Ratboy deserves no leniency.
Posted on 01/20/2006 10:33:46 AM PST by SueRae
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- After years of silence, the father of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Thursday to grant clemency to his son, who he says was wrongly maligned as a traitor and murderer.
"In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest," said Frank Lindh, swallowing back tears at times during a speech at the Commonwealth Club, a nonprofit organization.
Frank Lindh said that although his son had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks, they ended up adding dire consequences to his decision to join the Taliban, targeted by the U.S. after the 2001 attacks for harboring al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. (Watch Lindh's dad say his son never fought America -- 11:37)
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Ratboy deserves no leniency.
here you go...
http://freejohnwalker.net/
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John Walker Lindh
Inmate # 45426-083
FCI Victorville
P.O. Box 5300
Adelanto, CA 92301
Dad of American Taliban seeks leniency
A bullet between his son's two eyes won't hurt him for too long, split second...that's pretty lenient.
Johnny taliban got 20 years in prison.. IMO he got off very very very easy.
I agree. For instance, back when I was a lad in the early '80s, I wanted to join the Sandinistas. My Fascist parents wouldn't even lend me bus fare, never mind supply me with a uniform and a gun. i haven't spoken to them since.
Dear Johnny Walker Lindh: Burn in Hell (or wherever bad muslims go when they die).
You are saying that any of us could have joined a terrorist organization when we were young? One that actively fought agaist the US? What, were you born stupid or did you have to go to a special school to learn this stuff?
I believe Owl Eagle was being sarcastic; he's on our side.
Owl Eagle has these words:
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry, it was probably sarcasm)
under every one of his posts.
What part of that do you have trouble understanding?
Thanks ariamne. Calex, I have a great big tagline on my posts for people like you.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Habble Gabble = newbie. Comments all over the place indicate high troll probability...
dpa5923, thanks for your service!
De nada, Owl Eagle. I always enjoy your posts for their subtle humor! (perhaps too subtle for some!)
Hi Habble,
Welcome to FR.
Since you're new, here are some tips.
1) Be *very* careful about criticizing US servicemen who get killed in this war...unless you were there.
2) See tip #1
But please post and otherwise don't worry if people sometimes insult you. See the FR Mission statement so you know whether there is any subject that FReepers won't have any patience for.
Okay thanks for the tip. I guess I get worked up about the Mazar-I-Sharif thing because it was so preventable. As I said the essay by Luke Harding was excellent as he was a writer who was actually there. I don't mean to insult our servicemen-they are the bravest people in the world. I think it shows a problem with leadership and commitment at the highest level. Its what comes from confusing war with diplomacy. Soldiers face death and danger every day and they need the support to avoid problems like this.
[I think it shows a problem with leadership and commitment at the highest level. Its what comes from confusing war with diplomacy.]
I don't quite get that. At the time, Rummy was liberating an entire mountainous country while dealing with the intrigues of making sure Pakistan's government was as clean as possible. The speed and violence of the victory in Afghanistan was crucial to the diplomacy visavis Pakistan.
In the Mazar-i-sharif area, our unwritten and unspoken policy at the time probably was to liquidate a lot of Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners who were not important enough to bother interrogating and who clearly were not or would clearly never become valued citizens of any country. If the CIA man had not been killed, a riot at the prison would have been the perfect excuse to waste the beggars.
Johnny Taliban only survived because he was a coward and didn't fight. I supposed that, in my mind, makes it OK that he only got 20 years. If the boy'd been filmed shooting at American troops...the prosecutors would have asked for and gotten the death penalty.
I just mean all the tippytoing around about not doing human rights abuses and stuff to wage a war and still have to look PC at the same time. I think in a n ideal world those prisoners would of been treated harsher and would not of sensed any weakness. When you control a scene (ask any policemen) you really CONTROL a scene, not watch out all the time to not hurt anybodys feelings. Look at abu grabe (spelling?) How did those pictures get out of there to the media? People need to be all on the same page.
Give the kid an additional 20 years. Then throw the father in jail as an accessory.
God Bless his widow and their young family. Those pictures say it all. I also pray for comfort for his Dad. What a tremendous loss.
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