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2006-01-20 Home Front: WoT
'American Taliban' Father Urges Clemency
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Posted by Steve 2006-01-20 08:19|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Ah, yes. The "mixed up kid" defense.
Sorry. Try harder, pops.
Posted by tu3031 2006-01-20 08:27||   2006-01-20 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Screw you Pops. Consider yourself lucky you can visit him. Your filthy mixed up spoiled brat should have been shot for treason.


Posted by JerseyMike 2006-01-20 08:30||   2006-01-20 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Just be happy he wasn't hanged like he deserved to be.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2006-01-20 08:30||   2006-01-20 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Not a spiritual questor, but a young man who likes to play dress up and soldier, and lord it over the wimminfolk. Accepting consequences are critical to achieving enlightenment, Father dearest.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-20 09:02||   2006-01-20 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Johnny became Islamic partly as the result of disgust at his father who left his mother to live with another man.

Since being at GITMO, Johnny has reportedly, given a lot of intel to us.

If he has turned to our side, he might make a good double agent.
Posted by mhw 2006-01-20 09:06||   2006-01-20 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Johnny Jihad wouldn't need to have sunshine piped in if daddy had shown little Johnny how to get laid (by females, that is) once in a while.
Posted by ed 2006-01-20 09:30||   2006-01-20 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes I am sure Jihad Johnny had a really rough life growing up in Marin county. It's to bad that JJ hasn't had any falls while in custudy. How about you send sonny boy back to Afghanistan and let them try the little bastard? How about for good measure we throw daddy in jail with his son?
Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge  2006-01-20 10:38||   2006-01-20 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, if you can't achieve spiritual enlightment doing 20 years of hard time, then you can't achieve spiritual enlightenment period.
Posted by WhitecollarRedneck 2006-01-20 12:25||   2006-01-20 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Asking for clemency on a plea agreement? Better luck trying for an appeal because of legal malpractice, as in "my poor innocent sonny boy believed the crap his attorney told him....he had NO IDEA that he was actually going to have to SERVE the whole sentence...." Throw in some bs accusations of mental cruelty ("they made me eat non-halal chicken pilaf!") and some Koran desecration, too, while you're at it.

Hey, don't laugh. Get an airhead judge in Cali to sign off on it, and it's a possibility.
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-01-20 13:23|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]  2006-01-20 13:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Taliban Johnny Should have been hung by his pimply, pencil neck until fully dood! Dad can hang along side if he'd like.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-20 13:42||   2006-01-20 13:42|| Front Page Top

#11 one word: Nofrickingway
Posted by USN, ret. 2006-01-20 17:20||   2006-01-20 17:20|| Front Page Top

#12 If I'm not mistaken, isn't Johnny Taliban's daddy a member of the Brokeback Molehill club?

Fine job here pops; you marry, father a child or two, and then abandon your wife and kid[s] to sample the sausage.
Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-20 18:29|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]  2006-01-20 18:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Lindh said he decided to break his silence because he hoped the story of his boy's journey from bucolic Marin County to harsh Afghanistan battlefields will help gain him a reprieve.

Everybody makes choices, and whether for good or bad we all typically have to live with what happens as a result. Seems to me that this isn't quite sinking into Daddy Jihadi's little head.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-20 18:29||   2006-01-20 18:29|| Front Page Top

#14 I should also note that a patriotic, red-blooded, RED STATE American CIA hero named Johnny Michael Spannlost his life in part because of Johnny Taliban's refusal to provide answers during an interrogation session.

Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-20 18:33|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]  2006-01-20 18:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Tw's got it. A lot of this is about dress-up and play angry anti-mommy. And yes THE SILK IS SMOOTH AND I CAN SEE 1 ONE OF THE SEVEN PILLARS!

Opps... sorry.
Posted by 6 2006-01-20 19:10||   2006-01-20 19:10|| Front Page Top

#16 "In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest," said Frank Lindh, swallowing


geez...can't he stop it, even for an interview?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-01-20 19:45||   2006-01-20 19:45|| Front Page Top

#17 I've the cynical feeling that all this isn't concern for the 'wayward' John Walker; it's about easing the blow to his old man's narcissism.

BTW, Lindh wasn't at Gitmo. He's now at a medium-security prison in Victorville, CA.
Posted by Pappy 2006-01-20 20:05||   2006-01-20 20:05|| Front Page Top

#18 The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen----Right on. Mike Spann lost his life to these worthless jihadis. At Konduz, the Northern Alliance had thousands surrounded, with US airpower overhead. Too bad that they did not take them all out there, but some deal with Pakistan was struck and some aircraft or helos came in and hauled out some Pak officers or some folks like that. I read it in blogged dispatches from a reporter on the scene at the time. Those jihadis were brought down to the castle at Mazar-i-Sharif. The Afghans didn't frisk them too well and they had weapons hidden in their robes. The rest is history.

John Walker Lindh deserves no clemency. He is a piece of rat-sh*t that is lucky to get the treatment he deserves now. Mike Spann's family will never get their husband and father back. Lindh's dad can stop the tears thing and admit that his lack of being a good father figure helped propel his son into the hole he is in now.
Posted by Al Aska Paul">Al Aska Paul  2006-01-20 22:12||   2006-01-20 22:12|| Front Page Top

#19 We should have arranged for him to meet with God - how much more spiritual can you get.
Posted by DMFD 2006-01-20 23:29||   2006-01-20 23:29|| Front Page Top

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