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 claim
against 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.
Write
Stella Paul at stellapundit@aol.com.
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