Sympathy for a Traitor
Here is someone actually expressing sympathy for the vile Johnny Walker Lindh, an American who betrayed his country by fighting on the side of Al Qaeda against American troops:
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/12/18/7594
Highlights of the article:
American citizen John Walker Lindh is now serving 20 years in this heinous prison for what appears to have been the youthful insanity of fighting in favor of one side of a war in Afghanistan - well before that nation’s Taliban had threatened us.
Lindh fought on the side of Al Qaeda, which had already attacked several African embassies and the USS Cole. He made no attempt to desert after 9-11 itself. And this was not just "one side" in the Afghan civil wars, this was the side that blew up historic monuments and forced women into temporary "marriages" at gunpoint.
has anything else come out that would justify this draconian sentence to a dehumanizing nightmare like Colorado’s ADX Supermax? Especially since Lindh’s functional equivalent, Australian David Hicks - after release from Gitmo - got a whopping 9 mos. in a plea agreement worked out between the U.S. and Australia?
So, apparently, because the Australians were idiotic enough not to want David Hicks in jail for years (and, in fact, they weren't QUITE that idiotic, as they are to be monitoring his movements for years to come), we have to join in the leniency parade?
The word for what Johnny Walker Lindh did is treason. He still lives and breathes -- the victims of his buddies do not. He is, IMHO, getting off lightly.
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/12/18/7594
Highlights of the article:
American citizen John Walker Lindh is now serving 20 years in this heinous prison for what appears to have been the youthful insanity of fighting in favor of one side of a war in Afghanistan - well before that nation’s Taliban had threatened us.
Lindh fought on the side of Al Qaeda, which had already attacked several African embassies and the USS Cole. He made no attempt to desert after 9-11 itself. And this was not just "one side" in the Afghan civil wars, this was the side that blew up historic monuments and forced women into temporary "marriages" at gunpoint.
has anything else come out that would justify this draconian sentence to a dehumanizing nightmare like Colorado’s ADX Supermax? Especially since Lindh’s functional equivalent, Australian David Hicks - after release from Gitmo - got a whopping 9 mos. in a plea agreement worked out between the U.S. and Australia?
So, apparently, because the Australians were idiotic enough not to want David Hicks in jail for years (and, in fact, they weren't QUITE that idiotic, as they are to be monitoring his movements for years to come), we have to join in the leniency parade?
The word for what Johnny Walker Lindh did is treason. He still lives and breathes -- the victims of his buddies do not. He is, IMHO, getting off lightly.