The Chicago Tribune reported online under dateline Oct. 3, 2012 (but on Oct. 2nd) that the Feds are purchasing Thomson Prison at Thomson, Ill. from the State of Illinois. What will this mean for the Federal detainees and inmates being held at the McHenry County Jail?
The article mentioned the price tag of $165,000,000. I hope somebody grabs the money and hides it for a while, before it gets sucked into a black hole and is never seen again.
Thomson, Ill. is 111 miles west and a little south of Woodstock, along the Mississippi River, between Savanna, Ill. and Clinton, Iowa.
Get a load of Dick Durbin sucking up to Obama.
The Tribune reported,"'At this point, the president had to intervene and do this directly. I hope people understand he's doing it for his state,' said U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the state's senior senator and No. 2 Democrat in the chamber. Durbin acknowledged it was a 'rare' move to bypass the written approval of a high-ranking House Appropriations Committee member to proceed with the purchase of the facility in northwest Illinois."
Oh, barf. "The president had to intervene..." and "I hope the people understand he's doing it for his state." It's really hard to believe that (expletive deleted). That's like the Chicago teachers "had to" strike, and they were doing it for the kids.
It's time for Durbin to go!
Obama did not blow $165MM on Thomson for "his" state. Get a little more sleep, Dick.
I've been hearing that the Feds were unhappy with the McHenry County Jail. I'll bet they want to cut their daily cost of housing prisoners and detainees, and we'll be seeing those white school buses making fewer and fewer day trips. Pretty soon they'll be making one-way transports to Thomson and coming back empty.
Think the County Board has already been looking at the numbers, "just in case" the Feds pull out all their prisoners. Is Keith's Dream paid for yet?
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Huh!
All kinds of mixed feelings here.
Had been interested in some acreage not more than 8 miles from the prison. Would provide a great final retirement-track employment situation for me. I'd have some rational basis on which to buy, build and move there for.
But if Al-Qaeda are housed there? And I see absolutely no reason to doubt that would be the case under a re-elected Obama, I think not.
And if that all proves to be the case, and in spite of denials soon to be issued by Dick Dirtbag to the contrary, he'll end up doing what Dickie always does. He'll take to the Senate floor, blubbering like a baby, proclaiming he never knew anything about it, and that as god is his witness, it's simply not his fault and that he cannot be held to previous statements and past promises. Just like he has so many times now in the past.
And then he'll get re-elected again, and again..........
Dickie Durbin is a moron and a liar.
That said, don't hold your breath waiting for the Feds to terminate their contract with McHenry County. They wrote the contract, they paid for the buildout and set the costs. "You hear" they are unhappy... yeah, right, like every other rumor you spread that has no basis in fact. What dark hole (other than the obvious one) did you pull this little gem out of? Speaking of that, the US Bureau of Prisons has lots of dark brown little holes (like where your ideas often come from) and no place to put them... until now. Illinois needed to reward their political contributors with a nice been public works project that could provide for massive cost overruns and graft. Thomson was it! They sold it based on need, a need which still exists in Illinois but the morons in Springfield knew they would never have the money to open and staff it. S'okay, their pals were taken care of.
No, gus, I don't see the feds pulling out of their deal with McHenry County any time soon. Those ICE detainees (don't think the feds are housing prisoners here)have to be fairly close to immigration court in Chicago and, I think, Milwaukee. Thomson is just too remote even if ICE wanted to terminate the agreement.
Better luck on the next sheriff bashing expo.
You don't think the Feds will build a Disneyland-type, high-speed monorail between Thomson and the courtrooms in the Loop?
Or to transport visitors to Thomson? For a fee, of course. And paid for by the Feds for those families who can't afford the fare.
You're right, Steve. Even if in keeping them close to Rockford, for that matter. Which again, is hardly at all convenient.
So why Thompson, then? Why, for Al-Qaeda, of course.
To keep said Al-Qaeda transfers "legal", all they need do is transfer Gitmo detainees to any other Fed Pen first, THEN transfer them to Thompson at Eric Holder's say-so.
Future cover for Blubbering Dickie:
"Gosh - I didn't read the newspapers. I didn't read the enabling Executive Order. I don't read shit! How could I have known..."
Boohoohoo! Sob!
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