Comments on: Inhofe: Terrorists Already Incarcerated In The U.S. Were Just ‘Criminals’

By: AlexLawyer

AlexLawyer — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:50:44 +0000

Inhofe is extremely proud of his ignorance and wastes no opportunity to display it.

Actually the world’s worst and deadliest terrorist masterminds are headquartered in Washington, DC, and Inhofe is among them.

By: wiley

wiley — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:38:56 +0000

Last meme standing—they “kept us safe” by torturing these captives for “actionable” intelligence. Bring it on. Give these guys some good lawyers and televise the trials.

By: UCSBKitty

UCSBKitty — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:08:28 +0000

the genius senator misses the next logical step in his thinking. We try “criminals” in the court system…and look where they are now, in high-security prisons. Under Clinton, we caught the WTC bombers and tried them in our courts, right?

By: ranus69

ranus69 — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:37:34 +0000

All this is double talk.

By: dhampton100

dhampton100 — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:07:58 +0000

Another Republican idiot. I think we need a constitutional amendment limiting the number of idiots that can be in one party. These people exhaust a normal mind. Hollywood couldn’t create this many fools. Sometimes when I watch the cable chatter I have to check the channel to make sure I am on a “News network”. Republicans—it is over…let me say it a little slower , it is o-v-e-r!

By: LibertyLover

LibertyLover — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:00:26 +0000

Hmmm. Where did they house Tim McVeigh and Nickols? Weren’t they housed in a Fed Prison?

By: GinnyGal

GinnyGal — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:40:05 +0000

Please, please, please do not judge all Oklahomans by our two idiot Senators, Inhof and Coburn. There truly are intelligent, rational people who live in our state.

By: dzinn1264

dzinn1264 — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:56:03 +0000

This is ridiculous. If it were another country holding our “combatents” without due process and without an end in sight, we would bomb the hell out of them. Moreover, we have some of the most violent criminals on earth housed safely in our prisons. So the only reason we do not want them on our soil is because we would have to afford them due process, access to family and potential access to the press. In other words, we do not want anyone to know the full extent of their treatment and/or possible innocence. Shame on us!

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:30:05 +0000

Max Anax junius -1 Says:
hanshiro,
That’s the point in all this. In order to hold them in our Federal prison system, these detainees must be tries in a US Court of Law.

I don’t believe that these detainees can be tried in a US court of law. They have not committed any crimes in the US, so the US courts will have no jurisdiction over them. That is the reason why we came up with military tribunals many many years ago.

By: pastcaring

pastcaring — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:27:00 +0000

Intrepid Says:

Photo of Inhofe on CNN:

http://liberalsmustdie.com/content/binary/Boner%5B1%5D.jpg

What a way to show your hand.

By: Intrepid

Intrepid — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:58:50 +0000

Photo of Inhofe on CNN:

http://liberalsmustdie.com/content/binary/Boner%5B1%5D.jpg

By: Luis Chapulin M

Luis Chapulin M — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:56:21 +0000

chiroptera toasterhead Says:
I think the real issue nobody wants to talk about is the fact that we need to convict them before we can incarcerate them. And we can’t convict them on evidence obtained via torture.

It’s not that people don’t want to talk about this. It’s that those people responsible aren’t willing to listen.

By: chiroptera toasterhead

chiroptera toasterhead — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:52:58 +0000

ralph the wonder locust Says:

There is no nation on Earth that has a prison system to rival ours. The US incarcerates something like one-fourth of all prisoners on the planet. More than China’s notoriously authoritarian regime.

If Inhofe and others of his ilk think terrorists cannot be secured in our prisons, WTF do they think these people are? Do they think they’re alien beings from another galaxy?

May 20th, 2009 at 10:53 am
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Not to mention that we incarcerate about 1% of our own population. If there’s one thing our country is good at, it’s incarcerating people.

I think the real issue nobody wants to talk about is the fact that we need to convict them before we can incarcerate them. And we can’t convict them on evidence obtained via torture.

By: Scary Brown Chick

Scary Brown Chick — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:51:44 +0000

Dick Cheney is the bigger terrorist of them all, and yet he walks around free in this country.

By: Purple State

Purple State — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:49:15 +0000

Evil Spaniard Says:

I don’t see why not use nowadays Alcatraz.

Well, if they can use the Fox logic that torture can be justified with the TV show 24, then they can justify that Alcatraz is escapable by referencing Prison Break and The Rock. If Nicholas Cage can infiltrate Alcatraz…

By: flavorino

flavorino — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:40:30 +0000

Because those individuals who are actually criminals, they actually committed crimes and were not involved in the type of — in the type of terrorist activity as we’ve been experiencing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Haha! What a dimwit! I guess Imhofe can now add Legal Expert to his other areas of expertise like Science.

How does this guy keep getting elected?
Doesn’t anyone run against him?
Is it oil money that keeps him in office?
It doesn’t reflect well on the intelligence of the people of Oklahoma that they keep voting for this ignoramus.

By: Doodlebug Shayne

Doodlebug Shayne — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:35:53 +0000

winddancer Says:

BREAKING NEWS!!!! Inhoff still crazy. Recovery not seen as possible.

We could give him medication for the crazy but you can’t fix stupid.

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:35:47 +0000

Purple State Says:

Remember when we were proud that prisons like Alcatraz were regarded to be the most secure facilities in America? Since when has the penal system here in America gone soft?

I’m sure we can find places to /charge/ these people and imprison them. Dangerous criminals and terrorists are held in prisons other than Gitmo. Just don’t move all of the prisoners to one site.

May 20th, 2009 at 11:12 am Recommend (0) | Report Abuse

I don’t see why not use nowadays Alcatraz. It’s abandoned, and

During its 29 years of operation, the penitentiary claimed no prisoners as having ever successfully escaped. 36 prisoners were involved in 14 attempts, two men trying twice; Twenty-three were caught, six were shot and killed during their escape, and two drowned.[15] The most violent occurred on May 2, 1946 when a failed escape attempt by six prisoners led to the so-called Battle of Alcatraz.

And it was when surveillance methods were far worse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz

By: Max Anax junius -1

Max Anax junius -1 — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:35:20 +0000

Dear Oaklahoma,
Inhoff = Outhoff the next go ’round. K?

By: Doodlebug Shayne

Doodlebug Shayne — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:32:46 +0000

Because those individuals who are actually criminals, they actually committed crimes

Riiiiight. And the detainees or “kidnapees” are just alleged terrorists and probably could never be convicted of anything. We created this monster, imprisoning and torturing people with no evidence against them because we’re scared of people who look like them.

So much for being a great country.