NIMBY Shmimby

Posted on 01/26/2009 at 3:18 pm by JumpyPants

The Republicans, FOX News and John McCain are making with the pee-pants-dance over the closing of Guantanamo. Think Progress:

SEAN HANNITY: That’s somewhat frightening, you’re going to close Guantanamo Bay, you don’t know what’s going to happen, you don’t know where you’re going to put these people. [1/23/09]

Damn. Scary! Yeah, you know, putting the Guantanamo detainees behind miles of concrete walls inside an impenetrable fortress — not good enough to protect terrified Hannity from the toe monsters.

And then there’s Senator McCain:

Where are you going to send [the detainees]? That decision I would have made before I’d announced the closure, because I don’t know of a state in America that wants them in their state. It’s going to — you think Yucca Mountain is a NIMBY problem? Wait till you see this one.

Yeah, it’ll be a NIMBY problem because you’re making it a NIMBY problem, Senator. Also, TPM found this hilarious McCain quote from 2007:

Yes. I would close Guantanamo Bay. And I would move those prisoners to Fort Leavenworth.

Whoops!

First, these prisons are supermax facilities. There’s practically a zero percent chance of escape. Second, here’s a little bit of actual wartime history to give these idiots some perspective.

nazi-camp-gettysburg.jpg

You know what that is? That’s a National Park Service sketch of a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp that was constructed not on some foreign island but literally on the Gettysburg battlefield in 1944, about a hundred yards from the High Water Mark.

Notice the location of the camp, and especially what’s just north of the compound fence. That’s right, the Home Sweet Home Motel. There were 300 Nazi prisoners held next to a tourist hotel on the hallowed ground of Gettysburg — 100 more prisoners than exist in all of Guantanamo. And the FOX News cowards are worried about suspected terrorists spread throughout various supermax prisons — prisons that are already loaded with the most brutal criminals of our time?

Adding… Here’s a complete list of German POW camps on American soil. One prison in Indiana held 10,000 Nazis.

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  • camel54

    I’m listening to Talk of the Nation on NPR and a caller called in a few minutes ago to talk about one of the places being considered is about an hour away from a chemical plant of some sort and how that is upwind of where he lives. He didn’t come out and explicitly say what he was thinking; instead he used phrases such as “you get my drift?” “You know what I’m saying?” or “I’m just saying is all.”So clearly this man thinks the suspected terrorists (or drivers of terrorists which ever the case may be) have some sort of Lex Lutherian or General Zoddian type abilities to escape from the prison and then break in, take over and wreak terror from the chem plant an hour away from the prison.How in the name of Christ can these people possibly compare to the storage of nuclear waste?Now’s when we need to see the Obama administration mouthpieces doling out facts about the last time anyone escaped from an American prison or remarking on how McCain and the Republicans seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how nuclear waste affects live on planet earth versus how an individual, no matter how eeeeevil. And then turn it on them, “Do you want people who think Yucca Mountain is nothing compared a limo driver to be making your environmental policies or your economic policies?”

  • Ady/Leigh

    Oh, Bob, I do love the pee-pee dance comparisons b/c my youngest son does that dance. Anyway, I believe that we have a supermax prison here in SC too. It’s in Charleston, to be exact, and it houses the “worst of the worst”, to borrow a Republic talking point. (From this point forward, I will be leaving the last two letters off of Republican since they leave the last two letters off of Democratic).Anyway, in local news coverage in Upstate SC, Gov. Mark “Dumbass” Sanford, is VERY scared about Gitmo detainees being imprisoned in his backyard b/c that will make Charleston, SC, a target for terrorists attacks since other terrorists could be housed there.My question is, of course, how many terrorists were being held in the World Trade Center on 9/11 when it became a target for terrorists? What’s that you say? None? That’s what I fucking thought…

  • shootingczar

    Hell, if it weren’t for the Nazis they kept near my hometown we never would have would have constructed our county fairgrounds.

  • SillyGit

    Mental retardation strikes every 30 seconds. It’s beating The Sean to death. (Hopefully)

  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein

    I’ve got a handful of Nazis in my basement right now, they ain’t caused me no trouble. Oh sure, one time I sent a Jew down there to feed them, that was a real disaster, but otherhow they ain’t nary a bit o’trouble, them Nazis in my basement.On another note, I’m calling Senator McCain’s office right now asking for a full retraction of what he just said. Will report back with their response.

  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein

    TPM’s internal link to the McCain story from which they drew that quote is broken, but I found this story from McClatchy dated June 25, 2008, where that utter fuckhole Brownback is bitching about the terrorists McCain wants to send to Leavenworth.

    McCain, however, has been specific. “I would close Guantanamo Bay. And I would move those prisoners to Fort Leavenworth,” he said in an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes that aired in April 8, 2007. He’s used similar words since in interviews with Fox News, CNN, Charlie Rose and at a January campaign appearance in Michigan.

    Calling McCain’s office now.