jimi izrael

Single Father, Author, Screenwriter, Award-Winning Journalist, NPR Moderator, Lecturer and College Professor. Habitual Line-Stepper

CAN'T GET ENOUGH?

Richard Prince's popular column on the news media, published by the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (www.mije.org).

FEBRUARY 12 | Joyner Urges 'Sincere Apology' From Martin

FEBRUARY 7 | CNN Suspends Roland Martin Over Tweets

FEBRUARY 5 | AP Lays Off Diversity Advocate

JIMI'S BLOG ROLL

    What to do about Gitmo

    Barack Obama started making me nervous with campaign-talk about closing Gitmo, and now it looks like it's the first thing on his "to do" list. Sure, it's a fine idea. Then, what do you DO with all those prisoners? It's bad enough having fresh-out perverts and sex offenders moved into your neighborhood--then, you want to move in Al-Queada? Seriously?

    You can't send them back to where they come from, because, well, then you make them into heroes with some serious street cred. You think Lil Murder who did a bid for robbery came out of jail all hard--wait till Abdulla comes out off of a bombing charge. He went in like a lower-lever cronie but he'll come out like SuperThug. We can't host a theatre of torture, that's for sure. But we can't free people we've tortured and expect it all to be babies and cream.

    So what do we do about Gitmo?

     
    • Comments