“American” Gadahn grabs his 15 minutes in Al Qaeda delusion reel
Anyone who’s been listening to the news in the last 48 hours knows that American-turned-Al Qaeda groupie Adam Gadahn turned up on the latest video release from AQ with an invitation to Americans to covert or… well, suffer the consequences. Pathetic. Captain Ed Morrissey thinks he sounds a lot like the Brits’ Lord Haw Haw of WWII infamy. He notes:
Gadahn has cast himself in the role of Lord Haw Haw, the Irish-American William Joyce, who spent World War II trying to convince the British of the inevitability of Nazi global domination.
As I recall, that war didn’t work out well for the Nazis, their ideology, or for Lord Haw Haw, either — who got hanged for his treason. He remained defiant to the end, blaming the Jews for his predicament and scratching swastikas on his cell wall. Joyce is buried in an unmarked grave and is remembered for his ridiculous and pathetic diatribes as well as his mental instablity.
Gadahn will meet the same fate. His broadcasts clearly amount to a classical definition of treason.
Yes, they do. And he should certainly meet the same fate as Joyce for his actions. He’s taken a stance against the country that allowed him the leisure to develop the mindset to want to overthrow it. He’s an enemy and, worse, he’s a traitor by every meaningful definition of the word. The fact that he’s a laughably ineffective and useless traitor is, while true, irrelevant.
