Sunday, September 20, 2009
I'll hand it to them, uber-leftist Amherst, MA does take the N out of NIMBY:
AMHERST -Town Meeting this fall will consider only one citizen petition - a resolution to help in the resettlement of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp detainees in Cuba.
The deadline for petitioned articles was Sept. 8 for the fall Town Meeting, that begins Nov. 2.
Part of the resolution urges Congress to repeal the ban allowing resettlement in this country. The resolution asks the town to assist in the safe resettlement of cleared detainees in the area once that happens. It is being brought to the meeting by a group called No More Guantanamos, said Town Meeting member Ruth F. Hooke.
She said the group has been working with lawyers and has two particular detainees in mind - one from Russia and from Algeria - who they would like to aid.
The group does not need Town Meeting approval, but she said the resolution is "an educational endeavor. We don't want to slip them in." Town Meeting provides the forum for education, she said...
Not to worry, these guys are cleared:
...About 50 detainees have never been charged and have been cleared for release but are unable to go home because they would be persecuted or killed, she said...
See? It's like adopting a puppy.
...The petition was signed by 140 registered voters - the signatures of 100 voters are needed for the petition article. She said organizers could have collected more signatures, but didn't want to overburden staff having to verify them.
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Well, at least you have to admit that, in this instance, they're not being hypocrites.
True!
That's because the "progressives" in Amherst and the jihadists in Guantanamo share the same goals - destroying America.
I'd like to see "progressive" Amherst take some released murderers, rapists, sex offenders in too.
Meanwhile I expect the detainees will insist that their hosts in Amherst remove anything that is counter to the beliefs of jihadists.
Amherst was untlra-liberal when I went to school there, and it seems to have gone downhill since.
May they get what they're asking for... and may they then acquire a personal understanding of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Hey, wasn't there a Woody Allen movie in which an ultra-liberal couple adopted a serial killer because they felt sorry for him?
cheers,
DiB
Perhaps the town could hire them to protect schools, city buses and - of course - the local synagogue?