ABSOLUTELY!!!
Posted on 09/28/2004 12:28:39 PM PDT by conservativo
(09-28) 11:47 PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --
John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute his 20-year prison term for his 2002 conviction of aiding the Taliban.
His lawyer, James Brosnahan, said Lindh was a young man in the wrong place at the wrong time. He said Lindh was fighting alongside the Taliban in a civil war against the Northern Alliance, that he's not a terrorist and he never fought against U.S. troops.
Brosnahan said the sentence should be reduced because Yaser Esam Hamdi also was caught aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan and is now being released after serving three years in prison. Hamdi will not be charged with any crime under an agreement with federal officials made public Monday. Hamdi will be required to give up his American citizenship and will be sent to Saudi Arabia where he grew up.
"Comparable conduct should be treated in comparable ways in terms of sentencing," Brosnahan said during a news conference at his office.
Lindh's mother, Marilyn Walker, said her son "has never had any sympathy or involvement in terrorist activity."
Lindh, formerly of Fairfax, pleaded guilty in civilian court to supplying services to the now-defunct Taliban government and carrying explosives for them. He and Hamdi were both captured in late 2001.
Brosnahan said he negotiated the 20-year sentence during a time when a "highest state of fear" was affecting U.S. juries, and he thought it was the best deal he could get at the time. Without the plea deal, Lindh faced life imprisonment if convicted.
The request does not specify how much of a reduction Lindh is seeking.
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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I agree completely. It does take a lot of nerve for someone so egregious to make such a request!
Feed him to the pigs, that way he won't have to stay in jail for twenty years.
Sounds like a good idea...
Excellent, I second the motion.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Go ahead, commute his sentence.
To death.
I think death is long enough...but maybe it should be extended to his afterlife in hell.
And I vote for throwing Lindh's parents in with him.
ABSOLUTELY!!!
not to worry - If Gov. Bush would not end a death sentence , "Because it is the law." Then you need not worry about President Bush ending a traitors sentence. "It is the law and I support the law." (my words - his actions.)
20 years? make it 40!
Let the bastard serve every day of his sentence. May he rot in jail. Commuting his sentence will be a green light to the other cowards we have in our midst.
Jeeze, didn't he just start his sentence? What a whiner. He's the one who plead guilty. Handle it a-hole.
My thoughts exactly.
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