STELLA PAUL: 32 GRIEVING PARENTS WITH ABSOLUTE MORAL AUTHORITY OVER OBAMA: STELLA PAUL ****SEE NOTE
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How come our president did not think any of these young victims “could have been his son?”…..rsk
I know you’re busy writing to your friends to ask them to skip your birthday present this year and send the cash to Obama, but I just want to interrupt you for a minute to introduce you to 32 parents who probably won’t be fundraising for Obama anytime soon.
Kent and Josephine Terry are the parents of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who sacrificed his life protecting ours. Last week, they spoke up for the first time with a message to Obama, who has asserted executive privilege to hide documents on Operation Fast and Furious.
When asked what they’d say to Obama and Eric Holder, Kent Terry replied, “I probably couldn’t say on camera what I’d like to say to them. But I’d say get their heads out of their butt anyway.”
(Please don’t share this quote with the “important” gay activists whom Obama invited to the White House, where they ran riot, kissing and exposing their middle digits to Reagan’s portrait. They might get too excited.)
Brian Terry was murdered in December 2010 with guns from Obama’s Fast and Furious program, which is politely (and fictitiously) described as a botched gun-tracing operation. Somehow this “botching” resulted in the most violent Mexican drug cartels being armed with thousands of assault weapons, which they used to slaughter 300 Mexicans and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
I’m not buying that Obama ever had any interest in reining in Mexican gangs. I think he and Holder looked across the border and said, “Hey, violent drug cartels with a bottomless capacity to launder cash and growing ties to Hezb’allah and Iranian terrorists. Those are our kind of guys!“
Which brings us to Mary and Amador Zapata, the parents of slain ICE agent Jaime Zapata. Last week, the Zapatas filed a $25-million wrongful death claimagainst the government.
Jaime Zapata was ambushed in a roadside attack in Mexico in February 2011, while working for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Highly informed sources say that Zapata was investigating Fast and Furious at the time of his murder.
The Zapatas’ lawsuit claims that Jaime Zapata informed his supervisors that he had misgivings about the safety of his trip but was ordered to go anyway. “All of these legitimate concerns were put aside … and agents Avila and Zapata were required to follow orders,” the lawyers wrote.
But, of course, Obama’s withholding of Fast and Furious documents from Congress via executive privilege is all about “the principle of the matter,” as spokesman Jay Carney asserted last week, with an admirably straight face. Obama’s heart is pure as the Chicago snow.
Next, I’d like you to meet Daris and Janet Long, the parents of the late Private William Long. In June 2009, 23-year-old “Andy” Long was murdered at an Army recruitment center in Little Rock, Arkansas by an American-born Muslim convert. Daris, an ex-Marine, is on a grief-stricken mission to see his son awarded a Purple Heart, since he was killed on active duty in a jihad-inspired attack.
But good luck with that in Obama’s regime. The purported commander-in-chief threatened to veto the 2012 Defense Authorization Act, because Congress had inserted a clause awarding Purple Hearts to Andy Long and the 12 murdered soldiers of Fort Hood.
Obama delights in handing out awards to those he deems worthy: why, just a few weeks ago, he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Delores Huerta, honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, which describes itself as “the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.”
But Obama is not terribly keen at recognizing the sacrifices of those who serve. (Although to be fair, he did tell troops stationed overseas, “You guys make a pretty good photo op.”)
Obama’s Department of “Justice” declined to press federal charges against Andy Long’s murderer, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe. Instead, the murder of a uniformed soldier on Army property was treated as a drive-by shooting. Similarly, the murder of 12 soldiers and a civilian at Fort Hood was deemed a state-level offense of “workplace violence,” despite the passionate jihadist proclivities of alleged shooter Major Nidal Hasan.
A riveting new documentary, Losing Our Sons, tells the story of Daris Long’s quest for justice for his murdered son, and of Melvin Bledsoe’s determination to expose the government’s negligence that ruined the life of his promising son. Melvin, an African-American small business owner in Memphis, sent Carlos to Tennessee State University in Nashville. There he was recruited by radical Muslims, who sent him to a terrorist training camp in Yemen and brought him back to murder Andy Long.
Mike Huckabee featured Losing Our Sons on his Father’s Day show on Fox, saying, “Get your friends and your family to see it. It opened my eyes to some things, and I thought I was fairly informed. And it is powerful. It is a gut punch.”
When a mentally unbalanced bereaved mother named Cindy Sheehan theatrically pursued President George Bush for months after her son Casey was killed in Iraq, she was proclaimed to have “absolute moral authority” by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
Well, I hereby proclaim the absolute moral authority of the Terrys, Zapatas, Longs, and the parents of the 13 men and women murdered at Fort Hood.
Maybe these bereaved mothers and fathers should take inspiration from Cindy Sheehan and join together for some attention-grabbing theater inside the Democratic National Convention. Considering all the anxious politicians beginning to bail out, they should find plenty of empty seats.
How about it? Why not make some noise and raise some hell? America is on your side.
And to prove it, let’s all go to www.losingoursons.com and sign the petition to award a Purple Heart to Private William Long and the Fort Hood soldiers now.
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