Once you move beyond my general objection to closing down Gitmo, I can’t say that I really have a problem with a hundred terrorists- er, I mean, “terror suspects”… or is it “suspected enemy combatants… or “supposed disagreeable opponents”- being moved to a supermax prison facility in Thomson, Illinois. The facility is presently just a $140+ million waste of taxpayer money (1,600 cells and 200 inmates), and the prospect of adding 3,000 jobs to an area experiencing 10% unemployment sounds good to me. Governor Quinn says this move could add up to $1 billion to the Illinois economy. Read more
