Posted on 04/01/2002 1:38:53 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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| U.S. Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh returned to federal court on April 1, 2002 as his lawyers battled with government prosecutors over what kind of evidence can be used in his conspiracy trial. This picture, released by Lindh's lawyers on April 1, 2002 as part of the evidence, was taken by the US government when Lindh was at Camp Rhino in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 2001. Photo by Reuters (Handout) |
He was there at least twice, by his own admission, meeting with bin Laden.
You cannot possibly believe that an organization like bin Laden's wouldn't know everything there was to know about this kid within hours, especially since you could trace his travles through the mideast.
He's from MARIN COUNTY, dude, not Queens.
Call the boys back at the law firm and tell them that one won't fly.
He's merely restrained, and comfortably at that! He's on a cot, and his arms/shoulders/hands are in natural positions. He's physiologically "comfortable", and his restraints are not of the type that cause discomfort themselves. Blindfolding is necessary under circumstances where you don't want the prisoner collecting intelligence or planning a "move" against you.
You whiners about it should check out how regimes like the Vietnamese restrain prisoners -- maybe you can ask John McCain -- or try it on youselves. Here's one way: elbows tied together behind you and your arms tied together all the way down to your hands. I'll stop there....
At Ground Zero.
I won't say it doesn't make me very uncomfortable to do so.
But is a common criminal a traitor? What about a murderer or a rapist? Are they traitors? Johnny deserves the same benefits of the doubt applied to all miscreants. The founders made it very difficult to apply the charge of treason, and there was a purpose for that. They wanted an open society that would not fall prey to fascism. And one of the primary tools of the fascist is to go around accusing this person and that of being a "traitor" or a "liberal disruptor." This is the mental illness that leads to an all-powerful State.
How would YOU describe what this boy did? Outward Bound for Islam? A scouting trip? Childhood curiosity.
Did you not read where I posted to you that he fought with EVERYBODY, not just the Taliban; were they ALL holding hostage?
You have shown on this thread that you know little about the Constitution, because if there ever was a traitor to this country, is it this boy.
Do you know he APPROVED of the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole? He thought it was swell? How do you justify that?
Great post, which I'm nominating for Essay of the Week.
I hate liberals AND liberals apologist!
I think we have a winner ... wonderful sence of humor there Slim.
It is not my job nor yours to "justify" what anyone has to say. Fellow Americans say the dastardliest things; I'm sure you've noticed. I'm sure there are thousands of Americans who approved of the USS Cole, sad to say. If anyone would know that it would be here on FR - that liberals in our country that love to hate America have often been rife with empathy for anti-American acts of terror. That being said, and notwithstanding my resolute quest to oppose such thinking in word and deed, I hardly would endorse rounding up all the "traitors" with seditious tendencies and marching them to the chopping block.
Contrary to what you have said, I do not think you all are all fascists. Nor do I feel it is my annointed task to bring you to "the light." So quit being so defensive. Unless I get banned, I am here to stay.
Is it not possible for a conservative libertarian type to oppose the circus of malevolent jingoism surrounding Johnny "SCAPEGOAT" Walker?
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