Posted on 01/18/2007 8:17:49 AM PST by Liberty Tree Surgeon
I called Senator Cornyn's office in Washington, D.C. this morning to urge him to intervene on behalf of the two Border Patrol agents that were imprisoned yesterday. The response from the staffer fielding calls was that, as a former judge, Sen. Cornyn did not believe he should interfere with ongoing cases. When I pressed to see if the senator had plans to ask Pres. Bush to pardon these men, the answer from the staffer was "no". I then urged the man to tell the senator I hope the senator changed his mind.
Except that he did, according to one of the agents (see #94 above). You keep using a press release that claims certain things about the agents' statements while those statements have not been released (and neither has the transcript). Repeating the position of the Feds as the truth is meaningless when the Feds' truthfulness is being questioned.
Go back through the thread. See link at #94. Do some research and stop relying on the potentially keister-covering Feds' press releases.
I must wonder, especially in light of the information referenced in post 89, whether Johnny Sutton is not a politically motivated prosecutor on the order of Patrick Fitzgerald, Mike Nifong, and Ronnie Earle.
If you were a drug smuggler carrying that much dope over thew US/Mexico border, would you personally choose tto arm yourself?
Better them than the meth dealers your boy Bush likes to pardon.
The question I have is: how did they find the Mexican that returned back across the border.....something not just right about the whole situation....
Get real. The guy had no gun. Nothing in the link or the trial testimony indicated otherwise.
Tell me how you shoot someone in the butt who is threatening you with a non-existent gun. You can't do it. Tell me how you do it with an imaginary gun.
After seeing his behavior on O'Reilly last night, I now have little doubt. Smug little prick, really.
Not sure, never having tried that line of work, but that doesn't change what the facts were that day.
Thanks for that, Mr. Irrelevant.
I don't know anything about Sutton. "I thought I saw a gun" is not a get out of jail free card statement. Especially when you shoot him in the ass.
If you believe drug smugglers go about their business unarmed, I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I would like to sell you. Also, oceanfront property a mere 10 miles east of Miami Beach and a landmark bridge in Brooklyn.
At best.
That's an easy thing to assert at a trial, along with alleging that there was "thick dust" at the time. (That region is rocky. They'd be thrilled to get some dust). They didn't even assert that the smuggler fired at them.
I dunno. If I had a gun in my hand and you fired 15 times at me and hit me in the butt, I'd at least get one round fired off at you. Maybe I'm unique.
Just all the evidence which was uncontroverted.
I know, those pesky details get in the way of the outcome we want.
Your debunking trial testimony on this tread?..... please link me to it....
I wish some people would get their facts and data before they make condemnation. We don't allow our local police to do what these border agents did and I was under the impression that we are a country of laws. Do a little research on the facts from the other side.
There is no reason to put the President of this country into this issue because it is a no win situation.
I don't feel Mexico is a 'true' friend of this country when it comes to drug running. The only way to resolve it is to take the profit away from them.
The 12 jurors who sat in judgement of the testimony presented to them didn't buy the debunking you're trying to sell......
That is exactly why we have an Appellate process in our judical system. Let the system work and let's see what the debunkers say under oath with penalty of perjury facing them..... At the present time they are convicted felons until and unless they appellate process reverses the lower court....
"At that point, Ramos said, Aldrete-Davila turned toward him, pointing what looked like a gun."
This you spin into " At best, they thought for a split second that he might have one."
So if someone shoots at you, you say you would shoot back. If someone (say, oh a lawbreaking illegal drug running criminal) pointed a gun at you, you wouldn't shoot?
One of these Border Patrol men could very well be dead if they did what you wanted. Well, I guess going to jail for protecting our border is better than being dead.
It seems clear which side you are on.
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