Desperate tactics from a desperate group

I saw this yesterday, it's sick. The GOP continues to seek the lowest part of the lowest gutter they can find. No one who claims to be part of the GOP deserves any respect at all. There may be some reasonable Republicans in the US but if they claim to still support the GOP they are admitting to supporting liars, thugs and bullies and the most dishonest and sick people who seek to undermine and destroy America. The GOP is a MUCH larger threat to America than OBL or the looniest of terrorists. A suicide vest or a plane flown into a building is not even a drop in a bucket compared to what the GOP seeks to accomplish. Who do they think this appeals to? They seem to think the more slimy sheep they can pull in the better. Are they going to elect Rush Limbaugh as their Grand Wizard next.

The GOP's Desperate Fear Mongering

Posted on: May 11, 2009 9:30 AM, by Ed Brayton

The Republicans are working with fervor and desperation to inculcate the false notion that closing Guantanamo Bay means releasing terrorists into small-town America. You have to see this incredibly dishonest video put out by the Senate Republicans, complete with spooky music building to a crescendo. Here's the video:

The editing and theme are extremely dishonest. They continually edit in clips of news shows asking "where would the detainees go" without ever showing the actual answer to the question: they'll go to maximum security prisons, either civilian or military. Because they don't want viewers to hear the real answer, they want them to see the lie at the end of the video:

Terrorists: Coming Soon To a Neighborhood Near You

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and now candidate for governor of Michigan, said at a press conference last week that Obama is going to take terrorists "away from Gitmo and plunk them down in the middle of Michigan, in the middle of Kansas, in the middle of Virginia or in the middle of New York."

They actually want people to believe that the Obama administration is just going to drop off Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on the corner of Main and Elm. Heck, they'll probably give him a gun and some C-4 too. All of this is patently absurd. Why mince words? It's a baldfaced lie.

When the detainees from Gitmo are transferred out, they will be housed in maximum security prisons. That might mean military prisons, like the Navy brig that housed Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla in South Carolina. Or it might mean a civilian prison like the Florence, Colorado Supermax prison where Padilla is currently being held after being found guilty.

The Colorado Supermax facility also houses Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Zacarias Moussaoui, Wadih el-Hage, Ramzi Yousef, Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Mahmud Abouhalima, as well as domestic terrorists like Terry Nichols, Eric Robert Rudolph and the Unabomber. Most have been held there for more than a decade without incident.

There were 425,000 POWs held in the United States during WW II, eight of them right here in Michigan. They included Camp Allegan, Camp Owosso and Fort Custer in Battle Creek. There are about 250 men left at Gitmo. But be afraid....be very afraid....and don't forget to blame the other party for your fear so you'll vote for us.