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Report: Jon Hammar to be released from Mexican prison today
fox news world ^ | 12/21/2012 | foxnews.com

Posted on 12/21/2012 6:58:27 AM PST by alancarp

DEVELOPING: Jon Hammar, the U.S. Marine imprisoned in Mexico on a gun charge, will be released today, his mother told Fox News Radio.

Olivia Hammar said the judge hearing Hammar's case issued a ruling in his favor and that her son is to be released at a time on Friday yet to be announced. No more details were available. Hammar, 27, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been stuck in a notorious, drug cartel-controlled prison just 15 miles south of the U.S. border since Aug. 13, after he crossed into Mexico and declared an antique shotgun to Mexican customs officials.

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1 posted on 12/21/2012 6:58:33 AM PST by alancarp
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To: alancarp

Sweet Home Al Obama works in mysterious ways...


2 posted on 12/21/2012 7:00:51 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: alancarp

Thanks be to God. I hope he was healed of the trauma that the war has brought upon him. God works in mysterious ways.


3 posted on 12/21/2012 7:10:17 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: alancarp

G-d willing, this is true.


4 posted on 12/21/2012 7:10:25 AM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: alancarp

5 posted on 12/21/2012 7:11:12 AM PST by COBOL2Java (kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
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To: alancarp

With all due respect to the Marine, I can not even imagine going to mexico and even less so with anything they might consider jailing one for.

There are places you just don’t go unless it is for battle.


6 posted on 12/21/2012 7:12:01 AM PST by soycd
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To: alancarp

Evidently it took over four months for Mexican leadership to scrape together enough functioning brain cells to determine you don’t declare a weapon to authorities, if you have evil plans, or are doing anything other than what you think you are required to do by the letter of the law.

Confiscate the gun. Expel the individual. Hash the ownership out over time. Don’t imprison the guy for four months.

Talk about stupider than a jumping bean...


7 posted on 12/21/2012 7:13:45 AM PST by DoughtyOne (How about a waiting period for putting crazies out on the streets, say a million years or so.)
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To: alancarp
This may have had something to do with it: Mexico threatened with travel boycott until veteran freed

Hit them in the pocketbook.

8 posted on 12/21/2012 7:14:53 AM PST by COBOL2Java (kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
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To: alancarp

Gotta give FoxNews some kudos on this.

They’ve been pushing it hard and I doubt the lefty media would have even glanced at a Marine carrying a weapon into a foreign country—other than maybe applauding his arrest.


9 posted on 12/21/2012 7:22:34 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: alancarp

Many US citizens are jailed in Mexico every year for firearms violations. The Mexicans will arrest for even minor things like parts to firearms or ammunition, very fanatical. This is well known on the border and the crossing near me has huge signs warning everyone headed to the border. My cousin guided hunters on hunts in Mexico for 40 years, had all the proper paperwork for firearms- was arrested on one trip anyway. My cousin knew some important people in Mexico and was released in 4 days- he decided to never return to Mexico. Having the right paperwork for one group does not mean other officials will recognize it. Mexico really is a third world country.

At the mercy of Mexican authorities there is no common sense to any part of the process.


10 posted on 12/21/2012 7:22:55 AM PST by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: alancarp

I’m sure Obama put this off until this weekend.


11 posted on 12/21/2012 7:24:02 AM PST by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: COBOL2Java

Awesome! ‘Bout time we put some muscle behind it.... though frankly, avoiding travel to Mexico is just a good idea in general.

Big props to the Congressmen/women (out friend Duncan Hunter among them) who took up the cause. His cause was finally gaining momentum this week.


12 posted on 12/21/2012 7:24:29 AM PST by alancarp (Liberals: making promises that no one's wallet can keep,)
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To: alancarp

Oh, thank God! What a relief for him and his family; Great!


13 posted on 12/21/2012 7:25:58 AM PST by dsutah
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To: alancarp

Oh, thank God! What a relief for him and his family; Great!


14 posted on 12/21/2012 7:26:22 AM PST by dsutah
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To: maddog55

I have still not seen Obama’s name associated with this case in any manner.


15 posted on 12/21/2012 7:27:22 AM PST by alancarp (Liberals: making promises that no one's wallet can keep,)
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To: Tammy8

Tammy, or anyone else, how strict are the gun laws in Mexico for their citizens and how is the enforcment?


16 posted on 12/21/2012 7:27:26 AM PST by roofgoat
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To: Steve Newton

Hope this is true.

Praise God if it is! Big answer to prayer.

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17 posted on 12/21/2012 7:27:55 AM PST by 444Flyer
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To: DoughtyOne

Payback for Fast & Furious, I would guess. Maybe it was all the talk about Americans boycotting travel to Mexico that brought them to their senses.


18 posted on 12/21/2012 7:28:03 AM PST by Sioux-san
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To: alancarp

Doiint business in Mexico has serious consequences, too. Investing in Mexican property carries unexpcted prices.


19 posted on 12/21/2012 7:29:56 AM PST by OldNavyVet
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To: maddog55

Actually, by mentioning that abhorrent occupant of the White House, you just reminded me that I needed to change my tagline.


20 posted on 12/21/2012 7:30:07 AM PST by alancarp (Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
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