Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi has been in a Mexican prison for over three months because he got lost in California and mistakenly got to the border. Upon crossing so that he could have a place to turn around, Tahmooressi told the Mexican border guards that he was carrying licensed firearms. He ended up in prison for bringing "military grade" weapons into Mexico. Since that arrest, the Obama administration has done nothing to try to obtain the release of this decorated combat veteran (who was in California for treatment for PTSD from which he was suffering after two deployments in Afghanistan). So, to sum up, Tahmooressi mistakenly drove into Mexico where he told authorities that he was carrying a rifle that was legal and licensed in California and he ended up in prison with Obama doing nothing about it.
Now let's go back a few years. Remember Fast and Furious? That was the operation run by the federal government through agencies of the Justice Department that purchased over 2000 assault weapons in the USA to smuggle to Mexican drug cartels supposedly to track the weapons back to the cartels. The end result of this effort was a multitude of weapons making their way to Mexico, scores of dead police and others in Mexico and the murder of American border guards all using these weapons. That's 2000 military grade, automatic assault rifles illegally smuggled into Mexico under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder. So far, no one has been arrested for this fiasco either in the USA or in Mexico. Indeed, so far, no one at the Department of Justice or the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms has been disciplined in any meaningful way for what is clearly a heinous crime.
Can you square these two events?
Indeed, can you understand how president Obama can keep silent about Sgt. Tahmooressi? With Bowe Bergdahl we were told that America leaves no one behind. What's the story with Tahmooressi? All I can suppose is that there must be two lists of problems kept at the White House. One secret list has all the crises and problems and scandals that demand the attention of the president. The other list -- the one made public -- has next to nothing on it. It just has a title, namely, "What, me worry?" That's really not fair. Even Mad Magazine would never have described a president as disconnected and disinterested as Obama. It would have been just too unbelievable.
Now let's go back a few years. Remember Fast and Furious? That was the operation run by the federal government through agencies of the Justice Department that purchased over 2000 assault weapons in the USA to smuggle to Mexican drug cartels supposedly to track the weapons back to the cartels. The end result of this effort was a multitude of weapons making their way to Mexico, scores of dead police and others in Mexico and the murder of American border guards all using these weapons. That's 2000 military grade, automatic assault rifles illegally smuggled into Mexico under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder. So far, no one has been arrested for this fiasco either in the USA or in Mexico. Indeed, so far, no one at the Department of Justice or the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms has been disciplined in any meaningful way for what is clearly a heinous crime.
Can you square these two events?
Indeed, can you understand how president Obama can keep silent about Sgt. Tahmooressi? With Bowe Bergdahl we were told that America leaves no one behind. What's the story with Tahmooressi? All I can suppose is that there must be two lists of problems kept at the White House. One secret list has all the crises and problems and scandals that demand the attention of the president. The other list -- the one made public -- has next to nothing on it. It just has a title, namely, "What, me worry?" That's really not fair. Even Mad Magazine would never have described a president as disconnected and disinterested as Obama. It would have been just too unbelievable.
No comments:
Post a Comment