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2007-02-01 Britain

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-01 09:54|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They might prefer putting them on the USS Botany Bay and getting rid of the problem for a few centuries.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-02-01 10:06|| 2007-02-01 10:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe not so unreasonable after all.

In fact, I have just the place for them.

Johnston Atoll, specifically Johnston Island, in the Pacific, is an isolated island that is owned as an "unincorporated territory" by the United States, though we have considered selling it. It is about one-third of the way from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands.

It is about one square mile in size, having been enlarged through dredging.

It is in the area of both atomic testing, and was the major US chemical weapons storage facility in the pacific, abandoned in 1975. At its peak, it had over a thousand US service personnel living there.

All structures have been removed, but it could be rebuilt as a prison (probably by the US), before transferred for sale to England.

The incentive for the US to do this would be the assumption that England, and maybe one or two other European countries, could transport their "worst of the worst" terrorists there.

Think of it as "Europe's Gitmo".

As we are such a generous people, I imagine that we might even engage in a little more environmentally sensitive island enlargement, building some artificial reefs so that the island would continue to increase in area. Must plan for the future and all that.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-01 10:14|| 2007-02-01 10:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Khan!

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-01 11:19|| 2007-02-01 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Nahuru, it's already built.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-01 11:34|| 2007-02-01 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Ice Station Zebra, folks, we got plenty of room at Ice Station Zebra.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-02-01 13:30|| 2007-02-01 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 We can't allow your refugees to come to our ice-station populated by our refugees which were caused by your Germans training our insurgents to cleanse our population which was previously their population which police force we trained to destroy your refugees. Wait, is that it? Indeed. Cetainly. Here's the bill.

/Basil

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-01 16:53|| 2007-02-01 16:53|| Front Page Top

They might prefer putting them on the USS Botany Bay and getting rid of the problem for a few centuries.

Sorry, the real world had Bill Gates instead of Henry Starling. No crashed 29th century timeships to augment our technology.

Posted by Korora">Korora 2007-02-01 20:14|| 2007-02-01 20:14|| Front Page Top

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