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John Walker Lindh

Darin SperlingDarin Sperling Member Posts: 291 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
I haven't seen any comments on John Walker Lindh posted, so I'm just going to ask what everyone thinks of this guy. Especially any active duty military guys (or gals) out there. I just read where he pleaded guilty to aiding the Taliban. If I remember correctly he could get 20 years in the pen. His dear old dad thinks that 20 years is too much for "that boy" as he called him. Personally, I think the little * is lucky. If the same situation had occured in WWII he would probably face a firing squad, or if he had been a U.S. serviceman he would have been court-martialed and hung from the end of a rope.
He may not have fired a shot or set off a bomb, but he is an accessory by virtue of carrying weapons and training with the Taliban.

Any thoughts?

Better to have and not need, than need and not have.
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  • Darin SperlingDarin Sperling Member Posts: 291 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lawyers for Lindh are asking for a change of venue. The current trial location (Washington D.C.) is too close to the Pentagon. Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Sperling PE
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    6 ft. under

    Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Send him to Texas. We will move him to the front of the line.

    The most important things, Are not things.
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    I do not believe he deserves a trial. He is a member of a foreign military and when he joined said military he forfeited his status as an American citizen, thus relinquishing any protections he may have been entitled to under our contitution. He should be executed by firing squad and barried in an unmarked grave.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • Darin SperlingDarin Sperling Member Posts: 291 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought NYC with a jury of Firemen or Firemen's widows.

    Sperling PE
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  • ADfreeADfree Member Posts: 188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just let him go... and offer a pardon to who ever gets to him first!
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    ......Wonders how far a convict can go in a specially built grosly oversized potato-gun..!!

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - SPLAT !

    Regards
    Peter E Jeppesen
    Greenland =o)

    I love my silenced .22, the Winchester leveraction 30-30 and 357Mag... and offcourse any 12 gauge. =o)
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just heard on the News that his Lawyers asked for the charges to be Dismissed because he can't get a fair trial anywhere in the United States.

    All Requests were Denied. Trial starts August in Washington, D.C.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • ghost614ghost614 Member Posts: 129 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    can he hear this? it's the world's smallest violin.
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nothing will be good enuff for his traitor a*%..

    Wish he could be let loose in a ring with a deadly snake a mad loin with no claws...and one mean a*% AMERICAN WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY AND STANDS UP FOR IT.
    Sorry got carried away

    But i bet the snake and loin nor him would stand a chance
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    MOVE HIS TRIAL TO CROSSVILLE TN AND WE WILL HOOK HIM UP.ILL VOLUNTEER TO SIT AS A JUROR

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,RUSTY WALLACE FAN AND AS EVERYONE SO OFTEN POINTS OUT PISS POOR TYPIST
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  • twinstwins Member Posts: 647 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does anyone know if he has ever renounced his citizenship? If he has, since when have we executed enemy soldiers captured during, after or before a battle, who were not hiding their identity? I recall being told that only spies were executed in war.

    If he has not renounced it, then he is a traitor and should be tried as such. It seems to me we do not execute the people who "need it the most". That would include anyone who has commited acts against the US in any way. Aldrich Aames(sp) comes to mind along wih Jane Fonda.
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Talk about "a man without a country". I don't know where he will go if or when he ever gets released from prison. Hell comes to mind.......

    Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • twinstwins Member Posts: 647 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As long as it takes awhile to get him there.
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  • Model 12Model 12 Member Posts: 35 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey submariner

    You retired in Crossville now? I'm in Knox! Welcome!

    It's great...to be...a Tennessee Volunteer...
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  • rscoleman88rscoleman88 Member Posts: 4,250
    edited November -1
    My house would be a good place for the trial. Very secluded I'll need some of you guys as jury members though....

    Respect those who protect us now just as you would those who died for us in the past.
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  • kgnovumkgnovum Member Posts: 594 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In my house there is a "well regulated militia" that would like to talk to this guy...KG
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  • gars320gars320 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How about off the back of a tall horse? Firmly anchor one end of a very short rope to a tall tree with the other end around his traitorous neck, if the ropecan stretch long enough for him to stand on the ground.....shorten the rope or get a taller horse!

    Nil Illegitimus Carborundum
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