Unreal. Team Obama claims their decision to move 100 terrorist killers to Illinois will create or save 2,000-3,500 jobs.
The New Editor reported on the administration’s focus on job creation:
According to an economic impact analysis by the Obama administration, the federal purchase and operation of Thomson could generate $1 billion for the local economy over four years and create between 2,340 and 3,250 jobs.
Of course, these jobs will be supported by US taxpayers. The administration did not release figures that show how much more money they will blow by having these killers held in Illinois rather than at Gitmo.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:10 pm | #1
I just hope none of them escape and terrorize the “peasants” that are welcoming them to there community.
No such thing as escape proof prison. At least in cuba they would have a long swim to reach the mainland.
3000 prison guards for 200 prisioners, they must be more dangerous than the government wants us to believe.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:13 pm | #2
He couldn’t get the Olympics for his cronies in Chicago…
So he’s buying a near-empty prison with taxpayer money instead.
All of it going to his cronies.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:19 pm | #3
Well, “yea!” for Illinois. Pretty pathetic that the only way they can create jobs is to virtually produce them out of thin air.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:22 pm | #4
So they admit that these jobs will cost over $300,000 for each job saved our created. Nice! Our government is so efficient.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:27 pm | #5
WHERE IN ILLINOIS????
November 15th, 2009 | 1:31 pm | #6
On the bright side. All those marines guarding those poor unfortunates at Gitmo can be moved to US bases to guard American soldiers from “diversity lapses” in their own ranks.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:36 pm | #7
Brenda don’t know name for sure, it’s 20 miles outside of Chicago. Thompson prison I believe. Payback to his Chicago thug cronies, also I bet only Union workers will be hired. Plus the extra bonus of bringing the terrorist to the USA. It’s a win win for the won.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:38 pm | #8
[...] every day it seems Obama and his porkulus is a complete and utter failure for creating jobs, liberals Dick Durbin (Illinois Senator) and Governor Pat Quinn have instead considered moving about 100 Gitmo scum to a supermax facility in Thomson, Illinois. Despite being completely funded [...]
November 15th, 2009 | 1:39 pm | #9
I don’t even dare estimate the cost of transporting these prisoners – with a small army of security guards for each and every one – from Illinois to wherever they’re going to be tried. We know New York City, for some and that’s not exactly a cab ride uptown.
Just imagine the irony of U.S. Marines having to shoot and kill American citizens on American soil when an attempt is made by some idiot to take the law into his/her own hands! All because of the terrible decision to move these folks out of Gitmo, where they were VERY secure.
Now let’s see….Who made that decision???
November 15th, 2009 | 1:41 pm | #10
On the plus side they will all be union members.
November 15th, 2009 | 1:52 pm | #11
When will the madness end?
November 15th, 2009 | 2:13 pm | #12
Can you just imagine a year after they open the prison the union thugs go on strike. Unintended consequences can be a bitch.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:20 pm | #13
So Weatherman “respected educator”Bill Ayers can do prison outreach classes with them?
Teach them, “Chicago Math?” “One bomb plus two bombs makes four bombs!”
GITMO was pure genuis, and the Left can’t STAND being outmanuvered, so let them have their unrepentent killers and see how they like what they’ve been asking for.
Might remind the presumed potential union employees what these guys have done and tried to do to their guards while incarcerated. Didn’t one of the terrorists with the first World Trade Bombing use a plastic comb to gouge out the eye of one guard while in prison?
Lovely bunch.
If Obama had been serious, he would have handed all the terrorists to Cuba – a ten minute bus ride thru the fence and let Castro keep them in HIS jails, just swap us Castro’s political prisoners to make room, and placate Michael Morre because GITMO prisoners would then have CUBAN health care, which is much better than anything GITMO could EVER provide, but for some unfathomable reason, CASTRO don’t want them EITHER.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:21 pm | #14
Wait until there’s a prison break-in to release all those poor misunderstood boys. This is going to be right out of a bad Hollywood movie.
What a clown in the White House.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:22 pm | #15
Another plus is Mayor Daley doing every thing he can to disarm law abiding Illinois citizens so it will make it much easier for terrorists to come,destroy and leave.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:23 pm | #16
Much better to tell America how many jobs they created then announcing how much this fiasco is going to cost the American taxpayer.
They are masters of spin.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:33 pm | #17
I just gave my dog a bone. I figure that’ll create or save 16,384 jobs. A bird flew past the window – obviously creating or saving another 3,716 jobs. And everyone knows that a good north wind’ll create or save at least 500,000 jobs. See ? Recession is over. Thank God ! Life is good !
November 15th, 2009 | 2:36 pm | #18
Where, exactly,in Illinois? 20 miles outside of Chicago is a pretty large area. I have mother, brother, sisters all over the burbs. Roselle, Carol Stream, Rolling Meadows, Palatine, Arlington Hts. Can anybody add any details on the location, please.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:41 pm | #19
Well. if they’re located in the US, it seems to me that fellow jihadis will come and get them. Much easier than to spring them from Gitmo, which is surrounded by water.
Nice move, Richie. I think that’s doing to down very badly with the natives.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:42 pm | #20
Team Obama Says They Will Lose 2,340 Lives By Moving Gitmo Killers to Illinois
November 15th, 2009 | 2:49 pm | #21
We can save untold millions of lives by impeaching this president before he and his minions completely destroy the economy and risk our nation’s security.
November 15th, 2009 | 2:54 pm | #22
Thomson is about 120 miles west of the Chicago suburbs. It is near the Mississippi River and Iowa border directly west of Chicagoland.
November 15th, 2009 | 3:23 pm | #23
To hell with National security, Obamao has palms to grease in Illinois.
November 15th, 2009 | 3:28 pm | #24
Thanks, Dan.
November 15th, 2009 | 3:36 pm | #25
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ObaMessiah is also going to “Create a Kingdom on Earth”
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November 15th, 2009 | 3:38 pm | #26
3000 jobs in obama -world equals 6 real-life jobs
November 15th, 2009 | 3:44 pm | #27
Maybe they should relocate Gitmo to Hyde Park next door to Bill Ayers, you know, the guy that blew up the Pentagon. Just imagine the fun block parties they would have.
November 15th, 2009 | 3:51 pm | #28
Maybe they should relocate Gitmo to Hyde Park next door to Bill Ayers, you know, the guy that blew up the Pentagon. Just imagine the fun block parties they would have.
You mean the brave man who called the police on a Fox reporter!
November 15th, 2009 | 3:56 pm | #29
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sarc on/
not to worry about the prisoners safety..
ObaWright’s Black Panthers will be paid
well to protect THEM from US, oh wait..
/sarc off
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November 15th, 2009 | 3:59 pm | #30
You mean the stinky old hippie that said,”Guilty as hell, free as a bird.” Yeah, that guy.
November 15th, 2009 | 4:08 pm | #31
How ironic. The number of jobs created bringing KSM & his buds into the country is approximately the number of people that KSM’s plan killed on 9-11.
November 15th, 2009 | 4:18 pm | #32
Of course, and to be expected is Obama continuing his role as an Illinois Senator, instead of the President of the United States, continuing to push for jobs and opportunities in that state, helping to line his friends pockets, while the rest of the country crumbles.
That’s fine with me. Let them have the terrorists. Let Illinois deal with a terrorist attack when their friends try to break them out of prison.
And does this mean that since Illinois is getting the prisoners, that Illinois will be responsible for the cost of the transportation? If not, they should be. We the people, do not want these terrorists in the continental United States. And what is the difference between Gitmo and another prison? Only location. A location that is more accessable to terrorists.
As for not releasing the numbers of the cost, wow, that’s really transparent!
November 15th, 2009 | 4:38 pm | #33
The issue is justice, not jobs. Equating the two is stunningly immoral and shows how desperate Obama is to spin the story to try keep voters on-side.
On the other hand, the Gitmo killers will feel right at home outside Chicago….the breeding ground of the Obama thugacracy.
November 15th, 2009 | 5:19 pm | #34
Hussein is proud of his family and wants to afford them all the comforts our country can offer.
November 15th, 2009 | 5:22 pm | #35
Maybe a few home security companies will be hiring extra sales staff and installers.
November 15th, 2009 | 5:27 pm | #36
Is there no limit to their unmitigated bs?!
November 15th, 2009 | 5:46 pm | #37
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something we should all be aware of..
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
[In your activism, you've explained how political Islam dominates mosques and institutions of the American Muslim community. Would somebody like Hasan find an ideological home there?
Absolutely. And this is the part that is so difficult to explain, but to me as a Muslim is so easy to understand. Political Islam is an outgrowth of modern secular fascism. In the Middle East, the mosque was the only place you could discuss politics safely, where the government wouldn't touch you, so Islam became politicized. That's the model that the Muslim Brotherhood followed and brought to the United States. They were the ones who built mosques.
This has been a frustrating thing for me as a Muslim activist. Many Muslims disagree with political Islam, but they're not pressured to take on the mosque leadership. So you have discussions in the mosque going far beyond theology and the example of the Prophet; imams use the pulpit, or minbar as it's called in Arabic, to discuss politics. I've seen this over and over again in mosques I've attended.
At the largest mosque in Phoenix, the imam took a picture that CAIR distributed, and made a poster – we think it was doctored – showing an Iraqi lady holding a sign next to an American soldier, saying, "I was knocked up by this soldier." The imam held that up in front of 500 people in the mosque. I later said to him, "Not only is that very offensive to me, but do you realize what you've just done to the minds of students here at Arizona State University by showing them that picture?"
And you wonder how Hasans are created! They go to mosques, they open themselves spiritually to have a conversation with God. And that becomes infiltrated by a deeply anti-American sentiment. This is where you get a guy like Hasan, a very intelligent guy, starting to make the connection between his identity as a Muslim and standing against America. It's no different than Lee Harvey Oswald, who was in the Marines becoming a Marxist. You can't deny that his Marxism played a role in his hatred for this country.]
crickets..
i personally wish Jasser would run
with Palin or vise verse in 2012!!
fyi: well worth 30 minutes of your time, as he is
risking his life trying to save yours, mine & ours..
much more here, and here
and there’s still tons more..
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November 15th, 2009 | 6:36 pm | #38
To connect jobs with murderous thugs is evil.This President and his cabal are pathogenic cretins who should be sharing jails with the Gitmo captives.
November 15th, 2009 | 6:39 pm | #39
[...] Gateway Pundit, Team Obama Says They Will ‘Create or Save’ 2,340 Jobs By Moving Gitmo Killers to Illinois: Unreal. Team Obama claims their decision to move 100 terrorist killers to Illinois will create or [...]
November 15th, 2009 | 7:26 pm | #40
When did Americans become so afraid of everything? You people are worried about prisoners moved from Gitmo to Illinois will show up in the local subdivision?
Other countries are dealing with real terrorism like suicide bombers and yet so many Americans are cowered in the corner afraid that terrorists will escape or their buddies will show up to blast them out.
Americans need to grow a pair and stop whining about a bunch of rag tag criminals being put into a jail in the U.S.
I’m sure this post will get deleted since no dissenting opinions are allowed on this site.
November 15th, 2009 | 8:18 pm | #41
Other countries are dealing with real terrorism like suicide bombers and yet so many Americans are cowered in the corner afraid that terrorists will escape or their buddies will show up to blast them out.
Americans need to grow a pair and stop whining about a bunch of rag tag criminals being put into a jail in the U.S.
I’m sure this post will get deleted since no dissenting opinions are allowed on this site.
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“Sherry”,
I suppose that if you consider refuting stupid talking points to be “dissenting opinion”, then I guess you are being moderated. Because we have continually refuted your stupid comments, which you ignore, then come back with even more stupid talking points.
You are a walking, parroting democrat talking points zombie. Do you experience difficulty passing the feathers?
Just curious.
So, here we are again. I am posting a factual article responding to your stupid comment which you will either refute and claim it is “opinion”, or you will ignore entirely.
But you go ahead and continue to beclown yourself. It gives us the opportunity to educate our more intelligent readers.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Britian’s jailhouse jihadis
http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2009/11/britians-jailhouse-jihadis.html
November 15th, 2009 | 9:27 pm | #42
If Steve Perry would’ve known “Sherry Collins” the title of the song woulda been “Yo! Sherry!”
I suppose that to point out the percentage of Jihadis that have been released and returned to their murderous pursuits would be, well – pointless.
Or, that the released Uighars were photoed having a good time on the beach in the Bahamas or that the American prison system is the #1 recruiting ground for Al Qaeda and Muslim terrorists in general.
Finally, that these “rag-tag criminals” managed to hijack four planes and kill 3,000 Americans, are presently threatening the governments of Pakistan, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Egypt, Algeria, Israel, etc, etc.
Grow a pair? lol – grow a brain and take a run at some critical thinking before you bring that lame-ass Demo/Lib/Prog/Commie/Acorn agitprop here, lady (?).
November 15th, 2009 | 10:26 pm | #43
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ht Ann in a previous thread..
Obama Wants Military Tribunals for KSM
President Taqiyyah
KSM Hits Manhattan—Again
[Coming soon to a civilian courtroom blocks from Ground Zero: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other al Qaeda planners of 9/11. Be sure to get your tickets early, and don't forget to watch out for the truck-bomb barricades and rooftop snipers.
Attorney General Eric Holder, who dropped this legal bomb on New York yesterday, called his decision to move their trial on war crimes from a military courtroom at Guantanamo Bay to American soil "the toughest" he has had to make. Other words come to mind. For starters, intellectually and morally confused, dangerous and political to a fault.
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Please spare us talk of the “rule of law.” If that was the primary consideration, the U.S. already has a judicial process in place. The current special military tribunals were created by the 2006 Military Commissions Act, which was adopted with bipartisan Congressional support after the Supreme Court’s Hamdan decision obliged the executive and legislative branches to approve a detailed plan to prosecute the illegal “enemy combatants” captured since 9/11.
Contrary to liberal myth, military tribunals aren’t a break with 200-plus years of American jurisprudence. Eight Nazis who snuck into the U.S. in June 1942 were tried by a similar court and most were hanged within two months. Before the Obama Administration stopped all proceedings earlier this year pending yesterday’s decision, the tribunals at Gitmo had earned a reputation for fairness and independence.
As it happens, Mr. Holder acknowledged their worth himself by announcing that the Guantanamo detainee who allegedly planned the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole off Yemen and four others would face military commission trials. (The Pentagon must now find a locale other than the multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art facility at Gitmo for its tribunal.)
[..]
Terrorists also love a big stage, and none come bigger than New York. Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, made his civilian trial a spectacle. Not even the best judge can entirely stop KSM and others from doing the same. And Mr. Holder has invited grave and needless security risks by tempting jihadists the world over to strike Manhattan while the trial is in session.
Most Americans, we suspect, can overlook the legal niceties and see this episode through the lens of common sense. Foreign terrorists who wage war on America and everything it stands for have no place sitting in a court of law born of the values they so detest. Mr. Holder has honored mass murder by treating it like any other crime.]
i think all those who voted for Obama should be taxed & leave the rest
of US save for the rainy day that’s bound to come sooner vs later..
if New York “liberal” koolaid drinkers approve of boosting the moral
of jihadists, then the least they deserve will be the brunt of the fallout..
not to mention further putting off filling in the hole left in the ground the
second time around.. hey, they say 3’s a charm, guess it’s only fitting you take the lead, go for it NY.. hmmm hmmm hmmm
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November 16th, 2009 | 1:56 am | #44
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harry flashman @ 9:27 pm #42
re: [American prison system is the #1 recruiting
ground for Al Qaeda and Muslim terrorists in general.]
that, and so much more..
just a sample:
The Terrorist Camps Around The U.S.
Springtime in Islamberg
[Islamberg is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as "the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr," Gilani, has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or "community of the impoverished," an organization that seeks to "purify" Islam through violence.
Though primarily based in Lahore, Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has operational headquarters in New York and openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in hamaats or compounds, such as Islamberg, where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority. Additional hamaats have been established in Hyattsville, Maryland; Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania.
Before becoming a citizen of Islamberg or any of the other Fuqra compounds, the recruits - - primarily inner city black men who became converts in prison - - are compelled to sign an oath that reads: "I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah's sake."
In the past, thousands of members of the U.S. branches of Jamaat ul-Fuqra traveled to Pakistan for paramilitary training, but encampments, such as Islamberg, are now capable of providing book-camp training so raw recruits are no longer required to travel abroad amidst the increased scrutiny of post 9/11.]
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November 16th, 2009 | 7:49 am | #45
According to “Sherry” this guy should just “grow a pair”.
Blinded Prison Guard: Don’t House Terror Suspects in NYC
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575133,00.html
November 16th, 2009 | 8:26 am | #46
I assume the Gitmo detainees will be registered to vote in Illinois?
November 16th, 2009 | 9:39 am | #47
Please spare me the military commissions act signed by Bush. This was meant to circumvent the Geneva Convention and was a catch all dragnet act that allowed the Bush Administration to scoop up anyone that was perceived to have terrorist connections.
If the Tribunals are so efficient, then why hasn’t KSM been tried? What was the stall on trying the man and putting him to death long before Obama took office?
As far as terrorists loving a big stage, all egotistical megalomaniacs love a big stage. That still does not guarantee that there would be any terrorist trying to blow up New York during the trial. This is just more conservative fearful hand wringing that you are so famous for.
If I had to bet, I would bet any disturbance would come from American terrorists, not al Queda terrorists. There are plenty out there that want to destroy the Government of his country, just because Obama is President.
In any event, your argument is mostly opinion as is everybody’s on this subject. This is unprecedented, unchartered waters we are heading into. I happen to think that getting a conviction in a criminal court and putting KSM to death is the way to go. You think letting him rot in Gitmo is the way to go. Who is right remains to be seen.
November 16th, 2009 | 11:05 am | #48
See folks, as I predicted, “Sherry the Stupid Troll either ignores any proof that we offer to support our position or dismisses it as “opinion”.
“Sherry”, when I read your bird droppings that you try to pass off as comments this is what I hear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ceRtrYqfwg
November 16th, 2009 | 1:25 pm | #49
One guard blinded 7 years ago hardly establishes a pattern.
November 17th, 2009 | 1:14 pm | #50
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