BCT Editorial – 5/28/09

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Fear factor; Editorial; Beaver County Times; May 28, 2009.

Did Stephen Kislock join the Times as an editorial writer?

First, did you notice the editorial didn’t get into why we should even consider closing the prison facility at Gitmo? Is it not secure? Is it inhumane?

Second, who has been “hysterical?” All I’ve heard have been reasoned economic, legal, and security arguments against moving more international terrorists to U.S. soil.

Third, the feds have only one “supermax” prison and it’s already full. Are we to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a “supermax” prison to do what Gitmo already does?

Fourth, at the risk of being accused of name-calling, I believe what’s really behind all this is Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). Because of BDS, many on the left had a knee-jerk reaction to anything the Bush administration did, even when it was something the left championed in the past. Private accounts in Socialist Security and the prescription drug benefit in Medicare are only two examples. In the case of Gitmo, I believe deep down lefties knew/know it made/makes sense to keep our detainees in that facility. Had President Obama done exactly the same thing, the left would be telling us it was a stroke of genius. In any case, the left’s dilemma is that they were so insistent for so long that Gitmo was a problem, they can’t now say it’s OK. In other words, lefties have let rank political partisanship back them into a corner. Then again, after harping for so long about how bad deficit spending was, the Times changed its position after Mr. Obama’s election.

Finally, what I call commonsense the Times calls being a “sunshine patriot.”