Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Mrs. Pauley has the balls in the family.
The NY Times reports on the debate that has arisen as the local Foxsuckers have received their talking points and are now pissing and moaning about the scruffy bunch of criminals that might be locked up, let's repeat that, locked up in the unused prison in town. The report included this,
“It’s the terrorist-type thing that gets me,” said Donald L. Pauley, 64, who said he felt queasy at the notion of such prisoners being kept here, 150 miles west of Chicago, a place where everyone acknowledges that signs describing the population as 600 are overestimates by now.I wonder if Mr. Pauley was always a coward?
Not even talk of added security measures, of a second fence around the prison, of increased law enforcement along the Mississippi River, which is less than a mile away, was enough to assure him, Mr. Pauley said.
But, in one example of the split that is playing out all over this village, even within houses, Mr. Pauley’s wife, Merrie Jo, said she was firmly behind the idea of turning over the Thomson Correctional Facility, a barely used state prison, to federal authorities, in part for those from Guantánamo.
“We need the jobs,” Ms. Pauley, who was the village president here for 27 years, said as she and Mr. Pauley dined at the Sunrise Restaurant, one of the few restaurants still open in an area where unemployment was 10.5 percent in September. “This place has been changing, and we’ve been going in the wrong direction.”
The notion that a terrorism suspect could slip away into Thomson without notice was unimaginable to Ms. Pauley, who added, “If a stranger comes around here, everyone knows within 20 minutes, believe me.”
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