[HEADLINE from DRJ]
REUTERS: ‘American Taliban’ to be released from prison Thursday
John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban and vilified as a national traitor, is to be released early from a federal prison on Thursday while some U.S. lawmakers worry he still poses a security risk.
Lindh served 17 years of a 20 year sentence.
— DRJ
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Kevin M (21ca15) — 5/22/2019 @ 2:39 pmTrump wants to make sure there’s prison space available for his opponents next year.
nk (dbc370) — 5/22/2019 @ 2:49 pmWasn’t this the fellow some referred to as “Johnny Jihad”?
I don’t know who is more stupid, this guy, or a U.S. soldier who would voluntarily decide to go live in North Korea.
norcal (ce7ce7) — 5/22/2019 @ 5:13 pmKevin M — his sentence has run, more or less; under the normal rules for early release, he qualifies.
What should we do with him? Declare *him alone* to be outside the normal rules for early release? Detain an American citizen indefinitely despite his sentence having been served?
The power to detain a citizen indefinitely, without prosecution and conviction for a crime, or beyond the end of a sentence for a crime, isn’t a power we should be willing to grant the government, in my opinion. It’s an absolute certainty that the power will be abused at some point.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 5/22/2019 @ 5:31 pm“Detain an American citizen indefinitely despite his sentence having been served?”
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 5/22/2019 @ 5:31 pm
Let’s get Johnny Spann’s take on this.
Munroe (14a24e) — 5/22/2019 @ 5:42 pmDeserved the death penalty.
NJRob (a5e74b) — 5/22/2019 @ 7:34 pmDetain an American citizen indefinitely despite his sentence having been served?
Just declare him a sex offender, then you can effectively imprison him for life.
Kishnevi (acea15) — 5/22/2019 @ 8:07 pmKishnevi — I don’t think that’s constitutional, or good policy, either.
Munroe — I have no faith that, if the principle is broken in a case like this, the tiny little of a sliver of a wedge that this case represents, with its extreme facts, won’t be used as the precedent that opens the door to a gigantic hole being ripped into it.
We can all agree Lindh’s a bad guy. Will we agree about the 10,000th citizen detained forever after their criminal sentence ends?
aphrael (3f0569) — 5/22/2019 @ 11:12 pm