The screaming and crying from the right that if we let these prisoners onto American soil they will cut the throats of 300 million Americans and therein need to stay at Gitmo belies several parts of GOP philosophy. First of all, these prisoners have been locked down for going on a decade now, which TA-DA!!!...is not free. Second of all, we don't even know how many, or IF any, of these people are ACTUALLY GUILTY OF BEING TERRORISTS!! So you'd think the Right, which prides itself on desperately trying to cut every penny it can, including paying for your and my healthcare, would be FURIOUS that their money is going to house and feed people that don't belong there. Including, ironically, paying for their healthcare which is, what do you know, really great. And yet they insist on stowing these people out of reach from the country, running around like scared ninnies at the mere thought of them coming anywhere near America.
Which in turn goes against the Right's tough-guy "Bring 'em On!!" persona. You'd think they'd give each of the detainees a gun and a plane ticket home, saying "I'll see you in hell!!", swearing if they so much as caught a whiff of trouble they'd walk to the desert themselves to kick their non Jesus-loving ass. But instead they're acting like the cast of the first season of The Facts of Life if a spider walked into the tv room. Terrified of men without access to weapons or communication who are locked behind sky-high concrete walls under the watch of people hoping to be given a chance to shoot one of them so they have something interesting to say at dinner parties. Hey, they might be evil people, but they're not fucking super heroes with super powers. So far all we really know is that they're good at getting into flight training schools (in Florida, of course) and playing on the monkey bars. Gee. I can see now what we should be so terrified of; where can I send my money to get some cable tv for these dudes in Gitmo?
"Girls, girls, GIRLS!!!!"
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