[Kakaze]

Three generations ago, a 20 year prison sentence would never have been consider for lindh.

He would have swung from the end of a rope, stood in front of a firing squad or been summarily executed on the battlefield.

He has received all the mercy he deserves.

[goldstategop]

I noticed the LAT doesn't have a word of compassion for Johnny Spann. But they devoted an entire op-ed page urging us to "understand" a traitor.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus