Posted on 06/09/2014 6:12:13 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Mexican officials apparently are floating the possibility that jailed Marine Andrew Tahmooressi could avoid a lengthy prison term, if -- and only if -- he blames the entire episode on post-traumatic stress disorder.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., revealed the development in a letter sent Monday to Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos.
Relaying the details of discussions he's had with Mexican officials on the case, Hunter wrote: "It was conveyed to me that the only way Andrew can avoid an extended prison sentence is by stating that PTSD was the reason for his mistake."
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..and the end of NEVER LEGALLY owning a firearm again!!!
oh yeah that’s right from Obama...
PTSD=Not allowed to own guns
Why cant we give them 5 of their illegal aliens for our one American hero ???
gosh we could even let em have 5 MILLION for our one American hero
I think the Mexican govt is just having a helluva good time jerking our chain. If we had a real President he would have put a stop to this carpola weeks ago.
Shut down the CA-Mexican border until he is released.
Meanwnhile, Obama is getting himself into another delicate situation thanks to his inability to do the right thing.
Never a good idea to plead guilty , especially if you aren’t. The fact that John F’ing Kerry hasn’t made a phone call to end this tells me everything I need to know.
Shut down the CA-Mexican border until he is released.
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That’ll shut down Chevy and Dodge , they both have plants there ... good idea.
How about we swap Mexico 10 million of their citizens for him?
Even when you live next to United States and depend on it for your survival, the U.S. can’t think of any way to pressure you.
We have decades of this pretense that we don’t have the upper hand with Mexico and countless ways to mess with their bottom line.
It’s hard to believe that we used to exert pressure on even the Soviet Empire.
Instead we keep retiring to our fainting couch, in helplessness.
A few well placed C notes would do the same thing
Almost certainly the PTSD suggestion is coming from the Obama administration. Mexican prosecutors do not care one way or the other about PTSD in American soldiers.
If anyone thinks the Obama administration and the Mexican authorities have not already for some time discussed this case extensively, then they misapprehend the situation.
Very likely this is what Obama has signaled to the Mexicans how he would like this case to be handled.
My guess is that the judge and prosecutor are looking for a way to take a bribe without appearing to do so.
He’s already playing the PTSD benefits for life card. The Mexicans didn’t come up with this idea for an end strategy out of thin air.
How about we’ll allow you to live if and only if you fork him over by noon tomorrow? 12:01 it’s hell fire.
Let’s go get him and kill thousand of those bastards doing it — NOW. This makes me puke. We trade 5 Sunni wahhabi leaders for a POC traitor, disserter, fraternizing joke (in my opinion) and say “No man left behind” and we have 4 men left behind (AND I MEAN IN THE BEHIND for Stevens) and we leave a hispanic MARINE COMBAT VET behind in mexico?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? and our veterans can’t get health care while thousand of fat medical bureaucrats go home at 4 pm. This is madness!!
Obama hasn’t made PTSD an automatic firearms rejection. Yet.
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