I wonder what religion that might be?
Posted on 07/28/2015 5:49:54 PM PDT by markomalley
A Georgia man who wrote he was "ready for jihad" before buying a one-way ticket overseas to try joining the Islamic State group was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday after he sobbed to the judge, "I am an American."
Leon Nathan Davis III of Augusta was sentenced to 15 years, the maximum punishment allowed. A pale, bearded man with a Southern accent, the 38-year-old Davis pleaded guilty in May to seeking to help a known terrorist organization.
He was arrested at the Atlanta airport last October trying to board a flight to Turkey. Davis later said his plan was to be smuggled into Syria so he could join the Islamic State group as a recruiter and an English teacher.
During his sentencing Tuesday, Davis told the judge he had been "brainwashed" by writings and online propaganda of radical Muslims not long after he converted to Islam while imprisoned for cocaine trafficking a decade ago.
"I allowed myself to stray away from the truth of my religion, which is peace, love and humility," Davis said. "They brainwashed me into thinking that hatred and death were the way into heaven."
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Oh, wait.
Git a rope.
bttt
He’s getting off easy.
He’s getting off easy.
The maximum punishment for sedition is 15 years?
Patriotism, the final refuge of the scoundrel.
If he tried to join ISIS, he is definitely a liar. He’s no American.
Probably a neo-Nazi descended from Soviet Balkan Germanistan.
I wonder what religion that might be?
Waste of money incarcerating him for years. Drop him on Turkey, from 40,000 feet.
“...a pale, bearded man...”
I first heard of white hispanics in the press, now I’m given paleface descriptions. Does any other ethnicity get media complexion ratings?
Why is he going to jail and Obama isn’t???
and the judge was not impressed by his John-Boehner impersonation.
Oh yeah? Faithfully enforce that in DC and it would be the proverbial handing out of speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
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