According to the Washington Post, many of the alleged terrorist prisoners that are currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transfered to a state prison in Illinois that the US Government will take responsibility for and refit in order to hold these prisoners.
It's about damned time, wouldn't you say?
It has been almost a decade since some of these prisoners were detained and almost a decade since they have been thrown into a world of LIMBO that has given them no opportunity to know if they would ever see anything beyond the bars of their cells.
From WaPo:
Dozens of terrorism suspects being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be moved to a little-used Illinois state prison that will be acquired and upgraded by the federal government, an Obama administration official said.
The critical step toward fulfilling President Obama's pledge to shut the Guantanamo detention center will be announced Tuesday, said the official, who reported that Obama has ordered the acquisition of the eight-year-old Thomson Correctional Center, about 150 miles northwest of Chicago.
Holding these prisoners in the United States of America has never been the issue for wingnuts, although they pretend that is the situation. Bringing these prisoners here to the USA might afford these prisoners to be given rights as a human being. That is what is freaking out the usual suspects.
Obama made the move despite the objections of Republicans in Congress and in Illinois, where critics say the transfer of prisoners -- some for indefinite detention, some for trial -- could make the state a target for terrorists. Rep. Mark Kirk has called the move "an unnecessary risk."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that a bipartisan majority in Congress "already rejected bringing terrorists to U.S. soil for long-term detention."
See what I mean? It is an unnecessary risk IF you don't want to have to worry about anything affecting your sick idealogy.
Being Republicans to the bone, Senator McConnell even used the phrase "GITMO North" in describing where the prisoners would be transfered to, while whining about National Security and the usual talking points on the subject.
Kudo's to the Obama Administration for doing what is right.