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Our old friend Tahmooressi got busted again

WhackAMolE - 4-12-2016 at 06:29 PM

Busted for weed in Indiana. His second arrest since getting out of Mexican prison for gun running. This is the story that keeps on giving.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/12/andrew-tahmo...

woody with a view - 4-12-2016 at 06:31 PM

Call Greta!

WhackAMolE - 4-12-2016 at 06:50 PM

I just saw the video clip of Greta's comment on this. She was honest enough to mention his DUI arrest last year and she expressed the opinion that Tahmooressi is going to be in and out of trouble until something really bad happens. This is the first time I've agreed with her about this case. If you take away all the political spin, this is a guy who served his country and needs some help that he's clearly not getting. I do wonder why he hasn't gotten any help since he got out of Mexico.

Here's Greta's commentary. http://video.foxnews.com/v/4841523835001/greta-sad-news-abou...



[Edited on 4-13-2016 by WhackAMolE]

4x4abc - 4-12-2016 at 07:30 PM

as reported, he has refused all intervention (help)

mtgoat666 - 4-12-2016 at 08:42 PM

More proof that the marines have lowered their bar and now accept any loser with a pulse.
Why do all the veteran criminals get to blame their misdeeds on ptsd and get a free pass from the hoo rah fan boys?

bajabuddha - 4-12-2016 at 09:10 PM

GOAT AND HARALD:

Either one of you two keyboard commandos ever do combat time? Just askin'.......

4x4abc - 4-12-2016 at 09:55 PM

I did never do combat time (i hate wars) - however, I have been working with soldiers for 25+ years as an instructor (I still hate wars, but I saw it as my obligation to help soldiers survive)
http://specialoperations.com/447/usasoc/

wessongroup - 4-13-2016 at 12:06 AM

Hard to find fault when an individual isn't himself or herself, due to trauma, which has been diagnosed clinically ....

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-...

Give the guy some slack ... Hope he gets better and/or survives





[Edited on 4-13-2016 by wessongroup]

chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 06:15 AM

Why are you all so fascinated with this guy? There are likely hundreds of people busted every day.....

pacificobob - 4-13-2016 at 06:41 AM

Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  
GOAT AND HARALD:

Either one of you two keyboard commandos ever do combat time? Just askin'.......


i have...... and totally agree with goat and harald. ....oh, and don't even think about "thanking" me for "my service". war is a racket;the poor suckers that participate are chumps.

[Edited on 4-13-2016 by pacificobob]

Ateo - 4-13-2016 at 07:19 AM

Arrested for having some "weed" on him? What a joke.

Lives are negatively affected by our stupid drug laws.

Ya know what they used to do to soldiers with PTSD? Call them cowards, blindfold them and put them to death. (WWI) We didn't understand the disorder.

We don't understand marijuana, and we continue to ruin people's lives by arresting them for having weed on them.

Does this get me out of the COOP?

DENNIS - 4-13-2016 at 07:29 AM



Some interesting history on PTSD:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shock-of-war-55376...

mtgoat666 - 4-13-2016 at 07:30 AM

Quote: Originally posted by pacificobob  
Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  
GOAT AND HARALD:

Either one of you two keyboard commandos ever do combat time? Just askin'.......


i have...... and totally agree with goat and harald. ....oh, and don't even think about "thanking" me for "my service". war is a racket;the poor suckers that participate are chumps.

[Edited on 4-13-2016 by pacificobob]


The "poor chumps" that participate are actually the poor that have few other economic choices, or the brainwashed that have bought into the patriotic pablum dished out by the formerly brainwashed, and the 1% who certainly don't allow their children to participate.

war and preparing for war is a racket controlled by corporate America. Corporations lobby for increasing the war machine, and they are the war machine.








Feel the Bern!

chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 08:17 AM

Very profound Goatley....straight out of the blabla book....

DavidT - 4-13-2016 at 08:35 AM



Smedley Butler wrote a blabla book.

chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 08:43 AM

He was a quaker....And a United States Marine....Don't remember him getting busted for pot tho...Dude...

No regrets though

durrelllrobert - 4-13-2016 at 09:54 AM


bajabuddha - 4-13-2016 at 11:14 AM

Quote: Originally posted by pacificobob  
Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  
GOAT AND HARALD:

Either one of you two keyboard commandos ever do combat time? Just askin'.......


i have...... and totally agree with goat and harald. ....oh, and don't even think about "thanking" me for "my service". war is a racket;the poor suckers that participate are chumps.

[Edited on 4-13-2016 by pacificobob]


You sound like your panties are in a bunch over my question. My point is, I gave at the office too.... my credential.....



It hits me deep to the core when Armchair Generals have all the blab about something they know NOTHING about..... even 25 years of non-combatant training, because until you actually DO hunt the most dangerous game in the world, and it tries to kill you, you don't know squat. Too bad all that play-like didn't do him any good, or another several million GI's with night sweats and self-medication problems because there really is no cure. We (I) fought for their (your) right to say most anything you please freely in this Country, including the right to burn the flag as well as fly it. Don't thank me for my service either; it's an embarrassment. However even knowing the gig was a bad one, I still served out of DUTY. If that makes me a chump, oh well.

War is hell..... ask the man who fought one. Let's hope Tamorhoozits doesn't take anyone else with him. He's bound to go to heaven because he's living his own hell right now. Let him be.

DavidT - 4-13-2016 at 11:32 AM

Quote: Originally posted by chuckie  
He was a quaker....And a United States Marine....Don't remember him getting busted for pot tho...Dude...


Just pointing out that he wrote a blabla book.

As for getting busted for pot...
Why would he be busted for something that was legal (albeit with restrictions) when he was alive?


chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 11:36 AM

Other than the fact that you are a dumb chit, why would you bring up Smedly Butler?

durrelllrobert - 4-13-2016 at 11:40 AM

Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  




You sound like your panties are in a bunch over my question. My point is, I gave at the office too.... my credential.....



It hits me deep to the core when Armchair Generals have all the blab about something they know NOTHING about..... even 25 years of non-combatant training, because until you actually DO hunt the most dangerous game in the world, and it tries to kill you, you don't know squat. Too bad all that play-like didn't do him any good, or another several million GI's with night sweats and self-medication problems because there really is no cure. We (I) fought for their (your) right to say most anything you please freely in this Country, including the right to burn the flag as well as fly it. Don't thank me for my service either; it's an embarrassment. However even knowing the gig was a bad one, I still served out of DUTY. If that makes me a chump, oh well.

War is hell..... ask the man who fought one. Let's hope Tamorhoozits doesn't take anyone else with him. He's bound to go to heaven because he's living his own hell right now. Let him be.


TOTALLY AGREE!

chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 11:42 AM

YES

JoeJustJoe - 4-13-2016 at 12:49 PM

What happened, gun-toting, pot smoking, hooker loving, mama's boy, Andrew Tahmooressi, didn't have his Mommy around to bail him out of jail this time.

I don't understand why people defend this loser, Tahmooressi.

That said, what's up in Indiana, that they give a one-month jail sentence for being in possession of a small amount of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.

Even Mexico, and most states in the USA are more progressive than that. Really jail time for a small amount of marijuana!

But then I read that Tahmooressi, was disoriented upon arrest, and he that he was allowed to represent himself and plead guilty, according to his Mama, so I take that with a grain of salt, because his mother will say anything even lie to keep her baby boy out of jail.

If so, Tahmooressi, is even dumber than I thought, and he just was caught up in one backward US state with a kangaroo court.


chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 01:22 PM

Thank you for your input, Mr.JJJ

willardguy - 4-13-2016 at 01:32 PM

I'd like to see this marine's name on the list of banned words here.......that was a dark period in nomadlandia :no:

DENNIS - 4-13-2016 at 04:30 PM


Pedigree..... being there....doesn't come with a guarantee of absolution.
Show me one thing in this victim's record that illustrates heroism.
The military today is a job applied for, and voluntarily accepted, as well as well paid by past standards. All who join aren't entitled to the honorific of "hero."
Some are put in a position to excel toward the definition, but not all by any means. They serve admirably, and are worthy of respectful gratitude, but not accolades for heroism.
The public today, since the end of the Draft, seems inclined to call all military individuals, heroic.
All are not heroic.
I have long had a private issue with military personnel who lay claim as combatants in Nam, wearing the green and gold ribbon here and there, who were chopper mechanics, or office workers out of harms way. I know they were there, but they weren't "down 'n dirty."

Anyway....this Thamooresi is a fraud.
Just my opinion. I wasn't there.

chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 04:45 PM

I doubt anyone here knows enough to make any determination, but there are a lot of people minding his business for him..in total ignorance..

SFandH - 4-13-2016 at 04:51 PM

Regardless of what he's like, nobody deserves a criminal conviction on their record for possessing a bag of weed for personal use. The 30 days in jail is nothing. The criminal record will follow him around for the rest of his life. The judge should have reduced it to an infraction and let him go. Now he's a criminal forever.

chuckie - 4-13-2016 at 05:01 PM

We should have developed a cure for cancer a long time ago...And why cant the jews and arabs get along....Wouldas couldas and shouldas...

DavidT - 4-13-2016 at 06:10 PM

Quote: Originally posted by chuckie  
Other than the fact that you are a dumb chit, why would you bring up Smedly Butler?


It's Smedley

Never thought I'd get to paraphrase a line from Blazing Saddles :biggrin:

Just responding to your post about blabla books to link to one of the premier authors of said books.

LancairDriver - 4-13-2016 at 08:11 PM

Quote: Originally posted by DENNIS  

Pedigree..... being there....doesn't come with a guarantee of absolution.
Show me one thing in this victim's record that illustrates heroism.
The military today is a job applied for, and voluntarily accepted, as well as well paid by past standards. All who join aren't entitled to the honorific of "hero."
Some are put in a position to excel toward the definition, but not all by any means. They serve admirably, and are worthy of respectful gratitude, but not accolades for heroism.
The public today, since the end of the Draft, seems inclined to call all military individuals, heroic.
All are not heroic.
I have long had a private issue with military personnel who lay claim as combatants in Nam, wearing the green and gold ribbon here and there, who were chopper mechanics, or office workers out of harms way. I know they were there, but they weren't "down 'n dirty."

Anyway....this Thamooresi is a fraud.
Just my opinion. I wasn't there.


After 9/11 the meaning of the word "hero" began to diminish drastically as the "true hero's" began to be thrown in with the "rhinestone hero's". Soon every one was claiming the title simply for having weight and occupying space. Vietnam had its share of office clerks coming home with a chest full of medals, and it hasn't changed much since then.
I spent several years in the military and rubbed shoulders with hundreds of troops who volunteered, or were rounded up and drafted, and in all the conversations I can remember, not one ever said they entered the military to "serve their country". I don't think I was in a particularly unpatriotic group. Don't get me wrong, patriotism was seldom in doubt, but most volunteers joined because they had nothing else going and figured on maybe using the GI bill when getting out. The "serve my country" was saved for the press release in their hometown newspapers, much the same as many cops say they entered law enforcement to "help the people" although there are many who probably did. I agree with Budda, on the few times anyone has thanked me for my service I find it embarrassing. I was paid the going amount when I was in and probably got more out of the experience than I put in.

DawnPatrol - 11-4-2016 at 12:50 PM

Quote: Originally posted by DENNIS  


Some interesting history on PTSD:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shock-of-war-55376...


Excellent article
Alan from San Diego

Russ - 11-4-2016 at 02:44 PM

Combat is not a prerequisite for PTSD. Extreme stress is. Believe me there are a lot of vets and non vets with PTSD. Some work thru it, some work around it and some need knowledgeable help. I went thru one of the VA programs and it was not something I would call helpful. And the VA medical process could qualify as something to diagnose you for PTSD. Since none of us know Tahmooressi how can anyone here make an informed judgement?
edit: Ive been bothered by my saying I went thru a PTSD treatment with the VA. I didn't, I only lasted a couple weeks and left.

[Edited on 11-4-2016 by Russ]

DENNIS - 11-4-2016 at 03:42 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Russ  

Since none of us know Tahmooressi how can anyone here make an informed judgement?


My judgment is, the man is an over-rated marooon. Show one bit of evidence indicating heroism.
His conduct recently is an indication of his shallow character unlike any hero I've ever known....not many.
He was an embarrassment to Gretta on Fox news, but she never needed any help for that.
Just being there doesn't get anyone the HERO badge.



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[Edited on 11-5-2016 by DENNIS]

Lee - 11-4-2016 at 11:51 PM

Whether he's a hero to anyone who hasn't served is a pointless argument. He volunteered to serve in the Marines AND in a combat zone.

Anyone here want to compare their ribbons and citations to his? Dennis?