Comments on: Illinois’ Gov And Senator Think Terrorists Bring ‘Good-Paying Jobs’

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:11:39 +0000

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 $$.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:37:11 +0000

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.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:21:07 +0000

The conservative trio of Grover Norquist, David Keene, and Bob Barr have this to say about the Illinois prison:

The scaremongering about these issues should stop.

Using a state of the art but little used prison facility like the one at Thomson, Illinois – with any appropriate security upgrades our law enforcement professionals deem necessary – makes good sense for the tax payers who invested $145 million in the facility and who are seeing millions wasted every month at the costly, inefficient Guantanamo facility. It makes sense for the community which will benefit from the related employment and has absolutely no reason to fear that prisoners will escape or be released into their communities.

But most of all it makes sense for America because it is a critical link in the process of closing Guantanamo and getting this country back to using its tried and true, constitutionally sound institutions.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:04:48 +0000

It doesn’t work that way. You make a claim, then you prove it.

Goodbye.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:44:48 +0000

Seriously? A 2005 piece from the New York Times? THAT is your “proof”? Try harder.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:05:40 +0000

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?”

By: MarkJ

MarkJ — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:57 +0000

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?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:53:03 +0000

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?

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:36:35 +0000

Oh, please DO show me where this “international anger at Gitmo” has ever harmed our safety. This ought to be hilarious.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:18:08 +0000

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?