Andrew had been in San Diego seeking treatment for his diagnosis of PTSD. On March 31st, he had parked his truck that held all his belongings, and walked across the border to find a cheap motel room, thinking he could save $50 bucks. After seeing the condition of the room, he decided to leave and stay at a friend’s house in San Diego. Back in his Ford pickup, and on US soil, he drove out of the parking lot and he took a wrong turn. It was dark and to add to the confusion, some of the roads that he may have been able to turn around on were closed due to construction. When he reached the border of Mexico, he signaled a Mexican official that he needed to turn around. Instead, he was waved forward. He explained that he didn’t mean to be there and that he had gotten lost. He also told them he had 3 guns, (legal firearms,) and showed them where they were in his truck. He said, “Its a mistake for me to be here, can I just go back to the border?” 5 minutes later he was surrounded by 20 Mexican military and police officials. He was charged with gun smuggling.
Andrew was in San Diego seeking help for PTSD. During his time in Afghanistan, he suffered a severe concussion when an IED upended the vehicle he was in. Besides PTSD he also suffers from a directional dysfunction, where he gets lost even when traveling on familiar roads. A serious head injury could explain why Andrew had forgotten that he had made a 911 call, at the border, which could have aided in his defense weeks earlier. The call can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otghW_grR7Y
Mexican officials had reported that he never said he was lost.
In prison, he had been threatened with rape and death by prisoners. Feeling hopeless he tried to escape, which led to him being shot at by prison guards, and then badly beaten by the guards, and chained naked to a cot. We don’t know who inflicted the knife wound to his neck yet.
Normally, our State Department would handle this. Secretary of State, John Kerry hasn’t even addressed this officially. A spokeswoman with the State Department said that while on a trip to Mexico during the week of May 22nd, 2014, Kerry “raised the issue” What in God’s name does that mean? With who, when, how? How come he hasn’t been released?
I know that Kerry has been plenty busy. He had to dodge a subpoena to appear before the Benghazi Oversight committee, (sticking to our Military everywhere, btw), He has been ‘Re-energizing ties with India,'. He has publically called on Edward Snowden, to “Man up and come back to the United States”. And he has been interviewing with PBS defending Obama’s foreign policies by saying,"I don’t think the President, frankly, takes enough credit for the successes that are on the table right now,” and he brought up the‘foreign policy successes in Ukraine, Syria, and Iran’ as an example, (more on those lies another time.) He goes on to say, “I think we are as engaged, more engaged than in any time in American history, and I think that case is there to be fully proven and laid out,” When confronted that Americans don’t buy into that, he blamed the media and the republicans, and responded, “… the reason is, there is a general, frankly, not fully informed, not factual conventional sort of process that gets played out in the media.” And he refers to the republicans as the “industry in Washington”~ (opposition reflected in Congress that questions Obama’s leadership.)
One would think that being the President of the US would hold some kind of power and respect among some other Countries in the world. Mexico is supposed to be one of our allies after all. How about a phone call from the West Wing to President Enrique Peria Nieto asking for Andrews’s release? At this point, I would even be ok with a photo op of the phone call, with Barry’s feet up on the presidential desk. How come this true, American Hero doesn't warrant a phone call from the President of the United States?
Perhaps because this Hero isn't a gay athlete? Just Saying.
US Marine Andrew Tahmooressi
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