Posted on 12/04/2001 1:36:21 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:02:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
December 4, 2001 -- The year 1997 was a critical turning point for high-school student John Walker. That's when he read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," began wearing a white robe and turban, and changed his name.
The conversion of John Phillip Walker Lindh from California teenager to grimy Taliban fighter and U.S. prisoner of war can be traced to the year he spent cramming for his high-school diploma at an alternative independent school in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Why stir up all the liberals emotions in the U.S. - just turn him back over to the Northern Alliance. After all - they captured him fair and square in a war.
You then slip some dirt poor N.A. fighter a $100 to deliver his body back to you when they are done.
This procedure avoids controvesy - and I'm tired of controversy - we need to get on with the more important targets - Omar, Osama, Saddam, Yasser.....and friends.
Did you happen to see the Major in Spec. Forces interviewed on Fox this afternoon who, when asked what he would do with this "misguided, impressionable" kid, replied; (paraphrase) "I'd check with some American parents who have their kids of the same age fighting for the U.S. in Afgahanastan - I'd ask them if they think this guy neegs to get special consideration as a "kid" after he picked up a gun against his countrymen."
Ballpark that was it - you had to see it to get the force and honesty with which he spoke - best military comentator I have seen on any channel yet!
Hanging is for a traitor...like the this little sh&t, Walker
However, I have seen that effect on some drug users (mainly, the heroin addicts in Bremen), and it doesn't even take that long.
Quite. Let's get the punishment over with quickly, otherwise they'll be like Lori Berenson's parents, endlessly whining to every left-wing media outlet who'll give them a soapbox, and there'll be plenty. Just put him in front of a firing squad. Once it's a done deal, nobody will give a sh*t for their d**kwad turd of a son. Next!
I haven't spent too many years studying it, but I and most Muslim scholars can tell you that the Taliban's view on Islam is pretty whacked. It's more like local tribal custom heavily influencing which passages of the Qu'ran they lean hard on and which ones they ignore. We've seen this in Christianity too in the more fundamentalist sects.
Take the Taliban's horrid treatment and low placement of women for example. The Qu'ran has many places where women are held in high esteem. One example is Mohammed's youngest wife, Aishah. (searches the Internet for a quick bio to link to...)
Read about her here and see if you think the Taliban would have allowed this woman to exist. She would have been executed in the early days of their rule, yet she was the most beloved wife of their prophet.
He doesn't look so smart right now!
Some brilliance!
Now don't go confusing people with facts. They are hell bent to see this kid dead and you're going to ruin it for them.
I agree. If a 20 year old marine suddenly defected and joined up with the Taliban, do you think there would be calls to spare him, that's he's just a kid? No way. This young man (he's not a kid) needs to be shot by a firing squad, especially for taking part in the riot where the CIA agent was killed. Traitorous SOB.
The RAT can be tried for treasom or sedition; take your choice.
I've been banned, held in detention, told by moderator to tone it down.
SKIN THE LITTLE SISSY ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREEP ME FOR MY REAL GUSTO
I believe you retain your citizenship up until the point you are executed for treason.
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