Berkeley Does Guantanamo

[Valin]

Townhall:

Debra J. Saunders
2/13/11


On Feb. 15, on the recommendation of its Peace & Justice Commission, the Berkeley (Calif.) City Council is set to vote on a resolution to invite "one or two cleared" Guantanamo Bay detainees to resettle in Berkeley.

Peace & Justice Commissioner Rita Maran told me that the idea was to invite to Berkeley "the kind of people you'd like to have living next door to you or dating your cousin."

While the resolution doesn't name the one or two detainees, her panel presented material that cites two -- Russian-born Ravil Mingazov and Algerian-born Djamel Ameziane -- whom it claims have been "cleared." The resolution also asserts that "cleared" detainees have been determined to "pose no threat to the United States." Where they got that information, I do not know.
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CBS: 2/9/11 Berkeley May Welcome Freed Guantanamo Detainees

[pollyannaish]

I'm sorry, but these people seems so....silly sometimes. This almost proves the point of their opposition.

 

Why do they only want one or two of these folks settling in Berkeley? Why not just invite them all since they are just lovable little fuzz balls? And by saying they need to be cleared first, doesn't this suggest that perhaps most of those there are actually a problem and need to be there?

 

Tangled up in their own world view.

[Valin]

I'm sorry, but these people seems so....silly sometimes. This almost proves the point of their opposition.

 

Why do they only want one or two of these folks settling in Berkeley? Why not just invite them all since they are just lovable little fuzz balls? And by saying they need to be cleared first, doesn't this suggest that perhaps most of those there are actually a problem and need to be there?

 

Tangled up in their own world view.

 

 

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