No mercy for Jihad Johnny
My column today responds to the latest attempt by the Lindh family to drum up sympathy for their convicted Taliban helper son.
Bill Roggio: “Given what he could have been charged with, he should consider his 20 years a gift. Instead, he is made out to be a victim.”
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No mercy for Jihad Johnny
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
If it’s December, it’s time for the Left to throw another shameless pity party for convicted American jihadist John Walker Lindh (aka Suleyman al-Faris, aka Abdul Hamid). Every Christmas season for the last four years, the Taliban accomplice and his parents have asked President Bush to pardon him. This country should save its tears and mercy for the defenders of freedom.
The further we have moved from the September 11 attacks, the cloudier our collective memory of Lindh’s case has become. Sympathetic journalists have rewritten the history, embracing him as a naive young hippie-dippie from Marin County, Calif.,who just caught in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
Others, like Esquire magazine writer Tom Junod, have proclaimed him “innocent” and lamented Lindh’s life behind bars in a federal medium-security facility. Junod criticized the government for forbidding him to speak Arabic. (Human rights atrocity!) Meanwhile, he enjoys the privilege of cooking his meals for himself and fellow inmates, working in the library, and praying to Mecca. Junod insisted that Lindh deserves more “credit for his sense of purpose or his vast reserves of will” and more “credit for what it took to get to Afghanistan, much less what it took for him to get back to America.”
In Afghanistan, I remind you, Jihad Johnny took up arms with the terrorists. His purpose was to kill Americans and his “reserve of will” accomplished the goal. He told the feds he trained with al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks and he fought alongside them after Osama bin Laden’s henchmen murdered 3,000 of Lindh’s fellow citizens on American soil. He wrote a letter to his mother expressing support for the U.S.S. Cole bombing that took 17 sailors’ lives and, despite an emphatic denial by Lindh’s father that Jihad Johnny took up arms against his country, he recounted how his rifle malfunctioned on the front lines in Takar.
Finally, on Nov. 25, 2001, upon being captured and taken to the Qala I Jangi fortress outside Mazar E Shiref for interrogation, Suleyman al-Faris/Abdul Hamid/John Walker Lindh sat silent — and deliberately and defiantly chose not to tell American CIA officer and former Marine Corps artillery specialist Mike Spann about a planned Taliban prison revolt. Spann was killed in the riot.
Asked by journalist Robert Pelton at the prison if “this the right cause or the right place,” Lindh replied unequivocally: “It is exactly what I thought it would be.”
Who deserves the “credit” for “sense of purpose” and “reserve of will?” The saboteur of American freedom or the guardian?
Mike Spann’s family visited the fortress after his murder. They talked to Afghan doctors who will never forget his bravery. “They said they thought Mike might run and retreat, but he held his position and fought using his AK rifle until out of ammo, and then draw and begin firing his pistol,” Spann’s father said. “While watching Mike fight they were able to jump up and run to safety.
“They said the only reason that they, and several others, were able to live was because Mike stood his position and fought off the prisoners while enabling them the time to run to safety. The doctors stated that as they fled toward a safe haven they saw Mike run out of ammo and then witnessed him fighting hand to hand until he was overcome by the numerous Al Qada and Taliban prisoners.”
American hero Mike Spann will not get to cook dinner for widow Shannon and three young children. Mike Spann cannot curl up with a good book or go to church with his family. Pray for Mike Spann, show his family the compassion and gratitude they deserve — and may American traitor John Walker Lindh rot in hell.
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This terrorist should never be released from custody. Mike Spann is a true hero. Like you said, the farther we get away from September 11, the more people will forget about the thousands who died in this country and the ones who died defending it.
Rest in peace, Mike Spann. Rot in prison Taliban John.
Traitor!
My heart broke, when I saw the picture of their baby grabbing onto Daddy’s grave marker.
I’ll 345,345,554th the sentiment-
Rot in hell, you bastard!
His prison name should be judy and his cell mate should be named bubba.
Is 20 years of being bubbas b!tch too much to ask for??
From: Elinvesti8
To: The Lindh Family
Date: 12-19-2008
Subj: Traitorous Son
1. May your son John Walker Lindh die a horrible and painful death in prison!
2. Semper Fidelis to Mike Spann!
Elinvesti8
We should be hearing more about a pardon for Ramos and Campean. To me their incarceration will always be the legacy of Bush, who has shown so much contempt for American citizens.
Let Lindh rot in jail; the slime bag deserves nothing less.
Say “hello” to Chesty Puller, George Patton, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee for me Mike Spann.
John Walker Lindh, I really hope you will return to Jesus, but, I also want you to spend the rest of your life in prison thinking about what you did.
I agree…Lindh should rot in prison and then rot in hell.
Exactly what part of freeing a treasonous pig is “compassionate?” This traitor is exactly where he belongs and he should stay there for the rest of his life.
You could not be more correct Michelle in that the passage of time (7 years) has made some Americans fools and unfortunately for us puts us back at risk. This tool should rot in hell he should have had a bullet put right between his eyes!
Fred Grandy the idiot savant on 630wmal here in Washington was calling for the President to commute his sentence yesterday on the radio suffice it to say I had MUCH to say when I called into the show….he is part of the problem not part of the solution!
Am I missing the compassion the young traitor showed for Mike Spann? Maybe someone needs to ask the traitor’s parents where that compassion was…
MIKE SPANN is the true description of a HERO… TALIBAN JOHNNY is the true description of what gets stuck on your shoe, when you do not look where you are stepping… I hope he gets a ROOMIE named BUBBA or LE ROY, and it’s love at first sight!!!
Mere words cannot express what is in the heart of every American who love their country and the ideals that Mike lived. To Mike and his family a grateful thanks for his service and devotion to country. No greater love have they than those who gives their life for their fellow man.
I have zero pity for lindh or his family. He is a traitor and should be shoved so far back in prison he would never see daylight. God be with Mike’s family and I hope they realize he is a hero to millions of true Americans.
L
Jihad Johnny should have been hanged years ago! What is he doing still breathing? You would think the “greenies” would want him gone too…after all, he is just a human garbage pile polluting the earth. There is no question that he is a traitor to this country. So why is he in prison? He belongs in hell NOW. There is no way that Pres. Bush would free this roach, and not free our Border Agents…is there??? The fact that we are even thinking this way says a lot about our current opinion of GW.
Micheal Spann was incredibly brave.
Jihad Johnny Lindh was a coward and can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned. Life behind bars was too good for him. He should have been executed.
Why would one think he has reformed and repented? He wants a pardon because he got caught. That’s probably true of every criminal behind bars.
Sorry, Johnny. Serve your sentence and be thankful for the mercy of the American people. Mercy, I might add, that has never been reciprocated by your peers.
May your dreams be filled with the memories of those who had to decide to jump or burn at the Twin Towers. I’d guess the sorrow of their survivors doesn’t trouble you much.
Stay, Johnny. Stay for a long, long time.
waaaaaaaa waaaaaaaa waaaaaaaa
how about putting him in max security and forcing him to go back on the main line .
War Eagle, Mike.
jihad johnny should never be freed. his parents should suffer every day for the rest of their lives knowing dimple darling johnny is being bubba’s b***h in some hell hole prison. these parents are the same worthless crap who raised the daughter in florida who killed her daughter. to all the parents of children gone wrong, it’s your fault, so don’t ask society to fix your screwups. “now johnny, you know we can’t let you go to that mosque which preaches hatred and murder, well ok if you really want to, but darling we love you and we will pay for your trip to pakistan to become a more devout murderer.” “mr bush our little precious johnny doesn’t belong in prison with all those bad people, he was just a little confused youth following his religious leaders.” screw you, him, and the taliban.
When did we stop executing traitors? I believe it is a practice we should bring back. His family should be embarrassed. If my son went to the other side I would not ask for less.
Mr P
UP YOURS, stay on subject!
What are you referring to?
My thoughts exactly. I have always been under the impression that TREASON was punishable by execution.
Why is this dirt bag still alive?
This guy is a good argument for the take no prisoners policy of war. Particularly since the current enemy wants to die for his cause. Let them.
God Bless you Mike Spann and may God and your fellow countrymen watch over your lovely family.
You’d think the Lindhs would just keep a low profile and let people forget that they raised treacherous, murderous bastard of a son. I know if it was me I’d be hanging my head in shame, not sticking it into the spotlight.
WTF?????? It took a passport, a plane flight and a map. BFD. I’ve been around the world 3 times….where’s MY PROPS?
Then wrap’em in bacon and bury them face down.
Bush did the right thing. Now if he’ll just relent and repent and free Compian and Ramos!
Why is Lindh in a minimum security prison? Why is he allowed visitors? He should be confined in a dark cell for the rest of his life.
Why are his parents asking for mercy? Did he show mercy towards the people killed by his treasonous acts?
Truly great post Michelle.
Superman has nuttin on Mike Spann.
Lindh should have been drawn & quartered a long time ago.
You know, so he could get to his ‘virgins’ quickly…
To the Spann family,
Thank you. If Mike was half the father and husband as he was a hero, he was the worlds best. May you find peace and rest,
To the family of Jihad Johnny,
You may be able to ignore the evil your son did. That makes you just as sick in my book. Too bad you can’t trade places with the Spann family and know their pain. Cowards.
Still too good for this evil man.
..interesting contrast -
Man of honor
Man of Shame
I wonder if Michelle was intentionally “ironic” in her title, “No Mercy for Jihad Johnny?”
Jihad Johnny has received boundless mercy from the government and people of the United States. He sits in a warm cell with a bed and indoor plumbing. He gets 3 squares a day. He can read and pray and think about his future. That seems pretty merciful compared to how the Taliban he chose to fight with treat those subject to their “tender mercies.”
I suspect Michelle was being intentionally ironic.
Mike Spann is ours. Jihad Johnny is theirs. What is impossible is that we elected a President with more in common with Lindh than with Spann, and probably would sympathize more with a Lefty, Jihadi family from Marin County than with a decent heroic man of our armed services. How long will it take Obama to pardon Lindh?
If that was my son, I would get down on my knees every night and pray for forgiveness for my failure as a parent. Yes, some kids go bad despite being raised well. But this “kid” was not raised well. We know how his parents raised him…it is documented. They failed him, pure and simple. And the sad thing is, they think they did a good job as parents.
Frankly, we would dramatically improve America if we could just return large chunks of California back to Mexico.
A good place to start would be Marin County and the Lindh residence in particular.
Then we could send Ahh-nuld and his wife next.
I agree. While we would lose a lot of land, we would get rid of tons of illegal aliens and save billions of dollars in the long run. They think the land is theirs anyway, right? Apologies to any of you who live in California! We know it isn’t all bad!!
That about sums it up, Michelle. Too bad Jihad Johnny gets the temporary hiatus in medium-security prison, before the latter takes place.
Lindh’s sentence can be shortened when his neck is lengthened.
chsw
I and many of my friends have been spending the last few years of our lives fighting these sons of… people. In response to any attempt to offer leniency to this boy:
“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
- Title 18, Section 2381. Treason
So, really, the only question that folks should ask is whether to use a rope or firing squad.
That is the quote of the day!!
Yes
Wasn’t he Gopher on “The Love Boat”? He became a Congressman, a Democrat I think.
If I had heard him say that, I’d call and tell him to go back to the Aloha Deck.
Since Johnny is still alive, give him a Christmas present. Confine Johnny 24 hours a day seven days a week in a 4 foot x 8 foot cell. Give him a cellmate, Bruno the bodybuilding serial rapist who happens to be a situational homosexual doing life. Also, give Johnny special protection and have Quincy the legally blind and deaf prison guard stand by the door to make sure nothing goes amiss.
happyscrapper said:
On December 19th, 2008 at 10:05 am, ricnrolle said:
Mr P
UP YOURS, stay on subject!
What are you referring to?
#7
May the soul of Mike Spann, a true hero, rest in peace, and God bless his wife and children.
The traitor should stay in prison. From what I’ve read it doesn’t sound like he even regrets what he did. Why should he be pardoned?
Fred Grandy was “Gopher” and he did serve in Congress. He is a Republican and he seems to be one of those Republicans who is a RINO but doesn’t want to admit it.
It is Republicans like Grandy that made my decision to switch from the GOP to the Constitution Party much, much easier.
Denial isn’t just a river in Eqypt…
On December 19th, 2008 at 10:53 am, ricnrolle said:
happyscrapper said:
On December 19th, 2008 at 10:05 am,
Wow…What exactly was wrong with what was said on #7? I’m just trying to understand what evoked such a nasty response from you. All he was saying was what most of us agree with…Bush needs to pardon the Border Agents, NOT a traitor like Jihad Johnny. And yes, that will be a blot on GW’s legacy!
Jihad Johnnie’s family should count themselves lucky … In another time this traitor to the United States would have summarily been shot … no questions asked … it is only the liberals that have decimated the justice system to the point that we spend millions of dollars keeping despicable people like this alive by putting them in prison for life … save the public those millions and give the families of the Mike Spann’s of America the closure they need …
I feel certain that having to see this piece of crap blasted all over the TV news every Christmas is devastating to the families of heroes like Mike Spann …
May God bless the families of all those that have given their lives for their country and give them peace …
Why not use both? If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing it right.
Set him free, I have a hole dug for him, dug the hole right next to fire ant hill. I will allow him to crawl into the hole and then cover him up to his neck. Then I will give him two chop sticks placed into his mouth to dig himself out of. If Owen Wilson can dig himself out, Johnny should be able too. Right, Let him dig himself to freedom.
It shows amazing restraint on the part of our soldiers that this piece of crap was not destroyed on the battlefield. It would have been so easy for him to be killed on the field of battle and would have saved us all the expense of keeping him in prison. Our soldiers are taking prisoners because they have been ordered to do so. Those orders need to be changed to “take no prisoners”.
John Walker Lindh is a dirtbag.
- Chris Plourde (my apologies to dirtbags)
Have the Lindhs ever tried to make personal contact with the Spann family, to offer an apology or thoughts of condolence?
Seems it would be the least the Lindhs could & should do, if they are genuine in their remorse.
But the Lindhs obviously believe their innocent, misguided child did nothing wrong. Why should they apologize? Don’t you know personal responsibility is passe?
It doesn’t matter what Bush does. The monument to affirmative action run amok will pardon him anyway.
Traitors should be hanged. Nothing less. No quarter asked or given.
Rot in hell, bastard.
The thing that is baffling here is the lack of explanation.
If John Walker Lindh was just “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” then why didn’t he immediately surrender to American forces?
He never even claimed to be an American until after the riot where Mike Spann was killed.
I can find no reasonable explanation unless he wanted to get into the riot and kill Americans.
Well said ELINVESTI8 #6; Jihad Johnny AND his parents deserve no sympathy or mercy. I am rather irritated that Jihad Johnny is in a medium security prison but I guess they have their reasons-costs I suppose. But his parents wanted him to be a “free thinker” unencumbered by rules and they got what they wished for.
The Lindhs and Esquire magazine writer Tom Junod should protest Jihad Johnny’s incarceration by standing in front of a speeding freight train.
This country HAS to get back in the habit of HANGING traitors and spies.I think the Rosenbergs were the last-and they were not HANGED.
If he is pardoned, I assume some patriot will mete out the punishment he should have had in the first place. Karma and all that.
Lindh should be immediately and forever taken off of America soil, never to see, hear, or feel this country again.
He deserves NOTHING and his worthless parents (who both raised AND defended a traitor to this nation) deserve nothing as well. Sieze all of their assets, give it to Mike Spann’s family, and throw them out of this country as well.
Sounds like Johnnys parents might be traitors too. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
What’s appalling is the cradle of liberalism that this traitor lived in that spawned his wretched behavior. Sympathetic liberals should hang their miserable heads in shame, but won’t because they have no shame.
Set him free at the nearest marine base.
Yes, and be sure to “tell it to the marines”.
It seems to me we could “free him from thinking” by executing him and give his parents what they asked for. (not quite what they desired – but certainly what they asked for).
Of course, when there is no absolute authority, chaos reigns.
One of the many amazing things about Christianity. Jesus said “whoever will may com”..and “I’ve paid the price”. If you go to hell, it’s your own choice. God doesn’t send anybody to hell – they take themselves there.
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Lindh,
I’m so very sorry, but your son John died a long time ago. The man Suleyman al-Faris is not your son. He is a terrorist who must pay for his actions. My condolences for your loss.
On December 19th, 2008 at 11:54 am, Dexter Alarius said:
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Lindh,
I’m so very sorry, but your son John died a long time ago. The man Suleyman al-Faris is not your son. He is a terrorist who must pay for his actions. My condolences for your loss.
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Exactly. I know a parent’s love is supposed to know no bounds, but there must be a limit. I would not expect my parents to defend me if I had done such a thing to my country or to Mike Spann (God bless him & his family). Nor do I believe they would. Some things are simply beyond the pale, whether libs want us to believe that or not.
In reality, he chose to renounce his American family when he chose to renounce his country and fight with our enemy.
How is it that on one hand, the journalist thinks he should get “credit for his sense of purpose”, yet on the other hand he was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” and shouldn’t be responsible?
My cognitive dissonance meter just exploded!! It goes to show there’s no reasoning with liberals.
Either give me custody of this piece of crap or let him rot. I hope he has a really ‘big’ boyfriend with a big appetite.
Don’t worry, if not this year I’m sure brother BHO will let you out at some point. Maybe that phony-Arab-named cop killer in PA too.
Release him…….. 400 miles west of the Azores, them chum the water.
I would give him Mercy.
Mercy is my pet 32 lb sledgehammer.
I would give him lots of Mercy.
They can scrape up what’s left when I am finished.
On December 19th, 2008 at 12:20 pm, Flyoverman said:
Release him…….. 400 miles west of the Azores, them chum the water.
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Cue “Theme from Jaws” . . .
Debra Burlingame wrote this, last year, about Mike Spann:
“may he rot in hell.”
F’n A.
No firing squad, unless the shooters are of poor aim, able to hit the torso, but no vital organs.
Hanging? ok, piano wire with a very short drop, maybe a foot, ok, 6 inches…we wouldn’t want to snap his neck and hurt him.
Speeding train, nay…slow roller with horns going off every foot of the distance from say 100 yds …just so he knows the train is coming.
Now the Lindh parents, may they live the rest of lives realizing how they condemned their precious(pos) son to a life of torment either in prison or out due to their lousy parenting. May they feel the damage they caused the rest of their lives.
Mike Spann another great American hero, may he R.I.P. along with his family finding peace knowing a man of such character are rare and far between..he was a special man, to be held in the highest regard.
Whatever happened to the death penalty for traitors? Granted, this schmuck didn’t have much in the way of guidance, given the total flakiness of, and the lack of any moral compass of his parents. But he was, as they say, old enough to know better. Never, never set him free!
Interesting to see this terrorist snotbag with such a media following.
Anyone know if Mrs. Spann has been asked by the media what she thinks of little Johnny getting out early?
His parents are such d@mn fools, they should not be allowed to ever pollute the gene pool again.
I have seen too many bad kids come from good parents to second-guess the Lindh’s past. However, for them to continue to defend this traitorous scum and denegrate anything and everything about this country is what makes them equally traitorous.
Johnny was old enough to make the choices and accept the consequences of those choices. His parents are old enough to know better than to continue to vocally defend a traitor to his nation.
None of them deserve the freedoms that Mike Spann fought and died for.
Sorry. For this piece of $h!t, I very strongly prefer a cheese grater.
I wrote this as a fitting punishment of Osama, but I would like to see it applied to Johnny now.
1) Strip him and shave every inch of his body.
2) Bind him in a sitting position.
3) Place him in the bottom of a 55-gallon metal drum.
4) Place into the drum with him 6 baby pigs to keep him company.
5) Create a mixture consisting of pig blood, pig urine, pig feces, and liquified pigs organs.
6) Pour that mixture into the drum at the rate of one ounce every 15 minutes.
7) When the drum begins to overflow, seal it, encase it in concrete, and drop it into the deepest part of the ocean.
As an added bonus in this case, I would also force his parent to watch the entire thing as it happen.
And that’s too bloody good for him.
Given the sympathies of the media for squashed dung such as JWL, and their lack of sympathy for families like the Spanns, it is times like these I wish the families would speak out on video and post it on Youtube.
Muddle-headed liberals are so quick to embrace scum like JWL because they are so quick to ignore their victims. A video telling how the victims are affected might be a little more difficult for them to ignore.
It should explode. The only one who should be given credit for his sense of purpose is Mike Spann.
I take back what I said about Hell being too good for Lindh. As a minster of the gospel, I should have never said such a thing and I apologize.
However, I do pray that while in prison, the Holy Spirit will come to Lindh and have him see the error of his ways. Even the demons dont want to go to Hell, and God Almighty wants no one to perish. So who am I to wish anybody to Hell?
Jesus 88 we arn’t the bloody savages, we are a civilized nation. Hell at worst place his skull on a pole to serve as a warning, but just shoot or hang him is enough and the right thing to do. What your saying even for Osama isn’t justice, its barbarisim and makes you worse than our enemy.
F this POS. If his stupid hippy parents had given him some direction and guidance in life, instead of touchy-feely-go-discover-yourself-no-matter-how-wrong-you-may-be-we-won’t-say-anything, they wouldn’t be having to deal with this now.
F them all. They’re reaping what they’ve sown.
Uh, StanW, that was, uh, descriptive to say the least. But, I hope you will understand why you aren’t receiving an invitation to my Christmas party this year.
I can recommend someone you can talk to about these “special thoughts.”
Lindh should only be released when his restitution is fully paid. In this case, when he can return Mike Spann to his family and to his Country alive. Then and only then should Lindh be pardoned — which is a roundabout way of saying he should rot.
Fear Not, WarEagle. I have a special place in my heart for traitors to this nation, and I do not take them lightly. No other group will illicit such a response.
And since your name leads me to beleive you represent one of my two favorite college football teams, you are invited to MY Christmas party. Do I need to tell you we’ll be having Ham???
Johnny’s remorse is like the captured murderer who claims sorrow at his actions…it’s transparent, and pathetic! He deserves the fate his “religion” reserves for non-believers.
A twenty year sentence is a gift to him from (his) Allah, the “compassionate”….