Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Sons of Liberty: Hero Mike Spann and traitor John Walker came from different Americas.
Opinion Journal ^ | 12/07/2001 | Editorial board

Posted on 12/06/2001 8:23:54 PM PST by Pokey78

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:03:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In all worlds but the liberal one, adult choices have adult consequences.

An American Talib from Marin County? Named for John Lennon; the son of a Catholic father and a mother who embraced Buddhism; a graduate of an alternative high school who converted to Islam after reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"?


(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; lindh; nro; spann
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

1 posted on 12/06/2001 8:23:54 PM PST by Pokey78
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; LarryLied; kattracks; JohnHuang2...
I'm pinging the list on this one!
2 posted on 12/06/2001 8:25:12 PM PST by Pokey78
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
I take off to one of those people, and to the other - Bye Bye Sonovabitch.

I think it's obvious who is deserving of each honor.

3 posted on 12/06/2001 8:27:49 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
There's something cosmically wrong when Spann died and Walker lived.
4 posted on 12/06/2001 8:27:55 PM PST by Doctor Doom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
Bumping this.
5 posted on 12/06/2001 8:28:58 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
Good find, Pokey. I hadn't thought of that angle, one man thinking of America, the other only of himself.
6 posted on 12/06/2001 8:32:13 PM PST by Utah Girl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
Remember right after the election how we all talked about the differences between the red zone and the blue zones? This is a prime example. Mike was the product of the red zone and John Walker is the product of the blue zone.

Two different Americas. Hopefully, most of the people in the blue zone woke up on 9-11, watching Walkers father and mother lets us know that not everyone did.

7 posted on 12/06/2001 8:33:31 PM PST by McGavin999
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
Great Article - I especially loved this quote:

"Isn't it ironic that the same folks who argue that a 13-year-old girl is perfectly capable of making her own decisions about sex now tell us that a 20-year-old man is incapable of distinguishing between, say, Taliban theocracy and American democracy?"

SEMPER FI

God Bless our patriots in the Armed Services!

8 posted on 12/06/2001 8:39:59 PM PST by stlrocket
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGavin999
Yup.
9 posted on 12/06/2001 8:48:58 PM PST by Anotherpundit
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: McGavin999
Two different Americas.

How about we smear the American haters as being members of "The John Walker Society"?

(Hey...might be good to set up a website just for him..on the lines of the easily demonized John Birch Society)

10 posted on 12/06/2001 8:54:21 PM PST by LarryLied
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
Just goes to show you that Southern men of Anglo-Celtic desent are the whipping boys of the USA until there is a war to be fought. One of these days our loyalty is going to cease if things keep going like they are right now.
11 posted on 12/06/2001 8:56:42 PM PST by GaConfed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
And this father of three became the first U.S. combat fatality when, as the BBC reported, he was "kicked, beaten and bitten to death" by the rioting prisoners

"Islam means peace" NOOOOOOOOO they are animals that need to be put out of their misery..send them back to allah!

The author is correct..we speak out of both sides of our mouths on the ability to choose..Walker is an adult that made a choice, he did not want to be a US citizen..I wonder if they took pictures of the bites on that American hero..because I would not be surprised if some of them matched the traitor's dental records!

12 posted on 12/06/2001 8:59:30 PM PST by RnMomof7
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
There's nothing I can add to this, except perhaps to say I'd love the opportunity to spend a little quality time alone with John Walker.
13 posted on 12/06/2001 9:03:20 PM PST by Redbob45
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #14 Removed by Moderator

To: Mossy Thunder
My guess is neithor will happen...my choice would be death..
15 posted on 12/06/2001 9:20:51 PM PST by RnMomof7
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
Today Andrew Sullivan called Walker a "red-diaper baby." He didn't explain the remark explicitly, but it seems to imply that Sullivan has heard that Walker's parents aren't just "liberal," as the Journal refers to them above, but members of the hard Left.

Anyway in coming weeks we will learn much more about the Walkers. Over and above the fate of John Walker himself, let's hope the whole episode becomes an excruciating embarrassment for the Left.

16 posted on 12/06/2001 10:13:48 PM PST by beckett
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78; one_particular_harbour; dakine; NoCurrentFreeperByThatName
Thanks for the flag, Pokey. This is a great piece.
17 posted on 12/07/2001 2:05:08 AM PST by riley1992
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RnMomof7
I'm sure the REST of the story will include things like...the dirt-bag walker STARTED the riot/pummeling death of Spann. That the bite marks DO match walker's dental records, PLUS had evidence of frothy slobber of the rabid animal.

I remember Bush saying that he will smoke out terrorists and those who support them. Too bad that doesn't apply to the ones who are in this country, and the parents who buy lawyers for their 'good boys'. Too bad Bush doesn't forbid traitors from stepping on American soil again.

18 posted on 12/07/2001 2:41:51 AM PST by mommadooo3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Pokey78
I've been telling my liberal friends that the story of John Walker is the ultimate condemnation of the liberal "try everything" upbringing that his hippie parents subjected him to.
19 posted on 12/07/2001 2:53:36 AM PST by BunnySlippers
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mossy Thunder
Death or life imprisonment for taliban Walker?

Death or stripping his American citizenship from him ... and him never being able to set foot here again.

20 posted on 12/07/2001 2:55:31 AM PST by BunnySlippers
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson