Obama Hates Guns In Civilian Hands And The United States Marine Corps
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 4 months ago
After a lengthy hearing in Tijuana for a Marine reservist jailed since April 1 on weapons charges, a judge Wednesday declined to throw out the case as urged by U.S. politicians and instead scheduled another evidentiary hearing.
Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, who served two combat tours in Afghanistan, was arrested after crossing the border at San Ysidro with a rifle, shotgun, pistol and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his pickup truck.
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Some 74 members of U.S. Congress have called on the Obama administration to work with Mexican authorities to gain Tahmooressi’s release.
On the eve of Wednesday’s hearing, Rep. Lee Terry (R-Nebraska) and Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-California) wrote to the Mexican judge, Victor Octavio Luna Escobedo, reminding him that Tahmooressi is “a Marine Corps veteran who risked his life for his nation and his fellow Marines.”
His case, the two wrote, should be “favorably resolved on the basis that he made a simple mistake at the border.”
Mexican officials have stressed that while the Mexican judicial system is different from the U.S. system, it shares one key characteristic: Cases are not decided by political pressure.
Yea, let me tell you about a pressure that would in fact work. Shut down the border to all commercial traffic and let that Mexican produce rot in the hot sun, while the Mexican truck drivers go unpaid. Begin lining the trucks up at the border – Tahmooressi would be released within a day.
But Obama won’t do that, because he hates the United States Marine Corps. The USMC does things like fight Islamic insurgents in the Anbar and Helmand Provinces, and fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Obama hasn’t the least bit of interest in that sort of thing.
But he gets to double dip on this one. Obama doesn’t believe that Sgt. Tahmooressi should be able to have those guns anyway, and he certainly won’t tell the Mexicans not to enforce their gun laws, mistake or not. This isn’t about justice. Besides, creating problems with the Mexicans would just get in the way of his plans to add voters to the rolls of the DNC and bring about the end of the middle class in America.
From Obama’s perspective, a Marine is on trial for having guns and his trial isn’t subject to the laws of America, which Obama hates. What’s to dislike about this?
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On July 15, 2014 at 8:00 am, Paul B said:
Fundamental Change. We are so far down the tubes now I don’t see many ways back. The takers hate the makers and will do everything in their power to destroy them. then they will be crying foul when no one is left to take anything from.
What ever happened to personal integrity. that mountain is looking better every day.
On July 15, 2014 at 11:06 am, Bobbye said:
“70 And now I will not have you say that justice is duty or advantage or profit or gain or interest, for this sort of nonsense will not do for me; I must have clearness and accuracy …. I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger …. Forms of government differ; there are tyrannies, and there are democracies, and there are aristocracies. . . And the government is the ruling power in each state. . . And the different forms of government make laws democratical, aristocratical, tyrannical, with a view to their several interests; and these laws, which are made by them for their own interests, are the justice which they deliver to their subjects, and him who transgresses them they punish as a breaker of the law, and unjust. And that is what I mean when I say that in all states there is the same principle of justice, which is the interest of the government; and as the government must be supposed to have power, the only reasonable conclusion is, that everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.” Thrasymachus (fifth century BCE)
74 members of U.S. Congress is about 14%. Mexico must conclude that the other 86% of the US Congress is just fine with Sgt. Tahmooressi being in a Mexican jail. It is to the benefit of the US government to leave him there. Obama is just one man. Almost all members of the US government are ok with the Sgt. staying in Mexico.
On July 15, 2014 at 3:32 pm, steve618 said:
This veteran could just as easily have been arrested by California Highway Patrol had his “arsenal” been discovered during a routine traffic and one of them did not meet CA’s strict assault weapon guidelines. Rather ironic. The Mexican police are no more draconian than our own.
On July 19, 2014 at 6:20 pm, zeus234 said:
I agree stop all trade at the border, and if these Mexican officials think that matters shouldn’t be decided by political pressure,we meet the illegals and turn them back verboten,not just Mexican but all of them,give them to Mexico.
On July 21, 2014 at 10:19 pm, Martel733 said:
How about a prisoner trade we will round out 30 million illegals and trade for one marine.
On July 22, 2014 at 9:38 am, robertsgunshop said:
Obama hates the Marines. OK. I know a lot of Marines past and present that have no use for him either. I think we should sent a Battalion of infantry grunts down there and bust him out. They cross our border in helicopters and fire on our Boarder Patrol, Tit for Tat.