What indeed?
The Kansas legislature has passed a resolution stating that we don't want any of the prisoners from Guantanamo to be housed in Leavenworth or any other prison in the state.
These kryptonite-bearded, titanium-beturbaned super-villains are cleary too dangerous to be housed in the sunflower state. Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, our distinguished senators, claim that housing the 200 or so prisoners from Gitmo in Leavenworth would:
A) Throw the guards in a tizzy, since the prison might not be prepared for such high-risk prisoners, and
B) Endanger the community, as the constant terror attacks that have been raining down on Gitmo would be transferred to the hapless citizens of Leavenworth.
Not only that, but officers that now attend the Army Command and General Staff College from our friends Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia might not be able to attend, because apparently we'd be, like, holding their cousins.
So, the prison, THE prison, designed to contain prisoners from our very own armed forces, the place where we contain people who not only have committed crimes but are trained to kill, that prison isn't ready to contain Ibn al whoever because someone in the Bush administration decided that they were uber-dangerous.
I just don't get it. Hell, I say bring 'em in and put 'em on display. Leavenworth already banks on prison-tourism (a new brochure has the catchy phrase "Doin' time in Leavenworth"). They could set up Kiddie Torture Land... the Waterboarding Adventure Ride, that kind of thing.
I got nothin' else. It's just friggin' idiocy.
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