The Bull of Amherst
We busted a potential terrorist in Sudbury, MA today; two of the hijacked planes on 9/11 took off from Boston’s Logan Airport; bin Laden’s family had ties to Boston—and Amherst, MA thinks it would be swell to have a couple of Guantanamo detainees move into the neighborhood.
If it meant that only they would be in danger of having their throats slit, I might support it, but as we know all too well, terror travels:
This quaint leafy town in Western Massachusetts is known for its diverse mix of college students and retirees, a former farming community characterized by suburban small talk just as much as cultural institutions. But it is never one to shy from foreign policy, either.
“We like to set our own foreign policy,’’ said Ruth Hooke, a retired University of Massachusetts professor, a Town Meeting member, and participant in Pioneer Valley No More Guantanamos, a local chapter of a national movement calling for the release of detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.
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Under a petition Hooke submitted to the town’s Select Board - approved by a 2-1 vote Monday night - the town will call on Congress to rescind its ban on detainees resettling in the United States, and will welcome Ahmed Belbacha, originally from Algeria, and Ravil Mingazov, arrested in Pakistan, to Amherst. The measure will go before a Special Town Meeting on Nov. 2.
Aw, they even know which ones they want to adopt. The one with the cute spot around its eye and the one with floppy ears.
But who is this Ruth Hooke, who likes to writer her own foreign policy?
Ruth Hooke, of the Western Massachusetts chapter of The Raging Grannies.
Just the person I want guaranteeing my safety. If she so much as offered a cookie to my kids on Halloween, I’d tase the bitch until she begged to die. (But she’s entitled to her opinion!)
This is all a dumbass publicity stunt by a group of people so sheltered in their little inland New England valley they couldn’t possibly know any better.
But let me pass a message along to the Gitmo schmoes who are being offered asylum in central Mass. The average daily temperature for Cuba is low to mid-70s, with 11 hours of sunlight. In Amherst, it’s 25 degrees F, and the sun sets at 4:30 in the afternoon. And the women all look like Ruth Hooke.
If we don’t hear back from you, we won’t take it personally.