Comments on: Obama’s Public Option for Gitmo

By: Mrs S C Thompson, Al

Mrs S C Thompson, Al — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:49:14 +0000

Bringing these terrorists to New York City is an instult to the city and th people who lost loved ones on 911. This group has not mercy on our people caught, they cut our heads off if caught doing anything they disapprove of. This is hightly

insulting to the people of the New York and Americans as a whole and should be stopped at once!!

They deserve nothing but punishment and should get

harsh punishment for what they did on 911. Gitmo was great place they never have had it soooo good!!! It is too good for them!!. Stop the nonsense and let the military decide the punishment!We do not need the expense for giving them anything they are Terrorists!! Thank you.

By: Freedom of Speech, T

Freedom of Speech, T — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:05:36 +0000

I will never defend so-called “white-collar” criminals like “Bernie Mad Off With The Money.

But, what this government and many lobbyists are doing to the American People is infinitely worse. It is not just the money, but the deceit and destruction of whatever trust and values are left.

Then I hear a certain administration official say “We need to trust what they are doing?”

Is there a legal licensed doctor out there who will volunteer services for conducting lobotomies?

By: Tim Az

Tim Az — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:26:35 +0000

This isn't about the terrorists. Mao-Bama doesn't care about them one way or the other. This is a backdoor way to put George Bush, Dick chaney, and the CIA on trial for fighting terrorism against the will of the liberals in govt.. Through discovery during these trials. National security will be destroyed by exposing the methods used so effectively to stop terrorist attacks on American soil. They will expose the names of everyone that kept America safe during the Bush years in an attempt to generate public outrage to support future trials of the people who dared to keep America safe from terrorism. This is liberalism exacting its cruelty on American citizens for supporting a war that was brought to us on our soil. That America chose to fight under the terrorist's terms. Instead of grabbing our ankles and making a lot of noise.

By: Kevin Kozlowski, IL

Kevin Kozlowski, IL — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:44:53 +0000

The Dem's are adamant about two things – Closing the detention facilities at Gitmo, and making sure that those held there get a civilian, not a military trial. The option of providing a civilian trial, while the detainees were continued to be held at Gitmo, was never even discussed. The logistics for this option may have been challenging, but not impossible.

Is it possible that once the detainees are removed (and possibly sent to Illinois), the Navy and Marines will be next? Dem's can frame the closure of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as a budget issue. They'll claim that it provides no significant strategic interest and costs too much money. Once the base is abandoned, the terms of the land lease state that the lease is officially closed.

Returning Guantanamo Bay to Cuba could be Obama's olive branch to Fidel and Raul Castro. Obama may view normalization of relations with Cuba as part of his legacy. Plus, this will serve as political payback to Con. Luis Gutierrez and the like (Latin-American Socialists) for their support.

If all of this comes to fruition, then it will further affirm my claim that Obama is the "Second Coming of Jimmy Carter." (Remember the Panama Canal?)

By: Anita Chateau Califo

Anita Chateau Califo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:58:24 +0000

I want to personally thank those STUPID people who voted for Obama. They have thrown America down the river. He doesn't listen to us at all. Mr. Obama must step down Now!!!

By: Edite , Canada

Edite , Canada — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:01:43 +0000

It is my firm opinion that these terrorists(renamed criminals)who are going to be tried in New York City are jumping for joy at the lunacy of this President and Attorney-General. It will take years to bring these men to any kind of "justice". These cases will be dragged out for years and during this time they will have the platform to spew their venomous ideology around the world and it will embolden their fellow ideologues in furthering their cause by hook or by crook. New plots will be hatched to horrify Americans and no criminal judge or jury will have the guts to sentence them to death for fear of retribution at the cost of their own lives. Just what is it that the White House does not understand about the above scenario.? To whom have they pledged fealty? Certainly not to America or Americans because that is what it smells like? It is definitely not to those 3000 Americans who died or to their families. It is not to the police, firefighters, medics or anyone who worked to help people and later those who took great pains to remove the mortar and steel from the site of the Twin Towers. It is not to the thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers who were exceedingly traumatized that day by what had happened to their city and people. Nor is it to the brave souls who crashed Flight 93 into a field in Pennsylvania so as to guard the White House or the Capitol Bldg.The Pentagon has been reconstructed where Flight 11 crashed into it but no memories have been erased from the minds of those who endured that day nor from those who lost loved ones on the plane. To deliberately re-open wounds that have yet to heal is diabolical and insidiously evil in spite of what Holder blurbs on about America's justice system needing to be seen and heard. This man is spouting absolute trash talk in his efforts to convince Americans that he is doing the right thing. It is impossible to think that prisoners of war( who are not deserving of the tenets of the Hague Convention)can be considered and treated just like your average joe criminals like carjackers, thieves, rapists,etc. By attempting to satisfy one left wing group of Democrats who want Guantanamo closed, a worse can of worms is being forced on New Yorkers. It is entirely plausible that Obama will be a one-term President. In that case, the terrorists will win again because their trials will continue to be delayed. The only place these terrorists should be tried is in a military tribunal setting, and now, not next year or the year after that.We all know what they did, so what is the holdup? Holdup, oh dear, that sounds positively criminal. And please, continue to refer to these animals as terrorists, because that is just what they are, in spite of Obama's efforts to dumb down what they really are.

By: Lynn B. DeSpain

Lynn B. DeSpain — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:01:16 +0000

Obama coud not have assured those Terrorist a more certain Freedom unless he gave them a Presidential Pardon!

By: Debi, Buffalo NY

Debi, Buffalo NY — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:27:48 +0000

Terrorists already ADMITTED (confessed), proudly, what they've done; why are we spending what will turn out to be millions of our tax dollars putting on a show trial???????????????? This is OUTRAGEOUS!!

By: Carol, AZ

Carol, AZ — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:17:13 +0000

The act ot terrorism is a act of war.

The miltary court sys should be handling this trial and is should of been done in Gitmo years ago.

Now , years later this trial will be a media circus not unlike the O.J. trial.

The decison to locate the trial in N.Y. gives open access to every nut case who can get a ticket to N.Y , to make a statement.

This was such a stupid breach of security to N.Y I can not understand how N.Y agree to it.

What could they be thinking?

By: Tim Az

Tim Az — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:45:58 +0000

Think of it this way. This is Mao-Bama lopping off another finger from the hand of the American people. How far will he progress in this sadistic hatred of all things that made America great before we can render Mao-Bama impotent?