Fox Report: Taxpayers Funding New $750k Guantanamo Soccer Field
- Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:04pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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[Note: video below contains information about the field.]
Although President Obama may have not been able to close the gates at the United States’ detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, the federal government has opened the gates for a new soccer field for detainees at the facility. Fox News reports that the field has cost the American taxpayer $750,000:
“In addition to an indoor recreation field and the existing outdoor recreation field, the new soccer field — selected because it is such a popular sport with detainees — is half the size of an American football field.
The new field has been specially constructed so that the detainees ‘have maximum access’ — about 20 hours a day. Special passageways allow the detainees to pass into the new recreation yard without being escorted by the military.
On the tour, a military police representative who asked not to be identified by name said allowing high levels of activity outdoors helped reduce behavioral problems at the camps, and it also limited the amount of interaction between detainees and the guards.”
Fox News discovered the project during a tour of the facility with other reporters covering the arraignment of Majid Khan Tuesday, a former Baltimore resident and only legal U.S. resident on trial at Guantanamo.
The field construction started last April and is set to be completed this spring.
The news stunned Megyn Kelly:
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Comments (70)
junkmaninohio
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:12pmObama slashes health care benefits to our military troops yet gives these rag head killers a $750K soccer field? Are you kidding me? Obama voters please kick yourself in the face early and often.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:19pmI hear self defense and martial arts classes are next on the tax payer receipt for the terrorist captives. Maybe some target practice?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:24pmSadly not kidding .. he must be one and done .. and then arrested for treason.
Report Post »Santorum_is_a_douchebag
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 8:04pmHow they gonna play with black bags over their faces?
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 8:56pmthis is just more digusting policies of the obama regime he dosen’t care about our men and women in the military just the terrorist get a soccer field We need to get this jerk out of office soon or next he will be given the terrorist government jobs
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:10pmPut those animals in a small cage and let them ROT! 750K for a soccer field? Only if it’s for the guards and not those towel heads!
Report Post »junkmaninohio
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:14pmSoccer fields should not cost $750K. Only Obama would approve something like this. Meanwhile, he’s slashing the military health benefits and throwing 60 thousand troops out of the service.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:09pmall of those gitmo detainees are good for one thing. chop them up for feeding to our American hogs.
Report Post »EchoHawk
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:16pmJust curious BurntHills, would you partake of the flesh of a hog that partook of the flesh of a human being?
Report Post »petev1717
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:38pmYes put them in a wood chipper and feed them to pigs just make sure the pigs are not shiped to the US instead dump the pigs on the Afgan capital building and send Obumer with them.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 8:08pmDelicious with a light chianti, maybe some capers. Mmm. Towelie tartar with wild pig. Magnifique!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:07pmthe news is totally obama-obscenities, every day, every minute.
Report Post »WatchingObama
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:07pmAll of you people that are stating in some fashion or another that, “well if we are keeping them indefinately and human rights abuse” crap, bang your heads on the wall a few times!
Report Post »1. They are NOT US citizens! They have no Constituional Rights!
2. They are war criminals! Found to be guilty of acts of war against YOU & I! (United States of America)
To even play the RIGHTS card with the Gitmo detainees is pathetic!
If you remember Gitmo was O‘Barry’s #1 item on his list of things to eradicate once he took office. He blames congress for not shutting it down. Why doesn’t he just draft another one of his “executive orders” to close it and bypass congress like he has on so many other things?!
He catering TO the Islamic regimes in this world and those of you whom I pointed out earlier in this statement are blind to his actions.
Remember – War criminals to not have US Constitutional Rights. Period!
GeorgieJo
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 8:17pmObummer is wanting the Mooslim vote
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:01pmIf you want tro truly make the detainee’s happy, just make it a field ,, with goats.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:18pmand give them velcro gloves!!!
Report Post »dgremark12
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:55pmWell sure looks like BO loves his muslim terrorists!
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:01pmWasn’t Gitmo supposed to be closed by Jan 20, 2010… One year after he sign the executive order to close it? And now we’re spending money on soccer fields? WTH is that all about!!
Report Post »Liberty1791
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:55pmObummers’ jihadist buddies will love this and probably vote absentee ballot to show their appreciation. This is too stupid for words.
Report Post »Henrys_Ghost
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:51pmFor 750k maybe we can get some landmines installed?
Report Post »Liberty1791
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:56pmGood one. I’ll help place them if they need help.
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:50pmObama Promises Israel Use Of Bases For Iran Attack If It Will Wait
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/obama-promises-israel-use-of-bases-for-iran-attack-if-it-will-wait/
TerryDo
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:11pmState of Israel do not I repeat do trust Obama. November is only 8 months away and that will be the end of his presidency
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:48pmFeds’ solution to foreclosures crisis: Government rentals!
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/feds-solution-to-housing-crisis-turn-those-foreclosures-into-rentals/
JP4JOY
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:02pmSince FANNIE and FREDDIE own appx 95% of the mortgages out there this would be nothing more than a new tax revenue stream like SSN. The govmt has been making plans since the ‘60’s to “house” the general population of the US. It has worked so well in the big inner cities they must feel that just tweaking it a bit will provide “great accommodations” for the majority of those having a mortgage on their property. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry were both very instrumental in the establishment of these inroads to our personal liberty and freedom. Who would have guessed?
Report Post »kangaroo
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:42pmGov must also be paying a sheet load of money to fidel for use of cuban land.
Report Post »EchoHawk
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:24pm$2000 in gold per year since 1903
Report Post »kapu
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:39pmhow nice…i mean, gosh, we need to build these poor, poor, innocent detainees a ‘SUPER SPORTS THINGY’ soooooooo, why not at those foolish US taxpayers, and thse evil, nasty, and cruel vets expense. so what if those US troops need to possibly pay really high HC premiums…SO WHAT……
*eye roll with gagging motion*
Report Post »as the daughter of, the sister of, the former wife of, and now the mother of a vet, i am just APPALED by this, and i am simply beside myself how, YET AGAIN, this admin and those attached to it will simply use, disregard, or abuse the US troops and vets.
guess that maybe, just maybe they did not get the memo how the troops and families are not toys to use, play with, and then toss away when one gets bored or ‘honestly distracted.’ how pathetic.
personally, bullets are cheaper.
kangaroo
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:38pmGuess it won’t be closing anytime soon!!!! What a flipping outrageous joke. Geeze the terrorist crime will be way up now they will be fighting over who bombs what just to get there and out of their sand hill rat hole. A bed, good food and a soccer field plus all the other perks. Maybe Baz is getting it ready cause he has a good chance of ending up there bloody hell.
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:23pmReally Schools. My X makes $60K a year as a teacher or should I say $60K for 8 months of working that would be right around $100K if she worked the whole year.. Take unions and government out of schools. You do that and the schools will prosper.
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:23pmOff Topic….This is an outrage.
Gitmo Jihadist Detainees Get New $750,000 Soccer Field Courtesy Of The American Taxpayer…
One of the new three grounds is about the size of a football field. They even built special tunneled halls for detainee’s to take themselves out to the playgrounds so military guards don’t have to escort them!
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/28/gitmo-jihadist-detainees-get-new-750000-soccer-field-courtesy-of-the-american-taxpayer/
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:22pmOff Topic….This is an outrage.
Gitmo Jihadist Detainees Get New $750,000 Soccer Field Courtesy Of The American Taxpayer…
One of the new three grounds is about the size of a football field. They even built special tunneled halls for detainee’s to take themselves out to the playgrounds so military guards don’t have to escort them!
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/28/gitmo-jihadist-detainees-get-new-750000-soccer-field-courtesy-of-the-american-taxpayer/
Meanwhile yesterday’s news was: Obama cutting helathcare benefits for out military men and women.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:20pmGuantanamo‘s a dark stain on our country’s honor. Indefinitely held prisoners (including a US citizen). Costs to the tax payers without an end in sight. Human rights abuses. A president unable to close it due to Congress and the electoral backlash, and a Congress unwilling to close it due to the very obvious probability that most of its detainees are terrorists.
No good situation out.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:59pmThe stain is in the Whitehouse. I heard no solution from you , only another insult toward the USA?? These detainee‘s are not a Country’s uniformed soldier, they are civilian terrorists. As far as I am concerned they should be waterboarded for info, then quietly disappear.
Report Post »Listen_then_think
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 7:18pmThe dark brown stain is obama in the adult diaper of the liberals.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:18pmWhere is the swimming pool and lounge chairs?
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:02pmThey’ll get those in during his next term.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:15pmWell, so what? If we’re going to hold these people we have to take care of them. You can hold people indefinitely with no legal pathway to the possibility of eventual release, or lock people in cages like animals, but holding people indefinitely with no hope of release AND locking them in cages like animals seems unworthy of us, even if some of them deserve no better.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:19pmThen you pay for it.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:20pmYou’re right. Kill them. Bullets are cheaper than a well groomed soccer field.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:27pmChicoms would bill the family for the bullet.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:14pmI would have just used the money to build a nice set of gallows and hang all the monsters in the camp, before Obama lets the rest of them go. But, I guess once the Fuhrer finally closes the camp and apologizes to Cuba, at least Castro will have a nice place to go and watch soccer matches on the weekend.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:13pm750K for the murdering savages recreation sounds like a real winner you candyass freaks,I just hope the republic survives the disaster in chief until he’s fired in November.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:12pmLike the $100,000 toilet…who authorized this ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars? I would rather my money go to veterans and our enlisted for healthcare, thank you.
Report Post »111gecko
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:11pmWhy stop at the field….next we will be feeding them 3 nice meals a day, clean clothes, air conditioned units, comfortable beds, full health care….oh, wait a minute….
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:26pmI think a nice pig ranch would be a much better use of the land
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:03pmI am surprised they didn’t build a mosque, also.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:10pmthat filthy fecal animal obama would turn the White House into a victory mosque if he could.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:09pmAhh, NO!
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