I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Last week he was starring in a GOP ad talking about how the Gitmo detainees could be coming to South Carolina. This week, Pete Hoekstra is making it even more explicit, telling a press conference that Obama is going to take terrorists “away from Gitmo and plunk them down in the middle of Michigan, in the middle of Kansas, in the middle of Virginia or in the middle of New York.”
At the press conference, Hoekstra joined other Republican legislators in an attempt to make the public believe that the Obama administration is just going to drop off Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on the corner of Main and Elm. Heck, they’ll probably give him a gun and some C-4 too.
How about a little reality check?
When the detainees from Gitmo are transferred out, they will be housed in maximum security prisons. That might mean military prisons, like the Navy brig that housed Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla in South Carolina. Or it might mean a civilian prison like the Florence, Colorado Supermax prison where Padilla is currently being held after being found guilty.
The Colorado Supermax facility also houses Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Zacarias Moussaoui, Wadih el-Hage, Ramzi Yousef, Richard Reid (the “shoe bomber”) and Mahmud Abouhalima, as well as domestic terrorists like Terry Nichols, Eric Robert Rudolph and the Unabomber. Most have been held there for more than a decade without incident.
There were 425,000 POWs held in the United States during WW II, eight of them right here in Michigan. They included Camp Allegan, Camp Owosso and Fort Custer in Battle Creek. There are about 250 men left at Gitmo. But be afraid….be very afraid — and don’t forget to blame the other party for your fear so you’ll vote for us.
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