Midnight Express 2

Remember the movie “Midnight Express?” Remember the drug smuggling silly American who thought it would be a good idea to smuggle drugs out of Turkey? Remember the horrific story of the events that followed, as the young Billy Hayes was subjected to the terrors and travails of the Turkish prison system? Remember how the United States government, through then Senator Jim Buckley finally got on Hayes’ side?

A perfectly innocent American former decorated Marine finds himself sitting in a Mexican prison. THIS American citizen was NOT trying to smuggle drugs into Mexico. He simply got confused at the border and accidently found himself on the Mexican side of the checkpoint. He immediately volunteered to the Mexican authorities that he had three weapons (all legally registered in the U.S) and that he had accidently strayed across the border (this happened mere yards from the American side of things). He was arrested and sent to one of Mexico’s worst prisons, where he was threatened with rape and murder.

On top of all this, the American marine, Tahmooressi, suffers from PTSD and brain trauma because of his two year service in Afghanistan. He has been in prison for weeks now and the American government has done...exactly nothing to get him out. Even Hilary Clinton has said it is time to “turn up” the volume on the Tahmooressi affair.

Where is the president? Where is the Senate? Where is the House?

It’s time to write to your representatives and to POTUS and tell them all that it’s PAST time to get our POW out of Mexico. And its time to tell our neighbors to the south that kidnapping American citizens is not going to do much to increase that tourism they so depend on.