Posted on 04/05/2019 4:55:05 AM PDT by tom paine 2
Complaints from media critics of the Trump administration prompted a leading hostage rights group to withdraw its historic “Freedom Award” to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his, and President Trump’s, successful efforts to free political prisoners around the world.
The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, named for the journalist beheaded in 2014 by ISIS forces, had announced that at its dinner Tuesday night at the National Press Club Pompeo would receive the “2019 Foley American Hostage Freedom Award.”
The award was to recognize Pompeo and the administration’s focus on freeing Americans held prisoners around the world, a campaign that has topped the president’s foreign policy agenda and inspired the appointment of a “special presidential envoy for hostage affairs
Does the Foundation think that copkiller Mumia Abu Jamal is a hostage?
I don’t think my paesano gives a damn.
But it’s the PRINCIPLE.
So I will.
Hey, that was a good idea suggesting that and posting the link.
I had one of those once :)
Beat ya .... albeit through ‘PJMedia’!
WTF?!
This kind of soviet style oppression MUST come to an end.
Not taking emails. LOL
I went to their website and they tout “Inspire moral courage, one person at a time.” I e-mailed them: “How can pussies inspire courage. Shame on you.”
just called- memory is full...will keep trying later..
I’d be willing to bet Mike Pompeo don’t give a damn.
Bkmk
McGurk was just a diplomat. Pompeo is Secretary of State.
Msg sent.
At this point in history Mike Pompeo is the man i’m keeping an eye on to become president after President Trump in 2024.
Soooo, the Foley Foundation is not about honoring those who free hostages. It is about honoring social justice warriors who seek to imprison free people. Who knew? This is one more example of the Trump administration ferreting rogues out from under rocks.
The organization is doing everything it can to make people hope James was in great pain.
There's your problem, right there.
The pogrom against those not on the left continues.Well deserved reward becomes irrelevant when it’s so easily manipulated I.E. Nobel Peace Prize
Meanwhile the REEE gets louder as 2020 looks to be a breeze for Trump while the candidates in the communist party eat their own and harm themselves.
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