Comments on: Amherst has no room on its plate for Guantanamo inmates

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:45:36 +0000

I graduated from U-Mass in the 70s, stayed in the Happy Valley, consider myself liberal, and was disgusted when I first read of this hare-brained proposal in the Amherst Bulletin. If these fools want to prove their liberalism, international social conscience, or their anti-military sentiments let them work with organizations like Marigold to directly help the people of villages in Afganistan? Have they even thought beyond the day they bring these men to live here? Where will they live, who will pay for their housing, will they work or will the taxpayer support them? Have they even given consideration to the idea that these men may just want to retun to their families in Afganistan? Most importantly, what do they even really know about these men except for what the pro bono lawyers representing them tell them? A fools errand!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:56:40 +0000

To those in favor of hosting the prisoners: Why not invite the released inmates of the correctional facility in Springfield into your homes? Because it’s a bad idea. It’s not safe. Beyond that, it’s irresponsible and selfish to try to make this decision for everyone else in our community, as it would undoubtedly affect their lives. There are better ways to prove a point that don’t involve endangering our community.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:57:35 +0000

Pac Man you sure like to claim that no one uses any “rationality” but I have yet to see you attempt to make a rational argument, or any argument for that matter.

By: jim morgan

jim morgan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:45:44 +0000

Let them come. Just make sure they live next to Ms. Hooke and the other member who voted for the resolution.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:11:57 +0000

“Whether these accusations are fair or grounded is beside the point. Make no mistake about it, passing this move will only make Amherst fodder for more jokes about being a place filled with pink-haired communists.”

So be it. If there are those who would ridicule giving a home to a released prisoner then I don’t care what they have to say about me. These people pose no threat and have no place to go, they just need a home. Sure, Amherst has its fair share of problems to deal with, but I don’t that taking in these couple men is going to radically change the rate that we “end local injustice and feed the poor”.

By: Pac Man

Pac Man — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:58:01 +0000

“Make no mistake about it, passing this move will only make Amherst fodder for more jokes about being a place filled with pink-haired communists.”

Good to know the editorial board is full of a bunch of wussies. Usually you have people of character in opinion sections.

“Amherst is about to shut down an elementary school, we have people homeless here in Amherst, across the river in Northampton and just down the road in Holyoke, Mass., and Springfield. We have clear infrastructure problems at the University of Massachusetts, traffic congestion in Amherst, budget issues throughout the region, state, nation and world, and we in Amherst are most impassioned by the plight of two inmates stuck in limbo at a prison in Cuba?”

Not focusing on two people is going to solve those problems? What the hell does repairing UMass have to do with the town of Amherst?

Pac Man gives you all two thumbs way down on the basis of being a bunch of pansies and probably writing this while high and without rationality.