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Montana town eyes Guantanamo prisoners; fed officials sceptical
Apr 24, 2009, 16:42 GMT
San Francisco - A remote town in Montana has come up with a new proposal for its empty jail - turning it into a replacement for the US government's notorious facility in Guantanamo, Cuba.
But the proposal has met scepticism at the federal level.
According to the Billings Gazette Friday, officials in Hardin, Montana proposed the site as a Guantanamo replacement since they have been unable to secure contracts for inmates since the 27-million- dollar facility was completed in July 2007.
The 460-bed private jail was constructed by the town's development authority, which hoped to make money by contracting it out to overcrowded prison systems in other states.
So far it has sent details of the facility to all 50 states, but has not received any offers in return.
US President Barak Obama has ordered the Guantanamo facility to be closed, but officials have still not located any suitable alternative site for housing the approximately 240 Guantanamo inmates.
Initial reactions to the Montana plan do not appear encouraging. Montana senator Max Baucus came out quickly against the plan, saying 'bringing terrorists into our state is a clear and present dangers to everyone who lives here.'
US Marshal Dwight MacKay is also opposed to the plan saying that the local law enforcement and justice system is not designed to deal with such dangerous inmates. 'These are not the normal Joe Six-Pack meth users,' MacKay told the paper. 'This is a different league of people that can be considered a national threat. We have to take the proper steps to ensure the safety of our community, the safety of our courts.'
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No EssPee. You leave him speachless. I guess his 3 step mommies and 7 step daddies are too busy doing things that involve yogurt, to supply him with inanities. His real mommy is down at the truck stop, servicing all those long distance haulers. I wonder if she will ever meet EssPee's daddy again.
...have either of you ever been to Montana? I cannot imagine a better place than Deer Lodge, in gen pop.
'...seeeend us back to Geeetmo! You can dooo anytheeeng you want to us, just geeet us out of heeere! Weee are geeeeting oooour asseeees keeeked!'
'...yeees, this is prez...er Seceratary Clinton....oh, hello Mr. Ban(f--king dickhead!)...how're things at the UN?..... busy huh....what?...torture?...oh I know, I know....we're going after them...that Gitmo was a real mistake....what?....you're not calling about that?....well that was where we thought....no?...where?...Deer Lodge?...Montana?.....gee sir, I'm going out on a limb here but I don't think anyone's been tortured in Deer Lodge...well...other than being forced to live there....what?...well sir, even with that I can hardly agree that living there constitutes torture?...what?...you've been there?....well gee sir....even then, I still don't think....the prisioners?...they what...are filing a complaint?...about being forced to live there?....they want what?...to keep Gitmo open?...they'd rather be tortured in the Carribian than have to live in Deer Lodge?...well sir..I guess they've never been to Butte...no sir that's 'B-U-T-T-E'...yes, with an E....well sir..I'll take it under advisement...gotta go now....fund...uh... raiser with Bill...no sir not a charity....we're meeting with the Columbian Ambassador...bye sir...BYE!'
there he is. Full of crap as per usual. I'm surprised his neighbors haven't had him removed as a public nuisance. Oops, I forgot, he doesn't have neighbors, he lives in the hills with his 3 step mommies and 7 stepdaddies, porking pigs, growing and smoking dope. How's the family dog, SP, still humping your leg?
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TruebritApr 24th, 2009 - 20:15:07
'Montana senator Max Baucus came out quickly against the plan, saying 'bringing terrorists into our state is a clear and present dangers to everyone who lives here.''
Surely not, or I can't believe that nice Mrs Clinton would be asking us to take some.
cue SPfuddled:
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