Marion mayor: Bring Gitmo detainees here
Posted in 298 on July 5, 2009 by Billy DennisSome folks consider it a horrible idea to send terrorism suspects now held at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to locations in the United States. Others consider it an opportunity.
While other cities across the United States have balked at taking in any of the more than 200 detainees from the infamous lockup in Cuba that President Obama hopes to shutter, Marion is part of a small contingent seeking out the prisoners – and the money and jobs they might bring.
“We have the facility, and I say: Bring them on,” Mayor Robert Butler said.
Ah, a remember of the good old days of the last big economic downturn — the 1980s — when every other city in Illinois was begging the state and/or the feds for a prison of their very own.
The assumption was that we’ll always need places to hold criminals. I mean, what kind of idiot politician is [...]
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