If you had your choice, which prison would you put Bush in?

[jmowreader]

Along with all his sorry-ass consiglieres, including Grover Norquist, Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson.

Today's fun exercise: Pick one Big House and throw Shrub's whole administration into it.

I'm going with Alcatraz. They won't contaminate any honest criminals by being in there, it's basically escape-proof and with it being a tourist attraction and all, they could help to pay off the debt they ran up: allow people to pay $20 to point at them and laugh, $50 to piss on them and $100 to deliver trays of food with old cigar butts and dog turds sticking out of it.

[liberalnurse]

1. Something in Turkey or Russia as in

Siberia.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. abu grhaib is still operating.

or any of the CIA rendition locations. except I want video.

[Warpy]

9. Well, since his worst crimes have been against the Iraqis

I'd be perfectly happy to let their justice system deal with all the neocons who lied us into war and then profited off it.

[WritersBlock]

27. I've always said Leavenworth, but I like your idea better. More fitting. n/t

[liberal N proud]

21. That would be appropriate

After all his crimes against humanity were committed there and throughout Iraq

[kineneb]

48. this get my vote, as well.

hot, nasty, windblown dust, depleted uranium, bad water...starts to sound like a real hell...

and re-runs of Mister Rodgers, for entertainment. Not because I dislike him, but because he was so gentle and kind... it would really grind on the NeoCon mentality, all that goodness...

[seemslikeadream]

3. Marion Illinois

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. why not the "wet" tank at 26th and Cal?

the group holding tank that really picks up in popularity starting on friday nights.

[lonestarnot]

4. Any super max will do.

[backscatter712]

63. The one on Florence, CO.

That's the one inmates call The Tomb.

Stick him in one of those concrete, soundproofed cells and leave him there 24/7, never able to see another human being in his entire life, and see how long it takes before his psyche tears itself apart and leaves him a drooling basket case.

Make him so miserable that every single day, he attempts suicide, but is prevented, forcing him to remain in his own living Hell.

[Donnachaidh]

5. the early prison in Thomaston Maine would be perfect

The prison cells were holes in the ground, with metal bars across the top. They were given a bucket for a loo, and a bible. And I think they were fed once a day.

I'd love to see ALL of them in that prison.

[jmowreader]

12. How about the PW camp in "The Deer Hunter"?

Or one close to it? You remember it, where the cells were in the river, the bars over your head, and you had just enough room between the water and the bars to stick your face out of the water.

That sounds intriguing. We could build one of those.

[Donnachaidh]

16. yeah -- in NEW ORLEANS

My irony meter busted just thinking about THAT! :rofl:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

i've seen the daycamp pseudo prison at NOLA

had to bail out a fellow.

It is too nice, too comfy, even open air.

Definitely not NOLA.

[Donnachaidh]

67. no no no -- set up a Deerhunter style prison in NOLA

See the post above about how it would be. :evilgrin:

[bdamomma]

6. gitmo

I hear that the food is very good. :sarcasm:

[FloridaJudy]

56. And they have great medical care

At taxpayer expense :sarcasm:. Rethuglican politicians have come to expect that: they should feel at home there.

[trof]

70. Food's great, too. According to Rummy. Remember him?

[Dhalgren]

7. Spandau...

[jmowreader]

15. If it was still up, I'd agree

The German government was afraid the neo-Nazis would adopt Spandau as a meeting place, so as soon as Rudolf Hess was found hanged, they tore it down and built a shopping center where it once stood.

[Dhalgren]

38. I would re-name any prison Bush went to, Spandau...

[jmowreader]

39. There's probably a police lockup somewhere in Spandau...

and throwing Shrub in what essentially amounts to a county jail's drunk tank for the rest of his life works for me.

[grasswire]

8. first, take away their passports

They should be forced to live in ignominy.

[madokie]

10. I'll leave it to the ICC to decide where

if he lives long enough they will be the ones making the decision

[TygrBright]

11. Somewhere in Kazhakstan. n/t

[MrCoffee]

14. The Black Hole of Calcutta

[hootinholler]

17. Leavenworth or anywhere there are lots of vets. n/t

[Demeter]

18. It Will Have To Be Guantanamo, Folks--The Others Are Too Costly

We can ask Raul Castro to run the place, and set up cruises for tourists. It would be a win-win for all.


That's one kind of outsourcing I can gladly live with.

After all the money invested in building that place, we ought to get some use out of it.

[tuckessee]

19. Spandau. n/t

[Squatch]

20. Château d'If

[electprogdems]

22. I would sentence them to be a working mother

who is struggling just to provide the basics, never mind education or retirement savings, and every time she gets above water, the price of gas goes up, or food goes up, or her health insurance premiums are doubled. She could work at a financial services or insurance company and when she is sitting in the lunch room scribbling out her budget again and again trying to make it work (do I pay daycare, or the heat bill?), the executives can be discussing their bonuses, and donations to the republican party and the upcoming weekend at their second homes - and like the groundhog day movie, this day will be repeated over and over from now to eternity.

[coalition_unwilling]

61. Beautiful post. Thank you for that. Only response I would make is

that Bush be forced to attend daily classes on the 'scientific method' and the rise of rationalism in human history. Daily quiz would determine whether he eats or not that day.

[cliffordu]

23. San Quentin: General Population

Just 5 years there will fix him, forever.

Or Abu Grahib

[flyarm]

24. Leavenworth prison...and throw away the keys..eom

[leftofthedial]

25. rendition his ass to the Sudan

[alittlelark]

26. Guantanamo.

[H8fascistcons]

28. Thats a no brainer...

There is a nice little facility in the Northern California called Pelican Bay, it houses the most homicidal psychopath gang member freaks that California has to offer. In addition to the Bloods and Crypts, they house the Mexican Mafia and a cheery little Southern California group called the Nazi Low Riders. You may recall they did a story on this vacation spot on 60 minutes a few years ago. Prisioners are on 24 hour lockdown and never see the light of day, given any opportunity they will kill each other just for recreation. Sounds like a good place to start...

[coalition_unwilling]

62. You mean the 'Crips,' dont' you? There would be no Bloods and Crips

if the FBI hadn't busted up the Black Panthers., imho.

[H8fascistcons]

72. Thanks, yeah I may have got the spelling wrong but

there is definately two seperate gangs, one group wears blue bandanas and the other red, which is which, i'm not sure. Easy to tell the NLR's, there white boys...

Regards....

[Old Codger]

29. the penalty

for treason is ? , but rather see him in general population in any major prison.

[Ganja Ninja]

30. Some place where he can't appeal to an American court. n/t

[Thothmes]

75. I see your respect for the Constitution is as strong

as is Bushs.

[ourbluenation]

31. a rendition one in god knows where. n/t

[Elidor]

32. The Fletcher Memorial Home

An insane asylum for tyants and kings.

[AndyTiedye]

33. The UN Prison in the Palace of Peace at the Hague

War criminals like Bush, Cheney, et. al. should be tried in the Hague.







I don't think there would be any difficulty obtaining a conviction for them in the International Criminal Court,
whereupon their future residence would be the UN Prison in the Hague, which has housed Nazi war criminals and more recently "ethnic cleansers" from Serbia.





Alcatraz would be my second choice for them.

[sarcasmo]

34. I wouldn't put him in prison. I would put him on National TEEVEE and make him admit he and

Jeff Gannon hand relations.

[KansDem]

35. I agree: Alcatraz

Mount those pay-per-view telescopes all along the San Francisco shoreline so we can pay two bits or so to see these murderous thugs idly wasting away the day. Hey, due to cramped and filthy conditions and boredom, maybe a couple of them will get into a fight! Now that would be something! Watch Reed and Robertson duke it out!

[bumblebee1]

36. In prison?

Why can't we just put him under the prison. That way he'll never see the light of day.

[L. Coyote]

37. Maricopa County Tent City, with bologna and pink underwear.

I am very much opposed to forcing political prisoners to wear pink dresses.

But, I'd make an exception for Bush.

[jmowreader]

41. Only if Sheriff Joe is defeated in November

Fucking Arpaio probably worships the ground Shrub walks on.

But if Arpaio's defeated...well, they tell me Arpaio likes to lock people up for speeding. If they turn all the people like that loose, there'll be plenty of room for the Bush administration.

[L. Coyote]

64. No doubt he will go up in Bush's flame-out too. Vote out all fascists in 2008!

[lonestarnot]

66. Leave no pug standing!

[Robbien]

40. A New Orleans FEMA trailer

Lock the doors and let the asbestos dust fly.

[Taverner]

42. Devils Island - in the era of Papillon!

[TahitiNut]

43. Clearly, merely repeating/emulating the acts of these criminals would be equally immoral.

While it might be viscerally cathartic to envision Abu Ghraib or Guantanimo as a 'hoisted on their own petard' kind of justice, I'm disinclined to behave in the same manner as those I condemn for THEIR behavior.

Alcatraz is appropriate. Oversight is appropriate. I would NOT, however, afford Smirk OR Sneer an audience. Indeed, I'd place Smirk in solitary confinement in a padded cell and strait jacket ... and not permit him to view or hear ANYONE. I would deprive him of any sense of an audience and starve him of his Narcissistic Supply. His pathology is to feed on the reactions of others. Thus, the essential penance wouold be bereft of that feeding source.

At the same time, oversight and candor in their imprisonment is essential. It is contrary to any notion of justice that anyone's imprisonment is without constant review and oversight.

[alfredo]

55. A cage anywhere would be fine with me, as long as it is noisy, smelly,

and cold.

[lpbk2713]

44. A Navy Brig

Guarded by the most hard core Marine guards that can be found anywhere.

[jmowreader]

68. That sounds good...

just as long as it's one on a garbage barge, and not a nice one on land.

[Orsino]

45. NOW, with Bill Moyers. Olbermann. 60 Minutes.

The only cure for the disease is merciless exposure in the media.

[immoderate]

46. Put him on a chain gang clearing brush. Oh wait...

He'd like that too much. :grr:

--IMM

[Initech]

47. Bush belongs in Gitmo. The rest of the crew belong in Supermax.

[The Straight Story]

49. My basement

And I don't have a basement :) but I could dig a hole, put a cage in it, and give my dogs something to pee on (and sell tickets to see the talking, slurring, chimp).

[slackmaster]

50. Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o

[mindfulNJ]

51. How about this one:

[krispos42]

52. Hanoi Hilton

With a live webcam.


I betcha John Sidney McCain III, Al Gore, and John Kerry would sit around a computer monitor, munching popcorn, drinking Sam Adams, and pointing and laughing their asses off.

[SoonerPride]

53. Phantom Zone

[opihimoimoi]

54. Let him wonder around Tehran blinfolded and hands bound until he makes his way back to the USA

and no money, cards, and ID.....

In a soldiers uniform.....

[kskiska]

57. St. Helena

with daily waterboarding, cattle prods, and electric shocks.

[Jed Dilligan]

58. Corcoran, Calipatria, or Pelican Bay nt

[Virginia Dare]

59. Andersonville....n/t

[backscatter712]

60. Abu Ghraib.

Make sure he's the one hooded, standing on a box, with electrodes attached to him.

Karma's a bitch.

[bean fidhleir]

65. There are a number of possibilities

Abu Ghraib, Devil's Island ca 1900, most of the Nazi work-to-death camps ca 1943, the Soviet gulag in Kolyma or Vorkuta ca 1925, Angola...those would be my favorites. But even a small atoll in the Pacific, one of the ones currently under threat from the climate change BushCo ignores.

Or just hand him over to the Iraqi people. Those who've lost family.

[elehhhhna]

69. Den Hague, in the Netherlands. That's where brutal dictators are tried and confined.

[timtom]

71. How about the seventh level of Hell??

(Although, that may be to good for their sorry, cynical asses...)

[lildreamer316]

73. Azkaban n/t

[Alexander]

74. The Hague. In Milosevic's old cell.