Once this starts it -like the rest of the prison industrial complex- will grow.

None of these people need to be imprisoned here. The world is full of hundreds of millions of people who hate America. Hating us and being able to strike at us without the aid of the CIA and Pentagon as on 9/11 is a completely different question. Those agencies and institutions in Washington D.C. are the enemy of the American people.

It is a corrupt system, in my view, although I differ with you on the question of whether or not it is “up to the task” of housing terrorists. It is definitely up to the task, but it will cost us.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=867

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America

http://www.correctionscorp.com/

Bush was on the payroll of the Saudis.

Some of the 9-11 families are against this; not all. Please don’t try to exploit them by misrepresenting them as a monolithic group.

http://fprison.wordpress.com

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is corrupt and/or incompetent.

My sentiments exactly. This is RIDICULOUS. How about giving the terrorists driver’s licenses, welfare checks, health care, etc. Because that’s where these lunatics are headed with this nonsense.

2. That their presence in our prisons will result in a US prisoner committing murder.

3. That our enemies will view us as weak in our resolve as a people.

If we can no longer interrogate them, and they will be brought to US soil for imprisonment and be a tax burden, why not kill them all? Why take a prisoner? No advantage to them living past the killing fields. Well is there?

What a load of crap this is. This is the same damn thing you were saying, Larry, on July 10, 2001 when you wrote your mind numbing op-ed opining that the terrorist threat to the U.S. was not all that great.

Two months later almost 3,000 Americans were dead from the threat you claimed did not exist.

The level of ignorance shown is not from those who do not realize that a religious movement that owes loyality to any nation and wears no uniform, is a shadow enemy that lives among us. Yet, you Larry, give people a false impression that putting our American citizens in harm’s way by admitting Gitmo detainees into our own prison system is A-OK, not harm done.

The worry is not that we cannot house these lowest of human forms. The worry, had you bothered to read the opinions of others, is that it is their fellow jolly jihadists who would put the surrounding areas into harm’s way.

I realize that for a lot of you, 9-11 is only an image in the rear view mirror. But if the risk is so low, then why did the 9-11 Families come out against this move? Hell, why don’t we just take all the world’s criminal population so that John Murtha can have a economic boom in Pennslyvania building prisons?

But keep posting such crap. When we are hit again, and we WILL BE, then you can once again state with certainty that terrorism is not the greatest threat that western civilization has ever seen.

I sometimes wonder if you are on the payroll of the Saudis.

The terrorists want REPARATIONS and an APOLOGY from Obama. Bet you they get it! The left is slowly completely destroying this country. But that was the agenda all along.

I read an interview with Bill Ayers this morning defending his “terrorist days” and saying that John McCain was a terrorist, too.

Pure horseshit.

Call it for what it is. Someone on another thread warned me not to give Obama credit for any of these ExOrders. I agree. Credit given where and when credit is due. We’re well beyond the point where the “words matter” mantra makes sense [not that it made a lot of sense then, particularly since the line was lifted].

But you have a very specific point of view that we all need to hear, based on real experience. The windbags and politicians will continue their spin. But one of the reasons I read the blogs and various boards is to find voices like yours.

So, keep it up. You’re doing another service for all of us. And for that, I thank you.

If we do not play by our rules the “terrorists” have already won.

Dead is dead UK…I think the terrorists win if they destroy western civilization regardless of who’s rules are being played.

History shows that the survivors are the only ones that matter..They make the rules!