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Family of American who fought for Taliban asks government to commute sentence
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 12/18/7 | Kim Vo

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: liberalpukes; limousineliberal; lindh; marincounty; sanfranciscovalues; talibanger; terrorist; traitor
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To: SmithL
Take him out and shoot him, incinerate him and scatter his ashes far and wide from our land. He is not fit to breathe American air!

"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

61 posted on 12/18/2007 4:49:13 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: pandoraou812

Bring back the death penalty for treason. Merry Christmas!


62 posted on 12/18/2007 4:50:18 PM PST by TigersEye ("Lord Lord, never mind my fruits. Smite my enemies!")
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To: SmithL

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


63 posted on 12/18/2007 4:54:26 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: SmithL

No. Wait a sec...still no.


64 posted on 12/18/2007 4:59:47 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: SmithL

I agree that his sentence in unfair.

If the sentence had been fair the sob would have been hung long ago.


65 posted on 12/18/2007 5:03:00 PM PST by sport
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To: Owl_Eagle
At least we don't have to suffer the indignity that an Actual Buddhist does, having weirdos glom onto their faith.

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? ; )

66 posted on 12/18/2007 5:04:31 PM PST by TigersEye ("Lord Lord, never mind my fruits. Smite my enemies!")
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To: TigersEye
Bring back the death penalty for treason. Merry Christmas!

I would love to see it brought back & used. A very Merry Christmas to you too,TE!

67 posted on 12/18/2007 5:27:02 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: Spktyr

First pardon Ramos and Compean; then THIBK about it.


68 posted on 12/18/2007 5:28:45 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: SmithL
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,...

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.

69 posted on 12/18/2007 5:31:28 PM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist ("Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: SmithL
Pick one:


70 posted on 12/18/2007 5:38:29 PM PST by bannie
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To: VirginiaConstitutionalist

Working KP as a dishwasher. Next to the cooks. Next to the cooks with knives.


71 posted on 12/18/2007 5:42:52 PM PST by bannie
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To: pandoraou812
During his incarceration, Lindh is undoubtedly being indoctrinated and brain-washed not only by imprisoned jihadists, but by MS-13 gang members. He is (in all probability) having a hard time trying to choose which to follow. (Or, he is trying to figure out how to be a member of both.

He only has 15 years left, and probably will be released much sooner. Heaven forbid when this little monster gets back on the streets.

72 posted on 12/18/2007 5:50:19 PM PST by yorkie ( For God so loved the world........................ that He didn't send a committee.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

New cause for the left. He should rot in prison.


73 posted on 12/18/2007 5:58:05 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: SmithL

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.


74 posted on 12/18/2007 6:11:15 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: SmithL

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...


75 posted on 12/18/2007 7:07:23 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: SmithL

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.


76 posted on 12/18/2007 7:51:23 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: SmithL
I'd like to know why Lindh was ever allowed to plea down to a lesser charge. It could not have been unknown to him that the Taliban provided sanctuary and support to terrorist organizations hostile to the United States.

I don't know if it was the U.S. Attorney's call, Ashcroft's, or the President's, but there was no reason to let this worm off so easily. He ought to have been made an example of.
77 posted on 12/18/2007 11:08:27 PM PST by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: SmithL
Awwww.... the poor thing....


78 posted on 12/19/2007 1:45:48 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: SmithL
What a stupida$$.


79 posted on 12/19/2007 1:51:24 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: SmithL

IDIOT PARENTS breed DANGEROUS KIDS.


80 posted on 12/19/2007 9:00:08 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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