A Second Jihad Here

Thomson hearing tomorrow in Sterling, Illinois. TEA party and Band of Mothers (her video interview here.) heading over.

Tribune Op-ed Sunday: Keep enemy combatants out of the U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch. Trib story yesterday. Apparently those in support are busing people in. Interesting, but who? WSJ:

Anders Lindall, a spokesman for AFSCME in Illinois, said the state system is overcrowded -- housing 45,000 prisoners in facilities built for 32,000. He said Illinois shouldn't be thinking about offloading Thomson to the federal government without a plan to house its own prisoners.

Another snippet from the Trib story:

Even after Florence, Colo., landed the "supermax" prison 15 years ago, a ballyhooed building boom was confined to a Super 8 motel, credit unions and antiques shops.

Clearly a real gangbuster of a boom.

Look, this Thomson transfer from Gitmo exposes Americans to unecessary risks to terrorists when we have a perfectly good prison at Gitmo. The terrorists targeted us long before we opened Gitmo and they will until we defeat them on the battlefield.

Does it make sense to open another battlefield here in America? We know the ACLU is poised to push to release these most dangerous terrorists once they arrive here--so dangerous their own countries don't want them back. And then there are the home-grown terrorists which have surfaced with alarming regularity. Jihad came to America on Sept. 11th.

Don't encourage a second jihad here.

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