Published on The Root (http://www.theroot.com)

Home > What to do about Gitmo

What to do about Gitmo

By jimi.izrael
Created 01/14/2009 - 08:49
[1]
jimi izrael [2]

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

About

CAN'T GET ENOUGH?
Get RSS Feed [3]
[4]
THE BLOG FAMILY [1]
[5]

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

MAY 24 | USA Today Lays Off 5 Black Sports Staffers [6]

MAY 22 | A Reporter's Career as Dead as Tupac, Biggie [7]

MAY 19 | The Browning of America [8]

[9]

MAY 23 | New Challenges to Obama's Contraception Law [10]

MAY 21 | NAACP: Marriage Equality Is a Civil Right [11]

MAY 18 | 3 New Steps in the Voting-Rights Fight [12]

JIMI'S BLOG ROLL
    ARCHIVES
    2012
    2011
    2010
    2009

    What to do about Gitmo

    January 14, 2009 at 7:49 AM
    [27]

    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 [28]. 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?

    Tags:
     

    • Comments

    Source URL: http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo

    Links:
    [1] http://www.theroot.com/blogs
    [2] http://www.theroot.com/users/jimiizrael
    [3] http://www.theroot.com/blogs//feed
    [4] http://www.theroot.com/user/register
    [5] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/journalisms
    [6] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/nabj/usa-today-lays-5-black-sports-journalists
    [7] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/chicago/chuck-phillips-biggie-tupac
    [8] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/latino-births/browning-america
    [9] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/bloggingthebeltway
    [10] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/catholic-church/new-challenges-obamas-contraception-law
    [11] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/julian-bond/naacp-marriage-equality-civil-right
    [12] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/voter-id-laws/3-new-steps-voting-rights-fight
    [13] http://www.theroot.com/archives/blog/%252F2012/5
    [14] http://www.theroot.com/archives/blog/%252F2012/4
    [15] http://www.theroot.com/archives/blog/%252F2012/3
    [16] http://www.theroot.com/archives/blog/%252F2012/2
    [17] http://www.theroot.com/archives/blog/%252F2012/1
    [18] http://www.theroot.com/print/1539
    [19] http://www.theroot.com/printmail/1539
    [20] http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo
    [21] http://www.facebook.com/share.php
    [22] http://www.digg.com/submit?url=http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo&title=What+to+do+about+Gitmo&media=news&topic=arts_culturetarget=
    [23] http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%7C+%40TheRoot247:+What+to+do+about+Gitmo+http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo
    [24] http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=postto&t=What to do about Gitmo&u=http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo
    [25] http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo&title=What to do about Gitmo
    [26] http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo&title=What to do about Gitmo
    [27] http://twitter.com/share?text=| @TheRoot247: What to do about Gitmo&url=http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo&counturl=http://www.theroot.com/blogs/hardline/what-do-about-gitmo
    [28] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioiGw-TB8qBvUvui0ygXG9ixAXSAD95M4Q4O0
    [29] http://www.theroot.com/category/blogs/-hardline