As predictable as the sun rising in the east, Illinois politicians are divided along party lines when it comes to opening a federal super max prison in Illinois to house foreign terrorists.
I would almost be inclined to agree with Illinois Republicans on this issue if they weren't so crazy. I don't think moving Gitmo from Cuba to Illinois really solves anything, at least not in terms of quenching the desire for terrorist activity. With that said, the scare tactics being employed by the Illinois GOP is ridiculous. The United States already incarcerates hundreds of foreign terrorists with 30 or so right here in Illinois. These terrorists pose no more a risk than serial killers, which are housed by the hundreds in Illinois. My hometown was until 2001 home to the number one maximum security prison in America. We had people miles from my home that were a lot more dangerous than some towel head talking about blowing up buildings in the morning while he attends strip clubs at night. People from Manuel Noriega, who actually had an entire army at his disposal, to John Gotti, Jonathan Pollard (who was one scary dude) to Pete Rose. Never did an inmate ever escape or pose a threat to the community.
*Update:
I'm glad to see it's not just Republicans in Illinois that are total cowards running around arousing fear of terrorists being jailed or tried in America. Nobody is talking about turning terrorists loose into the community. Are they really that dumb? We are talking about locking them up in a super max prison that no one in history has ever escaped from. We are talking about locking them up with the other 216 that are already locked up on American soil.
