Posted on 09/09/2014 12:45:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
What to make of the peculiar situation unfolding just across the border in Tijuana, where U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi languishes in solitary confinement for the crime of mistakenly crossing the border with his personal weapons in his truck on March 31? ADVERTISEMENT
Nothing to inspire confidence, for certain. In fact, Tahmooressi’s ordeal might just confirm many of our worst fears about the Obama administration.
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That he refuses to get involved despite so obvious a brief for doing so—not to mention a legal duty—isn’t just a reflection of his incompetence. It looks more sinister than that. Tahmooressi is a white, male, heterosexual gun owner. The reader will forgive this columnist for thinking that if this were otherwise, his case would enjoy more currency with the president. Right now it looks as if Obama, who has just sent the Justice Department to Ferguson, Missouri, is refusing to act as president of the entire country, intervening only on behalf of those who belong to his party’s constituency groups.
And it fuels the idea that his presidential failure isn’t just what happens when you elected a community organizer to the most powerful job in the world—it’s what happens when someone with that job, unqualified or not, fails on purpose.
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I do not like the sound of those steel doors closing. . . .
“That leaves it to the conservatives and there just are not enough of us to do the job.”
Then we should take care to grow our numbers.
“Please tell me specifically what we should be doing.”
Only what the law allows and thereby commands us to do!
“We don’t have the numbers to do anything.”
Numbers mean less than a stout heart and a reasoned and purposeful force of will!
I am of such a nature as are most here. It is a waste that such men and women are so poorly led, and so sorely abused by the knaves of elective office.
* apologies for the dual response to your original post!
Call up the president of Mexico and tell him to release this man immediately. Nothing else need be said for today. More tomorrow, if needed.
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