Obama finally agrees to follow the law… when it’s a Mexican law.
The White House has responded to a popular petition that demands the release of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi from a Mexican prison, explaining that the Obama administration respects the rule of law and will continue to monitor the situation to make sure the soldier is treated fairly.
More than 134,000 people signed a petition on the White House’s “We the People” website asking the president to demand the release of Sgt. Tahmooressi, who was imprisoned nearly five months ago for illegally crossing from California into Mexico with three firearms in his truck. The Marine maintains that he crossed the border by accident after making a wrong turn on his way to meet a friend. He faces up to 14 years in prison if convicted.
“As in all cases when a U.S. citizen is arrested overseas, our goal is to see that Mr. Tahmooressi is treated fairly during the judicial process with the hope that he can receive the support, both emotional and medical, that he may require now and at the conclusion of the proceedings,” the White House said in an official response Friday.
I can’t imagine Vladimir Putin letting a Russian soldier rot in a foreign jail on trumped-up charges.
A couple of squads of black-clad Spetsnaz in Mi-8 assault helicopters — after politely “asking” once.
Obama is always late to the party, responding only after popular outcry forces him.
What a hypocrite is Barak Obama. He released five dangerous terrorist in exchange for Sgt Berdahl, who might very well have been a deserter and a traitor. The law says he had to advise Congress thirty days in anticiaption. Since he doesn’t like it he can disobey it. The excuse was that his so called captors were going to kill him. You can’t be captured and be a POW, if you leave a note explicitly saying you are leaving to join the other side. Then there were the emails to his family critical of the U.S. and the military. He shared information with the terrorists that may have caused the death of a few of his ex-comrades. If the jihadists were about to kill him, it was not as they did to the journalist Foley. It was because they didn’t trust him. But five muslim hanchos for one measly American foot solder looked good to their side.
Yet Sgt. Tamooressi is in a Mexican prison, where he had been beaten and chained to his bed. He has a medical condition that needs to be treated. Obama should try to get a release for compasionate reasons. If it doesn’t produce results;n if Obama had any “coglioni” he’d instruct the border guards to shoot down Mexican helicoptors that invade our airspace along the border and detain the Mexican personnel. Then call the Mexican President, and demand a release for release of Sgt. Temooressi, if he wants his military personnel released from our custody.
I vote for Roberto above! Great!
I agree with Roberto, too. Considering all the sh*t we let Mexican authorities get away with along the border, we should demand Sgt Tamooressi’s release as a down payment on the price of our lack of enforcing our border with military “mistakes” onto our side of the border. I’ll bet that if the US citizen had been of the right demographic, Holder and company would have gotten him out of there immediately.
“U.S. citizen is arrested overseas”
You mean arrested over the imaginary border.
While I agree with you all, and Roberto, thanks for making such a clear comparison, everyone is missing the point. President Obama is transforming America. Gotta make sure our America-hating traitor gets back so that he can join the transformation effort. What are the odds that a legal gun toting war hero would join such an effort. It doesn’t matter that he’s a veteran now months delayed for his VA health care. He just doesn’t fit into the President’s strategy–transforming America.
I say we fly 22 million illegal aliens back to Mexico in exchange for the marine. If they release him the planes will land in Mexico, if not they will do air drops.