Comments on: Sacia strongly supports plan to buy Thomson prison for Gitmo detainees

By: bannernews

bannernews — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:06:14 +0000

Got the CYA email from Manzullo about the Thomson/Gitmo North.

Upon further reflection he is for a Gitmo North. Way to man-up there Don. The hand wringing cry baby session is over

By: snuss

snuss — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:51:52 +0000

If the Feds want to buy the prison to relieve overcrowding at other Federal facilities, fine. But we spent millions on a state-of-the-art prison AND courtroom facility at Gitmo, so there is NO good reason to bring the terrorists here, other than B.Hussein Obama’s political pandering.

By: connie halvorsen

connie halvorsen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:38:30 +0000

I am from Carroll Co. and they NEED this. The small towns are just like the farms ,dying out….I agree with Monkey and Chuck also. Manzullos ,playing games! c. halvorsen

By: Monkey

Monkey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:06:43 +0000

I’m guessing that most of the people arguing against the development of Thomson are employed and probably living somewhere else. Speak to those in that area w/o jobs and it’s a different story.

For most people without jobs, they worry more about putting food on the table than whether an al Qaeda member could break out of a federal supermax prison.

It’s the economy, stupid, and the GOP is playing silly games here.

By: railrider

railrider — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:35:06 +0000

This Sacia fellow actually believes there will be 2 to 3,000 jobs? That is idiotic. Someone from the RRStar needs to do some investigating and find out exactly what Durbin and Quinn are referring to when they say 3,000 jobs. It will most likely be a fraction of that. The people of northern Illinois do not want hundreds of terrorist being housed in our backyard.

By: bannernews

bannernews — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:33:53 +0000

Nobody is going to beat Sacia in this district.

By: Mr. Funfsinn

Mr. Funfsinn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:37:17 +0000

“If President Obama, is going to do this, we are literally idiots if we don’t pursue this opportunity.”

- He doesn’t get it that Obama is poking at him and his party because Obama won this Congressional and his Legislative District. If they end up NOT chosing Thomson, it wasn’t because Republicans opposed it, but because Obama is a lot like Nixon and his handlers are a lot like CREEP and they think that there are enough eggheads in this district who will vote for Gaulrapp and whoever is running for Sacia’s seat. This administration is from the bottom of the barrel of Chicago politics. This is all that they do. Look at what they did in NY-23. We are now in an era of superpartisanship because Obama, unlike McCain, IS A SUPERPARTISAN. I predicted this last year. There has been absolutely no change, but for the changing attitude of “journalists” failing to report all of “Lincoln’s” failures. That’s a joke since there is a “cult of Lincoln” among liberals, which purports that Obama is somehow a reincarnation of Lincoln, notwithstanding the fact that Lincoln actually made difficult military decisions and detained thousands of citizens without any kind of hearing. I bet that there are A LOT of people who can’t wait until they leave this state.

By: Mr. Funfsinn

Mr. Funfsinn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:51:41 +0000

“I listened to (U.S. Rep.) Mark Kirk say this will be threat to Chicago. For (God’s) sake, this is 150 miles away. A terror target? What a joke. I almost have to laugh at that. Why would it be any different from any maximum security prison in this country?”

- Why won’t it be in Chicago? If it would not be a target, then this negates that.