Gitmo shadow cast over town (Calgary Sun)

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By BILL KAUFMANN
Last Updated: 19th June 2009, 3:28am

... The folks not allowed to fill their empty prison cells in a country with the civilized world's steepest incarceration rate have been bidding for the war for terror's most infamous bauble. But even with other American precincts spurning the charms of a stockade so illicit and disreputable it makes Castro's neighbouring dungeons look inviting, it's been a hard sell for the people of Hardin, Mont.

The state's entire congressional delegation has cranked the thumbscrews on the notion, refusing to allow a terrorist trojan horse in their midst.

It's part of the enduring mentality in the world's most frightfully armed nation that the surest way to look tough is to be very afraid ...

"Cheney doesn't want it here because it's his favourite fishing hole," says Smith, whose trolling for lucrative infamy continues.

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