Free Our Talib (Los Angeles Time Idiots Want Traitor John Walker Lindh Pardoned) MEGA-BARF ALERT

Los Angeles Times ^ | 07/29/2007 | Los Angeles Times Editorial Board

[goldstategop]

The concept of mercy spans testaments and faiths, and any system of justice requires the embrace of mercy for leavening and legitimacy. In this case, justice has been served by Lindh's time in prison. Now Bush is uniquely positioned to grant mercy, for while many will long argue over the effectiveness of his war on terror, none question his commitment to it. By giving Lindh a commutation, Bush could prove that his war is, as he often and properly asserts, not against Islam but against those who seek to harm America. Lindh never sought to harm his country; he has served long enough. Bush should send him home.

[Enchante]

Liberals pretend (badly) that they “support the troops” but when push comes to shove we constantly see that they care more about anti-American scumbags who stand against the troops.

[goldstategop]

They wouldn't dare to embrace treason six years ago. Now they're openly identifying with and giving aid and comfort to America's enemies.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[river rat]

I agree with the L.A. Slimes in this case...

John Walker Lindh should be shown mercy and compassion...
The bastard should be shot and put out of his misery and suffering..
His “parents” should be charged for the total cost of his capture, incarceration and execution...

The America hating bastard idolized the Islamanazis, should suffer the same treatment they deal out to its traitors..

[Kakaze]

Three generations ago, a 20 year prison sentence would never have been consider for lindh.

He would have swung from the end of a rope, stood in front of a firing squad or been summarily executed on the battlefield.

He has received all the mercy he deserves.

[MindBender26]

From the newspaper “The Age” in Australia:

Freed Guantanamo inmates take up arms
July 28, 2007

LEAST 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release.

They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defense Department spokesman told The Age yesterday.

Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan.

“We are aware of dozens of cases where they have returned to militant activities, participated in anti-US propaganda or engaged in other activities,” said Commander Gordon.

His comments follow the death this week of Taliban commander and former detainee Abdullah Mehsud, who reportedly blew himself up rather than surrender to Pakistani forces. In December 2001, Mehsud was captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay until his release in March 2004. He later became the Taliban chief for South Waziristan.

Commander Gordon said the US did not make it a practice to track detainees after their release, but it had become aware through intelligence gathering and media reports of many cases of released detainees returning to combat.

“These former detainees successfully lied to US officials, sometimes for over three years,” he said. “Common cover stories include going to Afghanistan to buy medicines, to teach the Koran or to find a wife. Many of these stories appear so often, and are subsequently proven false, that we can only conclude that they are part of their terrorist training.”

An analysis of 516 Guantanamo detainees found that while there was no evidence linking six of them to terrorist activities, 95 per cent were a potential threat to US interests. This was based on their affiliations with groups such as al-Qaeda, their enthusiasm for violent jihad, their having undertaken small-arms training or having been willing to perform a support role for terrorism.

[goldstategop]

Agreed. We're too soft on traitors. They shouldn't be allowed to draw breath. He should have been shot back in Afghanistan and anonymously buried there.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

I noticed the LAT doesn't have a word of compassion for Johnny Spann. But they devoted an entire op-ed page urging us to "understand" a traitor.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[elli1]

A poll of potential jurors in the Eastern District of Virginia at that time found that more than a third were ready to sentence him to death without even hearing the case against him.

Yeh, and So What? That's an automatic exclusion from being selected for the jury.

I'm betting that 'more than a third' of LATimes readers were ready to cut him loose 'without even hearing the case against him'.

Polls mean squat.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What a hoot! Scooter doesn’t reveal the identity of a non covert Democratic operative deep in Langley and gets 30 months for remembering things differently than a politically driven prosecutor wants to hear and they think he’s getting off light! Johnny Jihad participates in the murder of a CIA agent in the field, spends three years in the nursery called a federal prison and the LAT thinks he got off lightly?

Pulleeze.

[wildcatf4f3]

Hang him...and the reporters

[freema]

Bump and ANOTHER TRAITOROUS ENEMY WITHIN ping.

[kingu]

It’s a war, not a criminal matter. But, since we’ve gone down the road, and since no one tried him as a traitor, like they should, then I personally don’t give a rip if he serves twenty years or ten years. I say that he should have his sentence commuted and shipped back to Afghanistan.

I’m sure they’ll have their own charges to file, and he can suffer in a real prison instead of the day clubs that pass for incarceration in this country.

[BunnySlippers]

OMG! The LA Times is getting even more liberal!!

[Shqipo]

This is not just one looney, this is their Board whining for such trite. They should stop killing trees immediately.

[metesky]

Yep, not one word about aiding and abbeting the murder of Mike Spann during a prison riot!

[SueRae]

the word revolting is the only way to describe it. I hope the LA TImes HQ sits on a fault line

[JMack]

Sickening, infuriating, and repugnant. Nothing can quite arouse it all in one swift action like that amazing combination of liberal love for traitors, and Liberal disregard for the service of others far greater than themselves. Spann left behind a family defending those pukes.

And you just know Lindh, fluent in the language was read in on the plot to try and kill Spann and his fellow officers, as it is established fact the plot was hatched the night before, and everyone was told to wait for a handgrenade blast, and then attack. Lindh was alone with Spann when interrogated, and could easily have warned him, but chose to side with the enemy.

We are way too soft on traitors.

Mike Spann, Marine, CIA Officer

Johnny Spann, father of slain CIA  officer Mike Spann of Alabama, who was the first American to die in Afghanistan, pauses at his son's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. in this February 28, 2005 file photo. There is no greater objective for the grieving father these days than gathering the facts behind the prison uprising in Afghanistan where his son became the first American casualty of the Afghan war

The body of CIA officer Johnny Mike Spann is carried by a Marine honor guard from an Air Force aircraft December 2, 2001 at Andrews Air Force Base.

Shannon Spann, right, carrying her infant son Jake, is escorted by Brigaider General Glenn Spears as the coffin containing the body of CIA agent Johnny "Mike" Spann is carried at Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001.

Alison Spann, the daughter of CIA Officer Johnny Micheal Spann is comforted by Stephanie Glakas Tenet, wife of CIA director George J. Tenet, as the remains of CIA officer Spann, killed during a prison uprising in northern Afghanistan, returned to Andrews Air Force Base, December 2, 2001.

Shannon Spann, wife of CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann, sits beside his grave at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2002

Shannon Spann, widow of CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann, and her three children, from left, Emily, 4, Alison, 10, and Jake, 11 months, visit her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2002

Shannon Spann, widow of Johnny 'Mike' Spann, the CIA officer who was the first American killed by the enemy in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan, and their son Jacob pause at a marker after a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Monday, October 7, 2002, to remember those who died in Operation Enduring Freedom in the year since the war in Afghanistan began.

[nyyankeefan]

this again demonstrates that the left wing lib/dem media does not support the troops...does not support the war and most definitely does not support the US!!!

to suggest release for a US traitor caught on a foreign battlefield fighting against american troops is insane and insulting!!!

the paper is currently circling the bowl and this should be the inpetus for all to STOP buying the paper and give it the final flush it so so deserves!!!!

[Lewite]

This just shows the depth of depredation the media and the liberal party of this country has sunken. Blatant disregard of the principles and morals of this Republic.

[j. earl carter]

Johny Walker already got his sentence commuted. We brought him back to the U.S. He could have been left in Afghanistan, where he would have been summarily executed by the Northern Alliance.

[Chode]

screw that little sh!t... now and forever!!!
Never Forgive...
Never Forget!!!

11/25/01 RIP

[Beckwith]

letters@latimes.com

[BuffaloJack]

Hang Johnny Jihad.
This man is much worse than any of the 9/11 bombers. They at least were foreigners with no ties to our great country. This traitor to our country does not deserve to breath the same air as the rest of us, and certainly should not eat food that we pay for.

[ejonesie22]

Oh come on and give the guy a break. Let’s free him and get him a job as an extreme forward observer at one of our fine military live fire training centers...

“mmmmpphh, mmmph..”

“Lindh is still transmitting Sir!”

“Adjust fire 0-2 degrees and recommence.”

[squarebarb]

the tone of this article and its rather precious statements about mercy certainly point out those instances where ‘mercy’ had been ignored.

As for Scooter Libby, for instance.

[GOYAKLA]

Why when I see LATIMES do I think of LATRINE??

[Walkingfeather]

Yeah so he can be the next Sheehan?? No thanks.... You wanted to live by your ideals now rot by them.

[SoKatt]

Thank you for posting that.

[jazusamo]

Thank you for the post, JMack.

RIP Mike Spann and may God Bless his family.

[Beckwith]

I think they call that “free association.”

[rocksblues]

Lindh never sought to harm his country

This anti American POS gets away with lying and is covered by the First Admendment.

Something is definitely wrong here and it's not supporters of the WOT!

[NeoCaveman]

He should have been tried for treason and then executed.

That he wasn’t sent a bad message.

[Marine_Uncle]

Think I am going to get pink eye reading this rubbish.