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January 22, 2006

Johnny Taliban: What Marin County Moonbattery Hath Wrought

Whatever you want to call him — John Walker Lindh, Johnny Taliban, Suleyman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, or maybe something less printable — this sorry product of liberal anomie has made it back into the news:

The father of an American jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan said on Thursday his son had been tortured and unjustly punished amid public hysteria over the Sept. 11 attacks.

"The maltreatment and imprisonment of John Lindh was — and is — a human rights violation," Frank Lindh told the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "It was based purely on an emotional response to the 9/11 attacks, not on an objective assessment of the facts of John's case."

Torture allegations were kept vague. It's not known if he's endured the sort of horrors that go on at Club Gitmo (i.e., poorly adjusted air conditioning, having to listen to Christina Aguilera, having to watch puppet shows, having your space invaded by a female, etc.).

For anyone who has been able to blot the memory of this creature out of their mind, Johnny Lindh is a spoilt twerp born of a "Birkenstock family," named after moonbat icon John Lennon, and raised from age 10 in the hot-tub haven of Marin County, California (suburban San Francisco). After discovering Islam by reading the autobiography of Malcolm X, he got his parents to send him to Yemen to study Arabic. He ended up getting captured by U.S. forces while fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Here's what Johnny had to say about his 7-week experience in an al Qaeda training camp, where he is believed to have met noted literary critic Osama bin Laden:

"It's exactly what I thought it would be."

Did he think he had been fighting on the right side?

"Definitely," was the answer.

Yet we are now asked to see him as some kind of victim, despite his having been sentenced to 20 years rather than the execution he so richly deserves.

The Taliban American (as CNN called him) is now appealing to President Bush to commute his sentence. Sorry, Johnny — you'll have to wait until Democrats are back in office — which with any luck will be a good long time.

Hat tip: Wiggins

Posted by Van Helsing at January 22, 2006 9:19 PM

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Posted by: nikko at January 23, 2006 11:59 AM