As we mentioned before -- teenage brain, not developed until about age 26, according to some mental health professionals and/or crazy luminaries.
I confess, I don't know anybody with an x in their name. Yes, the x here has Spanish origins, but I'm usually reminded of an ancient Aztec mummy or something when I see an x in a name. Well, maybe not when it's somebody like motion picture actor-of-old Francis X. Bushman, and certainly not the spaceman Exeter in the fifties movie, This Island Earth. The x isn't among most folks' daily name encounters in the USA.
Well, kid in blue, you sure did it up big time. What were you thinking? Was it worth it to be top dog in the Internet gaming kennel?
We old folk are woefully out of tune with the younger generation. These people are different, built bone by bone and nerve synapse by synapse with digital input and blue screen mesmerism. To them, we elders are hoary remnants of a forgotten past, doomed to spin our wheels as we sink among ancient relics of the 1940s, fifties, sixties and maybe even the seventies. The young are not altogether wrong on this point.
Bu'cha can't be releasing classified information to your friends under the best or worst of circumstances.
One problem is, Teixeira happens to be an airman attached to government regulations at exactly the same time the people of the United States suffer under what has evidenced itself almost overnight as perhaps the most incompetent and corrupt presidential administration in our history, lying to and willfully withholding information from the public which has a right to know certain things. Unconstitutional Executive Orders fly out of this White House like locusts hungry to decimate vast farm fields of truth, while crops of authoritarian weeds flourish in their place.
So, thanks to Airman Jack we now know there were at least four more Chinese balloons vacuuming up vast amounts of sensitive ground data around the globe. And the amounts of money we're spending in Ukraine has the potential to cripple us perhaps more than we on the "outside" imagined. Which reminds us, why couldn't Putin be languishing in a Russian prison, dying of his own poisonous concoctions, instead of rival Alexei Navalny who may well have made Russia a wondrous nation worthy of international respect?
Airman Jack is apparently far more crafty and intelligent than many of his superiors, and that's the sharp instrument currently stuck in their craw. How did a low-level blue-suit have access to highly classified data regarding in large measure the Biden gang's monumental failures? Maybe a few more horses will leave the barn before the storm door shuts.
My oh my, how easy it is to dump on a low-level airman, while nobody seems able to determine who leaked information from the Supreme Court prior to the takedown of a major abortion decision. Weren't there basically 12 suspects, each attired similarly, when the Roe v. Wade leak hit the media streets? What else is going on here?
Teixeira's info leaks "embarrassed" the Pentagon, we are told. Does that mean like in some kind of War Games movie scenario, except in this case the oopsie bomb falls strictly upon the brass?
Airman Teixeira respects his country, loves God and guns, embraces Christianity and in all respects -- well, except for, um. . . -- seems the all-American boy. He wasn't selling top secret information for financial gain, he wasn't trading anything to a foreign power, nor was he receiving cash or sex from some spy. In his mind, if we can believe what we have been told to date, Teixeira's goal was to impress his friends, and the act of attempting to put one's self above the rest seems to be what was in play here, accomplished by the no-no of imparting secrets. Stupid, yes, and there's plenty of that to go around these days.
Democrats must be particularly seething, especially because his revelations hang this bunch of bums in the White House (and their intelligence failures) out to dry in the sunlight. Did informants or others lose their lives, or now face serious jeopardy because of the leaks? Quite possibly, and that needs to be addressed. Wars are nasty business all around.
But 15 years in prison for this young man under the military code? Nah. This is very much a matter involving a lack of common sense, and common sense is often the sense which grows slowest among the young. Spank him, demote him for a while, exert hard probation -- and then give him an appropriate job in military intelligence comparable to his apparently impressive skills and level of brain power. What are a few years in prison going to accomplish, when criminal intent appears absent?
And if anybody, to quote horse talk, is chomping at the bit to start throwing out words such as TREASON or SEDITION here, please direct them to a place where they may actually apply, and that location is way far south of Massachusetts, known for beautiful cherry blossoms and other things not quite as pretty.
