Rep. Boehner: "Our constituents don’t want these terrorists in their neighborhoods"

[sabra]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-challenges-obama-on-gitmo-closure-2009-05-07.html

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The Republican bill would require that governors and state legislatures pre-approve the transfer or release of any terrorist detainee into their respective states, and it would mandate that the administration meet “strict criteria and certification standards before terrorists housed at the Guantanamo prison could be brought to the United States,” according to a summary.

“Our constituents don’t want these terrorists in their neighborhoods,” Boehner said.

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Homeland Security ranking member Pete King (R-N.Y.) said the president’s decision to close Guantanamo was made “to fulfill a campaign promise.”

“The thought of having any number of these detainees … being literally in the shadow of ground zero I find not just offensive but also extremely dangerous,” King said.

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The duo showed the video to the entire GOP conference on Tuesday, and the result was thunderous applause, according to a number of people in the room.

“I think most people believe it’s dead-on,” Hoekstra said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/30/gop.ad/

Ominous ad shows GOP still thinks security a winning issue

* Story Highlights
* House Minority Leader Boehner releases Web ad attacking Obama on security
* The issue of national security is typically a strong point for Republicans
* Ad shows Obama hugging the Saudi king, an image of the Pentagon burning on 9/11
* Boehner's spokeswoman defends using the 9/11 image



An image of the Pentagon on fire during the 9/11 attacks is used in a new GOP Web video attacking the president.

[Turbineguy]

1. They should get with the program

Americans aren't stupid. They got their attack in 2001. They wasted it. They'll waste it again.

[TimesSquareCowboy]

2. What, like they'll be packing bombs under their prison uniforms? Get real.

I dont' believe this is really an issue. I would love to see polling on it.

[Winterblues]

3. Prove they are terrorists...

If they are terrorists why aren't they charged and tried? If they are not terrorists then let them go.. Isn't that the American way of doing things?

[napi21]

4. I suspect they're talking about those that can't be released and returned to their home

country. What makes no sense to me is that the US has housed a lot of terrible criminals in our prisons over the years, and I don't remember any of them escaping. We have a number of high security prisons, so what''s scaring the Pubs so much about the guys in Gitmo v/s Manson, or the other high profile murders we've had in them?

[Arkansas Granny]

7. To go along with the points you made, how many of those high security

prisons are located in neighborhoods, anyway?

[napi21]

10. I don't know the answer to that, but I can guarantee you NONE of them

are near the neighborhoods where the complainers live! I only know personally of one high security facility, and that's Rockview Pen. in State College, Pa. My uncle used to be a guard there. I've never been there so I have no idea how close it is to civilian housing.

[bunnies]

5. 9/11?!

Seriously? Isnt it time for them to stop exploiting that tragedy yet? :shrug:

[JonLP24]

6. I doubt Obama is proposing releasing them on streets on American cities

Speaking of Guantanamo, why close it? Why not just stop the abuse and holding them without charges and right to counsel?

[EC]

8. But ordinary killers, rapists, etc. are fine?

Our prisons are more than adequate. They just insist on being irrelevant don't they?

[mrcheerful]

9. Actually it has more to do with bringing these Gitmo "terrorists" in the states

where they are going to get heard by a court of law that republicons fear. Remember a lot of these Gitmo detainees where just in the wrong place at the wrong time when they got picked up and sent to Gitmo, which is why the cons sent them to Gitmo in the first place, remember?