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We have enough homegrown terrorists, why import more?
Posted by:
Emma
()
Date: May 23, 2009 03:16AM
Two Congressmen demand Uighur Gitmo jihadists be brought to U.S.
They were members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and were captured at an Al-Qaeda training camp. Bring them to the U.S.! Let McGovern and Delahunt put them up!
"Lawmakers demand Guantanamo Uighurs move to US," from AFP, May 21 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Two lawmakers of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party appealed Thursday to let Uighurs locked up at Guantanamo Bay move to the United States, saying they were victims of injustice.
The plea came despite an overwhelming Senate vote a day earlier to block money to transfer inmates out of the deeply controversial "war on terror" prison in Cuba, which Obama on Thursday vowed again to shut down.
US authorities four years ago cleared 17 imprisoned Uighurs -- members of a largely Muslim group in northwestern China who the State Department says face worsening persecution by Beijing.
But they are stuck at Guantanamo Bay due to fears that Beijing would torture them if they return. The United States has asked Germany, home to a large Uighur community, to take them in.
"We cannot expect the world to miraculously resolve this problem of our own making," Congressman Jim McGovern said.
"It is not enough, quite frankly, to ask that they be placed in Germany or in some other European country. I believe that we have an obligation to resettle at least some of the Uighurs here in the United States."
He and other lawmakers were addressing a world assembly of Uighurs, including dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer, who were meeting at the US Capitol in a bid to showcase their international support.
"Despite all of our words and our resolutions, we have let you down and we have put America's judicial system and our moral standing in the world at risk," said Bill Delahunt, like McGovern a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts.
"The Uighur people are not enemies of America. In fact, I know you admire our fundamental ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," he said....
They were members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and were captured at an Al-Qaeda training camp. Bring them to the U.S.! Let McGovern and Delahunt put them up!
"Lawmakers demand Guantanamo Uighurs move to US," from AFP, May 21 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Two lawmakers of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party appealed Thursday to let Uighurs locked up at Guantanamo Bay move to the United States, saying they were victims of injustice.
The plea came despite an overwhelming Senate vote a day earlier to block money to transfer inmates out of the deeply controversial "war on terror" prison in Cuba, which Obama on Thursday vowed again to shut down.
US authorities four years ago cleared 17 imprisoned Uighurs -- members of a largely Muslim group in northwestern China who the State Department says face worsening persecution by Beijing.
But they are stuck at Guantanamo Bay due to fears that Beijing would torture them if they return. The United States has asked Germany, home to a large Uighur community, to take them in.
"We cannot expect the world to miraculously resolve this problem of our own making," Congressman Jim McGovern said.
"It is not enough, quite frankly, to ask that they be placed in Germany or in some other European country. I believe that we have an obligation to resettle at least some of the Uighurs here in the United States."
He and other lawmakers were addressing a world assembly of Uighurs, including dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer, who were meeting at the US Capitol in a bid to showcase their international support.
"Despite all of our words and our resolutions, we have let you down and we have put America's judicial system and our moral standing in the world at risk," said Bill Delahunt, like McGovern a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts.
"The Uighur people are not enemies of America. In fact, I know you admire our fundamental ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," he said....
Re: We have enough homegrown terrorists, why import more?
Posted by:
Junes
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Date: May 23, 2009 05:01AM
Northern VA Congressmen Connolly and Moran both publicly stated that it is Northern VA's patriotic duty to take a couple detainees.
Oddly enough, most of Northern VA doesn't agree with them.
Oddly enough, most of Northern VA doesn't agree with them.
Re: We have enough homegrown terrorists, why import more?
Posted by:
goober
()
Date: May 23, 2009 05:57AM
I don't get it. What's the big deal having a couple of more people in your maximum security prison?
Re: We have enough homegrown terrorists, why import more?
Posted by:
Vince(1)
()
Date: May 23, 2009 07:22AM
Junes Wrote:
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> Northern VA Congressmen Connolly and Moran both
> publicly stated that it is Northern VA's patriotic
> duty to take a couple detainees.
>
> Oddly enough, most of Northern VA doesn't agree
> with them.
Most people like you Junes..are cowards. Youd rather sit in your comforatble chair..send young men and women in harms way then to do a damn thing. This issue is a pitiful republican attempt to once agin fill people with fear. We currently have terrorists in jail in this country. Our streets are filled with domestic terrorists..just look at the violent crime rate committed with guns. We survive....we are free!
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> Northern VA Congressmen Connolly and Moran both
> publicly stated that it is Northern VA's patriotic
> duty to take a couple detainees.
>
> Oddly enough, most of Northern VA doesn't agree
> with them.
Most people like you Junes..are cowards. Youd rather sit in your comforatble chair..send young men and women in harms way then to do a damn thing. This issue is a pitiful republican attempt to once agin fill people with fear. We currently have terrorists in jail in this country. Our streets are filled with domestic terrorists..just look at the violent crime rate committed with guns. We survive....we are free!
Re: We have enough homegrown terrorists, why import more?
Posted by:
Steve Wilhite
()
Date: May 23, 2009 08:55AM
This issue is a pitiful republican attempt to once agin fill people with fear. We currently have terrorists in jail in this country. Our streets are filled with domestic terrorists..just look at the violent crime rate committed with guns. We survive....we are free!
Is that so Vince? Then why did the DEMOCRAT controlled Congress refuse to finance the closing of Guantanamo and the transfer of its inmates to the US?
Is that so Vince? Then why did the DEMOCRAT controlled Congress refuse to finance the closing of Guantanamo and the transfer of its inmates to the US?
Re: We have enough homegrown terrorists, why import more?
Posted by:
Mad Max
()
Date: May 23, 2009 12:26PM
Shut the fuck up Vince, you retarded misspelling faggot.
Vince(1) Wrote:
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> Junes Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Northern VA Congressmen Connolly and Moran both
> > publicly stated that it is Northern VA's
> patriotic
> > duty to take a couple detainees.
> >
> > Oddly enough, most of Northern VA doesn't agree
> > with them.
>
> Most people like you Junes..are cowards. Youd
> rather sit in your comforatble chair..send young
> men and women in harms way then to do a damn
> thing. This issue is a pitiful republican attempt
> to once agin fill people with fear. We currently
> have terrorists in jail in this country. Our
> streets are filled with domestic terrorists..just
> look at the violent crime rate committed with
> guns. We survive....we are free!
Vince(1) Wrote:
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> Junes Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Northern VA Congressmen Connolly and Moran both
> > publicly stated that it is Northern VA's
> patriotic
> > duty to take a couple detainees.
> >
> > Oddly enough, most of Northern VA doesn't agree
> > with them.
>
> Most people like you Junes..are cowards. Youd
> rather sit in your comforatble chair..send young
> men and women in harms way then to do a damn
> thing. This issue is a pitiful republican attempt
> to once agin fill people with fear. We currently
> have terrorists in jail in this country. Our
> streets are filled with domestic terrorists..just
> look at the violent crime rate committed with
> guns. We survive....we are free!
k
Posted by:
inkahootz
()
Date: May 23, 2009 12:46PM
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2010 03:37PM by inkahootz.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2010 03:37PM by inkahootz.
Re: We have enough homegrown terrorists, why import more?
Posted by:
Jerry Rubin
()
Date: May 23, 2009 01:02PM
inkahootz Wrote:
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> Mad Max Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Shut the fuck up Vince, you retarded
> misspelling
> > faggot.
> >
>
> Now you are the spelling police? Better check your
> punctuation before you criticize someone's
> spelling.
>
> With correct punctuation, your comment would
> read:
>
> 'Shut the fuck up, Vince, you, retarded,
> misspelling,
> faggot.'
>
>
> Time to clean the pot, Mad Max!
Since Vince has pretended to know something about Vietnam on another thread,
I'd put it a little differently:
câm miệng bạn người đồng tính luyến !
a little differently
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> Mad Max Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Shut the fuck up Vince, you retarded
> misspelling
> > faggot.
> >
>
> Now you are the spelling police? Better check your
> punctuation before you criticize someone's
> spelling.
>
> With correct punctuation, your comment would
> read:
>
> 'Shut the fuck up, Vince, you, retarded,
> misspelling,
> faggot.'
>
>
> Time to clean the pot, Mad Max!
Since Vince has pretended to know something about Vietnam on another thread,
I'd put it a little differently:
câm miệng bạn người đồng tính luyến !
a little differently