Doof Quote of the Day

Posted on 05/22/2009 at 3:34 pm by Bob Cesca

“We’re not going to bring al-Qaeda to Big Sky Country — no way, not on my watch.” —Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

Meanwhile, a $27 million prison located in Hardin, Montana — the “poorest town in the state” — sits empty. Empty! Moving 100 Guantanamo detainees to the prison would create 100 new jobs in Hardin. The town’s economic development director, Greg Smith, and local politicians are practically begging for the detainees to be moved there:

Earlier this month, Hardin’s town council voted unanimously to offer the US government a deal: Send Hardin the detainees that most foreign countries and other cities the US are afraid to take.

“Why not us?” Smith asks. “They’ve got to go somewhere.”

He dismisses security concerns over housing inmates former Bush administration officials famously described as “the worst of the worst”.

“We have some very hardened criminals in our own country that have committed some heinous crimes, and they are in communities all across this country,” Smith argues.

But not on Max Baucus’s cowardly watch.

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  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    How can grown men be such cowards?

  • CitizenJ

    @J M Ashby Because the majority of their constituents are irrational cowards.

  • gypsy

    these people who are so freaked out and fearful would in reality LOVE to have terrorists close to them. to constantly be frightened of an escape or their “terrorists pals” coming to bust them out and blow up some shit would keep them in riveting conversations where they could think of what they would do “IF”/”WHEN” the shit hits the fan. you know, where they could show their g.d. american’ness. i can hear it now…”one ah dem thar turist git near me i’ll shoot da hell out’em”. these people thrive on being afraid and hypothetical what if’s. it would be like a wet dream for them. if only we could harness their obsession with being fearful for energy.

  • Ken

    This whole NIMBY thing has me puzzled. Did we change our mind and decide to put the detainees in a work-release program instead of confined to a federal supermax facility?

  • bjritz

    I’m sure the well armed citizens of Hardin and its environs would make short work of an escaped terrorist. Even if you were vacationing in Big Sky country you would not likely stop in Hardin, except to buy a coke on the way to the Little Big Horn to see where the terrorist Custer was indigenously removed.

  • http://arkytek.blogspot.com/ ∇•B=0  Silly Ratfaced Git  ∇•D=ρ

    Ken -It’s the result of wrong wing distortions, misinformation, and outright lies.The wrong wings paid propagandists, for example Luntz, dream up silly distractions to divert discussions of real issues. One of my favorite examples is the unisex restroom canard that was used to defeat the ERA. The ERA did not require unisex restrooms but it was all the wrong wing could talk about for over a year. Complete utter bollocks.The wrong wing specializes derailing important changes by dreaming up complete utter bollocks to fling. They are quite good at it.

  • http://www.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Bob – it would create more than 100 jobs, because the facility is not a maximum security facility. It would need renovations, and so a little bit of stimulus money would have to go there, and some folks who know about security, and some construction folks, etc, would get a little bit of work renovating the prison.QT

  • Montana

    Sen. Baucus does not want an additional terrorist group in Montana. We already have the Montana Milita.