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Potential Trump Pick for Homeland Security Wants to Send up to 1 Million People to Gitmo
Seriously.
Pema Levy
Nov. 28, 2016 4:43 PM
Donald Trump was scheduled to meet Monday with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr., a Trump supporter and surrogate during the campaign, who is now reportedly being considered to head the Department of Homeland Security. Clarke is known for his extreme views on policingincluding his conviction there is a war on cops but no police brutalityand for his attacks on Black Lives Matter. One of his most out-there positions: suspend the constitutional rights of up to a million people, and hold them indefinitely at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Clarke's extremist approach to homeland security is no secret. In his upcoming memoir, Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America, he advocates treating American citizens suspected of terrorism as "enemy combatants," questioning them without an attorney, and holding them indefinitely, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Their cases would be handled by a military tribunal rather than a traditional court.
But a year ago, Clarke went further and called for rounding up Americans who sympathize with terrorists and shipping them off to an offshore prison. During a December 2015 segment of his show, The People's Sheriff, on Glenn Beck's TheBlaze radio network, Clarke suggested that any person who posts pro-terrorist sentiments on social media be arrested, deprived of the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment (known as habeas corpus), and sent to Guantanamo Bay indefinitely. He estimated the number of people who could be imprisoned under his proposal could reach 1 million. Presumably, this would include American citizens. (The Democratic research group American Bridge caught Clarke proposing this idea.)
"I suggest that our commander in chief ought to utilize Article I, Section 9 and take all of these individuals that are suspected, these ones on the internet spewing jihadi rhetoric to scoop them up, charge them with treason and, under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo," Clarke said.
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Listen to Clarke's comments here (at link):
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/sheriff-clarke-trump-terrorists-guantanamo-bay
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Jesus, this guy's scary.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)babylonsister
(171,070 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Every country that supported the rounding up of a "suspected terrorist" with no proof or trial has found that hundreds of citizens have been reported by people who want to settle scores.
All it takes is a phone call ( see something, say something, remember???) and perhaps a small reward to smear a neighbor, relative, boss, co-workers, etc.
brer cat
(24,578 posts)lives to extract revenge on those who slight him, it would be natural for the citizens to want to do the same. Very scary s#$% here.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Political coup...
democrank
(11,096 posts)Trump likes him, thinks maybe he'd be just the ticket to head Homeland Security. That should send shivers down any decent citizen's spine.
spanone
(135,844 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)GentryDixon
(2,953 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)Thank you, US media, for giving this guy a platform for the past few years.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)moondust
(19,993 posts)How the hell was this unhinged crackpot ever allowed into law enforcement in the first place? Has he ever heard of "due process"?
Wikipedia says he's in his fourth elected term as county sheriff, registered and elected as a Democrat in a heavily Democratic county. WTF? Did the Democrats in Milwaukee County assume he was okay just because he was black and claimed pretended to be a Democrat? Identity politics gone wild? Wow.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)Where will we be, I wonder, in ten years?
vkkv
(3,384 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I hope all the police and armed forces remember this.
moriah
(8,311 posts)Daesh, no.
Isis, yes. She's a really cool Goddess.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Dear Queen Elizabeth the Deuce,
We, your former colonies in America, would like to come back. We realize now King George was right and George Washington was wrong. We just weren't ready to rule ourselves. Can we please, please come back? We'll pay for the tea.
Signed,
The American Colonies of Great Britain.
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)That place can't hold 1 million prisoners. It can't even hold 10,000. It would be strained at 1000.
There is NO infrastructure for it. No power. No water. No Food. All they have is fresh air and sunshine (except when it rains). Everything else comes in on barges, which are limited.
The power on the island comes from Diesel generators and wind. There is no power supplied by Cuba, and none comes from any other island. Fresh water is at a premium, and any major use would mean importing it.
It is not manhattan, or even rykers island. You just can't put a major prison complex there. It won't work.
What would work is outsourcing it to a country that has lots of guards and no media. But we are talking about us citizens, unless they can strip citizenship.. Or maybe get a lease on a prison and call it us territory.