Lil Johnny Walker, American Traitor

Make no mistake, Lil Johnny Walker is a Traitor, and an american one at that.
I have read and heard that he gave up or lost his citizenship when he joined the Taliban or Al Queda and because of that he isn't a traitor...
Don't you beleive it, The Taliban may have had control of Afghanistan, but they were a religious organization commited to bring death and destruction to America.
and as for Al Queda, it is even simplier, A bunch of terrorists also commited to bring death and destruction to America.
and in joining either group he has committed treason for in doing so he became commited to bring death and destruction to America.

It all has to do with nation states and legitime governments, Osama's Al Queda and The Taliban were neither, there fore the opinions that strip away his citizenship because He fought for either are wrong, and seek to pawn him off on another nation for justice we are perhaps unwilling to meet out as he so richly deserves.

Nor is he as some might suggest a common criminal to be tried in state or federal courts, he took up arms for a new kind of enemy, one the rules and laws of war ignore,one that we will be facing more and more as this war on terror continues, and he won't be the last american traitor we will find either. But he must be the bookmark case for the war on terror, or else he and his ilk shall be ignored because they exist in some grey area of the law.

Here is the first of his kind Lil Johnny Walker, american traitor, american terrorist. The grey areas of our laws must not be used to prevent him from being brought to justice, or for letting our justice be done at the hand of others, and quite frankly That may allowed to happen instead of bring him to justice for his actions.

Those that say he should rot in some Afghan prison and avoid the headache of proving that he is a traitor, are ignoring the obvious, there will be more like him if we don't act to ensure that a standard is set on what is this new type of traitor.

"There will come a time where a man must shoot his own dog
he can't farm it out,
he can't ignore it,
He must do what is necessary and as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

It's called personal responsibility, or in this case Our government's responsibility to take actions against our own terrorists and traitors. Even when They hide in that grey area of laws untested.

I don't know when he joined and he isn't talking about it either,
nor do I know when we gave the Taliban that much money and they aren't talking about how they spent it either.

Up until now the Taliban have been doing a lot of talking,
The usual stuff,
"mother of all battles",
"fight to the death",
"The blood of our martyrs will drown the Americans",
and "death to america".
and here was Lil Johnny Walker saying, beleiving and defending The Taliban in Kunduz either as a Al Queda Terrorist, or as a gunman for the Taliban.
It doesn't matter which he did really, his actions were the acts of a traitor.

But I noted a unwilling ness amoung some americans to bring him to justice for those acts,
they would rather allow him to be punished by The Northern Alliance, to wash our hands of a traitor and allow a poetic justice to be done.
That to me shows an unwillingness to do what is necessary to defeat terrorism, and is perhaps the beginings of a lack of commitment on our part to show through the tough exterior we try to project around the world.

> That to me shows an unwillingness to do what is necessary to defeat terrorism

How about if we showed a willingness to do what is necessary to prevent and end terrorism? i.e. get the hell out of the ME, quit killing their innocents, quit supporting their oppressors (including their governments), and see what happens? If they still come after us, then we take them out with a clean conscience.

People can scream until the cows come home that they attacked us only because they are envious of us and "our way of life." That is the attitude that truly shows an unwillingness to do something substantive about the problem of terrorism. All the bombing and cavorting isn't really going to do crap, other than satisfy the majority of emotional Americans that we are "doing something."

Stealing money from Americans to pay for toys that go boom doesn't change the fact that it was coercion of Americans by our own government that got us into this mess in the first place. Unless, of course old General Schwarzkopf was carrying his own money in suitcases when he went into Iran in 1953 to help re-establish the Sha into power.

If we were truly fighting for freedom and democracy, we would act overseas as we should act domestically. Instead, we are starting to act domestically as we act overseas.

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