Ginning up car sales temporarily through bribery is one idea, but what better way to help the woeful Michigan economy than to fix up a prison there to try and house Guantanamo detainees?
This arises because, yet again, the President really doesn’t want to take on the mantle of leadership when that might lead to accusations of being soft on terrorism. It has yet to be explained why a country with as many first-rate maximum security prisons as the United States cannot find a way to house a couple of hundred bad guys, even supposing there was evidence to convict them.
We’d all have to hide under our desks if these frightful men were released and not immediately put on flights to Bermuda and Ireland!
So, we remain short on terror and long on screwing around with the Constitution. Our allies merely laugh and harden their negotiating positions. Our enemies continue to use Guantanamo and the denial of human rights as both recruitment tools and pretexts for the next bombing.
Gorilla suggests: “Why not simply include Guantanamo detainees in the Cash For Clunkers program? For every car sold, a writ of habeas corpus will be included, enabling non-surviving local dealers to blame al-Qaeda for the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler while attracting stimulus money for a refit of the ever-profitable service department?”
Tags: Cash For Clunkers, Guantanamo
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