First Photo of Marine Jailed in Mexico Sent to Family From Anonymous Mexican Email Account
Chained to a bed in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons, Marine veteran Jon Hammar is seen shirtless with a look a despair on his face in a new photo sent to his family from an anonymous Mexican email account.
“His eyes look a little lost,” Hammar’s mother, Olivia, told Fox News Latino. ”It doesn’t look like him. I feel like my blood pressure is through the roof.”
Hammar and a friend were detained by Mexican authorities in August for a gun-related incident. The two men had crossed the border and provided the paperwork for the weapon they were carrying, an antique shotgun. However, police eventually impounded their RV and jailed both men, claiming it was illegal to carry that type of gun. Hammar’s friend was later released because the gun did not belong to him.
Fox News Latino has more details on the newly released photo:
The photo shows Hammar in solitary confinement inside the Matamoros state prison, nicknamed CEDES. A scraggly looking Hammar is seen shirtless and barefoot with a beard, jean shorts and with his feet over what appears to be grey crocs. He is sitting on an old twin-sized mattress in a room with chipped walls. A gallon of water and a refrigerator are seen to his right. Hammar is staring at the person taking the photo and does not appear to have any visible injuries.
It is the first photo released of Hammar since he and a friend were detained by Mexican authorities in August.
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According to Hammar and his family, the gun was an antique shotgun that had belonged to his great grandfather.
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The charges against Hammar appear to be over a technicality. Mexican prosecutors allege the length of Hammar’s shotgun barrel, which according to Mexican law has to be longer than 25 inches, was too short, although a discrepancy has emerged over how the barrel was measured.
The photo was reportedly sent anonymously from a Yahoo.mx email account.
“I found your email on the Internet and I wanted to send you this photo…I am not giving you my name because I like my job and I don’t want to lose it. Juan is OK but I hope he is let out quickly,” the email read in Spanish.
Hammar’s mother claims she and her husband, Jon, have received phone calls in the middle of the night from prisoners trying to extort money from them. But she thinks the photo comes from “someone trying to help.”
But who exactly sent the recent photo is still a mystery.
“Where he is in the prison, he’s right next to the administrative offices…All of the inmates, staff, all of the visitors walk right by there. So anyone could have taken the photo,” the mother told Fox News Latino.
At age 18, Hammar enlisted in the Marines and was deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq where his unit provided security for Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, protected election polls and disrupted insurgent cells.
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Comments (113)
SDAJumpmaster
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:59pmAm I the only one seeing Mexico in violation of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo? They repeatedly send infiltrators across our borders (some disguised as families, to be sure), the allow their terrorist citizens in the form of cartels to kill innocents on both sides of the border, and now they holding a US Citizens, furthermore a Marine Veteran, wityhout due process or recourse. These are acts of war. We should revert to the territories prior to the Treaty, with the US owning everything north of Guatemala and take back our $17,000,000.
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NoLongerNonPlussed
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:06pmI’ll vote for that!
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Mustanger
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:48pmWhen I mention the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, all i get is a blank look. then I get a reaction when I bring up “Dancing With The Stars”. I wonder if we could rally enough Vets to go get him?
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
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FieldJudge
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 12:37amMarine veteran Jon Hammar will sit chained to his rack in a filthy Mexican jail cell, his health and life in constant real danger …until BO needs yet another crafty political diversion. Look for the MSM lackeys paving the way for the WH once again. It is only then this brave US Marine will be freed.
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Youth Culture Report Mike
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 1:08amPlease sign the petition and pass it on.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/help-bring-jon-hammar-home/VLpNf47b
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ThankGodNotAmerican
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 2:18amSDAJUMPMASTER: Before the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo all of that territory belonged to Mexico. Before that, to the Spanish Empire. I am sure Mexico would be happy to take that territory back if that is what you propose.
You SIr, and your little friends, are a good example of the American stupidity the rest of the world laughs at.
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Michael
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:08amMission accepted.
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pstOFFmarineRECON
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 9:22amI am in. I may be an old man but I think I can get him out.
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mcb1776
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 11:24amI am down for a little “trip” to Mexico. I speak spanish. The hardest part would be getting the hardware necessary to extract him. And I mean, it is Mexico! One can likely just buy an AK-47 or better off any street corner for a fairly decent price. Heck, one might even be able to get their hands on some of the AR’s that Eric Holder sold them. Would it not be ironic? American guns, sold to Mexican criminals, and used to free a kidnapped Marine. Almost sounds like Tom Clancy!
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Duddio
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:18pm@Thankgodnotamerican:
Dude, We conquered all of Mexico in the Mexican-American War, We captured Mexico CIty!! When you get your ass kicked in war, you could lose ALL your territory! After winning the war, we negotiated terms to our present-day borders. When nations go to war, the losers don’t get to choose the terms, even though we paid for the territories we wanted and the Mexican government agreed.
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jdsound
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 5:48pmYou do that then we will have to take all the Mexicans with it.
Sounds like the current administration will allow him to set for the next 4 years, but after BO is finished with the country, he might be in a better place with free food and a bed.
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Razer_edge_deathwish
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:52amAgreed
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Nevermind
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:56pmBronx
Moron really, That’s the best you can come up with, without reading or better yet understanding the story. Now please read again and just try to understand, and if you can’t understand the story, you my friend are an Obama voter.
“Hammar and a friend were detained by Mexican authorities in August for a gun-related incident. The two men had crossed the border and provided the paperwork for the weapon they were carrying, an antique shotgun.”
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None of what you said matters, good for them for providing paperwork but it doesnt change the law. It is illegal to bring a gun into Mexico, period. All the marine had to do was research on the US Consulate office and he woudlve known that it was agasint the law. So regardless of showing paperwork it is illegal. Thats like me brining a kilo of drugs across the border, just becasue i show it to you doesnt make it any less illegal.
I am a former USAF war vet and have seen Marines in action alot. You basically need to be able to write your name and you can be a marine. Perhaps if he would ” do his own research” he wouldnt have these problems. Marines arent known for their brains
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NoLongerNonPlussed
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:10pm@NEVERMIND
I too am an Air Force vet. You are an embarrassment to all veterans.
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jungle J
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:05pmNevermind..hate and mean spiritedness define you..hope you are sterile.
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Techcon
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:30pm@Nevermind–you!
American’s hunt in Mexico all the time, stupid.
Two long guns per hunter and 40 rounds of hunting ammunition per firearm are permitted by the Mexican government for each hunter to bring–listed on paperwork filed.
Regions of Mexico have fallen under total control by narco-traffickers, making these matters difficult to resolve as they operate outside legal convention.
Try doing a little research, Jesus.
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Salamander
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:44pmWait a minute! You mean it is AGAINST THE LAW to bring firearms into Mexico? Well, what about FAST and FURIOUS? Why aren’t the criminals who put that program in place sitting in a Mexican prison???
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wesinLR
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:01am@nevermind.. really should know the FACTS before you go talking like you know it all… it was not the fact he had a gun… it was how long the barrel is..
I have worked with USAF people.. and you sir must have been last in your class .. cause the people i have worked with were top notch and knew facts before talking… so glad you did not serve near me i may not have made it home…..
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AJBrad
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 10:13amYou, sir, are a fool. I also am an Air Force vet, and have seen many Marines in action. I am here to tell you that there are no finer men and women in this world. I made many friends of marines while stationed in Okinawa, and 30 years later I still keep in contact with them. They are BRAVE people, and far from stupid! You must be one of those who use the words duty, honor, country, or patriot as a punchline. You say they are stupid? They did the paperwork with the Mexican govt. The paperwork was approved by some sort of official, or they wouldn’t have had the gun. Another official does not recognize the approval of the first one, so the Marine goes to prison. I see the Marine doing nothing stupid there….I see the usual Mexican bureaucracy being stupid, and of course you being stupid by maligning the Marine.
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forthepeople
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:54pmShould be eric holder instead !
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bdsconserv
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 1:55pmabsolutely! he’s the real criminal.
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gz22ll
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:44pmIf a US jail or prison did this to a Mexican national in the US there would he holy hell to pay and front page news day after day.
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CanadaRocks
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 1:10amIf you dont think there a ton of mexicans in jails in the US on bullcrap charges, you are one sad fool.
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starman70
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:17am@ CANADAROCKS:
If you call murder, drug dealing, rape, homocide by drunk driving, armed robbery and home invasions
“Bullcrap Charges”, you must be living in a bubble. Mexicans and other gangs from Latin America are causing mayhem every day here, especially in major cities across America.
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Razer_edge_deathwish
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 1:28amEver scene a Mexican in a U.S Jail or Prison? If not let me inform you they think they are in a 5 star Time Share ! Laughing and smiling when they stand in the main line its a vacation for them. Don’t get it twisted.
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IdahoBlaze
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:39pm@ Everyone: It’s a shame that this guy is in jail in Mexico. Since August. We should bring him home. Right AFTER we bring BOWE BERGDAHL home. He’s been held by the Taliban since June 30, 2009, and he is still THERE. We went and got that doctor after he’d been gone 5 days. Lots of folks want the SEALs to go after this kid and bring him home. Please, PLEASE don’t forget Bowe! He hasn’t had a birthday, Christmas, or Thanksgiving with his family in THREE YEARS. Can you help get his word out?!
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:23pmWell, obama leaves today for his 20-day multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded, luxury vacation in Hawaii … But, I’m sure when he gets back, he’ll jump right on this …
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chips1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:47pmI’m thinking, prisoner swap.
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Ramv36
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 3:42amA prisoner swap would actually be a great idea. Here are the terms: Mexico takes possession of and agrees to incarcerate until the end of their legal sentences all Illegal aliens in Us prisons, and we take our Marine back.
Goodbye Illegal aliens = goodbye fiscal cliff!
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momrules
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:17pmThis Marine is not high priority for the Obama gang otherwise they would brig him home today. Look at how long Bowe Bergdahl, an active duty soldier, has been missing. No one in this administration has ever mentioned him. Bowe is hardly ever talked about on the news and the one time I did hear a discussion about him it was on Fox.
, months ago.
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IdahoBlaze
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:42pm@ Momrules – Thank you for mentioning his name! I’m friends with Bowe’s parents. He is loved and missed here in Idaho. Please help spread awareness! I’m trying to put up a billboard in DC with his name, face, and stats – please go to http://www.bringbowehomewod.com to see. Thank you for all you do to keep his name in the public eye!
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momrules
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:57pmIDAHOBLAZE…………I have been spreading the word about Bowe for two years now. I went as far as putting * WHO IS BOWE BERGDAHL* on the back window of my Expedition which has garnered some interest and questions. I still have the message on my truck. I called several Houston radio talk shows trying to get the hosts to start a conversation about him. None of them were aware of him and were not interested.
He remains in my prayers. Please tell Bowe’s parents that there is a woman in Texas who prays for them and their son.
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cdn1979
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:14pmhe took a weapon across an international border and got caught. what on earth was this guy thinking? especially mexico. did he think they would be supportive of more weapons coming over their border. i think they already have enough. your right to bare arms stops at an international border. than it just becomes illegal. break the law, pay the price. you thought a mexican prison would be nice? moron!
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Bronx
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:34pmMoron really, That’s the best you can come up with, without reading or better yet understanding the story. Now please read again and just try to understand, and if you can’t understand the story, you my friend are an Obama voter.
“Hammar and a friend were detained by Mexican authorities in August for a gun-related incident. The two men had crossed the border and provided the paperwork for the weapon they were carrying, an antique shotgun.”
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aquablue
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:55pmHe’s young and probably didn’t think much of it when he did it. Open your mind and heart a little. You are harsh…would you want to be talked about that way? The guys is paying a BIG price for this.
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hpyagl
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:52pmAt least these guys were trying to obey Mexican law by presenting the proper paperwork for that antique shotgun. Do you think Obama and Holder presented the proper paperwork for all those modern “assault” rifles they sold across the Mexican border during fast and furious?
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Nevermind
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:01pmWhat he did was against the law, anyone can go on US Consulate website and see clearly it is against the law to bring any firearm into Mexico. If you want ot hunt you have to file with SEMARNAP which he didnt do. I am a former war vet myself but that doesnt give me any protections from going into a foreign country and breaking the law. It sucks he is in jail but it couldve been easily avoided.
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spfoam1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:26pmHe was stupid to go there at all, but that doesn’t excuse holding him for ransom. Don’t go to mexico at all, and don’t buy any products from mexico.
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Gerewolf
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:06pmHe did register with the Mexican authorities, it’s when they found out that he was a former armed services member that they went back and nabbed him just over the border. He took all of the correct steps, he stopped and declared it at the border, they just don’t obey their own laws in Mexico.
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spfoam1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 7:21pmThis is state sponsored kidnapping for ransom.
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:00pmIf we don’t send seal team six in …….TONIGHT ……we don’t deserve to survive as a NATION…PERIOD……WE HAVE BEEN NUETERED……..CASTRATEDED……..WE SUCK……WE SUCK .
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:26pm“WE suck?” You have a mouse in your pocket P BOY? I believe there’s more to this story than just some poor former Marine who did this and didn’t do that. Mexico sucks too, but I’d hold off on SEAL TEAM 6 for the time being. If you don’t want to end up in a Mexican jail… stay the he77 away from there, especially if you’re carrying a weapon of any type for whatever the reason regardless if you’re forme Military or whatever. It’s like the jack wagons who go to Iran and Iraq to supposedly hike and wind up in their jail system.
Stay away from Mexico… period. They have nothing to offer that you can’t find right here….
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:35pmYeah Barry let that marine rot in a Mexican prison you sick sob.You’re too busy milking the massacre in Newtown to get that marine out of that hell hole?
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elosogrande
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:59pmWant to solve this problem in a hurry. Tell the Mexican government that we will return ten thousand illegal Mexicans to Mexico every day until they release this kid, and that we will count the days retroactively from the day he crossed the border. He’ll be back in a heart beat. Mexico does not want even one of their people to return.
By the way. Saw Gerry Rivers, a.k.a. Geraldo Rivera on Fox the other day. Rivers, who would like you to think that he knows everything about EVERYTHING, made the statement that he had been in many Mexican prisons and knew for a fact that these Mexican prisons would NEVER chain a prisoner to his bed. Hhmmm…check the photo. Sometimes I get the feeling that Gerry Rivers doesn’t have any idea what he’s talking about…he just talks.
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Zurich
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:27pmThe problem is that this prison is controlled by Los Zetas and the Gulf cartel and not by the government. I believe that these criminals want weapons from Obama in exchange for the Marine.
The cartel got used to Fast & Furious and Obama hasn’t been delivering lately………this is why our President is silent at the moment and not doing anything to save the life of our guy.
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PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:44pmOn Huckabee Geraldo referred to our prez as the “Healer in Chief”….
Sick SOB
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taintso
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:56pmThey want a ransom, we got over 12Million ransoms worth at least a peso apiece, we should send all we got.
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JRGJR
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:01pmBreak out the zippered bags.
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BetsyRoss1513
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:56pmAnd these very same ‘people’ wonder why we don’t like them very much……
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rp454
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:55pmThis is a travesty.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:54pmShouldn’t that be Barry Soetoro and Holder chained to beds?
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whatthecrazy
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:54pmI would hang that photo in my gameroom as a dart board.Bet i could peg em in thier muslim eyeballs.
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angelstarz
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:44pmThis happened in AUGUST….why are we just hearing about it NOW? Evidently the gov’t doesn’t want to save this marine or they’d have done it just in time for the elections. Something is seriously off about this (about our gov’t lack of response to it). surely if he was told he could take the gun across the border, they could explain that there was a misunderstanding through no fault of the marine’s.
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JRGJR
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:58pmAnd where is our president?? If it had been an assault rifle they would have thought it was a delivery from OB.
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AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:44pmHe defended us, now it’s our turn to defend him. Mr. President, go get this guy.
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Shasta
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:53pmObama won’t even rescue (have the special forces rescue) his political friends in Libya. With O’s track record, surely his going on a multimillion dollar taxpayer funded vacation in Hawaii rather than doing his job, is no surprise to anyone.
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spfoam1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:43pmThis is SOP for mexican jails. They hold US citizens for ransom, on bogus charges. I hope this Marine gets out of there alive and unharmed. Don’t go to mexico or buy any products from mexico.
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FlowerBell
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:47pmI do that and I add China to the list. If I need something and all I can find are made in China or Mexico I go to a thrift store or yard sale and try and buy an old made-in-America one. Giving my money directly to an American or American business, not to China and not to Mexico.
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taintso
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:39pmHolder and Hillary would look good in that photo.
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Jim in Houston
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:49pmI would add Barry to that list.
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QuincySmith
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:59pmReplacing (not next to) Mr. Hammer.
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TXVET48
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:38pmThe Mexican government is looking for something from the USA. Why arrest the marine with the one antique shotgun when there are thousands of Cartel controlled/Holder gifted weapons down there the police are doing nothing about.
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spfoam1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:45pmThat would be Marine with a capital M, and mexico with a small one. Thank you.
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Charbet
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:00pmIt is all about power and squeezing yet more money out of the good ol’ USA. This should not be happening! Hillary should have her azz down there right now demanding his freedom! OMG, this bunch in DC could give a crap about any American, especially our military personnel and veterans!
I would share ore of my thoughts but I can’t see the keyboard for the blood shooting out of my eyes!
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OldHM2_MidshipmanDaddy
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:36pmLet’s go get this guy!
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:42pmThat’s what I’m talking about. Send in the Marines.
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GuardianoftheWolves
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:13pmDamn right !!!
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whatthecrazy
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:36pmGod bless him,it must be hard beyond word to want your freedom and the very Country that you have fought for will do nothing for you in your time of need. Sad to say if he were muslim our fierce leader(cough cough puke puke ) would already have him home.Traitor……………
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The-Monk
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:31pmGeez, he’s chained up by his ankle?
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:48pmHi MONK, yeah, his mother reported that fact much earlier in the news on Fox. I haven’t seen this on any of the other news stations.
Frankly, having listened to our trolls since Friday, this is how they want all of us gun owners to be treated. Probably with larger chains though.
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:24pmWhy do we (the govt) bend over backwards to try to get 4 hippie back packers out of Iran, but nothing for this Marine in Mexico??
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dublinthewagons
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:40pmCan you say FAST & FURIOUS.
B.O. administration has no friends but Islam and communist.
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Frederick_Douglass_Republican
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:03pmI suspect the backpackers may have been CIA. Naw – I’m sure they were hippies. If they were CIA he would have let them rot in prison.
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DaveIn84
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:05amYep
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:24pmIs this how our president let’s his service members languish?
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copatriots
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:39pmIt is how THIS president does. If 0bama can’t spring a Marine out of a Mexican jail, he isn’t fit……
Oh, forget it…..we all know 0′s agenda is to weaken our military.
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spfoam1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:52pmObama couldn’t care less, and Hillary is too busy covering her big fat azz to get involved.
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