Johnny Lindh and the Star Chamber

The fix is in. All John Walker Lindh can do is sit in his jail cell and wait for his obligatory show trial: lights, camera, conviction! I’m not particularly inclined to defend the so-called American Taliban. He enthusiastically embraced an authoritarian theology, and one might say he is simply getting a small taste of the same "justice" his friends enforced in Afghanistan. Either that, or he really is the incredibly stupid and impressionable young man his parents and lawyers claim he is, and I hate being in the position of defending either authoritarians or idiots. But I digress. No, the … Continue reading Johnny Lindh and the Star Chamber