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| Government says Lindh enlisted with Taliban to commit violence |
| 2002-06-06 |
| John Walker Lindh joined the Taliban to commit violence rather than to assert his freedom of expression, the government argued Wednesday in opposing an effort to dismiss his indictment. The government said joining the Taliban militia was not like joining a political party, and argued the U.S.-born Lindh had no "combat immunity" from criminal prosecution that is granted enemy soldiers fighting for a lawful army. There's today's statement of the obvious out of the way... Lindh's lawyers had portrayed him as an American who asserted his constitutional rights when he decided to fight for Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers. They asked U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III to dismiss the indictment that charges Lindh with conspiring to murder Americans, providing services to the Taliban and al-Qaida and using firearms during crimes of violence. He could face life in prison if convicted of the most serious charges. Oh, sure. It sez right in Article 28 1/2, Section 4002: "No Merkin citizen can be barred from running off to foreign parts to kill people, lord it over the natives, and beat women." So there's today's abysmally stoopid statement out of the way, too. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |