circumstances surrounding this and also the message is to try to railroad an 85-year-old veteran like this to try to send him to jail is ridiculous. i think it is ironic that those in the liberal left are in such arms on this when they seem to be so quiet when president obama commuted the sentence of chelsea manning a few months ago. i know it was knocked down to a lessor charge. wait a minute. you can t compare the two because we re talking about a pardon of joe arpaoi. chelsea served time. knocking off 30 years off of a sentence? knocking 30 years off of a sentence for leaking classified information? i mean, this is not even on the same level. where was all the outrage from folks on the left when president obama took this action?
investigation now into sunday night s shooting in garland, texas. but that didn t stop republican presidential candidate ted cruz from politicking and politicizing the attack. in a statement to the dallas morning news, senator cruz blamed the white house, of course, for not preventing the attack and likened it to the boston marathon bombing in the 2009 ft. hood shooting. once again as with nadal hassan and the tsarnaev brothers, they knew and didn t do anything to take care of terrorism. one of the gunmen by the way on sunday night s shooting, elton simpson, had been known to the fbi since 2006. he was charged in 2010 for having to join a terrorist group. he was charged with a lessor charge of lying to a federal agent. we have people that are angry at the world and ready to go kill.
we find a guy like this guy, simpson, is a troublemaker. he was going to go to somalia and join up. he lied and they let him walk with a lessor charge. can we take people we know having committed serious crimes and imprison them? that s what the right wing seems to be saying we can do, e.j.? i just want to underscore ryan s point. we are supposed to do absolutely everything to stop terrorism but we can never take a gun away from anybody, even if they have been convicted of a crime. there is a deep inconsistency. if you want to criticize the government, peter king was somewhat more responsible. peter king, who is a pretty hard line guy said, look, maybe with he should have more surveillance on somebody who was. let s take a look. good point. i do believe in having more surveillance of people in the muslim community, because that s
the fbi has yet to complete its investigation now into sunday night s shooting in garland, texas. but that . . in a statement to the dallas morning news, senator cruz blamed the white house, of course, for not preventing the attack and likened it to the boston marathon bombing in the 2009 ft. hood shooting. once again as with nadal hassan and the tsarnaev brothers they knew and didn t do anything to take care of terrorism. one of the gunmen by the way on sunday night s shooting, elton simpson, had been known to the fbi since 2006. he was charged in 2010 for having to join a terrorist group. he was charged with a lessor charge of lying to a federal
this is the big problem we have. we find a guy like this guy, simpson, is a troublemaker. he was going to go to somalia and join up. he lied and they let him walk with a lessor charge. can we take people we know having committed serious crimes and imprison them? that s what the right wing seems to be saying we can do e.j.? i just want to underscore ryan s point. we are supposed to do absolutely everything to stop terrorism but we can never take a gun away from anybody, feechb they have been convicted of a crime. there is a deep inconsistency. if you want to criticize the government peter king was somewhat more responsible. peter king who es a pretty hard line guy said, look maybe with he should have more surveillance on somebody who was. let s take a look. good point. i do believe in having more