AND LIKE IT

Pres. “Jailbreak” Hussein Obama: “…[W]e will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders – highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety. As we make these decisions, bear in mind the following fact: nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal “supermax” prisons…”

While nobody has ever escaped, the first World Trade Center bombing was planned from inside Attica. The four terrorists arrested just this week were recruited in prisons, as were Jose Padilla, Richard Reid and many others.

Worse, there are liberal judges who are positively drooling at the chance to release these terrorists, because of Teh “Empathy”.

There is one main federal supermax prison. It is in Florence, Colorado–and it’s aiready full.

As Obama spoke, I couldn’t help but think of Ambassador Cleo Noel, one of few American diplomats who made it to Arlington:

Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr. and George Curtis Moore – do you remember these names? You should. Ambassador Noel and Moore were among a group of men seized and held hostage by Yassir Arafat’s Black September terrorists during a reception at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum. Their lives hung by a thread, a thread that Yassir Arafat ordered cut.

The terrorists demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy, as well as terrorists being held in Israeli and European prisons. President Nixon refused to negotiate. The tape was of conversations between Arafat in Beirut and his thugs in Khartoum. Execute the diplomats, ordered Arafat. The terrorists obeyed, machine gunning the unarmed, hapless Noel and Moore.

Similarly, Obama’s decision paints a big, fat target on hapless Coloradans by terrorists demanding the release of their friends from Colorado’s prisons.

Colorado is already reeling from the last Democrat “man-caused disaster”–when they melted down the mortgage industry by forcing banks to make bad loans–once again, done in the name of “empathy”.

Even aside from the violence, any attack could send the state over the edge, dependent as much of Colorado’s economy is on tourism.

I’ll give Colorado’s governor Bill Ritter a kind of credit; while other political cowards such as Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius demanded Gitmo’s closure and then ran for the tall grass, whining about how Leavenworth is unfit for terrorists, Gov. Ritter was willing to stand up and endanger his citizens by accepting some terrorists.

And all of this madness just to win an election, to win the applause of communist university “intellectuals” in Europe and Obama’s terror pals in Hyde Park.

By the way, a UN delegation visited Supermax in 1996 and declared it a kind of torture. How long until the Left declares Supermax a war crime, too? A week, tops. It will still be Bush’s Fault, though. Somehow.

If there were a real national security need, Coloradans would be the first to step up. But those prisoners are fine exactly where they are. The only “need” here is the needs of politicians. The president has recklessly endangered Americans with his ideology and can’t admit he was wrong. Gee–sounds a lot like Bush, huh?

Except Bush knew he should take the war to the terrorists, not bring it to America.

Obama just told naval graduates that he would never send them into harm’s way unnecessarily, the insulting implication being that Bush used them for cannon fodder. But they’re not delicate wall-flowers; they volunteered to serve on the front line. Obama doesn’t want to use the volunteers–but he’ll volunteer the civilians of Colorado.

Leave Colorado alone. You’ve already “helped” enough, thank you very much. It’s the government’s job to keep terrorists out of America, not bring them in. And it’s NOT the government’s job to paint a target on the backs of Coloradoans and tell them it’s for their own safety.

How ’bout saving some “empathy” for the law-abiding, tax-paying, patriotic citizens of Colorado and America for a change?

We’re not terrorists, we’re not communists, we’re not even European intellectuals–we’re just citizens trying to raise our families right and live free, and we shouldn’t have to fight both the terrorists and our own government to do it.