Posted on 12/18/2007 2:20:04 PM PST by SmithL
Hoping a new attorney general will be more sympathetic to their cause, John Walker Lindh's parents again asked the White House to commute the sentence of the Marin County man who fought in Afghanistan for the Taliban.
The family filed a petition today asking that Lindh's 20-year sentence be commuted. Lindh pleaded guilty in 2002 to providing services to the Taliban and carrying explosives during a felony.
His attorneys first applied for a commutation in 2004, and have regularly beseeched the government since then to shorten Lindh's sentence.
"We hope that President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will find it in their hearts to grant mercy this holiday season," Lindh's mother, Marilyn Lindh, said today.
Lindh's two-decade sentence is unfair compared to people like David Hicks, the Australian who was sentenced to nine months for providing material support to Al-Qaida,...
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"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
Bring back the death penalty for treason. Merry Christmas!
Well well....the Bush hating leftists are obsessed with the loin fruit suffering for their misguide parenting.
They should form a support group with the bulldozer fodder’s Rachel Corrie’s parents
No. Wait a sec...still no.
I agree that his sentence in unfair.
If the sentence had been fair the sob would have been hung long ago.
It's not a problem. My faith in karma is absolute. LOL
I'd still like to see his sorry arse hung though. Why put off the inevitable? ; )
I would love to see it brought back & used. A very Merry Christmas to you too,TE!
First pardon Ramos and Compean; then THIBK about it.
Ummmm, probably because he took part in actions that killed Americans. That's like whining about how the triggerman gets more time than the guy who rented the getaway car.
But in the giving spirit of this holiday season, I suggest President Bush cut his sentence in half, and have him serve the rest in a military brig. Among the servicemen there. In general population. With inattentive guards.
Working KP as a dishwasher. Next to the cooks. Next to the cooks with knives.
He only has 15 years left, and probably will be released much sooner. Heaven forbid when this little monster gets back on the streets.
New cause for the left. He should rot in prison.
I saw the sob story snippet on TV tonight, since I get one of the SF stations on my TV.
I think they are parents who are still in total denial of what their kid did. Both parents are total Liberals who never could say that the kid did anything wrong.
I say he stays where he is and when he is let out, he is watched very carefully.
This guy is just saying what he thinks the authorities want to hear.
He was wrong before, and he hasn’t changed, IMO.
Those freaks for parents, are going to have to wait until a Democrat is in the White House —— they need an ally to pull off that crime...
If I were at the scene of his capture — the little &^%&^%&^ would never have achieved prisoner status...
Poor little Taliban Johnny....
The fact that he was raised by fools, doesn’t alter the fact the little ^%^%*&%& gladly turned to a cult that preached the destruction of everything I hold dear....
He did in fact, undergo military training as an Islamist illegal combatant — and did in fact fight with units in opposition to Americans and our Afghani allies...
His refusal to TELL his interrogator of the planned rebellion by the prisoners who had been granted a cease fire — directly resulted in the death of a CIA agent — former U.S. Marine Captain Johnny Micheal “Mike” Spann.
This punk should send his prayers to Allah that he is still alive - and STFU..
He’s a nutter, bred by nutters and destined himself to remain a nutter — proved by his continued study and adherence to Isalm..
His fudge packing dad, left Taliban Johnny’s mother to go live with his BOYfriend....and there were stories of Little Taliban Johnny having a “romantic” relationship with the Pakistani who financed his “schooling” in Pakistan....
This (*&^%^&)^& should be dead..
His gene pool should be bleached...
He should never have been allowed to achieve prisoner status...
To give mercy would be an insult to every man and woman killed fighting these *&^(&*^(**&%*&)(**&%(*&(*(*&*(.
Actions have consequences..
Little Johnny decided to leave America and go to war...
War is hell.... Hell is eternal.
IDIOT PARENTS breed DANGEROUS KIDS.
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