Illinois’ Gov And Senator Think Terrorists Bring ‘Good-Paying Jobs’
Posted on November 16, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again we see how clueless Democrats like Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Senator Dick Durbin are on matters of national security. With Barack Hussein Obama’s decision to treat the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay as if they are common American criminals, as the president bestows all American rights upon them, and with his decision to spread these monsters out across the U.S.A, we see Quinn and Durbin idiotically asserting that terrorists equal “good paying jobs.”
These jobs might come from the sale to the federal government of the Thomson correctional facility in west central Illinois where Obama could send some 100 detainees in preparation of closing down the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba facilities. Obama is struggling to figure out what to do with these detainees after his hastily made, ill-informed decision last January to close down the terrorist detainment facility.
After the idea was announced, both Quinn and Durbin found themselves all excited to welcome these monsters into their state and both imagined that the occasion means that Illinois gets jobs. Durbin is quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying that this is a dramatic opportunity.
“This is an opportunity to dramatically reduce unemployment, create thousands of good-paying jobs and breathe new economic life into this part of downstate Illinois,” Mr. Durbin said. “We should not let the unsupported and misplaced fears of a few stand in the way of this historic economic boost to our region.”
And the Journal reported that Quinn was lobbying Obama for just such an “opportunity.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said he had a brief discussion with President Barack Obama this month about using the facility. He also wrote a letter last Thursday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Mr. Holder, saying the federal government would be hard-pressed to find a more secure prison.
Quinn told reporters “This is an economic opportunity that comes once in a lifetime for the people of Illinois,” and thinks that Illinois will see 3,000 jobs if the terrorists get sent to his state.
Can we review what is going on here? Quinn and Durbin are willing to give terrorists American rights, they are willing to bring terrorists among the families of their own constituents, and they are pretending that this will bring jobs.
First of all, what are these so-called jobs? Are they real jobs that contribute to the state’s and the country’s economy? No they are not. They are faux jobs born of the federal treasury, not jobs that creates any new economic activity. All these so-called jobs will do is shuffle money from other parts of the country (in taxes) and shift them to these make-work jobs in a federalized prison project.
These are not legitimate jobs. They are federal largess.
But all that pales in comparison to the fact that these folks are falling all over themselves to give terrorist enemies all the rights of a natural born American. These politicians are prepared to bestow Constitutional rights on these murderous cretins and bring some of the most dangerous people in the world into our communities.
There is another aspect of this that is absurd enough to border on the surreal. One of the things that leftists held against the Guantanamo Bay facility is the expense of maintaining the facilities. Many Democrats and leftists said it was too expensive for the American people to continue paying for. Of course the Guantanamo Bay facility is one installation, right? Now comes Obama to spread these terrorists all across the country effectively making the costs to house them many times more expensive to house these murderers because now instead of one facility, we’ll have multiple facilities to pay for!
After all this, who can deny that Democrats are not to be trusted where it concerns national security?
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Are you really so full of fear to believe that terrorists in a supermax prison are a threat to our security? As if international anger at Gitmo aids our safety?
Oh, please DO show me where this “international anger at Gitmo” has ever harmed our safety. This ought to be hilarious.
Seriously? Well, 30 seconds with Google bring me to here here, for one.
Again, are you really so full of fear to believe that terrorists in a supermax prison are a threat to our security?
Daniel,
I’m not so worried about the terrorists in a supermax as I am about their good-time, Koran-spouting buddies who’ll a) try to spring them and b) kill people and take hostages as part of their plan to do it.
Exhibit A:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7364844/
You aren’t very bright, are you?
I grew up not too far from the prison site, MarkJ. If you weren’t aware, it doesn’t bear much resemblance to Iraq in 2005.
“You aren’t very bright, are you?”
Seriously? A 2005 piece from the New York Times? THAT is your “proof”? Try harder.
It doesn’t work that way. You make a claim, then you prove it.
Goodbye.
The conservative trio of Grover Norquist, David Keene, and Bob Barr have <a href="this to say about the Illinois prison:
LOL. YOU made the claim, not I. And you haven’t proven a thing. Not a single one of your off topic posts have even addressed what the original piece said.
Daniel, I posted my last above before I noticed your last post about Norquist. So, at least with ONE post you actually addressed the issue.I maintain Norquist is wrong, though. These are not real jobs. They are fake jobs born of wasted tax $$.