AM
Exeye
I agree. People who elect such inept politicians get what they deserve.
Cuban Pete writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:46 AM
Won't these poor souls,...
...these members of the Religion of Peace, suffer more in ACTUAL PRISONS than they did in Club Gitmo, with the semi tropical weather and all the perks? Did anyone bother to ask them which they would prefer? And if they are combatants, why do they deserve prison without sentencing?

Lefty lib logic is so...illogical, but it is fascinating.
Don't Tread On Me writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:57 AM
MN, home of Extremist Mosques
Detroit already has a substantial Muslim population, and plenty of hate being preached out of the mosques there. NOT a great place to send detainees. They'll gravitate to the hate-mullahs and keep jihading their happy butts against us.

Send em back to their home countries. I don't want my tax money going to feed, house, clothe and educate these SOBs.
Dread writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 12:18 PM
Of course...
They'll be in maximum security prisons, probably isolated, and most of us have no idea exactly how many of them are actual terrorists and how many are people who innocent of the accusations the government brings, but whatever, there's a Muslim in our closet. Eek.
wbfrank9 writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 1:05 PM
The state of Al Franken and the Dems
voting machine: ACORN! As if the people of Minnesota need any more abuse!!
But, it does seem sort of ironical doesn't it. Put them in Al Franken's voting block area.

Doesn't Detroit have so many Islamists because they cannot secure the Canadian border. How many sleeper cells.... think about it, are their chickens coming home?

Sure seems that a lot of people really don't give a rip about Minnesota. Too bad...
wbfrank9 writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 1:09 PM
I forgot
Remember the movie Escape from New York? Yep we could do the same with Detroit: put a large impenetrable fence around it and lock 'em in!
Marty writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 2:01 PM
Which state has the empty prison?
I can't remember the state that offered to take the Gitmo detainees. Is it Montana or Minnesota or none of the above?
Keith writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 2:23 PM
Dread
Maybe in your closet. I've got moth balls in mine ;-).
Reason writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 8:36 PM
Oh Noooeess!
Don't send them to Minnesota! Bachmann says her state can't handle it!

Just lock them up with the rest of the terrorists we are already keeping in this country before this ding bat makes a fool out of herself again.
Homer writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 9:53 PM
Tim Walz takes a waltze with Nancy
or so it would seem. Or maybe it is just unseemly. On May 27th, Nancy Pelosi was in Minneapolis to deliver $107,000 (ceremoniously if not the actual bundle of cash) to the American Indian OIC for temporary summer employment, referred to in the news report as 'mentors".

Prior to her one hour photo op at the AIOIC, she attended a private political fund raiser for Rep. Tim Walz, Democrat, Minnesota at an undisclosed location.

On June 3, according to a report on Minnesota Public Radio, Walz said he "thinks the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay is a serious obstacle to peace in the Middle East." Walz said that he feels that "facilities in Minnesota should be open to holding detainees from Guantanamo Bay under some circumstances." He said that prisoners could receive care at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester.

Prominent inmates of FMC Rochester have included televangelist Jim Bakker and presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who shared a cell for some time, as well as former member of Congress James Traficant. Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman was housed there, but was transferred to a more secure prison because of concern Al-Qaeda might try to free him.

Walz is a typical example of liberal stage one thinking where decisions are made in the absence of a curiosity about the long term consequences of the action taken.

On May 27th Pelosi raises cash for Walz and on June 3, Walz says Minnesota will take some guys from Gitmo. Fund raisers are mysterious events.
Virginia Patriot writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:27 PM
Gitmo Is The Perfect Place
So why do we have to close it? Enemy combatants should not be brought here. They probably can't escape from Gitmo and if they do, they are in Cuba.
arch writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:50 PM
Virginia Patriot
Virginia Patriot writes: Tuesday, June, 09, 2009 11:27 PM
Gitmo Is The Perfect Place
So why do we have to close it? Enemy combatants should not be brought here. They probably can't escape from Gitmo and if they do, they are in Cuba.

Arch says

VP. I am not a violent person unless threatened. In my opinion, I would put a bullet in each and everyone of the sick animal's head before bringing them amongst the civilized detention facilities in our nation. They were fair game before being caught and what makes them any less fair game just because they didn't take a head shot where they were captured? These animals do not deserve to be humanely treated. Kill them all and be done with it. Evil is evil and nothing can paint it pretty!
This is the product of moral relativism and nothing more. I agree totally with you. Don't bring them here ever!
Julie writes: Wednesday, June, 10, 2009 12:03 AM
Keith and Dread
My closet is full of shoes I'll probably never wear again. Sad, but not as scary as known terrorists! Maybe I should trade them in for some mothballs! (Nope, can't stand the smell of them. Based on some of the "scientific" logic I've seen lately, this must mean I have moth genes.)

Still, this doesn't seem to be as big of a problem as it's being made out to be. If we can successfully contain serial murderers for life, can't we hold these insane jerks? I'm not advocating the closing of Gitmo, just asking the question.

Then again, I certainly wouldn't want Al Franken in charge of them.
James writes: Wednesday, June, 10, 2009 2:29 PM
Imprisoning terrorists in the U.S.
So..what part of the fact that we have been keeping terrorists in prison in the United States have you been blithely ignoring, Congresswoman? Does the name "Omar Abdel-Rahman" mean anything to you? He's a certain blind sheik that was tried, convicted and imprisoned for his involvement for the 1993 World Trade Tower attacks. Do you happen to know where he was kept for four years after he was put in prison? Try the federal prison in Rochester. We have other terrorists who have been convicted and imprisoned on U.S. soil, including the co-defendants of the one that was brought into the United States yesterday. Sorry to burst your delusions but us liberals and Democrats aren't interested in setting them free, we simply want them in prison so the United States can quit breaking international law regarding their status in Gitmo. Also so that Gitmo is no longer being used along side former President George W. Bush and Abu Gharib as the poster children for terrorist recruitment.

So, Congresswoman, here's the question. If the President's plan is to bring them into the United States, try them and imprison those convicted in the Super Max facility in Colorado, a facility noone has escaped from, what is your problem with it? Other then so you can use it to fear-monger and scare your constituents, which you routinely treat as stupid idiots, into voting for you?
peggy writes: Tuesday, June, 16, 2009 10:21 AM
DO NOT BRING ANY DETAINEES TO AMERICA
WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING BRINGING THEM HERE WHAT? SO THEY HAVE A CLOSER ADVANTAGE OF KILLING US ITS A NO BRAINER LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE AND I DON'T CARE IF THEY ROT THERE. I LIVED IN THE MIDEAST AND EVERY FRIDAY THEY TAUGHT IN THEIR MOSQUES TO HATE AMERICANS I HAD TO LISTEN TO THAT FOR 10 YRS. THEY CREATED THEIR OWN PROBLEMS DON'T DO THE CRIME IF DON'T WANT TO DO THE TIME THAT GOES FOR ANY CRIMINALS. AND I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT OUR TAX DOLLARS BEING SPENT ON UNGRATFUL PEOPLE WHOM DO NOT VALUE LIFE THEMSELVES.
SIGNED MAD AS HELL
Ronna writes: Tuesday, June, 16, 2009 10:35 AM
Caulefornea needs money bad
Maybe Schwarzenegger would be willing to take them. After all, his state is already full of mostly foreigners anyway, and at least he'd get paid for the Gitmo foreigners. And...they're probably not nearly as mean as some of the gangs who have been allowed to take over whole towns. It just might make more sense to take the money for housing them instead of having THEM break the system as the Mexicans have done.
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