Posted on 05/21/2014 9:26:01 AM PDT by raptor22
Priorities: A Marine Corps combat veteran remains in a Mexican jail after missing a freeway ramp and crossing the border with legally owned American firearms — without a single hash tag from the White House.
It is a tough time for veterans these days, starting with those left to die — or even commit suicide — while on Veterans Administration waiting lists, seemingly abandoned by their commander-in-chief who early on promised to make things right and redress their grievances.
Also seemingly abandoned is Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a 25-year-old combat veteran, who was jailed in late March after he missed a freeway exit near San Ysidro, Calif., and drove into Tijuana.
In his trunk, Mexican authorities found three guns that he legally owned in the United States. Tahmooressi was incarcerated in La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, a fate the Obama administration's gun walkers in Fast and Furious never had to face.
At the time of his arrest, the 25-year-old active U.S. Marine reservist, who served two combat tours in Afghanistan, was moving to San Diego to be close to his treatment center for his post-traumatic stress disorder.
Proceedings against Tahmooressi are scheduled for May 28.
Soon after being jailed, Tahmooressi was transferred to a maximum security facility roughly 40 miles outside of Tijuana. After Mexican authorities said he allegedly attempted to escape and suffered a self-inflicted stab wound, he was at one point placed in a jail infirmary with his arms and legs restrained.
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This whole situation is an absolute disgrace. We have become a weak, pathetic nation. Go ahead and tug on Superman’s cape. Nothing will happen.
You can bet the President would be all over tho if it were a pair of minority group Marines coming back from their homosexual marriage who were thrown in jail.
Yeah...Clown Prince nobama and Ms. HashTag (mooch-elle) are really concerned about all Veterans.
-PJ
I refer all to the words of President Theodore Roosevelt -
“Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”
Perdicaris came home pretty quickly.
Obama ran on the notion that the Bush Administration had started a war and then abandoned those he sent to war.
The disgrace is that the MSM ran with that ball, foisted it as a major issue during the 2008 election, and then DROPPED it as soon as he was elected. In other words, this topic like so many others, was really just an election promise, not really an issue to be addressed. And the media let him get away with it.
The reason the media is covering it now, with such vigor, is that they are hoping your average low info voter doesn’t remember their nightly news casts with the number of service members killed or their salivating over Cindy Sheehan on a DAILY basis or the fact that they dropped ALL that anti-war rhetoric as soon as Obama was elected!
The saddest part, they will probably succeed in deceiving most of the low info voters!
What a waste of journalism. NOT News Worthy per the lame-stream media.
Well at least Obama is consistent.
He abandons veterans in every circumstance.
According to the Democrat’s Fairness Doctrine, the return of ONE live US Marine is a Fair, Fast AND Furious Foreign Trade Agreement for Mexico keeping the THREE guns that they stole from the US Marine.
Come on, Secretary of Statements, Kerry, YOU CAN DO THIS!
PRESIDENT
EVER
The only person helping that Marine is his mother. She is down there in Tijuana. She probably is paying for his daily tortillas, soup, and “rent.”
zer0 could care less about this.
I can not even express my disgust for the POS commie bastard.
I haven't seen that hash tag yet from the White House. I wonder why?
Barry, Michelle?
5.56mm
He won’t do anything —— The Marine had one of those nasty “Black Guns” ....
As a side note: The Marine would have had a problem in Kalifornia with those Mags over 10rds.
He won’t do anything —— The Marine had one of those nasty “Black Guns” ....
As a side note: The Marine would have had a problem in Kalifornia with those Mags over 10rds.
But because CNN is not covering this, the CIC will never know of this soldiers situation.
Sign the petition to get Obama to address this:
Mexico just laughs.
Why is it that we let Mexicans come into our country and break laws, but we do not protect our own citizens who are accused of breaking laws in Mexico?
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