Tell that to the family of Johnny Spann!
Posted on 09/28/2008 8:40:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
He's a gentle man, lean and soft-spoken, careful to begin his lecture with an explanation of principles like the right to counsel. The passion in Frank Lindh builds only when he describes the details of what happened to his son, John Walker Lindh, the bearded young man who was tagged as the American Taliban.
In the waning days of George Bush's administration, the senior Lindh is asking the president to commute the rest of his son's 20-year sentence, now seven years along. It's almost certainly a hopeless quest. Bush is not a man prone to second-guess himself.
... In retrospect, his son's biggest enemy was bad timing.
You may remember the story: The younger Lindh grew up in Marin County, converted to Islam at age 16, went to the Mideast to study Arabic and memorize the Koran, and wound up fighting with the Taliban, meeting Osama bin Laden months before 9/11.
In many people's minds even now, that's enough to send him away for life. But the government's claims in other cases have frayed in court. An American citizen arrested in roughly the same circumstances as Lindh has been released. And after Abu Ghurayb,we know much more about the American practice of torture.
Facing a hostile public and an even more hostile Justice Department, the young Lindh agreed to a plea bargain that gave him 20 years in prison. It seemed like a good deal then. It seems much less so now.
Right or wrong, you can't escape the feeling that John Walker Lindh paid heavily because of the temper of the times. Now he faces almost as damning a fate, one his father is trying to bend. He isn't reviled. He's forgotten.
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If O is elected, then Mr. Lindh senior will certainly get his wish for his son's sentence to be commuted by the President. O's muslim sympathies run wide and deep, regardless of how much the MSM tries to sweep them aside: his father(s) religion, his years studying islam in Indonesia, travels to Pakistan when nonbelievers could not enter to the country, connections with Farrakhan, lauding the muslim call to prayer as the "most beautiful sound in the world" and even recently saying "my muslim faith" in his interview with Stephanopoulos.
“In retrospect, his son’s biggest enemy was bad timing.”
Treason is treason and timing has nothing to do with it. He should have been executed.
Another good reason to NOT vote for Obambi.
To quote Col. Stuart in Die Hard 2:
I think Cardinal Richilieu said it best: 'Treason is merely a matter of dates'
How about we pardon Ramos and Compeon (sp?) instead
People in hell want ice water.
I can think of 3,000 reasons for leaving his sorry as to rot in prison.
Yep.
Obama will spring him on Day 2.
There is no doubt that he is a TRAITOR.
GEESH!
He should be counting his blessings not looking for punishment defined further down. Geesh at this rate why not have a ticker tape parade for the traitor?
There is ONE way I’d end LIndh’s sentence.. and that is at the END of a ROPE!!
Of course, fighting for that Taliban is a minor faux pas, sort of like using the wrong fork.
Tell that to the family of Johnny Spann!
AMEN! I’ll agree to his sentence being commuted when Mike Span’s sentence is commuted. You’re right, that POS should have been excuted.
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Lowlife Lindh should have been executed for aiding in the murder of Johnny “Mike” Spann.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Johnny Taliban got off light.
That butthead should have been turned over to the Northern Alliance when he was captured.
People were worried WE weren’t treating him right.
I am sure the NA would have had an expeditious trial etc...
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