Reuters: Loudly, some Kansans reject Guantanamo detainees

[Heidi]

Mon Aug 3, 2009 4:16pm EDT

LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (Reuters) - Not in my backyard! Not in my state! Not in my country!

That was the response from politicians and business leaders in Kansas on Monday to moves by President Barack Obama to transfer terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to facilities in the United States, perhaps including Kansas.

"This is a patently bad idea," Republican Senator Sam Brownback told reporters in the northeast Kansas riverside community of Leavenworth near the Fort Leavenworth U.S. Army base, which was cited this weekend as a possible new home for the Guantanamo prisoners.

The Washington Post reported on Sunday that a government task force was considering as possible sites Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and a 604-bed maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan, that is scheduled to be closed.

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An Obama administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed on Monday that those sites were being looked at but said there were "many, many options" under consideration.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Pat Roberts pledged to shut down the Senate to keep those terrorists from Kansas

[EFerrari]

2. Who knew Brownback was such a baby.

Raise your hand!

:hi:

[XOKCowboy]

3. Heck Florence CO is just 500 miles west. Bring Em!!

Nobody has ever escaped SuperMax and we've got the worst of the worst.

Dontcha love political grandstanding?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. I agree with Jon Stewart: If we can handle face eaters in our prisons, we can handle these guys.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Bunch of fucking cowards!

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Hi Heidi! Only 172 days to go until Gitmo is closed per Executive Order.

I am totally looking forward to the day.

Hope all is well with you!

I might have found the cemetery where my Great-Grandfather is buried, it's outside of Tahlequah next to the river.

[Heidi]

7. !

How'd that job interview go? :thumbsup:

Happy Tuesday! :hug:

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. I start Friday.

YEEHAW!

[Heidi]

9. Well, RIGHT on!

Go get 'em! :woohoo:

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. I'm going to be putting out left behind campfires, cleaning campground toilets, fixing broken stuff.

But I'll be doing it outside, in the forest I live in. What could be better than that?

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Loudly, the state of Kansas rejects evolution.