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2003-03-06 Fifth Column

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Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-06 02:07 pm|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 All those of you who feel sorry for Johnny Taliban, raise your hands.

C'mon, there must be someone out there . . . .

Anybody . . . ?

Posted by Mike 2003-03-06 11:05:27|| 2003-03-06 11:05:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm no expert on prison society but I suspect being a traitor to your country puts someone in pretty much the same catagory as a jailhouse "snitch". Which is about the same level as child molesters: prey for all the other inmates.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-03-06 11:07:58|| 2003-03-06 11:07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Why is the FBI alerted on this? He's inside.
Surprised to see he's supposedly in the general population at what appears to be his own request. If he is, this has Office Pool potential.

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-06 11:08:01|| 2003-03-06 11:08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Curious. The report identifies "white supremacists" as the perps of the Taliban John assault. The reporter knows this how? Substitute the words " patriotic felons" for "white supremacists".

Posted by Mark 2003-03-06 12:36:15|| 2003-03-06 12:36:15|| Front Page Top

#5 uhhhh... actually most real "white supremacist" are not in prison for their "patriotic" activities unless drug dealing, murder, burglary, robbery, rape , etc. have become patriotic.

point number 2 is that a white supremacist thinks the country has gone to hell, want to change it totally (including armed revolt), and barring that, want to secede and set up their own sovereign country, neither of which are are patriotic.

CitizenX

Posted by CitizenX 2003-03-06 12:43:42|| 2003-03-06 12:43:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmm, damn digital sympathy meter is reading "OSL". What the hell does that mean?

*roots around for manual*. Ah, here it is.

Oh.,

Off scale low.

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-06 13:55:34|| 2003-03-06 13:55:34|| Front Page Top

#7 CitizenX, in prison I think being a "white supremacist" has less to do with bigoted racial theory and more to do with not being identified as a "race traitor" by the hard-core lifers. Survival in prision means cliqueing up with your own kind. In the context of this story I just understood it to mean it wasn't the Bloods or Mexican Mafia who attacked ol' John.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-03-06 13:59:57|| 2003-03-06 13:59:57|| Front Page Top

#8 See clarifying comments, above. The white supremacist presence isn't quite so heavy in the original article.

Posted by Fred 2003-03-06 14:08:18|| 2003-03-06 14:08:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Scooter,

in that light it all changes. Having been there (prison) and having known white supremacist, I would make this observation, he may have been the american taliban, but any non-white or race traitor is "fair game." John Walker Lindh was just another "insert racial slur here".

CitizenX

Posted by CitizenX 2003-03-06 14:15:48|| 2003-03-06 14:15:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, I didn't start watching OZ until late last season, but shouldn't the Muslims have been a little more protective of "Johnny Taliban"... or did they just get tired of his Cat Stevens collection running 24/7? Sorry Johhny, that ain't a "moonshadow" that's following you!

Posted by capsu78 2003-03-06 14:56:02|| 2003-03-06 14:56:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Was it ever discovered that he actually knew beforehand about the prison revolt during which Michael Spann was killed?

Posted by RW 2003-03-06 15:23:33|| 2003-03-06 15:23:33|| Front Page Top

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