The Justice For Jack Idema Blogburst
US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema may no longer be illegally-imprisoned in Afghanistan, but his release from custody hasn’t heralded a change of tack from the journalists who have consistently smeared his good name over the last three years.
While blogs were reporting the truth about Idema’s release last week, one Amir Shah, of the Associated Press, produced the following:
An American imprisoned in Afghanistan for running a private jail for terror suspects has left the Afghan prison where he was held for almost three years and departed the country, the warden said Wednesday.
… Which means — What? That Jack served three years behind bars for running ‘a private jail’? This is certainly what Amir would like his readers to think, though, as we know, Jack actually served just over six months for this before his conviction was quashed on appeal. For the remainder of his imprisonment (March 2005-June 2007), Jack was held illegally as a political prisoner.
Jack Idema, a former Green Beret, was pardoned by President Hamid Karzai in late March as part of a general amnesty.
A ‘former’ Green Beret? This is something we often hear from clueless journalists, but the fact is that a Green Beret, once awarded, is a distinction held for life.
Not content with just obvious error per-sentance, however, Amir then tries to sell us on the idea that it is possible to pardon a man who has already been declared innocent of any crime. This is something that both the State Department and President Karzai would very much like to convince us of — After all, the position of graciously pardoning a convicted felon is far less embarrassing than admitting you’ve been legally outmanoeuvred by one of your own political prisoners.
Of course, in the short term, the only people capable of punching up to the weight of Karzai and the State Department are MSM — And instead of doing so, they continue to parrot lies and half-truths about the Idema case.
In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Idema wrote, “I can’t and won’t tell anyone where I am and what I am doing.”
On the strength of Amir Shah’s work this week, it’s easy to see why Jack is no longer returning Big Media’s calls.
So what can we do? Well, anyone reading this with their own blog can sign up for the weekly Justice For Jack Idema Blogburst by emailing Cao or Rottweiler Puppy for details. I’d urge everyone to do this, as we’re still terribly short on takers. If you want to know more about the story, Cao’s Blog has a large section devoted to Jack Idema. There’s also a timeline here, and, of course, a huge amount of information is available over at SuperPatriots, without whose work none of us would have learned about Jack’s story.
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