John Walker Dies in Prison
The traitorous bastard convicted Soviet spy named John Walker has died. Though scheduled for release next year after serving 30 years of a life sentence, he did not live long enough to see another day as a free man.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Walker’s treachery – and the results of same – a short version can be found here.
Rot in hell, Walker. Hopefully this means Zarkman now has a 2nd roomate.
(Hat tip to TAH reader ohio for posting the link regarding Walker’s demise in comments.)
Category: Military issues, Navy, Shitbags, Veterans Issues, We Remember
He should have been shot. Haansen and Ames both got people killed, but the people they got killed were spies. Spies for our side, sure, but still spies.
Walker, on the other hand, was giving away secrets on air defense and electronic warfare at the same time he was eating his meals in the mess hall with fellow officers who had to go up and face the enemy in North Vietnam every day. That’s like the royal order of the Blue Falcon with a gold oak leaf cluster.
For stabbing his own fellow sailors and airmen in the back during a time of war, he should have gotten the firing squad.
Have to disagree, Martinjmpr.
A firing squad is a military execution. As such, it offers the condemned a degree of dignity in death.
Turncoats like Walker do not deserve that modicum of dignity when they die. They deserve to end their life hanging at the end of a rope, like the worthless criminal dreck they are.
This link includes some interesting reading material including the 1944 and 1947 manuals for military executions. As an Engineer, I found the diagrams and plans for the scaffolding most educational.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pamphlets_manuals.html
Back during my first enlistment in the early 60s I was surprised to learn (via an Overseas Weekly article germane to a court martial case in Frankfurt) that the Army still had a hangman. As I recall, he was an MP MSG. Not sure now if hangman was a separate MOS or just a skill identifier.
Since Walker was a sailor, the way to hang him is to put the noose around his neck another around his feet and slowly raise him up to near the end of the yardarm. Which suffocates (no quick snapping of the neck), then you secure both lines and let him stay up there until sundown as a reminder to others.
Hondo: My bad. You’re right. Deserters are shot. Spies should hang.
Thanks for the correction!
I’ve seen speculation that Walker may have been partially responsible for the North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo. (The Commies wanted to capture an actual encryption device to compare against the information Walker was handing them). Some even speculate that Walker’s treason may have had something to do with the still-unsolved sinking of the USS Scorpion. And a lot of people believe that, if we had fought a naval war with the USSR anytime from the late 1960s to mid-’80s, we likely would have lost, because the Soviets would have known every move we were going to make before we made it, thanks to Walker’s info.
Agree with Hondo, Walker definitely deserved to swing at the end of a length of stout hemp rope for what he did. But I’ll accept dying in prison as an acceptable outcome.
Gee, Hayabusa – did you read the article at the second link above, or something? (smile)
FWIW: one of the CIA’s past chief historians is among those who think Walker was indirectly responsible for the USS Pueblo incident.
“When the keeper of the keys turns his coat, no lock remains secure.”
Read links? C’mon, man, this is the internet; I don’t need to read links, I’m an expert, just like everyone else… 😉
We’ve become too squeamish to actually execute traitors, so I’m satisfied that an life sentence actually was one.
Rest In…Hell John Walker.
Alrighty then. Three dead traitors in one week – cause for celebration!
Good f$%^ing riddance.
“John Walker dies in prison.”
Good.
Hopefully Ames, Hanssen, Pollard, and all the rest of the traitor scumbags can join him in Hell. Soon.
Pardon the Johnny Depp quote, but the deepest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors. May this ratfuck shitweasel be assraped by rabid demon-wolverines for eternity in it.
The ghost of Dante Alighieri is offended by your “Johnny Depp” attribution, Other Whitey. (smile)
TOW
May he be sodomized eternally with the largest possible pineapple. Fronds first.
(That last frame of Hitler in Hell, in a maid’s outfit, having to select his own punishment, will be my lifelong inspiration)
And here’s one just for you, Woodman, from Adam Sandler’s upcoming sequel to “Little Nicky”
Demon Assistant: “Uh, sir, I know you have a busy afternoon lined up, but remember that you’re shoving Adolf Hitler up John Walker’s ass at 2:00, then dropping Walker into the hellhound pit at 2:15.”
Satan (Harvey Keitel): “Hmm, the hellhounds have been in heat for a few weeks, and they haven’t taken an interest in Robert Byrd lately. They’re pretty damn horny today, and they’re hungry. Wouldn’t be right to keep ’em waiting. Move the Hitler insertion up to 1:30, and I’ll drop the traitor into pit at 1:45. That way we can have a show to go with lunch!”
Demon Assistant: “Alright, sir. We can do that. And…uhh…”
Satan (Harvey Keitel): “What?”
Demon Assistant: “Well, uh…Hillary Clinton is…ah…demanding to speak with you…”
Satan (Harvey Keitel): “Jesus Christ, you’d think that relentless bitch would stop calling for campaign contributions…”
Demon Assistant: “She…um…didn’t call, sir. She’s…kind of…waiting in your office.”
Satan (Harvey Keitel): “What?!!”
Demon Assistant: “We TRIED to stop her, sir!”
Satan (Harvey Keitel): “Jesus, can’t we get a restraining order against that broad? Hey, maybe we can shove Walker up her ass and then toss the whole thing in the hellhound pit! Get everybody over here! I’m gonna need some help!”
I hope he went out screaming
Or better yet, wanting to scream, but couldn’t.
A traitor has made it to the fires of hell. Enough said.
BURN IN HELL, WALKER, GOOD RIDDANCE!!!
I wonder how many people died as a result of his treason? May he spend eternity in the ninth circle of hell!!
99 on the USS Scorpion at the very least.
Good….but at the same time I’m disappointed, your headline got my hopes up that Jihad Johnny Lindh had gone off to his 72 virgins.
Lindh IMO also deserved to end his life gasping at the end of a rope, PhillyandBCEagles. But in comparison to Walker, he was a dilettante.
Lindh was an turncoat POS – but he was not in a position to do any substantial damage to US security. Walker could potentially have caused the US to lose a war with the Soviets had one occurred in the 1970s or 1980s.
Damn, I’d forgotten all about that little turncoat piece of moldy cockroach shit, Maybe we need to give him a one-way ticket to Syria and a lukewarm bowl of ramen noodles with cheap bologna?
A buddy of mine had to guard him. He told me the only MRE they would give him was pork chow mein.
KUDOS to them for that!!
RIH! John Walker…
He also recruited his own son and brother or brother-in-law (can’t remember which) and of course they both went down with Walker when he fell. I’m assuming the brother and son are out of prison by now but I just don’t care enough to check.
The brother was an adult, of course, but to recruit his own son into his life of crime shows just how much of a selfish, sociopathic SOB he was.
An absolute dirtbag, lowest of the low. He deserves to be buried in a latrine at the Norfolk Naval base so his former shipmates can pay their “respects.”
Martinjmpr: he recruited his son, brother, and a longtime friend (Whitworth).
After recruiting his son, he also allegedly tried to recruit his daughter and convince her to join the military as well. That was the final straw that caused his ex-wife to go to the FBI.
Hs brother died in prison, Last Month
They should have hung his son and brother in front of him and then given him Life without parole to think about it. He should have served his time in total isolation 24/7/365.
Johnny Walker Red- AMF. Another outcome of his treachery was the marked improvement in the Soviet’s submarine programs. Their boats became nearly as quiet as ours, in a single generation. Even within the same class in a couple instances. All because he gave them the ability to read our mail.
The three of them should have been shot with one 50 cal. round at medium range. Filmed of course to demonstrate the science of inertia and energy and the effect of a human body.
Maybe they could use traitors like Walker for field testing things like .50 cal hollow-point rounds?
“Reacting to the news of his death on Facebook, his daughter Cynthia Walker Ober posted: “Good bye Dad… Rest peacefully, you are in Gods hands now.”
Sorry, Ms. Ober, but if he is indeed in the hands of a Deity, those hands should be locked tightly around his neck, choking him endlessly as he screams for mercy while listening for all eternity to the voices of those 99 Scorpion sailors, and the voices of millions of other service members who served our country HONORABLY and FAITHFULLY.
Traitors don’t deserve peaceful rest, especially those who sell out their country for a few shekels. His trechary won’t be forgotten, and he doesn’t deserve forgiveness.
I really hope that google one day leads little Miss Cynthia to this thread. Here’s what I have to say to her.
Sorry, Cynthia, but your daddy was the lowest form of shitbag. The three basest forms of turd a person can choose to be are rapist, child molester, and traitor. That’s right, lady. Your daddy dearest might as well have been forcing himself on little boys, for all the value he had as a human being. To call him a piece of shit would be to give him an undeserved compliment.
If they bury your old man in northeastern Maine, I will happily make the drive from San Diego to piss on his grave. Fuck your father. May he roast on a spit in Hell.
If God is truly just, Ms. Over, your father is rotting in hell right now. For you to pretend he was anything less than an evil and hideous man whose actions led to untold deaths tells me your moral compass is more than a bit out of whack.
I’m quite sure the 99 were waiting for him at Hell’s Gate.
And the 99 were there TDY, I’m certain.
Out-f’ing-standing. Rot in hell.
Im goning to show my age here. When I first read that name I thought it was about the American Taliban John walker captured in Afghanistan.
Pup.
Although if Jihad Johnny dies in prison too, that’s just another six pack I’ll have to recycle on a grave.
Speaking of which, if anyone finds out where this shitbag is going to be buried, first keg is on me.
Can you post this on Facebook over and over again so I can keep clicking like.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. It’s because of dicks like him and James Hall that so many of us got polygraphed in Berlin. I’ve been waiting for this piece of shit to kick the bucket. It’s too bad his asshole son and Jerry Whitworth are still alive, but at least Walker and his piece of shit brother both died in that hole. This is truly cause for celebration.
Too bad keelhauling has gone out of vogue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keelhauling