{"id":6564,"date":"2009-08-13T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/michigan-makes-a-bid-for-the-g.html"},"modified":"2009-08-13T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:15:58","slug":"michigan-makes-a-bid-for-the-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/michigan-makes-a-bid-for-the-g.html","title":{"rendered":"Michigan makes a bid for the Gitmo detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if this state didn&#8217;t have enough problems with the shrinking of it&#8217;s population, so bad they&#8217;ve received federal funds to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2009\/04\/michigan-central-station-demolition.php\">demolish parts<\/a> of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modeldmedia.com\/features\/wattrick20309.aspx\">biggest city<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modeldmedia.com\/features\/wattrick20309.aspx\">turns out it&#8217;s good employment for kids and ex-prisoners<\/a>). Now, they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/08\/12\/gitmo.michigan\/\">making a bid to bring hard core terrorists to their state<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal officials will travel to Standish, Michigan, on Thursday to tour a state prison that could be used to house terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. government officials said Wednesday.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe prison in Standish is a maximum security facility slated for closure. Some local officials would like to see Guantanamo prisoners brought there as a way to keep the prison open and preserve jobs in an area with more than 20 percent unemployment.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d feel sorry for the people of Michigan but they keep doing it to themselves.  If they really cared about their state, they wouldn&#8217;t keep voting for Democrats to lead them out of this mess. (What is that quote about insanity? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quote\/26032.html\">Oh, yeah<\/a>)<br \/>\nIf you were a terrorist, where would you rather live? I thought Obama was going to treat detainees more humanely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if this state didn&#8217;t have enough problems with the shrinking of it&#8217;s population, so bad they&#8217;ve received federal funds to demolish parts of their biggest city (turns out it&#8217;s good employment for kids and ex-prisoners). Now, they&#8217;re making a bid to bring hard core terrorists to their state: Federal officials will travel to Standish,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michigan makes a bid for the Gitmo detainees - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/michigan-makes-a-bid-for-the-g.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michigan makes a bid for the Gitmo detainees - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As if this state didn&#8217;t have enough problems with the shrinking of it&#8217;s population, so bad they&#8217;ve received federal funds to demolish parts of their biggest city (turns out it&#8217;s good employment for kids and ex-prisoners). 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