I did not hear
that in his speech, that he also apologized to the families for his
administration negligently conducting a background check on the shooter in the June
2015 Charleston South Carolina Church shooting.
Nine people died and one seriously injured because the sale was approved
even though the shooter had a record, which prohibited the sale as a matter of
law. Obama’s FBI sheepishly admitted the
mistake. I would be more inclined to believe
Obama’s tears were sincere if he had said he is firing those responsible for
the mistake and that he is improving the system of back ground checks that
already exist; but Obama has made no such changes and made no apology.
I would
have been more inclined to believe his tears were sincere if he had apologized to
the families for the July 2015 Lafayette, Louisiana theater shooting which
killed 2 and wounded 9, carried out by a shooter with a history of mental health
commitment and crimes prohibiting him from purchasing a hand gun as a matter of
law, but negligently approved for purchase of the gun used. Similarly, no tears and no apology heard yet.
I even
would have been more convinced by his tears if accompanied by an apology for
the 12 deaths and multiple wounded in the December 2015 San Bernardino, CA
Christmas party shooting carried out by a Pakistani woman from Saudi Arabia who
would not have been in this country but for his policy prohibiting the State Department
from checking publicly available social media posts of visa applicants, even
though a thorough vetting of the applicants’ backgrounds was required by law. Because of this reckless policy, the State
Department was prohibited from finding the numerous public posts by the shooter
supporting ISIS made prior to her approval for entry into the US on a “fiancée” visa, and thus approved her for
entry into the US. I would have been
even more impressed if the apology had included Obama’s promise to terminate
this policy immediately; but, alas, no tears and no apology heard so far. The outrageous policy is still in effect; and
it is unknown who or how many will die before he admits the mistake.
I would
have been more willing to consider the tears genuine if they accompanied an
apology for “Fast and Furious” where his ATF department (with approval of his Attorney
General) authorized approximately 1,500 otherwise illegal sales of mostly semi-automatic
assault rifles, and turned a blind eye to illegal smuggling of those weapons
into Mexico, where they were used in at least dozens of murders and eventually
used to murder a US border patrol officer.
The program resulted in no major arrests or significant disruptions of
any drug trafficking or gun smuggling operations; but, before the operation was exposed, oddly
coincidentally, Hillary Clinton, then Obama’s Secretary of State, did use the outbreak
of violence in Mexico caused by these illegal guns to repeatedly call for
limitation on manufacture of guns in the US.
Perhaps the
President could have gotten a little dewy eyed as he apologized to the families of the dead for refusing to
enforce Federal immigration law, by cracking down on the sanctuary cities that
are knowingly refusing to honor Federal Detainer Orders even in regard to
violent criminal aliens resulting in multiple deaths including the murder of Kathryn
Steinle in San Francisco on July 1, 2015 by an illegal alien with multiple
felonies and an outstanding detainer order.
Obama has taken no action and stridently demanded full funding for this
lawlessness and contempt for the will of the American people.
Perhaps he
could have choked up a little as he apologized to the Ameican People as a whole
for lying when he recently pardoned thousands of Federal inmates claiming they
were non violent, when a review of the records now shows many had convictions on
crimes involving guns. Time will tell,
but statistics show a high recidivism rate among such convicts and early
release will surely result in many more violent crimes than otherwise would
have been the case. Perhaps a condolence
in advance to the victims and their families would have been in order.
I would
have been really impressed if I had heard Obama apologized to the world as a
whole for his gun running operation through the American Consulate and CIA
outpost in Benghazi to, supposedly, moderate Syrian rebels who actually turned
out to be radicals associated with various terrorist groups that eventually
became ISIS, “the JV team”. And while he
was at it, perhaps he would have shed a tear as he apologized for pulling US
troops out of Iraq too early leaving over a billion dollars worth of military
grade armaments behind with inadequate security which ultimately fell into the
hands of ISIS as well; all of which lead to beheadings, crucifixions,
immolations, torture, rape and enslavement of hundreds of thousands and
dislocation of millions. And, perhaps he
could even have outright sobbed as he admitted that the resulting mass
immigration into Europe has caused devastating consequences there, including
the mass assaults and rapes of German women that occurred just this New Year’s
eve carried out by the “refugee’s” he inflicted on those countries.
Perhaps
maybe he would shed a tear while he apologized for, instead of sending aid
overseas, bringing thousands more un-vetted Syrian and unknown other Middle
Eastern nationals to the US and inflicting unknown numbers of Islamist
sympathizers on the unsuspecting and innocent American people; and, while he
was at it, admitted that the San Bernardino massacre he negligently allowed to
happen had proved to him the stupidity of thinking he could adequately vet
these people; that bringing them here presents much too great a risk for the
American people, and that, therefore, he is going to stop his reckless policy
of accepting more unknown, unidentified Middle Eastern Muslims into the US as “refugees.”
But no; the sad fact is that none of these apologies were forthcoming. The real tears have been and will be shed by
the wounded, the families’ of the dead, and the soon to be dead, wounded, raped
and abused, and their fellow Americans who grieve with them and shed tears, not
only for them, but because they can not believe this is their President.
