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17 years in prison for words and thoughtcrimes. What did he actually do? Mehanna's scary, but not nearly as scary as this judicial precedent- another step toward totallitarianism.

Yes, I followed the trial and I am also still trying to figure out what the crime was. So the judge found him partly "horrifying" and thus he gets 17 years? Rather than all the flag waving, I suggest people read the thoughtful ACLU statement at the time of Mehanna's conviction. http://aclum.org/news_12.20.11a

It's hard to believe we have a terrorist cell among us and a defiant one at that. If they don't like our justice they can go back to their own country instead of getting rich over here. If this was an American tried by al queda it would have resulted a beheading.

Mehanna should have received a life sentence , without bail. Mehanna can only see a world that denies a supreme Islamic caliphate as being an "unjust" world. He justifies the killing of Americans because of "injustices" against Muslims elsewhere by planning, aiding and abetting potentially lethal home grown jihad .He and his supporters spin this through "taqiya", which is Arabic for Koranically justified lying to further the cause of Islam. The words of Mehanna and his supporters are lies. You'll never hear a peep about the Islamic slaughter of Christians in the Middle East from the Wayland Mosque that blindly supports him. Thank God for the American justice system .

The only thing worse than the support shown for this spoiled p*s is the fact that he will be free someday. sorry Dad, but animals belong in a " cage "

He might need to be in prison, Tkob, but he is not a pig nor an animal and no human ought to be put in a cage. I find your post to be hateful and abusive towards another human being. Remember first that he is a human being who does not deserve to be spoken of in such a way as you have chosen. All humans are capable of evil acts and thoughts. This does not mean that we deserve to be caged or called "animals".

You say he deserves LIFE? "Mehanna can only see a world that denies a supreme Islamic caliphate as being an "unjust" world." Please tell us, Andover, where is your evidence that people cannot change over time? I think it is the height of arrogance and cruelty to decide that a person like him cannot eventually change, especially when they are young like he is. I do feel he needs to be imprisoned for the protection of society - NOW, but probably he can change over time IF GIVEN THE RIGHT TREATMENT.

I think that he needs a chance, in prison, to show he has changed. However, our prisons don't provide the right conditions - they are all about punishment, not rehab, and so a crime is being committed against him as well.

(#1)Another violent anti-Semite assumed the mantle of martyrdom 88 years ago: (#2)http://weimar.facinghistory.org/content/hitlers-final-speech-his-trial-treason-march-27-1924 (#3)"The army that we are building grows from day to day, from hour to hour. Right at this moment I have the proud hope that once the hour strikes these wild troops will merge into battalions, battalions into regiments, regiments into divisions. I have hopes that the old cockade will be lifted from the dirt, that the old colors will be unfurled to flutter again, that expiation will come before the tribunal of God. Then from our bones and from our graves will speak the voice of the only tribunal which has the right to sit in justice over us." [end of quote] (#4)Sincerity and zeal do not automatically correlate with virtue. Not every sincere man should be allowed free run of this country.