Will a Michigan Upper Peninsula town trade Guantanamo detainees for jobs and revenue?

[struggle4progress]

MANISTIQUE -- ... U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, quietly floated the idea of transferring detainees to Camp Manistique with a letter in February to Obama. The minimum security prison closed in 2007 ...

That followed a suggestion by former Gov. John Engler that creating a "Guantanamo North" somewhere in the Upper Peninsula might be worth $1 billion a year to the state ...

Gov. Jennifer Granholm is keeping her distance ...

Mayor Dave Peterson won't reject it out of hand ...

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/06/will_a_michigan_upper_peninsul.html

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1. i've been to the up. the detainees might prefer guantanamo...

[Enthusiast]

2. Minimum security?

Who is this Stupak fuck? Why would you put a suspected terrorist in a minimum security facility, so they can escape, so the MSM can blame Obama?

[struggle4progress]

3. I'd expect the proposal would involve significant new construction

[mikekohr]

4. YOOPER LAND, Say Ya to Da UP, eh?

Dose terrorists won't be stayin in a cottage up nort. Dey will be choppin wood from sun-up to sundown to stay warm at night. If dey jump da fence da bears, cougars and da wolves's will eat em up.

The UP could use an economic boost. It is no co-incidence that Hardin county in Montana, another economically disadvantaged area like the UP, also has offered use of their empty high security prison facility. Hardin County and the nearby Crow Indian Reservation, like the UP in Michigan, has plenty of good, hard working people that could use a job.

mike kohr

[Demeter]

5. Engler Still At It Then?

Did he get laid off K Street?

[BobRossi]

6. Great idea.

The U.P. needs the jobs.