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| Gitmo transfer: We're at risk |
| By freep.com |
| Published: 10/13/2009 |
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A coalition working to quash any chance of detainees from Guantánamo Bay ending up at the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in northern Michigan held a forum in Rochester Hills on Monday night where it issued dire predictions of what could happen if the prisoners are transferred. A panel of six people ranging from Standish residents to military experts predicted concerns ranging from I-75 closing near Standish when the federal government seizes land around the prison to chemical plants and the Mackinac Bridge becoming targets for terrorists. "If these detainees are brought here, it will end our way of life as we know it," said Kelly Kimball, who lives near the prison and was on the panel. "If this happens, we're all at risk for an attack." About 150 people gathered in the audience at Rochester High School for the forum, organized by the Michigan Coalition to Stop Gitmo North. A similar forum is planned in Okemos today. State Sen. Mike Bishop, the Rochester Republican who hosted the meeting, said a bipartisan group of lawmakers is standing firm against the transfer of the detainees. "We're doing anything we can to stop this at a state level," he said. Read More. |
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