Posted on 05/25/2014 7:08:09 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Andrew Tahmooressi, the Marine sergeant and combat veteran jailed in Mexico since March 31 when he inadvertently crossed the border (missing a confusing turnaround point in the road), has a history of severe head trauma and was reportedly recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
In the nearly two months since his arrest, he has been held shackled in a cell, first at the notorious La Mesa Prison in Tijuana and now at the federal prison at El Hongo.
Tahmooressi reportedly slit his own throat and tried to escape while held in Tijuana and was then chained to his bed by all four limbs.For someone like Sergeant Tahmooressi, who has a history of PTSD, after serving two tours in Afghanistan, being held in prison could easily spark severe psychiatric symptoms now, and chronically. One way to think about PTSD is to imagine that the mind has failed to compartmentalize stressful memories from the past. Recollections of friends dying violently or other horrific scenes of violence -- all too frequent in war -- are not, when PTSD is present, relegated to memory banks that a person accesses voluntarily. They reverberate too close to the surface of consciousness and can cause paranoia, hyper-vigilance or panic with even minimal (or no) current stresses. The traumatic experiences can also leak out as flashbacks to terrifying scenes one has lived through.
This means that Sergeant Tahmooressi could misinterpret skirmishes in the jail as impending combat. He could truly believe he is unarmed and about to die. He could believe, many times a day, that he is about to be executed.
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That is why they want to ban guns, so THEY have the guns so they can kill us..WE outnumber THEM, we always have to remember that
The folks in charge in Mexico simply AREN'T getting enough "mordidas" for him. Bribery, folks, that is what it will take. Trust me on this. BRIBERY. That is how their system works!
All it will take is
Bribery will work.
Bribery will bring him back.
That is how their system works.
I'm in for $500.00!!
HAH! You can't be serious!!! Why would HE care about a Marine? He and the Marine are two completely different SPECIES!!!
Don't you mean kissybutt?
I'm afraid you are correct, Sarah.
This is beyond outrageous. A little corrupt pee pot of a country is pushing us around with impunity. Other Americans are being held overseas with nary a whisper from this damn regime.
Go get this honorable American now. Must we muster a posse to free this American ourselves? Is that what America has become—impotent incompetent bananaville!
This is reaching a fast boil for me. Obammy exit your stretch limo lurking there in ghettocago, kick out your rapper criminal party buds and for once act for America. America may not be your country in mind body or spirit—but do something meaningful—its been six years boy wonder.
Where is the CinC?? Step forward any day now.
I’m surprised a bunch of ex Marines haven’t taken that prison apart.
There should be huge signs at the border warning drivers they are about to enter hostile territory and their government won’t help once they cross the border.
he is being kept on bread and sugar water...wonder what we feed Mexican prisoner in our jails?
Where the heck is our state department or the president for that matter???
Oh yeah I forgot.... golf is more important
Sounds like a good idea, but I’m afraid the gov’t goons might just shoot all the citizens. They don’t want to be embarrassed again after the Bundy ranch incident. They can’t allow civil disobedience.
You mean after being diagnosed with PTSD by the VA they didn’t come and immediately confiscate his guns? Is the VA not doing its job? Obama needs to fire Shinseki./s
Or the government shutdown fiasco? I'm sorry, but I do not fear by government, I certainly encourage my government to fear me and mine. I don't think they'd be stupid enough to imagine opening fire on civilians with television copters overhead. This isn't the Bundy ranch, this is a major metropolitan area that isn't exactly friendly to liberal agendas.
Sounds like a good motivator to get this idiotic situation resolved. Protestors against the Gulf shut down I-5 going into Seattle for 2 hours and shut down the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge causing massive traffic jams. It is time these Big Government geniuses get out of the cocktail parties and start doing their jobs.
Easy way to get him back. Tomorrow morning, ICE rounds up every illegal they can find and starts shipping them back across the border. They tell Obama to piss off.
At noon, construction crews start building fencing on farmers land. Force Obama and the administration to either bring our marine home or explain to the American people why illegals are more important than our troops.
Republicans should already be on this.
I’ll wager that it is a helluva lot more than that,
“Dictate terms. That’s how this should work.”
Yes, a red line in the sand!
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