Kill two problems with one solution!

@laglen (19759)
United States
January 23, 2009 7:59am CST
Problem #1 - Every body is talking. Everybody is worried. What are we going to do with the detainees at Gitmo? Terrorists with nothing to charge against them. I don't want them in my state. You don't want them in your state. We are worried that they will corrupt our criminals (ok, that's just funny). Problem #2 - President Obama needs to fill almost 8000 jobs at the White House. Not to mention Cabinet Positions. Solutions - Stop nominating these petty criminals, lets appoint these terrorists to the positions. This way, we can watch them, we know where they are and what they are doing. Might even pump a little of the ole American Spirit into them! What do you think of my plan? I soooo should have run for President. But I probably would have opened a Gitmo-like place everywhere!
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@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
23 Jan 09
I've said this in another post, but I think that those who want to close Gitmo should adopt them! Corrupting our prisoners is really pretty funny. But I think that the opposite would really happen. We would have to have them under special guard for their own protection.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
So true, and I really like the adoption idea!
@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
23 Jan 09
They could start an "Adopt-a-terrorist" agency and throw lots of of tax-payer money at it!
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@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
23 Jan 09
See! I'm just so gung-ho for this idea that I'm stuttering!!
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@murderistic (2278)
• United States
23 Jan 09
I don't know how people can call someone a terrorist when they have nothing to charge against them. Sounds like institutionalized racism to me.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Your absolutely right, they have nothing to charge these people with.
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@Netsbridge (3253)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Your ideas is not a bad one. As a matter of fact, most public offices are laden with hardcore criminals! As per not wanting them in your State or the US, I find this very interesting. Why detain people you do not want in your own nation in another nation? Why should another nation have to do the worrying for your detainees? Which all reminds me of Toxic Wastes Dump, an issue in which the US government and some European nations preferred to utililize "Third World" nations as dumpsites for harmful wastes that they would not bury in their own lands! I say: Let the US prisoners be brought to the US!
@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Your right and great analogy!
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Aw, you had my vote right up until that last line. I definitely don't want any more Gitmos. But there's something to be said for keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Not sure that these are the enemies I'd want in the White House but you're on the right track. lol
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
haha thank you. Mostly a joke but it does make a strange sort of sense.
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
23 Jan 09
Ok, so we're closing Guantanimo. I have been on the fence about the base itself, but we still have the detanees to deal with. So, what to do with them. Obviously we can't just turn them loose on our own soil. No other nation, icluding many of their own, will take them. Put them in a regular or even a military prison and the general population will in all likelyhood kill every one of them or make them each their personal bytch. So, how about a guananimo type facility somewhere in the southwest desert? Lots of empty open space, not real easy to escape and survive, out of the way of populated areas. Honestly, as on the fence as I was about the Guananimo facility, with out a plan already in place, it was just plain DUMB to declare it closing before they had another plan.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
The whole point here is that they haven't actually been charged with anything. So do American rights apply? And I agree they should have a plan BEFORE closing. Kind of cart before the horse there.
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Am I uninformed or dumb or something. Haven't hundreds of the detainees at Gitmo already been released over the last couple years? Wouldn't we find the same placements for new releases other than the ones who will be brought to trial? Whats the problem here. I'm asking you because you seem to have the facts on these threads and it seems to me that a lot of people are reading a headline and panicking without any it. I honestly don't see the problem here. He's fulfilling a campaign promise. He said he'd close Gitmo. He's not the only one who thinks it should be closed. I recall a while back in an interview when Colin Powell was asked if he'd close Guantanamo, he replied that he'd close it that afternoon if he could.
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
23 Jan 09
"Am I uninformed or dumb or something. Haven't hundreds of the detainees at Gitmo already been released over the last couple years?" No your not dumb or misinformed, your correct, and an alarming number of them have turned up on the battle field shooting at us or blowing things up again. One even wound up in Yemen and now heads the Yemeni franchize of al Quieda.
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@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Well, it probably would not make much difference. He has some criminals in his background and some people with problems in his cabinet or that he's trying to appoint to his cabinet. You and I would have a problem if we didn't pay our taxes. But here they are about to okay the appointment of a man to be head of the Treasury Department that 'forgot' to pay his taxes and says it was just a mistake. BUT, for 8 years?
@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
That is the appointment that bothers me the most!
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• United States
23 Jan 09
"I dont want them to corrupt our criminals" hahahahaha that just sounds funny to me.lol But im sure even though the ones in our prisons,even though they are criminals and have done wrong.. our country is our country, there fmaily and loved ones still live in this country.. i doubt they will be becomming best friends with these terrorists. He has to fill 8000 job AT the white house??...Thats the last place i would want these terrorists. unles sof course there locked in a steel gated cell or somthing crazy. to much information in that place for someone like them to get there hands on. But somewere ELSE were they could put them to work and beable to have 24/7 survailence on each one would be ok.. but seriously. thats not ganna happen. theres alot of people in that camp/detention ceneter. to have survailence for everyone would cost ALOT of money we do not have.. I know they are sending some into another country. i just forget wich one. and thenyes sending some into each state to some prisons jails or whatever. and then i think withen for months they can go up to trial. but i dont read the news everyday because i have faith in barrack obama. i beelive he will do whats right so im not worried baout it..
@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
mikeswifey - Yes 8000 jobs and I was being facetious! xfachtor - Doesn't this just explain elections?
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
23 Jan 09
"but i dont read the news everyday because i have faith in barrack obama. i beelive he will do whats right so im not worried baout it" Oo ~ For REAL????? Wow. You REALLY put that kind of blind faith and trust in a political figure????????
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
30 Jan 09
my son just said why not have a world trial like Nuremberg? which makes sense to me. then we would have the world in on it and wouldnt look like the bad guys alone.
• France
23 Jan 09
That's a pretty clever solution. Anothers solution would be to round up all the people who feel throwing people in jail for 4-6 years on suspicion of terrorism is a fine idea - and ship them to Gitmo for 4 - 6 years on suspicion of terrorism.
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@laglen (19759)
• United States
23 Jan 09
Smacks just a bit of Minority Report huh?
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