Posted on 06/21/2004 9:57:59 PM PDT by quidnunc
Just as a legalistic memo defending torture was being leaked out of the Justice Department's inner sancta, the Los Angeles Times was giving all of us a peak at some of the separate but equally legalistic arguments being set forth in defense of John Walker Lindh.
You remember Mr. Lindh, also known as Abdul Hamid when he was with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and as Suleyman al-Faris before that, when he was about to begin training with al-Qaida. How could anyone forget him?
Mr. Lindh is now doing 20 years for supporting the enemies of the United States. But he turned up in the news again when some of his legal complaints were made public. According to this account, he was never read his Miranda rights after being captured.
Shocking!
After all, the only thing Mr. Lindh had done was take up arms with the Taliban and his al-Qaida buddies. And, oh yes, he'd also been caught up in a prison revolt at Mazar-i-Sharif that cost the life of the first American combat death in Afghanistan — a CIA agent named Mike Spann. And hundreds of others.
But instead of being furnished with a lawyer by the GIs he'd been shooting at a moment before, Mr. Lindh/Hamid/al-Faris was humiliated, stripped, interrogated and even subjected to the familiar good cop/bad cop routine by a couple of CIA agents. How beastly of them.
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Taliban John! I wondered what happened to him.
Is a "peak" better than a "peek"?
I'll never forget Mike Spann.
Why on Earth did they take him prisoner?
Gosh, don't you remember he was caught with other Talaban [the enemy] and he was so filthy and hairy looking they didn't know he was an American till he told them!
So they could "bring him to justice" when it would have been much more appropriate to dispense immediate and lasting "real" justice. For all of our goernment's talk about how the Law Enforcement angle will not work, why are we using the court system? What happened to military tribunals for all of these POS?
I assume you are kidding ...either that or perhaps you mean that a quick shot through the head would have been a cheaper faster way of handling him?
It is precisely what I meant.
What? You mean this traitor only got 20 years? Then what, he's free to try to kill us all again?
(Because then he will have to deal with the rough justice of all Americans who are not willing to tolerate the presence of a traitor in our midst.)
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