"American Al Qaeda" Charged With Treason
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2006 -- Adam Gadahn, a former resident of Orange County, Calif., turned propagandist for al Qaeda has been indicted by a federal grand jury for treason and for providing material support to al Qaeda.
Since 2004, Gadahn has appeared in a series of videos in which he praises the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers and claimed, "The streets of America shall run red with blood." The first video of Gadahn was initially aired by ABC News in October 2004. "Adam Gadahn is an American citizen who made a choice. He chose to join our enemy and to provide it with aid and comfort by acting as a propagandist for al Qaeda," U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said in announcing the indictment.
Gadahn, who has also called himself Azzam the American in Internet videos, is the first person to face treason charges in the United States since a l U.S.-Japanese citizen was charged in 1952 for abusing U.S. prisoners of war during World War II.[..]
Other famous treason charges included the case of Iva Ikuko Toguri d'Aquino, aka Tokyo Rose, who broadcast propaganda during the war to demoralize U.S. soldiers. The indictment charging him with treason used his own words as the basis for the charge.
In a September 2005 video, he described the 9/11 attacks as "the blessed raids on New York and Washington." In the same video he threatened, "Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing..."
Ok, so forget about the first amendment. I haven't seen the evidence against this guy, but I'll assume that it's as good as the evidence we have on all the other "terrorists" we've caught thus far, like the guy that was going to blow up the brooklyn bridge with a blowtorch and so on.
Now it's treason to say bad things about America and claim to be Al Qaeda. How far a leap is it from that to treason just being saying bad things about America, and then from there to saying bad things about George Bush or Republicans or Foley?
Based on what we all know, that is not a big leap. When we pulled out of the kyoto protocol and other international treaties, we said how worse can it get? After 9/11, we said how worse can it get? After Katrina and Abu Graib and warrentless wiretapping and Valerie Plame and Bob Woodward and on and on and on.
How long will it be before people are being executed for being Democrats?