Supporters of ex-Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean stand at the foot of the Federal Courthouse steps in El Paso last month. (Photos By Ruben R. Ramirez -- El Paso Times Via Associated Press)
Posted on 02/17/2007 10:57:10 AM PST by NapkinUser
Supporters of ex-Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean stand at the foot of the Federal Courthouse steps in El Paso last month. (Photos By Ruben R. Ramirez -- El Paso Times Via Associated Press)
Early this week, the Bush administration urged angry conservatives to remain calm over the convictions of two former Border Patrol agents who shot an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler, but petitions for their release continued to flood the White House.
It did not help that one the lawmen, Ignacio Ramos, was attacked by Latino gang members in his cell at the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Complex in Mississippi and beaten bloody. Days after prison officials confirmed the beating on Feb. 8, Department of Homeland Security officials admitted that an inspector general's report erroneously quoted Border Patrol agents as saying Ramos and his partner, Jose Compean, intended to kill Mexicans.
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He also appointed the corrupt to the bone Judge Cardone who has issued gag orders on the families of the BP agents so that they are not permitted to point out that the drug dealer brought another shipment of illegal drugs into this country AFTER the incident.
Sutton made sure the drug dealer was NOT arrested because that would have shaded his testimony against the agents and Cardone tried to make sure nobody would find out about it.
Johnny Nifong Sutton is also supposed to be a protege of our current AG who hasn't said one thing against this preposterous prosecution but somehow can't find it within himself to prosecute Rats for real crimes.
IOW this atrocity goes higher than Sutton and Cardone and the other perps Kanof and Sanchez.
You really haven't been paying attention. Otherwise you wouldn't say that.
Alberto Gonzales must be impeached. And Michael Chertoff should be fired for calling for increased security for "North Americans" this past week. Disgraceful, this bunch.
They get attached to their servants and want to reward them. I see it now among the golfing set who've retired into high-maintenance McMansions. I hear the Nice White Ladies talking about how endearing the illegals are--so touchingly humble and grateful and hardworking. Yikes. Scarlett O'Hara was never that patronizing.
Keep in mind what lovely Spanish Bush speaks--better than his English. You get that kind of skill when you've grown up with a houseful of Spanish-speaking servants.
Remember how Barbara Bush always boasted how she wouldn't cook? Well, that doesn't seem so funny anymore. She didn't have to cook.
Many month back Bush released a nauseating piece on how "inspired" he was by his Mexican servant who took care of the twins (when they were teenagers) and picked up Scottie's poop off the Crawford lawns. Make me think of the presidential couple in a whole new way.
The rich are different from you and me--and he loves his former nanny a lot more than he loves us.
Nope but their maid/friend is an illegal and brother Jeb's father-in-law may also be, so they have a very vested interest in these "sensitive" issues.
I think you've got something there about the upper classes and their foreign servant class. And how disconnected they are from us, the middle-class voters.
It's hard to gulp down the rage when they start down that road--how they're doing the poor people such a favor by paying them a black-market wage.
There was a time that hiring illegals was considered downright tacky. I can remember in El Paso many years ago how it was exploitative to keep a Mexican slave in the basement and people were looked down on for doing it. Now, criticize the practice and get yourself called a racist.
When Tony Snow gets up on election eve to chortle in triumph about the bright prospects for amnesty now that the conservatives have lost power, you can be pretty sure that Mrs. Snow doesn't scrub her own toilet.
Housework is political. You used to lose your career (remember Linda Chavez?) when you hired illegal help. But now you get to boast about how noble you are for participating in such a raw deal.
I'm waiting for the one candidate, left or right, who tests the waters on immigration enforcement as an issue.
I really have been paying attention. They really did break the rules. However they dont belong in jail.
It has been said that: "The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world". If only President Bush had been born to poor folks...
You expressed my thoughts, better than I could, Mamzelle.
Bravo!
... which is a policy violation - in the code and subject to suspension and/or dismissal - not a dozen years in jail!
What rules did they break? Please be very specific because you are about to be challenged. And please don't mention evidence the jury heard because you may find that has been discredited.
BTTT
At this point it doesn't even matter what the Administration will eventually do in this matter---it is what they have ALREADY DONE (and NOT done) that will serve to indict them, and illuminate what their real intentions were, and to whom they owe their ultimate allegiance .
They will NEVER make it right. They CAN never make it right. They have shown who they are, and they will NEVER answer the important questions as to just how and why the case developed the way it did, with Federal agents beating a hot path down to Mexico to offer IMMUNITY to a drug smuggler, in order to prosecute 2 LE officers. Frankly, their lame spin on their "reasons" for doing this is precisely what I would expect from the ACLU, not this Administration, or any of its branches. The longer they wait, the worse they look. They are already SH*T in my book.
And they once again will NEVER answer the pertinent questions, because they don't HAVE to , and we lack the will or resources to MAKE them answer.
Congress determined the penalties imposed on Compean and Ramos by setting the punishment for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence at a mandatory minimum of ten years (on top of any other sentence imposed). Congress did not make an exception for law enforcement officers
#64---refreshingly to the point, different, and shrewd perspective. Yes indeed. You have nailed it.And I am not being sarcastic.
#66---Well, I guess we've heard it from the horse's mouth, or as you would say, "la boca del caballo".
CAn anyone provide D of the D with any statistics as to how many "mandatory sentences" of 10 years have NOT been given to persons what have discharged firearms in the context of crimes of violence? I suppose discharging a firearm is what makes any circumstance "a crime of violence". IOW, it's all BS and SPIN>
They better, I'm getting emails from that Grassfire group about every day.
What's that got to do with the question I asked?
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