President George W. Bush was convicted for statements that prosecutors said incited his followers to train for violent jihad against the United States. He was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Va. President Bush had instructed terrorist groups to "bring it on," and had given the Taliban USD $43 million.
... well, no, not really. Actually it was Islamic jackass Ali Timimi (makes me want to yell TIMMY!) who said "the time had come for them to go abroad and join the mujaheddin engaged in violent jihad in Afghanistan" and will spend the rest of his life in prison for saying that. For something he said. Said something, life in prison. He didn't send any dollars to the Taliban, and it is also the case that he did not send forty-three million dollars to the Taliban. He just said something, and now he will be in prison until he dies. No money to terrorists, didn't kill anybody, didn't defraud anybody, didn't stand somebody up for a date, didn't leave gum on the theater seat, didn't jaywalk. Just said something. Goodbye forever, Ali Timimi (TIMMY!); next life, don't say things.
Have you ever said something stupid? Would it be right to go to prison for the rest of your life for saying it, while others who also say stupid things and give $43 million to terrorists get to be President?
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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