Montana town wants Gitmo prisoners
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HARDIN, Mont. - On Capitol Hill, politicians are dead-set against transferring some of the world's most feared terrorists from Guantanamo to prisons on U.S. soil. But at City Hall in this impoverished town on the Northern Plains, the attitude is: Bring 'em on.Hardin, a dusty town of 3,400 people so desperate that it built a $27 million jail a couple of years ago in the vain hope it would be a moneymaker, is offering to house hundreds of Gitmo detainees at the empty, never-used institution.
The medium-security jail was conceived as a holding facility for drunks and other scofflaws, but town leaders said it could be fortified with a couple of guard towers and some more concertina wire. Apart from that, it is a turnkey operation, fully outfitted with everything from cafeteria trays and sweatsocks to 88 surveillance cameras.
"Holy smokes — the amount of soldiers and attorneys it would bring here would be unbelievable," Clint Carleton said as he surveyed his mostly empty restaurant, Three Brothers Pizza. "I'm a lot more worried about some sex offender walking my streets than a guy that's a world-class terrorist. He's not going to escape, pop into the IGA (supermarket), grab a six-pack and go sit in the park."
After Hardin's six-member council passed a resolution last month in favor of taking the Guantanamo detainees, Montana's congressional delegation was quick to pledge it would never happen.
Notwithstanding the reputation of Montanans as Second Amendment-loving gun owners, they said that putting terrorists on Montana soil could invite attacks from the detainees' sympathizers.
"These Gitmo guys, they're a scary bunch," said Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat. "You've got to realize what you're getting into."
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boywhocould
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fair play to Montana they have every right to through their collective hats into this one. people are tight for money all over and if this happens to bring a living to the people there then,, right on!!
besides there's a lot of people there who would love "open season" on these guys if they should try and escape :)
- 9 months ago
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boywhocould
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cztheday
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I have been to Hardin, Montana. You thought WATERBOARDING was torture? Most of the state is breathtakingly beatutiful. Glacier National Park. Bob Marshall Wilderness Area. The Beartooth Mountain Range. A RIver Runs through it. Yellowstone Park, leading down into Wyoming and The Grand Tetons...this is NOT in that part of the state...
But the prison in question was recently (like a few weeks ago) inspected and found to be so seriously substandard that the state prison system determined that it could not even locate prisoners there if it found itself in an emergency overflow situation. It has been their a while, and it is completely empty...that tells you something. Assuming that at least SOME of the remaining Gimotians are the "worst of the worst," I am not sure we want to locate them in this particular shoebox.
- 9 months ago
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cztheday
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Nephwrack
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do it! i'll forward this to obama if i have to.
- 9 months ago
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Nephwrack
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sickinjersey
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serve them up!
- 9 months ago
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sickinjersey
