The GW Bush administration opened a detention prison in the US enclave of Guantanamo Bay to house detainees suspected of terrorism. These prisoners were held without any rights. No legal proceedings were initiated against these men and they existed in limbo for years with few Americans caring about questions of guilt and innocence.
All that was supposed to change under Barack Obama.
Nothing did for months, however the president has announced plans to transfer the hundreds of detainees from Gitmo to an abandoned prison in northern Illinois. The GOP and several Democratic legistators have complained that this move will threaten the security of the USA, despite the fact that hundreds of suspected terrorists are already imprisoned on American soil.
The town of Thomson, Illinois is the proposed site of the super-max prison. This Mississippi River community of less than a thousand inhabitants is welcoming the Gitmo tranferees as an economic boon to the rural area. Jobs are more important than the political football being fumbled by those senators and representatives arguing for the eternal limbo of Gitmo Bay.
It’s about the economy, you idiots.
The Dow Jones means nothing to the middle-class. They know only the rich get richer. These people want to work and they don’t care with whom.
Welcome Terrorists to the USA.