Texas lawmakers seek to ensure Gitmo detainees aren't moved here

[struggle4progress]

By ANNA M. TINSLEY
[e-mail]

... "The transfer or release of Gitmo detainees presents a clear and present danger to all Americans," Rep. Lamar Smith of San Antonio wrote in the letter, signed by 19 other GOP lawmakers. "The Obama Administration must take our request seriously. We will do everything in our power to prevent the transfer or release of known-terrorists into the neighborhoods and communities of Texas" ...

http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1199779.html

Lotta folk wearin boots n hats but not a brave tough frontiersman in sight

[Donnachaidh]

1. Doesn't Texas have the most prisons in the country?

All of a sudden they are getting particular about who they take? Pffttt...

[geckosfeet]

2. Seek to ensure Texas lawmakers are moved to Gitmo

[no_hypocrisy]

3. You can go to prison in TX for a dozen years for statutory rape but you can't

if you were living in Afghanistan and met an American soldier.

[Stinger2]

4. Cheney Prison Abuse Investigation Officially Dismantled

Cheney owned stock in the company owned the GEO Group, the
company that managed the prison; and Alberto Gonzales had
gotten involved in the efforts to quash Guerra's
investigation, or so his indictments claim, though the world
may never know the truth. 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cheney-Prison-Abuse-Invest-by-mikel-weisser-081211-252.html

Texas has a terrible record of abuse and holds a one year
record for Executions, What a State of Denial.