Where to put Guantanamo prisoners? They're welcome in Colorado

Source: LA Times

Residents of Florence say they don't mind the supermax prison outside town. And a few more terrorism suspects there wouldn't bother them.

Reporting from Florence, Colo. -- Like many folks in this tranquil town, Patty Liberty has no problem living just down the road from some of the world's most notorious terrorists.

Zacarias Moussaoui, known as "the 20th hijacker" for his attempts to join in the Sept. 11 attacks, resides at the supermax prison just outside the city limits. So do would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid and Ramzi Yousef, who tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993. Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski lives there too.

"We've had horrible people; you don't even think about it," said Liberty, 36 and a mother of two who works at a local gas station. How would she feel should the Obama administration move detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the maximum-security prison, a step that Colorado's senators and the congressman representing the area say would be too risky?

"As long as they keep them where they're supposed to be," Liberty said with a shrug.


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ready and willing to handle some of this country's "problems." And yet, just like in Montana, their "elected officials," who are supposed to be representing their will, keep refusing. These Americans are tough as nails, but their reps are a bunch of pussies.

and they can send all they want to Supermax as far as I'm concerned. I've toured the place, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in there.