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Report: Jon Hammar to be
released from Mexican prison today
Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/21/2012 9:49:22 AM
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| DEVELOPING: Jon Hammar, the U.S. Marine imprisoned in Mexico on a gun charge, will be released today, his mother told Fox News Radio. Olivia Hammar said the judge hearing Hammar´s case issued a ruling in his favor and that her son is to be released at a time on Friday yet to be announced. No more details were available. Hammar, 27, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been stuck in a notorious, drug cartel-controlled prison just 15 miles south of the U.S. border since Aug. 13, after he crossed into Mexico and declared an antique shotgun
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/21/2012 9:54:00 AM (No. 9077539)
Wonderful news, Merry Christmas to him, and to his family.
PS
I am still not going to Cozumel in 2013.
Mexico and the people from that country do not show respect for America.
There are many other wonderful places for vacations.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
gustavwasa, 12/21/2012 9:56:53 AM (No. 9077547)
Screw Mexico ... a true banana republic, and with a bad attitude
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
coldoc, 12/21/2012 10:02:50 AM (No. 9077559)
Coincidental with the call for a tourism boycott? Possibly the only thing that scares the "land of the shake-down artist". They can´t rob or extort you if you don´t cross the border. Like the cops robbing the downed private jet, many Mexicans have thievery in their genes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
killerbee, 12/21/2012 10:03:18 AM (No. 9077562)
Just read this and have a couple of thoughts.
1. I´ll celebrate when I know he´s safe. When he´s on American soil and totally free. I wouldn´t put it past our own authorities to make under-handed deals that take his rights away from him.
2. Soft boycott of Mexico for the rest of my life.
3. Why the heck was more attention not given to this story by right leaning bloggers?
4. To the mainstream media this never happened. They didn´t report it so it just didn´t happen.
5. When someone finally (after months) asked the Whitehouse about this publicly, Hammar gets released. Tells me the WH turned a blind eye because they don´t care.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pindarjr, 12/21/2012 10:04:58 AM (No. 9077565)
Thank you, Bill O´Reilly.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jed, 12/21/2012 10:16:17 AM (No. 9077591)
I am so tired of that sh*thole and all the sh*t that crawls out of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman, 12/21/2012 10:29:32 AM (No. 9077627)
Wonderful news, if it comes to pass. That said, stay out of Mexico. Do not go to Mexico. It is a criminal state and it´s people hate Americans.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
comstock, 12/21/2012 10:32:15 AM (No. 9077636)
O´Reilly will take the credit, but all of Fox News was all over this. Any doubts about the power of mass media?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
fiddle ed, 12/21/2012 10:32:56 AM (No. 9077638)
Wonderful news for this Marine and his family. This should be a wake up call to all Americans. We are held in contempt by most of the world, including those we help the most. That´s what left when respect and fear is removed from political reality.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/21/2012 10:34:30 AM (No. 9077640)
Saw O´R bashing that loser Beckel yesterday. That was the only part of the show I bothered to watch.
Thank G-d, our hero will be home soon.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ocjim, 12/21/2012 10:36:16 AM (No. 9077647)
Thank you, BOR. The world understands strength. The Obama regime hasn´t got a clue about strength. Bullying, yes. Strength, no.
And to think that Barry and Hillary´s crack State Dept told Jon Hammer´s parents that nothing could be done for their son.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
metalman2, 12/21/2012 10:39:25 AM (No. 9077660)
I travel to Mexico frequently and disagree with many postings here. The Mexican´s I work with are smart and hard working, but I can tell you they are really POed about fast and furious. I was there when the story first broke. If anything the treatment of this marine was a slap back at America for F & F. The gun was perfectly legal to take across the border with the proper paperwork and everyone in Mexico knows that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Daylily, 12/21/2012 10:47:25 AM (No. 9077676)
Wonderful news - when he steps onto US soil that will be the time to really give thanks.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jerseyden, 12/21/2012 10:48:36 AM (No. 9077680)
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of Americans still being held in Mexican jails(mostly on trumped up charges).We need the State Dept to look into all of them, not just those that make the news. We cruise to some Mexico ports but never get off the ship till we reach another country.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 12/21/2012 10:52:11 AM (No. 9077693)
Wonderful news!! Let´s pray that all goes well and that everyone involved in his release remain safe in this process.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 12/21/2012 11:05:20 AM (No. 9077734)
O´Reilly may be a blowhard but this is a great example of one of his positive traits. He´s a genuine patriot and works tirelessly and passionately for our men and women in uniform. Hat tip to Bill on this one.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
homjett, 12/21/2012 11:17:11 AM (No. 9077758)
This story has been all over FoxNews. My thanks go to all of them for not letting up on this young Marine. My thanks also to the US Reps who also got involved.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 12/21/2012 11:19:45 AM (No. 9077776)
What #5, #11 & #12 said. Bill O´Reilly does deserve credit for helping to get Jon Hammar released for Christmas because Cpl. Hammar´s parents said they could get NO help from the hillary-clinton-obama-"state-department"..
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 12/21/2012 11:45:32 AM (No. 9077866)
The justice department officials, responsible for flooding illegal guns into Mexico, still walk free. Eric Holder should be sent to Mexico to exlain things to them!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LadyHen, 12/21/2012 11:49:10 AM (No. 9077871)
Good... thrilled for this young man and his family.
But I am still never setting foot in Mexico again. The decline of Mexico saddens me as the country is beautiful, the food outstanding, and it´s people are generally kind and friendly. We had many a wonderful vacation in Mexico but no more.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ocjim, 12/21/2012 12:02:59 PM (No. 9077904)
Great news to be sure, but let´s be careful about the Mexico bashing. Yes, they are inherently corrupt and unable to support their population... They deserve a heap of criticism for their failure as a state. But the corruption has been greatly multiplied and the horror of Mexican ultra-violence on a terrorism level is financed, lock stock and barrel by AMERICAN drug users giving billions every year to the Mexican drug lords. Mexico´s a mess and we´re, as a nation, by no means an innocent bystander.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 12/21/2012 3:13:15 PM (No. 9078239)
Bill can be a blowhard but when he uses HIS bully pulpit and star power for causes such as this, ya gotta love him. Others have it and do not lift a finger. I loved BOR´s obvious irritation at having to spar with such a nitwit yesterday. (Beckel). MERRY CHRISTMAS JON!
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