President Obama announced on January 23, 2009, that he was closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without a plan on where the terrorists were going upon its closure. Now, just over three months after Obama set the arbitrary one-year deadline for closure, terrorist detainees are already being released.

First, Obama announced during his first week that he was closing Guantanamo Bay to fulfill campaign promises but without a plan on what to do with the detainees. That "dummy" President Bush also wanted to close GITMO but thought he should at least have a plan about what to do with its detainees first (you know, sort of horse before the cart, instead of Obama's cart before the horse). But Bush didn't want to release them into the United States, most of their home countries either wouldn't take them back or would have released or even helped them to return to the battlefield, and none of our "allies" would take any of them, so Bush was stuck.

Second, however, while Obama still has no "plan," he has taken some interim actions. But those interim actions are troubling - like the release of Binyam Mohammed, a terrorist who allegedly plotted multiple attacks on American soil. Binyam Mohammed is a dangerous al-Qaeda terrorist and should have been kept in custody to protect our country and our allies. A detainee since 2004, he has admitted to training at various Al-Qaeda training camps, where he specialized in firearms and explosives. He is accused of plotting a series of attacks on the United States with Jose Padilla (The Dirty Bomber) and Khalid Sheik Mohammed (Mastermind behind 9/11). He is now free in England.

After that came the announcement of two more GITMO releases, both of whom trained at al-Qaeda camps and met with Osama bin Laden. One of them is Ayman Saeed Batarfi, a Yemeni doctor, who is a member of al-Qaeda, supported the Taliban and has been an official of al-Wafa - another organization identified by the U.S. Government as a terrorist supporting group. The U.S. government had charged him with providing medical support to al-Qaeda terrorists and he has freely admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden. As a medical doctor, he also worked closely with senior al-Qaeda microbiologists while in Afghanistan and purchased medical equipment for al-Qaeda. Why release him? Because the evidence against him is thought to be inadmissible in a civilian court.

(Aside: Of course, to me, therein lies part of the problem. Since the GITMO detainees are at least suspected terrorist enemy combatants and not U.S. citizens, nor POWs under the Geneva Conventions, they are not entitled to the rights of either U.S. citizens or normal POWs. So, whether evidence against them would normally be admissible in a civilian court, as if they were just common criminals subject to law enforcement and our regular federal court system, is beside the point. They are not just ordinary criminals. It's not simply a law enforcement and normal civilian jurisprudence issue. It's a wartime and the enemies of our country issue. They are enemy combatants and terrorists, but without the protections of the Geneva Conventions, and therefore should be tried by military tribunals which can give them at least the same or similar protections that military courts-martial give our own troops, while at the same time not compromising matters of national security which could occur in open, civilian court.)

And now, it's reported that approximately 20 more GITMO detainees, a group of seven and then a group of 13, will soon be released. There's no word from Team Obama yet on where the 13 will be released, but the seven GITMO detainees are to be freed, probably within the United States.

The seven terrorists, known as "Uighurs," were captured on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and were trained at the al-Qaeda affiliated East Turkistan Islamic Movement ("ETIM") Tora Bora camp. You may recognize the name Tora Bora because in December 2001, U.S. and Afghan forces were closing in on the location of Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan. Not so coincidentally the Uighurs were captured in the area around Tora Bora while Osama bin Laden used an escape route out of the region. Pure coincidence? And now these terrorists will be freed in the United States, their detention summarily ended with no trial of any kind and no justice.

The release of these terrorists not only potentially endangers American citizens on our own soil but is against federal law (8 U.S.C. 12 § 1182) which plainly states that any alien who had engaged in various forms of terrorist activity or training cannot be permitted into the United States.

Especially when Bush-bashing or agreeing with Obama about how bad America has been - particularly about how readily we "torture" our enemies - isn't it Democrats and other liberals who incessantly rail about "the rule of law" and "nobody being above the law," etc., etc.? Well, what about THIS law, then?

Or is it that whoever is in charge (of the White House, the Justice Department or the Congress) can pick and choose which laws to enforce and which ones not? It would seem the Obama Administration is more concerned with the safety of these detainees than that of the American people and what our laws say.

So, while Obama let the genie out of the bottle by summarily declassifying Top Secret documents on CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques" - against the advice of his own Director of National Intelligence, his own hand-picked CIA director and four previous CIA directors - and directed his Attorney General Eric holder to publish them under the guise of still more "transparency" and "openness," he then vacillated about whether he would seek to prosecute those involved in devising them, rendering legal opinions on them, or using them. And when all this resulted in a firestorm of criticism and Obama realized that not only could he not put the genie back in the bottle but also that his actions, I'm sure really intended to "satisfy" and "placate" his leftist base as another way to bash the Bush Administration, had instead emboldened his left-wing supporters and many Congressional Democrats to use it as another chance to "get" the Bush Administration, he vacillated again and seems now to have left it up to his AG Eric "Americans are cowards about race" Holder to decide whether to prosecute anyone and, if so, who. Which is just another example of someone like Obama's AG deciding which laws to enforce and which ones not, and against whom.

And, of course, by underreporting what amounts to a real blunder by Obama in releasing critical interrogation techniques, especially during a time of war, and by glossing over the release of the GITMO detainees, the liberal mainstream media is complicit and collusive, as usual. The Chicago Tribune: "The Obama administration is preparing to free into the United States Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the first release of any of the detainees into this country, according to current and former U.S. officials." The Los Angeles Times: "Officials have not said where in the United States they (Uighurs) might live. But many Uighur immigrants from China live in Washington's Virginia suburbs, and advocates have urged that the detainees be resettled near people who speak their language and are familiar with their customs."

Well, as Dana Carvey's old character the Church Lady would say, "Isn't that SPESH-SHUL?" I mean, all that concern and consideration for the detainees and assisting their "transition" into American life, and all. Team Obama seems more concerned with the well-being of terrorist detainees than that of the American people, and the LA Times unbelievably wants to ensure the detainees are sufficiently coddled and "accommodated" in the process of being "freed" and "relocated"! What is this, like the U.S. Marshals Witness Protection Program for Terrorists or something?

Woe be unto "The One" and his one-term presidency, if not his impeachment, if any of these untried, released detainees commits an act of terrorism against this country. But then, perhaps woe unto any number of the rest of us, too, who had nothing to do with their release. And there's the real rub in all this.

Well, I've got news. Not only have I recently been identified, at least by Obama's DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, as a potential right-wing extremist, but FYI, Team Obama and the LA Times: I also already live in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC, and it's probably best if I don't run across these Chinese Muslim terrorists and soon-to-be former detainees, who have never been adjudicated as innocent of being terrorists.

I'm just saying that I doubt I could be very welcoming, that's all. But then, I'm sometimes just cynical and a little close-minded like that. Also pretty picky about who my friends and neighbors are. But, maybe that's just me.