[voletti]

“John Lindh did not need to be tortured to tell the American forces where he had been and what he had seen,” the father said. “I cannot fathom why the military felt it necessary to humiliate him in this way.”

Making virtue outta necessity, eh? Taliban Johnny was caught red-handed in Afghanistan fighting US troops. The Bozo couldn't lie (Taqiyya in the islamic tradition) even if he wanted to.

[muawiyah]

They could have just shot the guy.

[Bullitt]

One name for this anti-American, terrorist-loving POS Lindh and his moron father: Mike Spann.

[darkwing104]

“I do not want to dwell today on the military’s mistreatment of my son, but I will say categorically that he was treated in a way that is shameful to our nation and its ideals,” said Lindh, an attorney at Pacific Gas & Electric.

[NormsRevenge]

A 'father' who wasn't there for much of his kid's upbringing (or so I heard recently on a local Bay Area talk show) is now concerned about the treatment of his "son"?

Oh please, Dad , spare us the tears.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Frank Lindh

"..When Frank Lindh left his family in 1997, it was to move in with a male companion. Yep. ... The man with whom Lindh lived has since been described as "a family friend," but other family friends say the men lived as a gay couple.

It would take a specialist in family issues to map the constellations of feelings and problems that would describe John Walker's path toward Islam in 1997, but sources close to the family say the father's turn of life from married man to modern gay man startled and flustered the 16-year-old.

Given the pummeling that the Walkers and marvy Marin County have taken from the national press over their wayward son, you can't blame the old man for wanting to suppress reporting on his sexuality. ...

Luke says: Prager often blasts the news media for reporting gossip about people's private sexual lives. Today he blasted the media for not reporting gossip.

Journalist Ed Walsh writes on Medianews.org: "I thought San Francisco Examiner columnist PJ Corkery did a great job reporting with the Johnny Walker/Lindh item on Tuesday. Since everyone is speculating about why Walker would convert to Islam and eventually join the Taliban, I think it is germane that Walker's conversion to an extremely antigay religion came at the same time his father separated from his mother to be in a gay relationship. Walker signing up with the Taliban is like the son of a Jewish man signing up with the Nazis..."

[Steveone]

He should be executed for treason! the father should keep his mouth shut!

[LdSentinal]

Father says American Taliban tortured

So?

[Michael.SF.]

a photo of his son’s body strapped to a stretcher...“John Lindh did not need to be tortured...the military felt it necessary to humiliate him in this way.”

It is always amazing how the left twists words, when it is to their advantage. Humiliation = Torture, that is the message being delivered here. Sorry, sell it someplace else. The kid is lucky to be alive.

[popdonnelly]

If one of my sons did what John Lindh did, I'd be too embarrassed to say anything.

[FlingWingFlyer]

If this so-called "father" had raised his son correctly, this wouldn't be happening. Sorry Pops! Your offspring is an anti-American idiot. Get over it.

[Cyclopean Squid]

None dare call it treason. This is text-book.

[Hoodat]

He must be getting legal advice from Ramsey Clark

[NoClones]

"...The father of an American jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban...said on Thursday...'The...imprisonment of John Lindh was - and is - a human rights violation,' Frank Lindh told the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco..."

So this a--hole wants congratulations because his spawn is a traitor? He ought to be 'imprisoned' too!

[TWohlford]

What torture, you ask?

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/lindhplea.htm

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On approximately December 7, Mr. Lindh was transferred by air to Camp Rhino south of Kandahar. During the flight, he was blindfolded and bound with plastic cuffs so tight that his hands turned blue. Soldiers transporting him threatened him with death and torture.

Upon arrival at Camp Rhino, Mr. Lindh's clothes were cut off him, his hands and feet were again shackled, and he was bound tightly with duct tape to a stretcher. Still blindfolded, completely naked, he was then placed in a metal shipping container. Press photographs of that container are attached as Ex. C.

Despite the extreme cold of Afghanistan nights in December, there was no heat source, lighting or insulation in the container. After some time, one blanket was placed over Mr. Lindh and another was put under the stretcher. Because of the extreme cold, the position in which he was bound, and the pain from the tightness of his shackles and his untreated wounds, Mr. Lindh slept little if at all during that period of time.

These conditions remained essentially the same for the following two to three days. At that point, still blindfolded, Mr. Lindh was taken in a state of complete exhaustion from the shipping container to a tent. When his blindfold was removed, he was greeted by an FBI agent who was facing him. When Mr. Lindh asked for a lawyer, he was told that there were no lawyers there. Mr. Lindh believed that the only way to escape the torture of his current circumstance was to do whatever the agent wanted. It as at this point that Mr. Lindh allegedly voluntarily waived of his right to remain silent and his right to counsel and answered questions by the FBI interrogator. After being interrogated by the agent, the conditions of Mr. Lindh's captivity did gradually begin to improve, and on approximately December 14, he was taken from Camp Rhino to the USS PELELIU. Only then did he receive needed medical attention, including surgery for his wounds.

[Spruce]

John Walker Lindh should be publicly hanged from the neck until he is dead. Then his body should be buried in an unmarked grave at the nearest prison.

[nothingnew]

He showed a photo of his son’s body strapped to a stretcher at a military base in southern Afghanistan.

Yep...strapped to a stretcher...that's real torture...kind'a like most hospitals do here.

I want every hospital in the U.S.A. to be investigated for torture...NOW!!

FMCDH(BITS)

[Chode]

screw him...Never Forgive...
Never Forget!!!

11/25/01 RIP

[Gritty]

It would be more instructive instead to know how many people Jidad Johnny has tortured. Certainly, Little Johnny was directly complicit in the gruesome interrogation, torture, mutilation and murder of Mike Spann during the takeover at the prison.

There have probably been others whom he may have personally tortured as well. Infidels who convert to Islam and become Al Qaida often are required to prove their loyalty by performing appalling acts of torture and mutilation on helpless captives, thereby demonstrating to their handlers their loyalty and dedication to their newfound cause. My bet is, poor little innocent John Walker Lindt has been directly involved in much worse atrocities than have been perpetrated on him - if indeed any have been perpetrated on him, which I seriously doubt.

Instead, the MSM promotes crocodile tears on his behalf while his depraved father flings empty accusations.

If it were up to me, Lindt's head (both of them, actually) would be impaled on a pike on I-75, just south of Toledo, so all the Muslims heading to their expensive and in-your-face mosque located there could observe the ultimate fruits of their nasty cult and take a good lesson.

A pox on both father and son!

[airborne]

They made him listen to Eminem!

[Reily]

Someone ought to point out to that Bonehead that making false claims regarding torture will not help his argument !

Side Comment
This is probably the most attention & concern he has ever given his son !
If had been a father and not spent precious time trying to 'find himself' the present story might be different.