Thursday - October 12, 2006
Treason!
You may remember an editorial by Steve Darnell that we carried last month about Adam Yehiye Gadahn (aka Azzam the American). If you missed it, you need to go read up on the man Darnell describes as “a bearded Pillsbury Doughboy in his white robe and turban.” Dang, I wish I’d come up with that description. It fits.
Anyway, the FBI finally got around to putting out a WANTED poster on “Azzam” and surprisingly, he is wanted on charges of treason. Great googley-moogley! The last time that happened was Tokyo Rose in the 1950’s ... who was carrying on a fine tradition begun by Benedict Arnold way back when.
Times have changed though. When Azzam is caught, he will be brought back to the US and the ACLU will be protecting him like a winter blanket. He will claim he was exercising his freedom of speech, which is protected by the Constitution and yadda-yadda.
If by some miracle he is convicted, there will be a candlelight vigil the night he is executed and every liberal asshat within a thousand miles will be singing Koombayah outside the prison. Cindy Sheehan will be there as well as Al Sharpton. The cameras will be rolling.
And somewhere out in a parallel dimension, the country that used to be the United States will be hanging Azzam from a tall tree and there will be no ACLU, Cindy Sheehan or lamestream media around. I miss that country. Where did we go wrong ... ?
U.S. Brings First Treason Case
In Over 50 Years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oct 11, 6:19 PM (ET)
A California-born convert to Islam, accused of making a series of al Qaeda propaganda videos, became on Wednesday the first American charged with treason since the World War Two era, U.S. Justice Department officials said.
Fugitive Adam Gadahn, 28, who is believed to be in Pakistan, was accused of treason, which carries a maximum punishment of death, and providing material support to al Qaeda, they said.
According to the charges, Gadahn appeared in five videos broadcast between October 2004 and September 11, 2006, giving al Qaeda “aid and comfort ... with the intent to betray the United States.”
“Gadahn gave himself to our enemies in al Qaeda for the purpose of being a central part of their propaganda machine,” Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty told a news conference.
“By making this choice, we believe Gadahn committed treason—perhaps the most serious offense for which any person can be tried under our Constitution,” he said. McNulty acknowledged that Gadahn appeared to be involved only in propaganda for the Islamic militant group, not in planning any attacks.
Gadahn converted to Islam from a Jewish-Christian family when he was 17 and a few years later moved to Pakistan. He was previously known as Adam Pearlman and grew up on a goat ranch outside Los Angeles.
The charges were contained in an indictment handed up in a federal court in California by a grand jury. The evidence against him in the indictment consisted entirely of the videos.
The FBI has been seeking to question Gadahn since May 2004. The FBI added him on Wednesday to its list of the most wanted terrorists and a U.S. State Department program offered up to a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest. In Los Angeles, Gadahn’s aunt, Nancy Pearlman, declined to comment, saying, “We are not giving any interviews.”
There were a number of treason cases after World War Two, including a trial in 1952, legal experts said. In one of the cases, an American woman, known as “Tokyo Rose,” was convicted of treason and later pardoned. She died in Chicago last month.
Justice Department officials denied the case was timed to deflect attention from the fallout over lewd computer messages sent by a former Republican congressman to young male aides, a scandal that may help Democrats seize control of Congress in the November 7 elections.
Posted by The Skipper
on 10/12/2006 at 01:04 AM
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