{"id":3332,"date":"2009-11-16T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2009-11-16T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:56:19","slug":"terror-mongering-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/terror-mongering-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror-mongering in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans are once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/politics\/1886701,quinn-durbin-gitmo-transfers-111609.article\">fear-mongering <\/a>regarding the transfer of Gitmo detainees to maximum security federal prisons on the mainland:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several Illinois lawmakers say the Chicago area would become a terrorist target if Guantanamo Bay detainees are moved to a prison in Thomson, 150 miles west of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who is running for Obama\u2019s old Senate seat, said he intends to ask Congress to assess potential security risks the move may pose to O\u2019Hare International Airport and Willis Tower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the busiest airport in the world and the tallest building in North America, I do not think that we should make Chicagoland the center of jihadi attention in the world,\u201d Kirk said. \u201cBut if you concentrate four times the number of terrorists of anywhere else in the country in Illinois, you will make us ground zero for that attention.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since 1993, there has been one fiendishly successful, horrifyingly devastating Jihadi attack on U.S. landmarks.\u00a0 The chance that \u00a0suddenly the Islamist terror network will pull off another one directed at the Sears (now Willis) Tower strikes me as rather low.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Tribune writer Steve Chapman has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-oped1112chapmannov12,0,5799691.column\">excellent column <\/a>on the potential over-interpretation of the Fort Hood massacre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans are once again fear-mongering regarding the transfer of Gitmo detainees to maximum security federal prisons on the mainland: Several Illinois lawmakers say the Chicago area would become a terrorist target if Guantanamo Bay detainees are moved to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/terror-mongering-in-illinois\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}