Posted on 03/29/2012 11:04:16 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The grieving parents of two British teenagers who were killed while on holiday in Sarasota, Florida in April, 2011, received justice this week; their murderer, Sean Tyson, was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder and awaits sentencing. But the pleas from the friends and families of the murdered teens for public acknowledgement of the tragedy from the President of the United States have gone unanswered. Before the Obama presidency, it would have been considered ludicrous for the White House to weigh into every politically relevant criminal act – but the president has invited this criticism by elevating several local controversies to national scandals for political gain.
James Cooper, 25, and James Kouzaris, 24, were killed in April of last year by the remorseless Sean Tyson. Led into an ally and shot several times for not having enough cash for Tyson’s liking. This week, Tyson was convicted. Justice, in this case, was done.
But the family and friends of the murdered teens have been reaching out to President Obama for weeks for him to weigh into the case. They have been met with silence and are now lashing out at the White House.
Two friends of the teens, Paul Davies and Joe Hallett, spoke for the grieving families outside the Florida court house where Tyson was convicted. “We would like to publicly express our dissatisfaction at the lack of any public or private message of support or condolence from any American governing body or indeed, President Obama himself,” Davies told the press. “Mr. Kouzaris has written to President Obama on three separate occasions and is yet to even receive the courtesy of a reply.”
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The British vote was bought with a 1st Round NCAA game and a Hot Dog.
“This story doesn’t appeal to white guilt, without which 0bama isn’t president.”
Besides aO Bama and the MSM doesn’t want the Negro Community to think badly of themselves and that they are Ethically Challanged...bad for self-esteem.
The WH finally responds:
“If you’re a whitey, you can bite me.”
If you’re black, I’ve got your back.”
BO (raised by whiteys so no Negro accent)
Sorry Cooper family, Kouzaris family and friends of those families. Obama does not care about your loved ones because they didn’t look like they could be his sons.
Their kids just didn’t look enough like Obama’s (real or imagined) for him to notice or care. Too white and too British.
Tell the Brits that the Pres. don’t give a rat’s rear end for white people, he’s only concerned about black people.
All one has to do review his first term.
And finally turning his life around...
Again, I don’t think they really care about the self-esteem of the black community as much as they want to continue the myth that the cultural dysfunction they live in is caused by the “other”/whitey and maintain the loathing, and thus the dependence.
I read yesterday that he has already been given a life sentence and that he was not eligible for the death penalty because when he committed the murders he was 16 years old.
They took a lesson from obamacare, where for insurance reasons, children are children until they are 26 years old.
It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
Their social safety net is more advanced and has “progressed” farther than ours. We are in a race to catch up with them.
The families should count it a blessing Teh Won has ignored them. His standard “punches beyond their weight” when speaking of/with “allies” would seem inappropriate for this occasion, so whatever else came out of his mouth would likely be stranger still. Take it from those who care - American citizens - we are sorry so many of our youth are killers.
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