If this story doesn't make you sick, nothing will.
This little bastard went to Yemen and took up arms against the U.S. Now he wants to get out of prison early. I doubt that any of the family members of people massacred on 9-11-01 would share Walker Lindh' father's sentiments about him being a "decent and honorable young man who became involved in a spirtual quest." In my world, most decent and honorable people don't take up arms against their fellow citizens.
He should get out of prison the same way Tookie Williams did, in a box. Walker Lindh committed treason against the U.S. For that, he should have been executed, leaving one less huge stinking piece of shit in the world.
Jan. 19, 2006, 10:17PM
'American Taliban's' father campaigns for lesser sentence
By RONE TEMPEST
Los Angeles Times
SAN FRANCISCO - His son is serving time in a Mojave Desert federal prison. But Frank Lindh, the ever-loyal father of the young Marin County native the tabloids dubbed "the American Taliban," has not given up trying to get son John Walker Lindh out of jail.
Last month, defense attorneys petitioned President Bush for commutation of the 20-year, no-parole term the son received from a U.S. District Judge in 2002. The request is pending.
On Thursday at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, Frank Lindh launched what he described as a long-shot campaign to win public support for the reduction in his son's sentence, which he blamed on public hysteria and media sensationalism in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
"This is the story of a decent and honorable young man who became involved in a spiritual quest and became the focus of the grief and anger of an entire nation," said Frank Lindh, several times fighting off tears.
He said his son, now 24, was issued an assault rifle and two hand grenades by the Taliban commanders, but never fired his weapon in combat. John Walker Lindh, the father said, met Osama bin Laden on two occasions in Afghanistan but came away unimpressed.
Winning support from the American public for a reduction in the sentence, Frank Lindh conceded, will be difficult.
"The odds are against it," Lindh said. "It is difficult to envision a situation where all those hotheads in Washington can turn around and recognize the kid got a raw deal."
Attorney James Brosnahan said the next step in the legal defense will be to challenge the federal Special Administrative Measures which ban John Lindh from speaking with reporters.