Pete Hoekstra: The Terrorists at Gitmo Are a Bigger Threat Than the Nazis Were.

These guys are simply lunatics. When they object to prisoners from Guantanamo being jailed in the US, a reporter asks how the US could keep Germans in jail in the US during WWII.

Hoekstra: It's night and day.... Because in WWII I don't think we expected the, you know, you didn't have the threat from home grown terrorism. You didn't have...remember these folks successfully attacked us on 9-11, 3000 Americans died. And the threat and the specter of the threat that we face today from radical Jihadists is very, very different than the threat that we faced from Germany or Japan in WWII. Putting these people in the middle of our communities puts those communities at risk and puts the people that work at those facilities at risk because they can be very, very easily identified. It is a total different threat assessment when you are in Gitmo vs when you are in a community in our homeland.

America locks up some of the world's most dangerous people rather routinely. Are we now to believe that their jails are made out of papier mache or something? That their jails are really easy to escape from which is why you wouldn't want really dangerous people locked up in them?

What I've always loved about Republican logic is how they can turn it 180 degrees on it's head and act as if no-one can see what they are doing. They are always calling for the jailing of criminals, but now it seems their jails aren't secure enough to hold really dangerous people.

Maybe they should send all their prisoners overseas to limit the risk to local American communities.

Honest to God, the party of law and order is now saying that Americans jails are unfit for purpose.

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