I know another section of the country that would gladly take the Federal dollars and also has experience housing the likes of John Wayne Gacy: Southern Illinois. In fact, Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL) has already lobbied hard to bring Gitmo detainees here, and it seems a little sad that they don't seem to be considered at the moment. Being from IL, and touring Southern IL extensively I think Obama new there were places within the US to put these prisoners that would take them. This might explain he seemed so confident signing the closing orders and surprised by the NIMBY arguments from the very people that voted for this mess and like to talk tough. I'm willing to do my part and not complain about these detainee's being in my backyard because it's the right thing to do and that's what I believe America is supposed to stand for, what about you Kansas?

While I think the vast majority of these Guantanamo detainees should probably be sent home, I don't have confidence that Obama will manage that. The Michigan prison would be far more competent to handle these prisoners than the numbskulls in Hardin, Montana, who were looking to fill their long empty minimum security facilty with inmates whose custody level was far over the heads. The Federal Supermax facility at Florence Colorado would clearly be capable of handling them, though under the leadership of Bush appointee Harley Lappin, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, it has been starved of funds and training for many years. Lappin refuses to recognize that we are in many aspects hospitable to true terrorists in our own midst, such as the "Army of God" that murders docs and bystanders.