11/25/01 RIP
Posted on 11/21/2005 6:58:04 PM PST by stratman1969
FOUR years after his capture in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, John Walker Lindh - "the Marin Taliban" - is quietly serving out his 20-year sentence in a medium-security federal prison in Victorville on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Lindh is a model prisoner, said his father, Frank Lindh of San Rafael, and his spirits are good.
He is "as well adjusted as one can be, given the circumstances," West said.
....He was labeled a terrorist and a traitor to the United States, which had invaded Afghanistan to find Osama bin Laden and avenge the horrors of 9/11. Lindh pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was given the stiff 20-year sentence.
....Lindh's parents - Frank Lindh of San Rafael, a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. lawyer, and Marilyn Walker of San Anselmo, office manager for a small Marin firm - have kept mum.
Frank Lindh said his silence has been "a family decision," a safeguard against relentless media inquiries, but he has begun speaking to law schools around the country and four months ago wrote a lengthy piece on his son's case for the Washington (D.C.) Lawyer publication for attorneys, hoping to influence legal understanding of his son's case. He will speak to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco early next year.
West, part of the Morrison and Foerster law firm in San Francisco, said a team of lawyers there continues studying ways to get the young man's sentence commuted.
"A 20-year sentence is an injustice. As more time passes more people will realize that John came on the radar screen at a different time in this country. If we had learned about him in December 2002 instead of December 2001, the outcome would have been different."
(Excerpt) Read more at marinij.com ...
Did a search and couldn't find article. Here's how the local rag here in Moron County makes a hero of an American traitor.
Yeah, but we didnt learn about him a year earlier and he was caught aiding the enemy in time of war. I cant believe any team of lawyers would waste time on this scum. 20 yrs is an injustice, hanging would have been much better.
Should have put a bullet in his head over there and nobody would have been the wiser.
Better hope living in solitary still keeps a traitor alive in prison.im quite sure there is some kinda price on his head.maybe a baloney sandwich on molded bread with a slice of moldy cheese to go with it.
Keep the dweeb locked up. Sounds like Daddy's on a crusade for sympathy support to get sonny released.
Actually I kinda wish he was walking around free. Justice could find him easier that way.
The father should be giving talks around the nation on how not to raise a messed up child.
Piece of crap alert. From the "journalist" who wrote the article, the commie rag it's published in to jihad jonnie and his homo father, America's enemies are unvieled.
All these stories about him always try to make it sound like he didn't do anything. He was just there. Not fighting. Not using his weapons. Just running around geting kicked, beaten and shot.
IN 10 YEARS he would win the nobel prize and will have people picketing for his realese
Ratboy is lucky that they didn't just take him out back and shoot him.
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
Guaranteed, the left will turn him into a "white Mumia".
He should have been shot, that's the bottom line.
One thing that's true about this article: he would have been judged differently in December 2002 than in December 2001. But that doesn't mean that our judgement in December 2002 would have been "better" - to the contrary. We saw things clearly then, so soon after the sharp pain of September 11. Four years of soft-focus moral relativism by the left and the MSM has taken its toll.
Oh cry me a river....Is this what the whacked out left see the Taliban , and other Jihadist as?!!!!
Poor misunderstood babies.
We've never been told if this man could have warned our CIA agent, I believe his name-Mike Spann-who was murdered in the immediate aftermath to Lindh's capture.
If Lindh could have warned that an uprising was imminent and said nothing, he should serve life.
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