Posted on 12/14/2012 4:30:02 PM PST by raptor22
Foreign Relations: A veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan is chained to a jail bed for months after trying to register a souvenir rifle with Mexican authorities, and the Obama administration does nothing to correct this injustice.
Since August, Jon Hammar, a former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been held in a notorious Mexican prison effectively run by the Zetas drug cartel. His crime: declaring to Mexican authorities that he was transporting an antique shotgun after registering the gun with U.S. Customs agents on his way to a surfing trip with buddies in Costa Rica.
We can understand the silence of mainstream media and Hollywood liberals who hold candlelight vigils every time a cop-killer is sent to death row. But ignoring a Marine vet suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome jailed on his way for some R&R is astonishing.
On Aug. 23, Hammar and a friend, another ex-Marine, were on a road trip to Costa Rica where they planned to spend several weeks surfing and recovering from the psychological toll of combat. Hammar had just completed treatment for post-traumatic stress.
At the Brownsville Port of Entry, Hammar told U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents he was carrying a shotgun that once belonged to his great-grandfather. The .410-bore Sears & Roebuck model had been handed down through the generations and was for Hammer a link to his heritage.
The gun was barely suitable for shooting birds and rabbits; his wife called it a "glorified BB gun." Yet Mexican authorities insist a crime has been committed and the weapon is a serious threat, largely because the gun barrel, as they measure it, is longer than 25 inches.
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I think the law there requires that the barrel be longer than 25 inches.
According to Mexican law he is not being wrongly held and Mexico has a right to enforce its own laws.
On the upside, Mexico is corrupt and there is some monetary price that his family can pay to buy his freedom.
Where the hell are the clowns from the ***holes’ Civil Liberties Union or their pals, the “immigrant advocates”. If we had a drunken Mexican National who had whipped out a whole family in a head on locked up in one of our country club jails, those clowns would be raising hell!
It’s because he’s worth nothing politically. If Jay-Z was caught in Mexico with an ‘unregistered hand gun’, my bet is that Obama would have him back in the USA within 24 hours.
His problem is that he is a white boy.
If he were black Obama would be on top of this.
God,he’s young.
I pray for his release.
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Why didn’t Mexico just deny him entry? Where is Hillary? At her hairdresser? Not a word out of Obama. But he sure had time to thank the Eagles for taking Vick and inserted him in Michigan’s local issues, the Zimmerman case, and lots of other things in which presidents usually do not get involved.
Obama Ignores Ex-Marine
Why would any American in their right mind go to Mexico?
God help this young man. I know Obama won’t.
The Creep-In-Chief will have another American death to celebrate and uvulate on while he passes out candy.
Sounds like most gun laws -- just another scam for turning honest citizens into criminals...
Stupid qwerTY keyboard...
The contrast is quite stark. The Mexican government defends Mexican murderers and rapists in the U.S., yet the U.S. won’t defend an American who gets caught on a technicality in Mexico, while it simultaneously gives amnesty to millions of illegal Mexicans. If we’d had a GOP candidate who’d wanted to win this past year, he might have used this. Obviously we didn’t.
The contrast is quite stark. The Mexican government defends Mexican murderers and rapists in the U.S., yet the U.S. won’t defend an American who gets caught on a technicality in Mexico, while it simultaneously gives amnesty to millions of illegal Mexicans. If we’d had a GOP candidate who’d wanted to win this past year, he might have used this. Obviously we didn’t.
Should have had an AK-47 — and told them he was an ATF gunwalker...
Folks
The Silver Star Families of America is all over this. We sent our first package to the Lance Corporal today.
We are in direct contact with the U.S. consulate and are making some head way.
We could use some help though. Go to silverstarfamilies.org
If you wish to know who to write, push the FREE HAMMAR button.
I assumed that despite his contempt for our military, Obama would intervene for PR reasons. Apparently, despite having an abysmally low opinion of Obama’s patriotism, I have underestimated the communist’s malice. Barack Hussein Obama hates our military so much that he would be willing to lose at least a little of his popularity if that means hurting a United States Marine.
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