Inmate Charged with Assault on 'American Taliban'

The Washington Post ^ | July 3, 2003

[adamyoshida]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An inmate has been charged with attacking so-called American Taliban John Walker Lindh in an incident at the federal prison in California where Lindh is serving a 20-year sentence for his involvement with militant Islamic fighters in Afghanistan.

[TomGuy]

Nobody deserves to be assaulted. I find your post to be barbaric.

Neither did Johnny "Mike" Spann [RIP].

[adamyoshida]

John Walker Lindh doesn't deserve to breathe. He should be thanful for anything he gets beyond that.

He ought to have been tortured, hanged, then drawn and quartered and buried wrapped in pig skin.

But since we can't do that, the best we can pray for is for him to be raped and beaten thousands of times during his time in prison. He doesn't even deserve to get it that good.

[adamyoshida]

Exactly right. If I ever have the money I plan to write a book about Mike Spann and John Walker Lindh- called "The Two Johns: A Story of Two Americas." Basically it would be about the place where Mike Spann came from, and why he became what he became. And the place where John Walker came from, and why he became what he became.

The basic theory: Marian County is a place destined to produce almost only perverts and traitors.

[magslinger]

Nobody deserves to be assaulted. I find your post to be barbaric. Neither did Johnny "Mike" Spann [RIP].

Roger that!

[cajun-jack]

ask jeffrey dahmer how to be a happy camper in a pen full of folks that hate ur guts.

[nravoter]

...serving a 63-month sentence for damaging religious property stemming from a fire he set at an African-American church in Nevada in 1996.

Gee, that's funny--how could a black church burn in the middle of Clinton's Presidency; I thought that was something that only happened under Republicans.

[adamyoshida]

The guy got more time for setting a fire than someone got in Canada after being convicted of 329 counts of manslaugther.

The beauty of American justice.

[FoxPro]

John Walker never did anything to Mike, and I mourned his death as you did (Mike's). John Walker was just a muddle headed kid. He was in Afghanistan before 9/11, and had nothing to do with it (9/11).

[TomGuy]

Also, depending on when he was convicted, he should have been close to the end of his sentence. The church burning would have been 7 years ago and the 63-month sentence would be 5 years+ 3 months.

[tet68]

Poor muddleheadedkid in Afganistan......give me a break.

[cardinal4]

Johnny Spann, (the CIA employee killed by the people Lindh was found with) left kids behind. Dont you think what happened to him is barbaric? Too many people say Taliban John didnt get enough time. Getting knocked around by another scumbag seems like poetic justice. Keep in mind, regardless of what the liberal media says; Taliban John took up arms against the country of his birth. Its hard for me to feel bad for Lindh..

[adamyoshida]

John Walker Lindh met Osama Bin Laden before September 11th.

In any case, I don't think that we need fine distictions here. He served with al-Qaeda, he participated in at least one military action where an American was killed, that's good enough for me.

The only real question, from my point of view, would be if it would be better to have blown his brains across the Afghan dirt and dumped him into an unmarked grave (a good way of allowing his culpable parents to suffer for their sins as well) or to bring him back to the United States for a proper lynching. In my mind there is no question that he deserved to die, and to suffer while dying, and that those who helped him get where he was (his parents, the teachers at 'alternative' schools, various Imams and other Moslems) deserve to suffer in some way as well, either through the agony of never knowing what happened to him or through the guilt of knowing that they drove him down a road which led to his very just death.

My only comfort, when it comes to John Walker Lindh, is knowing that he will suffer horrible torment for all eternity. But, quite frankly, even that is much too good for him.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Who says there's no good news?

[FoxPro]

he participated in at least one military action where an American was killed

And so did a lot of Germans and Japanese in the 1940's. Should we have tortured and killed all of them?

I find you to be barbaric, and I am a proud conservative.

[adamyoshida]

Those Germans and Japanese were soliders in their armies. John Walker Lindh was a traitor. If any German and Japanese soliders were Americans who had subject to summary execution in the field.

[dark_lord]

My only comfort, when it comes to John Walker Lindh, is knowing that he will suffer horrible torment for all eternity. But, quite frankly, even that is much too good for him.

Unless, of course, he converts to Christianity. Which is possible. There are prison ministries. And it is actually something to be prayed for. Being "comforted" by the idea that someone will suffer "horrible torment for all eternity"........

[livius]

Absolutely. Christians should be working overtime to convert these people (or, if they can't do it themselves, should be sending cash).

[Radix]

Nobody deserves to be assaulted. I find your post to be barbaric.

You are not exactly wrong. On the other hand, J W Lindh should have been given a death sentence. The American Taliban was engaged in Jihad against our Troops and America itself.

We are in a war (despite the Congress unwillingness to declare it) against barbarians, like it or not.

[adamyoshida]

Ought war formally be declared on terrorism? Right after 9-11 I wrote the text of a proposed Congressional resolution:

JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

WHEREAS Islamist terrorist groups have committed repeated and unprovoked acts of war against the Government and people of the United States of America.

AWARE that the continued existence of Islamic terrorism in all of its forms poses a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Therefore be it resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the state of war that has been forced upon the United States by the criminal atrocities of terrorist groups professing the Islamic faith is hereby formally declared; and the President is hereby authorized to employ the entire air, sea, and land forces of the United States and all of the resources at the disposal of the United States to wage war against all Islamisc terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism until such a time as the President may certify to the Congress that Islamic terrorism no longer presents a danger to either the American people or the American government. To this cause
all resources of the country are pledged by the Congress of the United States.

[Ronin]

I think I would be willing to contribute to a care package for this guy.