Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 7/15/17 - Help A Pair Of Special Soldiers

Episode Date: July 15, 2017

Brian Lilley from Rebel Media joins to discuss a crowdfunding site dedicated to the children of Sgt First Class Christopher Speer, the American soldier whom Omar Khadr killed in Afghanistan 15 years ago, after the Canadian government gave Khadr $10 million and an apology. To donate, go to: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-raise-1-000-000-for-sgt-chris-speer-s-kids#/Also, an Army veteran's dying wish is to hear from you. Lee Hernandez, who is under hospice care at his home in New Braunfels, Texas, has continuous strokes that have affected his vision and cognitive abilities. The 47-year-old’s condition is a mystery to doctors, and all Lee wants is to hear from people. You can reach the family at 210-632-6778. Please text or call to wish this patriot well, be a part of his wish.Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. The Jeff Fisher Show. Saturday mornings, 9 to noon Eastern. On the Blaze Radio Network. This week, we were told, and for some reason, it hasn't been out in the open, and I don't know why. But thankfully, we have Brian Lilly from, where are you from again? Where are you from again?

It's called The Rebel or something? The Rebel and I host a talk show up here in Ottawa, Canada. What's the talk show? It's called Beyond the News. Beyond the News? Nighttime radio, my friend. I love that. How's that going, by the way? It's going really well.

You know, talk radio has always been my first love when it comes to media and having worked in TV for the largest newspaper chain up here and in radio. I'll take radio any day. Boy, no kidding. I'm a big fan of not being seen. Well, it's just more fun, too. I have, I definitely, I was born with a face for radio. I mean, that whole face for radio thing was me. All right, Brian, I know we have serious stuff to get to because earlier this week,

we found out about a story, and I say we, I mean, us here in America and here in Dallas, Texas, found out about a story that is so unbelievable and yet it's true and it's actually. and it's actually happened. So walk us through from the beginning to where we're at now trying to help people. Okay, so I'll give you the thumbnail sketch and then cycle back and fill in details. But this is a story of a Canadian jihadist killing an American soldier in Afghanistan at the end of a battle, spending years in Gitmo because he was captured there. And then the Canadian government apologizing him and giving him a $10.5 million settlement.

without a word of testimony heard in the lawsuit that was before the courts. Outrageous on every end from beginning to end. And I can tell you that everybody that hears it is outraged. In Canada, in America, everybody's outraged. And every time I talk about it, the fundraising campaign that we started for the kids of the flane American soldier, Sergeant Christopher Spear, the numbers go up and more people log on to see. Speerkids.com and start donating because we said, if everyone's angry, let's do something good with

their anger rather than just shake our fists and yell, right? Right. But this all goes back to 2002, and you remember the days just after 9-11, and we're there fighting side by each, they say in Quebec, shoulder to shoulder, and Sergeant Christopher Spears is a part of Delta Force. He's in Afghanistan. They end up in a firefight because they approached this compound, tried to talk to the guys in it, seeing what's going on, and they came under fire. So four to five-hour firefight happens.

The fighting ends, Sergeant Spear, Sergeant Lane Morris out of Utah, they head in there to try and they're looking for survivors. They're looking for the wounded. They're seeing what's going on. And this Canadian genot is named Omar Cotteries, 15 at the time, throws a grenade that ends up killing Sergeant Spear and taking the eyesight in one eye, I believe the left one, of Sergeant Lane Morris. Now, if you know about battlefield, there are actually laws of war, and when the firefights done, and people are tending to the wounded, you don't attack anyone. Right, you tend to all.

The fire fights done. You take care of you're wounded, you take care of your dead. But the shihadists don't fight like that. And so Omar Carter throws the grenade. he ends up having his life saved. He was about to bleed out. He gets saved by American troops, shipped off to get him home. And he claims he was tortured.

I would dispute that. American courts have not ruled he was tortured. Neither of Canadian courts. But he claimed it. Well, he claimed it. Right. You know, he wasn't waterboarded. He didn't have bamboo shoots put under the nails.

He didn't have jumper cables attached to any sensitive areas, let's say. Right. He was part of what's called the frequent flyer program, sleep deprivation. And after one of those sessions, Canadian officials went down and talked to him. Like I hate to say interrogated because that's too strong of a word. I've seen the video. They talked to him. They asked him questions.

What were you doing? Amazing. Why are you involved in this? So that wasn't even an interrogation from Canadian officials? you when you hear interrogation you think really harsh measures yes you do this is an interview this is this is like Danny Reagan on blue bloods

talking to the perp this is nothing this is nothing too strenuous but you know he's crying he's saying he wants to go home he wants out of there things like that okay well that's nice but you took up the jihad so did all your brothers so did your father who was one of the

financiers of 9-11 I mean, the family lived with Osama bin Laden, for goodness sakes. So these are bad dudes, bad family. But because those Canadian officials talked to him after he was deprived of sleep by American officials at Gitmo, our court ruled. Okay, his rights were violated. But you know what? The courts didn't say, Jeffie? They never said that we had to pay him a dime.

They never said that. Okay, so the court said, okay, well, maybe he was. rights were violated and that's the way it goes. We're sorry. Have a nice day. Yeah, and they didn't even say they were sorry. This is back in 2010. I'll get to why that part's important. He's still in Gitmo in 2010. He sued through the courts to force the Canadian government to bring him back to Canada. And it was in that decision that went all the way to the Supreme Court that they said, yeah, your rights are violated, but no, the courts can't force the government and tell it how to operate in relation to another foreign government.

That is beyond the court's power. That's executive branch privilege. You can't do that. And so they just said, you know, we leave it up to the government to find a remedy. Well, eventually, because Obama wanted rid of him, as soon as he admitted what he did, Obama and Hillary Clinton, the whole Democrat establishment, they wanted rid of this guy. Well, they were held at a close. They forced him on Stephen Harper and the conservative government of the day up here.

and Harper said, okay, well, fine, he's back in Canada, not much I can do about it, he's a Canadian citizen, but I don't have to do anything nice to him. Now we've got Justin, I've got great socks and Herr Trudeau in, a very left-wain liberal. This is not your grandfather's liberal or democratic party. This is a hard leftist guy. And he comes in and gives Carter $10.5 million in an apology. Everybody's outraged. We decided let's launch a crowdfunding campaign for the children of Christiard.

of her spear. Yes. He left behind Sherry was three. Tanner was 11 months old when this happened. Tabitha has been a widow the whole time. It's 15 years on. We've done crowdfunding for them before,

raised almost 100 grand last time. Now we're, I think, over 140. I've been doing media interviews all morning. I haven't had a chance to look. But we continue to climb. And every time I'm on with, you know, Apelka or even Pat and Stu or Glenn or Dana, and now you,

you know, more people, hear about it and they spread the word, they post it on Facebook, they donate. So those are the two things that ask people to do today. If you can donate, 10 bucks, 10,000, you know your situation and there's people listening that could handle both, but also post it on Facebook, post spearkids.com on Facebook and let people know about this outrage story. Yes, and I mean, that's absolutely a wonderful thing that you're doing. And it's spearkids.com. So spearkids.com. So spearkids.com. is a way to help the family that helped the wife and the kids of the father he killed one of the reasons not every reason but one of the reasons that he was in Gitmo and so if you can help them SpeerKids.com it would be remarkable and do whatever you can whatever you can it doesn't matter whatever you can helps and it's important

And then I read another story about a man Lee Hernandez from New Bromfels, Texas. It's Army veteran, terminal illness. And his final wish was that he wanted people to text him or give him a call and just talk to him. he's under hospice care and is not he's deteriorating and they have not been able to pinpoint a cause for Lee's illness

and really said there was nothing more that they could do to him except you know they're going to as hospice does try to make you comfortable and his wife talked about one day, she held on to his phone in case someone called. And when he thought about it again,

after a couple of hours, she said that no one had called. And he said, I guess no one wants to talk to me. And she was heartbroken. because she didn't want to believe that, didn't want him to believe that. And of course, no one wants anyone to believe that, especially when you're Lee Hernandez. So she's asked people to call and text and leave messages so that she can read the text messages to him. He has trouble seeing right now.

he's on heavy pain medication and he uh i was going to call him and let him know that we care we care about him and we're praying for him but as i look um as i continue to read the story i know that originally the story said hey call uh between two and six p m arizona time uh because that's when he is he is most cognizant of what's going on around him and she gives the phone number and she has they don't answer the phone

every time and they you know it's just that sometimes he's in just an incredible amount of pain so text and leave a message so I was going to call him on the air and then I thought now you know what um that's

I don't This isn't the time that she asked for people to call, ideally. And so I want you to just take the number. And between 2 and 6 p.m. Arizona time. I want you to call Lee or text Lee and let him know that you're thinking about him. You heard about it on Blaze Radio. And you just wanted to let him know that you're saying a prayer for him. You got good thoughts for him.

Whatever you believe in, that's what you have for him. So, Lee Hernandez, 210, 632, 6778. 210, 632, 6778. Lee Hernandez. Just text that number, call it, and let him know that he is not all alone. and people do want to talk to him and thank him for his service as a military veteran in the army

and we appreciate it and he's not alone and he's had this he's been battling for a long time and so if any of these calls can bring a little bit of smile and a little warmth to him in his final days

bless his heart Thank you.