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Here We Go Again: GITMO Detainees Coming to Illinois?

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Beverly Perlson, political activist and founder of The Band of Mothers, will appear as a guest on Fox & Friends Saturday morning during the 5 a.m (Eastern) hour to talk about the strong possibility of hundreds of detainees being relocated from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba to tiny Thomson, Ill.

Perlson’s appearance comes after Wednesday’s announcement that the federal government will purchase the community’s long-empty, state-owned prison for $165 million in a deal endorsed by President Barack Obama.

This is not the first time such exploitation has been tried against citizens in the economically-depressed town of almost 600.  The same thing was tried three years ago — with the false promise of 1,100 new jobs — but this the first time it’s gotten this far.

Several high-ranking Illinois Democrats — including Sen. Dick Durbin and Gov. Pat Quinn — are to blame, but they’re denying that the sale will lead to the prison being filled with ex-GITMO detainees — including many confirmed and suspected terrorists.  Instead, they’re focusing only on their claim that the sale will lead to jobs.  That’s their “sales pitch.”  Until the election that is.

Be sure to wake up and watch Fox News Channel early Saturday morning for more details — and share this news!

UPDATE 10/06/2012 at 9:45 a.m. Central:  Here’s a link to the video of Perlson’s appearance on Fox & Friends.

See also:  Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-Va.) letter (dated July 27, 2012) to Attorney General Eric Holder about the Thomson Prison issue and Rep. Peter King’s (R-N.Y.) letter to President Obama in which he suggested five alternative uses for the estimated $165 million that the Administration will spend to acquire the prison.

 Bob McCarty is the author of “Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice,” a nonfiction book that’s available in paperback and ebook via most online booksellers, including Amazon.com. His second book, “The CLAPPER MEMO,” is set for release this fall.

Powerful Illinois Democrats Circle Wagons to Protect Colleague After Incident at Tavern

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If you wondered what I was doing this weekend instead of writing, I have an excuse:  Along with a handful of fellow Andrew Breitbart contributors, I spent much of the weekend trying to track down people involved in a St. Patrick’s Day incident that resulted in the resignation of Ken Snider, a man who serves as chair of the MaCoupin County Democrat Party, president of the Carlinville, Ill., school board and former head of one of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s security details.

Though the whole truth about the incident might never be made public, here’s what we do know:  The incident took place at the Anchor Inn, a tavern located on 33 Daley Street in Carlinville, a town about 60 miles north-northeast of St. Louis.  It allegedly involved racial epithets being hurled by Snider toward a group of African-American students from nearby Blackburn College, and an altercation ensued.  Beyond that, unfortunately, details are scarce as few people are talking and officials with the Carlinville Police Department have handed the investigation of the incident over to the Illinois State Police.

I’ve made numerous attempts — via their parents, girlfriends and others — to reach the college students allegedly involved in the incident, but all have been unsuccessful.  In short, they’re not talking.  To anyone.

Likewise, people inside the tavern who witnessed the incident are, understandably, making themselves scarce due to what many suspect is a great deal of pressure being applied by powerful Democrats in the “Land of Lincoln.”

When — not if — more details do surface, this story has potential to become the “Story of the Year” in Illinois.  Until then, Dan Riehl offers more about the story and the media coverage it has received to date in a piece published today at BigGovernment.com.

UPDATE 3/29/11 at 9:13 a.m. Central: Here’s a link to another piece about this controversy, published yesterday, by Dan Riehl.

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Governor BLAGOing, BLAGOing, BLAGOne!

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By a 59-0 vote of the Illinois Senate, Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached this afternoon in Springfield.

The 52-year-old Democrat becomes the first sitting governor in the Land of Lincoln’s pockmarked history of corruption to be impeached, convicted and booted out of office.

He will, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune, be replaced immediately by Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, a man who twice ran as Blago’s running mate.