Bowling Green terror trials striking out with Kentuckians

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is keeping up the pressure on the Obama administration in regards to the two jihadists who may end up being tried in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Which has some residents of the small city very upset. They want the duo to be transferred to Gitmo.

From the Senate Republican Communications Center:

Bowling Green Says No To Terror Trials

Local Voices ‘Definitely Think They Should Be Sent Guantanamo Bay,’ ‘Shouldn’t Be Given The Same Rights And Privileges As U.S. Citizens’

BG MAN: ‘Anybody That’s Caught Trying To Destroy This Country Should Be Put Out. Period’

“…Senator Mitch McConnell believes they should be tried far away from U.S. citizens… And in Bowling Green people agree.” (“Kentucky Senator Wants Two Terror Suspects Out Of Kentucky,” WKBO News, 6/15/11)

RONNIE HOPPER (Bowling Green, KY): “There’s no purpose in our Kentucky taxes being spent to house these criminals” “I definitely think they should be sent to Guantanamo Bay or worse... There’s no purpose in our Kentucky taxes being spent to house these criminals” (“Kentucky Senator Wants Two Terror Suspects Out Of Kentucky,” WKBO News, 6/15/11)

RICHARD WIREKERSON (Bowling Green, KY): “Anybody that’s caught trying to destroy this country should be put out. Period… We don’t need to tie up our court system and our lawyers. We got to pay our lawyers ‘x’ amount of dollars to defend them, when they can send them over there and do the military tribunal and be done with it.” (“Kentucky Senator Wants Two Terror Suspects Out Of Kentucky,” WKBO News, 6/15/11)

AMY MOORE (Bowling Green, KY): “If I thought they could get the kind of punishment that they deserve or whatever, then I say go ahead and send them back over there because the fewer terrorists or whatever people over here, the better.” (“Kentucky Senator Wants Two Terror Suspects Out Of Kentucky,” WKBO News, 6/15/11)

EDITORIAL: ‘Holding The Trial In Kentucky Could Potentially Bring Retaliatory Attacks’

BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS: “…we believe that unlawful enemy combatants should be tried by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay and not in the United States. We echo that call once again in the case of the two alleged terrorists who were recently arrested in Bowling Green, accused of trying to aide the insurgency against our troops in Iraq.” (Editorial, “McConnell Is Right About Trials At Gitmo,” Bowling Green Daily News, 6/15/11)

· “…holding the trial in Kentucky could potentially bring retaliatory attacks against jurors, judges and citizens in the city where the trial is held or the entire state.” (Editorial, “McConnell Is Right About Trials At Gitmo,” Bowling Green Daily News, 6/15/11)

· “These men came here with intentions to harm our soldiers in the field. We believe, like the senator does, that they are enemy combatants and should be treated as such.” (Editorial, “McConnell Is Right About Trials At Gitmo,” Bowling Green Daily News, 6/15/11)

· “They shouldn’t be granted the same rights and privileges as U.S. citizens and ultimately must be tried at Guantanamo Bay by a military tribunal.” (Editorial, “McConnell Is Right About Trials At Gitmo,” Bowling Green Daily News, 6/15/11)