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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
"Federal law forbids anyone owing allegiance to the United States, which includes all who hold U.S. citizenship, to levy war against the country or to give aid and comfort to its enemies" (qtd L.A. Times Dec. 5 William Webster-federal judge who headed both the FBI and the CIA) This rhetoric could become very dangerous.
What about other Americans who, like John convert to Islam. His case, and the legal rhetoric resulting from it, may generate suspicions, and bring other intellectuals to court. John is not in trouble for being Moslem. He is in trouble for pointing his AK-47 at America. It is one thing to shun the idols, and the shirk of American culture, to speak out in a public forum, and to speculate about political futures, it is another to go to war.
President Bush may declare anyone to be a threat to national security, and his decision may go unchecked. If John Walker/Suleyman Al-Lindh is convicted of treason it may happen without due process. Such a conviction could potentially threaten every American born Moslem in the United States. I worry that John is the zygote of modern McCarthyism. If moslem sympathies in the United States grow...and if at any point the war is not going good for the U.S. then I fear that the Government may go after Moslem Intellectuals in order to win the undeclared war on terror.
Suleyman Al-Lindh is not representative of other American Moslem Intellectuals.
Suleyman Al-Lindh is not representative of other American Moslem Intellectuals.
He is an extremist who left his country and his family...in his quest for God.
Go reread the Constitution ; therein lies the full explination of what is YREASIN and SEDITION. This little creep is absolutely guilty of SEDITION !
Now, EVERYONE knows that you have a terrible reading comprehension problem , and that fruestration evidently frustrates you.
Go reread the Constitution ; therein lies the full explination of what is TREASON and SEDITION. This little creep is absolutely guilty of SEDITION ; probably TREASON as well!
Now, EVERYONE knows that you have a terrible reading comprehension problem , and that evidently frustrates you.
The Constitution doesn't mention sedition. I knew that before, but I just reconfirmed it by a word search. Nothing.
Now, I'd be really interested in seeing if he really did leave the Taliban when we started attacking them to get bin Laden. If he did, that would shut the door on any kind of treason having been committed.
He was captured with the Taliban in Kunduz.
Is English your first language?
Please point out where in the story you found the above statement.
Or did you reword the story to make your point?
Or was that bombastic diatribe just the fruits of senility?
Either way, I think somewhere there are two villages each missing an idiot.
What do you think the odds are that we'll find two witnesses willing to testify in a US court that this fellow committed an act of treason against the United States, namely "levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort?"
I mean, what defines "adhering?" What defines "levying War?"
No, they are progressive; they are socialist; they are wise.
And above all touchie-feelie and they mean well.
What more do ya want?
Have you been hitting the juice?
He was a Taliban prisoner of war, having been caught defending Kunduz.
Or do you know something not in the report?
He was just picked up while hitchhiking or what?
He was either with the Taliban defending Kunduz or he was not.
If he was, every Taliban fighter taken prisoner along with him that day is a witness. As I recall there were hundreds.
He further took part in the prison uprising and retired to the lower level of the prison to hold out. All the acts of an active fighter.
You want video and a signed confession?
In this very article you moron.
When the U.S. bombardment of Kabul began, he said he fled 100 miles on foot to Kunduz, where he came to be one of more than 3,000 Taliban soldiers taken as prisoners to the 19th-century fortress at Mazar-e-Sharif.
False. Read it again.
Like hell his father was a strict Irish Catholic. No strict Irish Catholic I have ever met allows his son at the age 16 to choose his own religion.
There is something very odd about this whole story. I think there is much we still don't know.
Strict Catholics aren't usually married to Buddhists, either.
I see many others here have picked up on the "strict Irish Catholic" characterization. I am probably one of the few posters here who actually feels sorry for the kid; it's his parents that deserve the outrage.
We should let his fellow Muslims the Northern Alliance take care of him. They have better forms of punishment than we do anyhow.
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