William and Mary Student Notes the White House’s Indifference Towards Veterans
Elizabeth Marcello has written a new post for the College Conservative which is worth your time.
If I were driving and took a wrong turn, one of the last places I would want to end up is Mexico. Yet this is exactly what happened to Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Marine who served in Afghanistan and suffers from PTSD, on the way to San Ysidro in California, which is a mere 1.7 miles from the Mexican border. TheBlaze uncovered a 911 call Andrew made shortly before being arrested in which he expressed he thought he accidentally turned into Mexico and was concerned. Unfortunately he encountered the Mexican authorities who arrested him upon realizing he held three guns in his truck, accusing him with the intent to sell.
Jill Tahmooressi, his mother, received a phone call from him that night. Andrew was under the impression it was going to be his last night on earth; a gang was threatening to rape, torture, and execute him, but somehow he was able to escape the prison. Andrew was recaptured the next day and consequently held in solitary confinement, with his arms and legs shackled to a bed. He has been held since March 31.
Jill and a number of Republican lawmakers have pressed Secretary of State John Kerry to get involved, creating a petition to the White House to have him released. The White House is not required to respond until 100,000 signatures are obtained.
I encourage everyone to sign this petition, but the reality is that our signatures should not even be necessary. Why is it that us common citizenry seem more concerned about the safe return of a war veteran than our Commander in Chief himself? And why is this story not being covered by the majority of the American media? If you search Andrew Tahmooressi’s name, the entire first page is filled with several links from The Blaze, one link from CNN, one link from Boston.com, and a few from Fox News, with a special report from Greta Van Susteren.
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The Judaeo-Christian underpinning of America, the Constitution, the military, American citizens who are not of the color and philosophy he finds desirable, towards all of these things has Obama demonstrated indifference. His State Department ignores the plight of a Marine, even as he encourages Mexicans of all stripes to enter the country at will and demands that American public schools educate all these illegals (I focus on Mexican because Mexico has stringent immigration laws with severe penalties for illegal aliens, thus ensuring that the lawless invaders are predominantly Mexican or those who can pass as, with the help of coyotes). Obama has enough leverage to spring the Marine, but he won’t. After all, the guy is an American Marine, a vet. In th same way Obama will not exercise himself to get the badly beaten and tortured Pastor Abedini sprung from jail in Iran. In the same way Obama will not move a finger to get The heavily pregnant Meriam Wani and her two year old son, who will likely be raised a slave, out of Sudan.
Obama cares about himself. America elected a narcissistic sociopath and is paying the price for it,
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