Club Gitmo relocating to S. Carolina

Apocrypha · #1 11-02-2009, 07:59 AM

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/1...ntagon-orders/

James Galyean is a candidate running for South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District. Prior to that time, Galyean was an Assistant United States Attorney and also has some pretty direct connections to the War on Terror.

It was Galyean who helped helped write both the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the Military Commissions Act of 2006. As a result, he has a bed of knowledge and massive amounts of contacts that others do not. And his contacts are telling him that, protestations to the contrary from the Pentagon, Barack Obama has every intention of sending GTMO terrorists to the Charleston, SC Naval Weapons Station.

After all, South Carolina did not vote for Obama, so he sees no fall out in sticking terrorists there. But Galyean makes some pretty convincing points that this is a bad idea.

In August 2007, a sharp Berkeley County Sheriff’s Deputy, James Blakely, pulled over two Egyptian men not far from the station. With the guns and explosive materials found in their car, they could have killed any number of people. And the brig isn’t the only possible target at the station. There are others, both programs and personnel.

SPAWAR is a naval project headquartered at the station that provides classified engineering and other support for overseas projects. Because of that mission and others at the station, over 10,000 people pass through the station’s gates each day. Think those cars would be attractive targets during a terrorist’s military trial at the station? With the media hordes camped outside the gates? What about a nearby daycare center used by the station’s families? Think that couldn’t happen? Google “Beslan.”

There’s also a nuclear fuel transshipment facility and a jet fuel storage tank farm inside the fence. You could throw a rock from any of them and hit the brig. Did I mention there’s over 600 million pounds of explosives stored there too? And reportedly a few nuclear weapons. Anyone want to risk an inbound Gulfstream?

Unlike a lot of the kids in the Obama administration, Galyean knows what he is talking about.

drummerboy_dave · #2 11-02-2009, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Apocrypha

Club Gitmo relocating to S. Carolina

I'm sad to hear that, we wanted them in Michigan.

coadie · #3 11-02-2009, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by drummerboy_dave

I'm sad to hear that, we wanted them in Michigan.

Gitmo is more plush and exotic than downtown Detroit.

drummerboy_dave · #4 11-02-2009, 08:21 AM

And we needed the upgrade.

AND THE JOBS.

coadie · #5 11-02-2009, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by drummerboy_dave

And we needed the upgrade.

AND THE JOBS.

Not a bad idea. Put them on an Island. There are several in Lake Michigan. Muslim terrorists are not adventurous swimmers.

Jermyn Davidson · #6 11-02-2009, 06:36 PM

It seems to me that it would have been better to do a massive relocation of these pukes to a place where the job market is really, really poor and AWAY from other potential targets.

Maybe this was a politcal decision.

Ultimately, Charleston, SC is a poor choice in my book, regardless of any good points one can think of in picking that base there.