Neal Boortz
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001

Johnny Taliban has a lawyer, paid for by Johnny Taliban's father, of course. Now the lawyer is starting the public relations campaign on behalf of his little terrorist client. We're now hearing his concerns that his client has been interrogated by U.S. officials without having been read his Miranda rights.

Is this guy kidding? Does this attorney actually think that American troops should march around giving the enemy a reading of their Miranda rights when they're captured as prisoners of war? This cretin is a POW, not a criminal defendant. He was bearing arms on behalf of a foreign army against American troops!

Well, here's one way around this Miranda-right nonsense. Strip the Mullah of Marin of his U.S. citizenship. He fought for a foreign army. That's legal reason enough. If he's not a citizen, and if he wasn't apprehended in this country, then the absurd practice of reading Miranda rights doesn't apply.

OK ... time to set up another "I told you so" here. Johnny Taliban will never be tried for his crimes. He's going to go free. He'll write a book. He'll sell the movie rights. He'll become rich. This is going to break the needle on the gag meter. Only in America.

Diversity

No, I don't have any big diversity diatribe to engage in today. The subject is on my mind because I was working on the diversity chapter of my new book yesterday.

I'll just prime the pump this way – and move on.

The entire "diversity" movement is merely an integral part of the ongoing leftist assault on individualism. Individualism recognizes a person for character, ability and achievement. Diversity recognizes a person for gender, race, sexual preference or ethnicity.

Which world would you rather live in?