I don't think it's guaranteed that they'll be treated better in US prisons than they have been in Guantanamo.

I don't believe US prison guards can be trusted that much more than the guards at Gitmo or Abu Ghraib.

Chuck Graner was a US prison guard before he went to Iraq.

You can see from his actions at Abu Ghraib what kind of professional standards were instilled in him by the US prison system.

I want the prisoners to have due process, etc, but I worry about taking them from one abusive situation into another.

In fact, before President Obama was even inaugurated, Mullen told the media that Guantánamo was a "recruiting symbol" for al-Qaida,

This is true. I will give you that.

But let's look at another Islamic terrorist recruiting tool: American racism.

The founder of the first major Islamic terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, was a pro-American moderate when he visited America back in the 1950s.

He was swayed from his moderate pro-American path by the spectacle of racial segregation in the South.

That was his radicalizing experience. American racism triggered the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Now anyone who spends time in an American prison is going to see the racism in our system of justice up close and personal.

That could very well serve to reinforce the radical views of the ex-Gitmo prisoners and end up serving as another type of terrorist recruiting tool altogether.

If it takes a closed park -- or just the threat of a closed park -- to get Californians thinking about whether there is a better way to run their state than what we've got now

You could start running articles about the prison and law enforcement economy and how we literally cannot build prisons fast enough in California to match the steady increase in the rate at which we produce prison inmates.

Prison spending is outpacing education spending. It's certainly outpacing park spending.

Sure, our state is beautiful etc etc etc.

But it is also a giant overincarcerated nightmare where the prison guards union is the largest single campaign donor in the gubernatorial election.

Good luck getting anything you want out of that crowd.

Right now the thing we succeed best at is locking each other up.

I'd love to hear about the economic ramifications of that in your column some time.

Maybe you'll have to lose your park to find the motivation.

has a woman ever been called in to replace a problematic male lead in an action movie? Or in any movie for that matter?

Film history has been made but people aren't even that aware that it's happened.

She took the lead in an action-packed spy thriller away from a MAN!

The spy flick "Edwin A. Salt" became "Edwina Salt" after Angie replaced Tom Cruise in the title role.

That's never happened before in Hollywood. That is a major Hollywood feminist milestone no matter how you measure it.

As an active girl nerd, that's something I'm going to respect.

The Cornish myth of origin involves a flight from Troy. The Cornish have traditionally mythologized themselves as Trojans -- which means they think they come from Turkey, in other words -- they think of themselves as Turks.

He has a Greek first name, a Cornish last name, and the Cornish have for centuries believed they came to Cornwall from Turkey.

And here he is standing up with Anglo-Saxons -- whose ancestors conducted a campaign of genocide against his own ancestors -- as fellow victims of mostly peaceful and law-abiding Muslim immigrants.

The man isn't fighting for his indigenous roots. The man has no idea where his roots have been for the last 3000 plus years.

The Saxons and the Engels sacked and pillaged England and tried to eliminate the Cornish as a race.

The Muslims (and the Jews for that matter) never came to Britain as anything other than peaceful migrants.

It's mind-blowing that now there is a Saxon-Celtic alliance that is claiming some deep traumatic woundedness from Muslim immigrants to Britain.

The Anglo-Saxons didn't just dislike the Cornish. They tried to eliminate the Cornish people entirely.

Yet here is a Cornishman, buddying up with Anglo-Saxons while calling the world's attention to himself as a powerless victim of Muslim immigration.

He's a swarthy man with dark hair and apparently olive skin.

His last name is Griffin, which is Celtic Cornish. This qualifies him as a semi-indigenous Briton, although, as a Celt, he doesn't qualify as a "white Briton" according to the historical Anglo-Saxon construction of that term.

However, his first name Nicholas is of Greek origin, and Nick Griffin does in fact look like he could be part Greek.

Greeks have been mixing racially with North African peoples for thousands of years.

Which means he's probably got some Muslim DNA in there somewhere.

Nicholas Griffin most likely does not qualify as a "white Briton" even according to a Celtic-inclusive construction of the term.