Posted on 07/05/2007 12:56:42 PM PDT by pissant
Two California congressmen, one of whom introduced legislation this year calling for a congressional pardon for two U.S. Border Patrol agents, say that if President Bush can commute the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, he can order pardons for the agents.
"If the president of the United States is going to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby, he should immediately accompany that with a pardon for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and 2008 presidential candidate.
"If Scooter Libby is going to receive this treatment, and there very well could be a compelling reason for the president's actions, agents Compean and Ramos should then be provided a full pardon," said Mr. Hunter, whose bill has 100 co-sponsors. "Mr. President, pardon our Border Patrolmen."
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, said Libby was convicted of obstructing the investigation of a crime, "yet no one has been charged with a crime" in the case. However, Mr. Rohrabacher said, while Mr. Bush rightly showed mercy to Libby, he "does not seem to have the same mercy for the average men and women holding the front lines of our borders.
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Keep the cards and letters coming, folks! It keeps up morale (Ramos has lost 30 lbs. while in SOLITARY confinement) and lets the feds know there is still someone watching
this case.
The letters must be addressed EXACTLY as follows:
Ignacio Ramos #58079-180 FCI
Yazoo City Medium Federal Correctional Institution
P. O. Box 5888
Yazoo City, MS 39194
Hunter is a good American.
Thank you. And drop president Bush a call or an email as well.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Ramos and Compean actually committed crimes.
The two cases aren't the same.
Yo, Jorge! Caption these men, capice?
Davila was a DEA informant involved in House of Slaughter murders.
I'm not sure why that gives Ramos and Compean carte blanche to break the law and then lie about it.
Thanks to their lawlessness, Davila is now scot free and cannot be prosecuted. If they had done their jobs, Davila might be in prison today.
Shooting a fleeing illegal drug dealing alien in the butt is not a crime to most of us.
“Mr. President, pardon our Border Patrolmen.”
YES!
Thank you Rep. Hunter!....
Give um hell ,sir
Hunter has my vote
Are they going to appeal or are appeals already underway?
Not really what happened.
Libby is a friend of Bush.
Ramos and Compean were doing their jobs, which interfered with Bush's plan to let every illegal across the border. They are a message to other border patrol agents to not actually do their job.
You're right, the two cases aren't the same.
Why was Ramos put in solitary?
Didn’t that fella Sutton already give out a pardon in this case? (/s)
I second that.
It’s one thing to pardon a corrupt crony, amember of the Council on Foreign Relations, an enemy of America; it’s quite another thing to pardon true defenders of the nation.
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