Obama Breaks The Law...Again

[Busybody]

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WH Petition To Free Marine Tahmooressi From Mexico Prison Reaches 100K Online Signatures


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The White House has to validate the signatures before taking action.

Via Red Alert Politics


A petition on the White House website asking President Obama to demand the release of a Marine sergeant in a Mexico prison has garnered more than 100,000 online signatures — a threshold that typically elicits an administration response.

“The effect of this unjust incarceration on a decorated combat Marine is despairing,” says the petition, which as of Saturday afternoon had 116,051 signatures.

Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi was arrested March 31 after crossing the Mexican border with three guns in his truck.

Tahmooressi said he accidentally crossed the border and immediately told Mexican authorities that he had three guns in his possession and that he was unable to make a U-turn.

 

[miles]

Obama freed him, cause like Obama, he is a traitor

Fellow Soldiers Call Bergdahl A Deserter, His “Selfish Act” Cost Lives




Not only are they saying he deserted, but that he was ‘seeking out the Taliban’ and that after he was ‘captured’, suddenly IEDs and ambushes against his unit were more accurate and successful…

Great piece by Jake Tapper -why were his fellow soldiers made to sign “non disclosure agreements not to talk about his disappearance’? What the heck is going on there?


(CNN) – The sense of pride expressed by officials of the Obama administration at the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not shared by many of those who served with him — veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter whose “selfish act” ended up costing the lives of better men.

“I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on,” said former Sergeant Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl’s platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. “Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him.”

Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

A reporter asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Sunday whether Bergdahl had left his post without permission or deserted — and, if so, whether he would be punished. Hagel didn’t answer directly. “Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family,” he said. “Other circumstances that may develop and questions, those will be dealt with later.”

If he is indeed a deserter The Fraud will push for him to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

 

[Busybody]

Sec of State and VA Chief!!!!!!!!

and HE is a desserter

 

[miles]

Still nothing but crickets from the libs about The Fraud breaking the law.

 

[Sean Renaud]

If he is indeed a deserter The Fraud will push for him to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Why would you even joke like that?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

From a full reading of this thread, one thing jumps out at me and that is that the Broken Window Theory of Bastiat is not just for economics. The Left and fans of President Obama look only at the broken pane and see the release of our POW taking great pride and joy in the accomplishment, as we all do. However, if one then proceeds from that point and ponders the parallel question to who would have gotten paid if the glazier did not, then you hate America and only want President Obama to look bad and and you are a faux patriot and then we get into the name-calling aspect of the "discussion" from those whom have the temerity to label themselves as "polite."

 

[miles]

From a full reading of this thread, one thing jumps out at me and that is that the Broken Window Theory of Bastiat is not just for economics. The Left and fans of President Obama look only at the broken pane and see the release of our POW taking great pride and joy in the accomplishment, as we all do. However, if one then proceeds from that point and ponders the parallel question to who would have gotten paid if the glazier did not, then you hate America and only want President Obama to look bad and and you are a faux patriot and then we get into the name-calling aspect of the "discussion" from those whom have the temerity to label themselves as "polite."

Some people have a limited capacity to process information, if you catch my drift.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

As smooth as Tokyo Drift...

 

[miles]

As smooth as Tokyo Drift...

It all comes back to their inability to admit that The Fraud has ever done anything wrong. For the past six years they've convinced me they'll support anything - anything - he does. That's frightening.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It all comes back to their inability to admit that The Fraud has ever done anything wrong. For the past six years they've convinced me they'll support anything - anything - he does. That's frightening.

Politics has become team sport with an actual bet for your identity group, it seems almost everyone has some skin in the game, even a redskin, for when his team loses, and it always does, he gets a little less take home pay and another little tax when he tries to spend said pay...



Let's go back to zero bitch,
I'll give you half of everything I owe!

 

[miles]

Before he leaves office I wouldn't be surprised to see the start of government funded "Obama Youth" training with the participants wearing his trademark rainbow armband.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The humanitarian aspects of Bergdahl’s release aren’t in dispute. Everyone is very glad he is back home. But there is real question as to whether he is a hero or a deserter. Significantly, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pointedly declines to say whether he believes that Bergdahl was attempting to desert the Army or go AWOL when he suddenly left his unit in Afghanistan in 2009 and disappeared. E-mails he sent prior to his capture surfaced in 2012 in Rolling Stone and indicated that he had been considering desertion.

But Hagel says those facts are immaterial to the decision to engage in the controversial prisoner swap. “Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family,” he told reporters. “Other circumstances that may develop and questions — those will be dealt with later.”

What also will have to be dealt with later is that the Obama White House says the exchange was part of what one official calls “a broader reconciliation framework” between the U.S. and the Taliban, who harbored the terrorists of 9/11 back in 2001. But even some White House officials privately admit there is a risk of emboldening other terrorists to kidnap U.S. troops or citizens in an effort to spring other prisoners. Still, they also claim that the prisoner swap will pay foreign-policy dividends.

We’ve heard such rationalizations before. In the 1980s, the deep personal anguish President Ronald Reagan felt over Americans taken hostage in Lebanon was the spark for what became the Iran-Contra scandal, which descended into a sordid, illegal arms-for-hostages deal. Reagan later admitted to a national TV audience that he had made a serious error in letting his heart override his head. Other misguided Middle East peace initiatives include the first Bush administration’s 1991 Madrid peace conference, which resulted in closer ties between Iran and Palestinian terrorists, ties that persist to this day.

But the Democrats who crucified Reagan for his efforts to free the hostages — and let’s recall that the hostage crisis was considered by all as urgent and acute at the time — have been cheerleaders for Obama’s prisoner swap. Democrats in Congress seem to think that the law requiring congressional consultation for prisoner swaps, a law many of them voted for just a year ago, is a mere encumbrance, and that violating it was not only justified but admirable in the circumstances.

John Fund, NRO

This is a good summation of what several of us have tried to say amid all the cat-calls...

 

[miles]

"Democrats in Congress seem to think that the law requiring congressional consultation for prisoner swaps, a law many of them voted for just a year ago, is a mere encumbrance, and that violating it was not only justified but admirable in the circumstances. "

That says it all.

So typical of The Fraud's Regime to pick and choose which laws to follow based on what is most convenient for them.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In his 1966 poem “The Incredible Bread Machine,” R. W. Grant described an entrepreneur named Tom Smith who ran afoul of a power-seeking Justice Department. When Smith appears before the judge, he asks plaintively why he has been singled out. The judge looks down on him and intones:

The rule of law, in complex times,
Has proved itself deficient.
We much prefer the rule of men!
It’s vastly more efficient.

In its prisoner swap, the Obama administration has yet again veered away from its responsibility to uphold the former and given way to the latter.

The growing evidence that the Obama administration can’t be trusted to respect the rule of law is one of the biggest obstacles it faces in securing the support and confidence not only of Congress but of the American people.

John Fund

 

[miles]

If this is true it will be another one of The Fraud's massive fuck ups.
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"Various sources from Bergdahl’s unit, the 501st Airborne Infantry are reporting in around the Web with this information:

PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA from our unit who died looking for Bergdahl. Many others from various units were wounded or killed while actively looking for Bergdahl."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/06/obamas_bad_trade.html

 

[Ishmael]

Prisoner swaps are not all that unusual between combatants in declared wars. There is a long history of precedence there. But the operative phrase is"declared war". A state that just doesn't exist between the United States and the Taliban.

Arguably this 'swap' grants the Taliban 'legal combatant' status, a status that they have not enjoyed heretofore and brings into question the ability of the US to hold ANY of the illegal combatants currently being held at Gitmo. It further sets a precedent that future president faced with future conflicts between US forces and illegal combatants will have to live with.

The questionable conditions under which Bergdahl became a prisoner to begin with is just icing on a poison cake.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

How many will the Five kill in the future is just as relevant a question, but let us not cast aspersions upon our brave President, for his intentions and his heart were in the right place; our soldier is back and he is that much close to keeping his first promise as President, to close Gitmo.

It is a two-fer and a real feather in his cap.

 

[miles]

How many will the Five kill in the future is just as relevant a question, but let us not cast aspersions upon our brave President, for his intentions and his heart were in the right place; our soldier is back and he is that much close to keeping his first promise as President, to close Gitmo.

It is a two-fer and a real feather in his cap.

Those are bird droppings on his cap, not a feather.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Prisoner swaps are not all that unusual between combatants in declared wars. There is a long history of precedence there. But the operative phrase is"declared war". A state that just doesn't exist between the United States and the Taliban.

Arguably this 'swap' grants the Taliban 'legal combatant' status, a status that they have not enjoyed heretofore and brings into question the ability of the US to hold ANY of the illegal combatants currently being held at Gitmo. It further sets a precedent that future president faced with future conflicts between US forces and illegal combatants will have to live with.

The questionable conditions under which Bergdahl became a prisoner to begin with is just icing on a poison cake.

Ishmael

Good point and as I just posited, with this new status, it will be easier to unleash the inmates upon Kabul and thus another victory lap will be there to be had with the closing of Gitmo...

 

[miles]

Prisoner swaps are not all that unusual between combatants in declared wars. There is a long history of precedence there. But the operative phrase is"declared war". A state that just doesn't exist between the United States and the Taliban.

Arguably this 'swap' grants the Taliban 'legal combatant' status, a status that they have not enjoyed heretofore and brings into question the ability of the US to hold ANY of the illegal combatants currently being held at Gitmo. It further sets a precedent that future president faced with future conflicts between US forces and illegal combatants will have to live with.

The questionable conditions under which Bergdahl became a prisoner to begin with is just icing on a poison cake.

Ishmael

All that aside, The Fraud broke the law. His administration openly admited it.

 

[Ishmael]

Good point and as I just posited, with this new status, it will be easier to unleash the inmates upon Kabul and thus another victory lap will be there to be had with the closing of Gitmo...

He could have achieved that with trial by Military Tribunal and executions.

All that aside, The Fraud broke the law. His administration openly admited it.

But his heart was in the right place.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Executions would send the wrong message to the Religion of Peace.

 

[miles]

Executions would send the wrong message to the Religion of Peace.

We'd only make them mad and they wouldn't like us anymore.

 

[Ishmael]

Executions would send the wrong message to the Religion of Peace.

Ahhh, but what's the message and from whose mind did it spring?

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We cannot afford to offend them.


*snicker* They might get violent...