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Everything is just shock and awe. It’s all part of the performance. It’s just clickbait,
agreed Louwegie McGill, a member of the Round Valley Indian tribe
As tourists we’re a bit shocked with that news, considering how old it is and how long since it’s really been inhabited,
said Janelle Lawson, a tourist from AustraliaWith the state of our economy right now, if it was too expensive to run then, it’s definitely gonna be too expensive to run now,
said Tolu Ogundele, 22-year-old psychology student at Kennesaw state university in GeorgiaThat place is decrepit, it’s broke down, it doesn’t’ work well.”
McGillI’d love to see it returned to the Indigenous peoples.”
Gali has a different vision for its futureThey’ve taken so much of the past away already and there needs to be something left behind to keep our memories going,
said KemokaiI think it should remain what it is, a national monument,
said Jacqueline Kemokai, a retired nurse from Tampa, who was moved by that historyHe’s already shown his enthusiasm for mass incarceration as seen in El Salvador, and he had mentioned using Guantánamo Bay to imprison people,
said PerezReopening Alcatraz as a prison would not just be an act of historical erasure – it would be a declaration that this country is doubling down on its most violent legacies,
she told the Guardian by phoneTrump – he is the best,
said Oshri, who came up from LA to tour Alcatraz with her family who are visiting from IsraelHe’s marching backwards. Tomorrow, he’ll announce something else,
said Regina Jaquelle, a retired police officer, as her friends burst into laughterThat’s where the first California Indian leaders were imprisoned, and that’s a history that’s still not widely shared,
she addedHonestly, he doesn’t have very many good ideas,
she addedI think it's one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard in my life,
said one visitor from Washington State
We're from Australia, derived from convicts and this is inhumane,
said Doug McCollBut you’d have to tear it down and build it up again, which is bad from a historical standpoint,
he continued
We think he’s mad,
Ms. Vickery saidIt sort of represents something that’s both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable, weak,
he saidIt’s a historic place, and if they turn it back into a prison, it’s going to ruin all the history.”
She added
It just seems very hypocritical that they came in and said they’re going to make government more efficient and DOGE and all that stuff, ... and now they’re saying they’re gonna throw hundreds of millions of dollars at a symbol.”
Kostelnik said