189 – “Marine One”

IN DEFENSE OF COMMON SENSE
By Hetty Gray

# 189

June 20, 2014

“Marine One”

Isn’t it odd that a person who depends upon one particular branch of the U.S. Armed Services ignores the fact that one of them — a veteran of two tours in the Middle East — suffers mightily in a Mexican prison after a wrong turn at the California border.

It is irrefutable that the Marine Corps boasts some of the most talented and heroic fighters among all our troops, and that is not to take away from those who serve among the other branches.

Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi made a mistake. He had walked into Mexico and returned to get his car to return to California where he was undergoing treatment for PTSD. The turn back to the United States was very poorly marked. Instead of allowing him to turn around, authorities arrested him.

When Mexicans — even armed ones — make the same mistake and end up in the US by accident, we simply turn them around and send them back home. But what did the Mexicans do in this case? They throw Tahmooressi into prison, give him barely enough food to survive, beat him and treat him as if he were a prisoner of war in a third world country.

Today we learned that our president actually spoke to the president of Mexico. Sadly, the synopsis of subjects released to the press did not have among the topics the immediate release of our Marine. I wonder if he would have even made the call at all without the outcry of people across this nation about the thousands of minor children coming into the country.

After all, it was the policy of this president to take in children, wasn’t it? He is more than willing to lay another burden on taxpayers and ignore the gargantuan benefits of the Keystone Pipeline. Oh, yes, he will think about it. Well, he has had six years to think about it and what good has that done?

Everyone who reads this column should email or call the White House to demand that the sergeant be brought home immediately. Flood their switchboards and their servers. Make noise, folks. It is up to us to do something. Evidently, nobody in government at the highest levels seems to be doing a thing.

Unless there is a “hot potato” on his plate, the president is much more interested in fund raising than “hell raising.” I can’t imagine John Kennedy (a decorated WWII Naval officer) or Ronald Reagan (the patriot in chief for eight years) would have wasted a New York minute to do something.

What kind of advisors work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today? Evidently, they are more in tune with inviting high profile entertainers to the White House than attending to an international scene. At every turn, the old modicum of common sense is not only rare, it is completely lacking.

To put this in perspective, the president and his minions now move against the owner of the Washington Redskins to take away his team’s name but do nothing about an American soldier held against his will in awful conditions. Yes, readers, now the federal government is going to try to force a business to change its name — all that even though the Redskins’ name roots with its first coach, Lone Star Dietz, a man who claimed to have been born on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Note, too, that Dietz often posed in profile with full feather headdress, mirroring the team logo today.

How sad. It is more important for our president and his cronies to impose the views of a slight percentage of a minority group and force a business to lose millions of dollars than to ask Mexico to release one of our own. Remember, too, that Mexico not only consistently flaunts our laws, but it also looks the other way as cartels and thugs prowl its states and openly fire on our border patrols. Consider all that, plus the incessant movement of illegal drugs and who knows what kinds of terrorists across our southern border.

Demand that Tahmooressi come home. It is time to act. It’s about time that Marine One not only describes the helicopter that routinely lands on the White House lawn. It’s time that Marine One is Job One for President Obama. Call the White House. Flood its switchboard with emails. Let the White House know you are listening. If not you, who? Think about it.

IN DEFENSE OF COMMON SENSE
By Hetty Gray

# 189

June 20, 2014

“Marine One”

Isn’t it odd that a person who depends upon one particular branch of the U.S. Armed Services ignores the fact that one of them — a veteran of two tours in the Middle East — suffers mightily in a Mexican prison after a wrong turn at the California border.

It is irrefutable that the Marine Corps boasts some of the most talented and heroic fighters among all our troops, and that is not to take away from those who serve among the other branches.

Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi made a mistake. He had walked into Mexico and returned to get his car to return to California where he was undergoing treatment for PTSD. The turn back to the United States was very poorly marked. Instead of allowing him to turn around, authorities arrested him.

When Mexicans — even armed ones — make the same mistake and end up in the US by accident, we simply turn them around and send them back home. But what did the Mexicans do in this case? They throw Tahmooressi into prison, give him barely enough food to survive, beat him and treat him as if he were a prisoner of war in a third world country.

Today we learned that our president actually spoke to the president of Mexico. Sadly, the synopsis of subjects released to the press did not have among the topics the immediate release of our Marine. I wonder if he would have even made the call at all without the outcry of people across this nation about the thousands of minor children coming into the country.

After all, it was the policy of this president to take in children, wasn’t it? He is more than willing to lay another burden on taxpayers and ignore the gargantuan benefits of the Keystone Pipeline. Oh, yes, he will think about it. Well, he has had six years to think about it and what good has that done?

Everyone who reads this column should email or call the White House to demand that the sergeant be brought home immediately. Flood their switchboards and their servers. Make noise, folks. It is up to us to do something. Evidently, nobody in government at the highest levels seems to be doing a thing.

Unless there is a “hot potato” on his plate, the president is much more interested in fund raising than “hell raising.” I can’t imagine John Kennedy (a decorated WWII Naval officer) or Ronald Reagan (the patriot in chief for eight years) would have wasted a New York minute to do something.

What kind of advisors work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today? Evidently, they are more in tune with inviting high profile entertainers to the White House than attending to an international scene. At every turn, the old modicum of common sense is not only rare, it is completely lacking.

To put this in perspective, the president and his minions now move against the owner of the Washington Redskins to take away his team’s name but do nothing about an American soldier held against his will in awful conditions. Yes, readers, now the federal government is going to try to force a business to change its name — all that even though the Redskins’ name roots with its first coach, Lone Star Dietz, a man who claimed to have been born on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Note, too, that Dietz often posed in profile with full feather headdress, mirroring the team logo today.

How sad. It is more important for our president and his cronies to impose the views of a slight percentage of a minority group and force a business to lose millions of dollars than to ask Mexico to release one of our own. Remember, too, that Mexico not only consistently flaunts our laws, but it also looks the other way as cartels and thugs prowl its states and openly fire on our border patrols. Consider all that, plus the incessant movement of illegal drugs and who knows what kinds of terrorists across our southern border.

Demand that Tahmooressi come home. It is time to act. It’s about time that Marine One not only describes the helicopter that routinely lands on the White House lawn. It’s time that Marine One is Job One for President Obama. Call the White House. Flood its switchboard with emails. Let the White House know you are listening. If not you, who? Think about it.

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