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Montel Williams was on the Hayes show calling for the release of Andrew Tahmooressi
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/montel-williams-makes-an-emotional-plea-336538691963Did anyone see this on MSNBC's Chris Hayes show on Wednesday? On the last segment that day Hayes played video of former Marine and talk show host Montel Williams testifying emotionally before Congress including this widely quoted line, "HOW DARE WE hesitate to get that young man back!" Here's the U-T San Diego account of how Tahmooressi went to jail:
Friends from his Marine Corps days were helping him find his way in San Diego. Tahmooressi said he had been depressed and sought help at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in La Jolla, where a doctor diagnosed him for post-traumatic stress disorder. On the night of his arrest, March 31, he was driving to meet friends to eat Mexican food in San Ysidro, he said.
“I was going to call them after I drove off the exit, but I never got off the exit, I blew right past it,” he said. “I wasn’t paying attention, thinking I had way farther to go. I ended up in Mexico with no way to turn around.”
At Tijuana’s El Chaparral Port of Entry, he tried to stop at the automatic crossing gates, but was waved through, and then guided to an inspection area. “They say, ‘What have you got back there?' I said, ‘A whole lot of stuff and three guns.’ I said, ‘I didn’t even mean to be in Mexico.’”
He was soon surrounded by soldiers and civilian law enforcement officers, and taken into federal custody. After three days, he was brought to the La Mesa penitentiary. There, he initially shared a cell with 15 other inmates.
“I was going to call them after I drove off the exit, but I never got off the exit, I blew right past it,” he said. “I wasn’t paying attention, thinking I had way farther to go. I ended up in Mexico with no way to turn around.”
At Tijuana’s El Chaparral Port of Entry, he tried to stop at the automatic crossing gates, but was waved through, and then guided to an inspection area. “They say, ‘What have you got back there?' I said, ‘A whole lot of stuff and three guns.’ I said, ‘I didn’t even mean to be in Mexico.’”
He was soon surrounded by soldiers and civilian law enforcement officers, and taken into federal custody. After three days, he was brought to the La Mesa penitentiary. There, he initially shared a cell with 15 other inmates.
While right wing media has been on the "Free Tahmooressi" bandwagon - The Blaze TV (home of Glenn Beck's radio & TV shows) even has a "days Tahmooressi detained" on-screen bug - Montel Williams is far from a right wing ideologue (he even had a radio show on Air America recently). But is it really worth it for the US to seek Tahmooressi's release?
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