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Montana jail to be new Gitmo?

So, I got this title over at DrudgeReport middle of last week and wanted to blog about it... but was too busy at the time.

Based on the news article posted at the Billingsgazette.com website (that's billings montana for those of you in Rio Linda) the lovely state of Montana spent $27 million on a new jail. A jail that was finished in July 2007... and has ZERO inmates... even after two years since it was built.

So, "what's wrong with the prison?" you might ask.

Well, it seems not a darn thing is wrong with it. Well, except for the fact that nobody is willing to pay the great people of Montana to actually put prisoners in the prison. Imagine that.

So what did somebody up in Montana think of?

It went something like this...

"Geeh, Gitmo is closing... hey, maybe we could house all the people here!"

No, seriously...

According to the article:
"There are 50 states, and some state is going to get this and they're all going to have issues and they're all going to need money, but we have something the others don't." -- Greg Smith, prison executive director.


Interesting as it is... the local City Council voted to support the efforts to turn Gitmo (aka: Guantanamo Bay; aka: Club Gitmo).


All I can think of is the statement that Vice President Cheney said in an interview, of which I totally -- 100% -- unequivalently agree with!

Vice President Cheney:
If you bring 'em here to the US and put 'em in our local court system, then they are entitled to all kinds of rights that we extend only to American citizens. Remember, these are unlawful combatants. These are people who don't belong to any recognized military force. They don't obey the rules of warfare. They're unlawful combatants. If you're not going to have a place to locate 'em like Guantanamo, then you either have to bring them here to the continental United States -- and I don't know any member of Congress who's volunteering to have Al-Qaeda terrorists deposited in his district -- or you've gotta turn them over to some foreign government. And we found lots of times when you do that that a number of them have gone back onto the battlefield and tried to kill Americans again.


So, all you folks up in Montana... I'm not exactly sure what your thinking... but if having enemy combatants in your backyard is what you feel you have to do to try to pay off $27 million for a prison that is empty... well... I think that just about nullifies me ever moving up there!

John

posted: 04/29/2009 11:46am by abelajohnb
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