Posted on 10/15/2006 6:43:19 AM PDT by jimbo123
LOS ANGELES - As a 1960s-era underground musician, Phil Pearlman Gadahn had a cult following. Now his funky homemade recordings are hot commodities again - thanks in no small part to his son's notoriety as an Al Qaeda mouthpiece.
Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old convert to Islam who now calls himself Azzam al-Amriki, or "Azzam the American," was indicted last week on charges of treason and providing material support to terrorists. He could be sentenced to death if convicted of treason.
While the FBI seeks Adam Gadahn, European music buffs are hawking bootleg copies of his dad's 1967 psychedelic album, "Beat of the Earth," on the Internet.
Phil Pearlman Gadahn, now in his late 50s, lives far from the spotlight in rural Riverside County, Calif. Neither he nor his wife, Jennifer, could be reached for comment. "The family is not doing any interviews," said his sister, Nancy Pearlman.
When the Daily News called Pearlman's home, a man who refused to identify himself ranted that the number was unpublished and warned, "Don't ever call this number again!"
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the summer of love comes home to roost.
Screw both of them.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
His son deserves the firing squad.
Publish it and make it known to every Gold Star Family and anyone who lost a loved one on 9-11.
Why is it that I am attacked whenever I mention Internment Camps? Seems they would be perfect for an American family like this! Hmmmm... what would FDR do?
LLS
You know - now I see a connection...
A year later, Adam Gadahn, who had moved in with his grandparents, ditched his self-described obsession with "demonic heavy metal music" and converted to Islam.
Well, he may have ditched his obsession with heavy-metal music, but his obsession with things demonic grew stronger.
I'm thinking more like beat him to death with Jane Fonda.
The classic penalty for treason is hanging.
Previously it was drawing-and-quartering.
And now we know the after effects of all that LSD people took back in the 60's
Isn't it wonderful when a dad can be proud of his son like this? If I understand correctly, the firing squad hasn't been used since, oh, Benedict Arnold, is that about right?
If only they had fixed up their son with that nice Corrie girl.
About ten years too late. The summer of love was 1967.
al-Qaeda is just using this dumbass. He'll be minus a head when they finish with him. He's just too retarded to know.
I believe that an American soldier was shot for desertion in WWII, and then there was that guy who was put to death in one of the western states back in the 1970s I think... I think it was Gary Gilmore, who was executed by firing squad.
Mark
Darby described Pearlman, the son of a Jewish doctor dad and a Christian mother, as "always a contrarian."
He wore his hair and beard long, burned incense and drove a hippie-type Volkswagen bus, but "he was very against drugs," Darby said.
For a time, Pearlman and his records vanished from the music scene after he married in the late 1970s and began raising children and goats on a farm with no electricity. The couple home-schooled their four kids.
During this phase, Pearlman adopted the surname "Gadahn" (derived from the biblical Gideon) and became religious after finding a Bible on the beach, according to his son Adam Gadahn's 1995 essay, "Becoming Muslim."
Pearlman made his living as a halal butcher who slaughtered his goats in a manner acceptable to Muslims. "He once had a lot of Muslim friends," the son wrote.
Adam Gadahn, who had moved in with his grandparents, ditched his self-described obsession with "demonic heavy metal music" and converted to Islam. Now wasn't the '60s Hippie-Dippie Tune-in Drop-Out Generation just Great for the nation?
I guess that maybe I'm out of step here, but exactly what the hell do you people want this guy and his wife to do?
If you believe that they should be strung up like Mussolini, then I suppose that you must feel the same way about the parents of Jeffry Dahmer, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, etc... Or how about the parents of those 2 Columbine idiots... Were they deficient as parents? Probably. Should they be persecuted by their neighbors? Well, my guess is that they probably are. However, I think that the stigma of just being who they are is going to be more punishment than they deserve.
The parents of Johnny Jihad seem to support that little ass-hat. That's fine, it's their kid. Though he should have gotten some long prison time at hard labor. If they support him publicly, then go after the parents.
But in this case, there's no evidence that this guy's parents are supporting him or his actions, and in fact, it sounds like they're trying to hide from what he's doing.
This sort of "transference" is just plain wrong.
Mark
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