Bush Slammed as Border Patrol Agents Begin Prison Terms

CNSNews ^ | January 17, 2007 | Randy Hall

[msnimje]

These guys would have never been convicted and/or would have gotten a pardon had they not covered up the shooting.

[evad]

This IBF Syndrome is reaching pandemic proportions.

Is everything Bush's Fault (rhetoric)

[DTogo]

January 20th, 2009 can't come soon enough!

[spectre]

These guys would have never been convicted if this Administration didn't offer the Illegal Alien Drug Smuggler immunity to testify against them.

It's shameful!

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[caisson71]

Is President Bush the only guy involved in this case. Do Democrats get any blame here at all.
I'm sick of crybaby Republicans almost as much as I am of liberal Democrats.

[Pukin Dog]

I have had enough!

This is currently the biggest lie in America, that these Border Patrol Agents don't deserve to go to jail. I live right here in San Diego County, and I am telling you, I have not seen more misreporting on an issue since the Iraq war.

These agents were found guilty of first shooting another human being in the back, then trying to cover up the crime.

No one ever asks why if they are so innocent, why they tried to hide what they did. They got lawyers who tried wrap them in the flag to cover up their behavior. Legal or illegal, you don't shoot someone in the back. This country is about due process, not vigilante justice.

The agents were convicted by a jury of their peers. Bush was right to do nothing about it because they are GUILTY. Lets not lose our morality and respect for the law, just because the alien and those who shot him did.

Shame on the Congressmen trying to cover up for these men.

[dudewheresmytank]

do not overestimate the democrats logic. even if they hadn't covered it up the dems would be trying to get thim locked up. it wouldn't matter if the illegal was bringing nukes into the country, according to the liberals, they shouldn't shoot him

[canuck_conservative]

Whatever happened to "Stop, or we'll shoot" at the border? You can smuggle 1/3 ton of weed and just run away if intercepted?

Bush isn't showing much leadership in this case. Or anything to do with the border, for that matter.

[dudewheresmytank]

question, how do you shoot people in the back in the first place?
That's right, they're running away. due process is kindof hard when the criminal gets away

[vox humana]

The punishment does not fit the crime. An appropriate administrative disciplinary action would have been the right thing to do. At worst, they could have had their employment terminated for (fill in the reason).

[Pukin Dog]

The Border patrol has rules of engagement. They broke those rules. I dont make the laws and neither do you. But you and I have to follow them, and so does the Border Patrol. Border Agents are not judge and jury.

[RoseyT]

Was he a "guest worker" illegal drug smuggler?

[babygene]

"Legal or illegal, you don't shoot someone in the back."

That's not true... Cops shoot people in the back all the time who are running away, and they are never prosecuted for it.

[Christian4Bush]

January 20th, 2009 can't come soon enough!

If that's the day you stop bitching about President Bush, I agree with you.

[Brilliant]

Bush seems almost aimless in his wanderings. I miss Ronald Reagan.

[Pukin Dog]

Just a quick point to all of you.

You either believe in the rule of law, or you don't.

If you don't, you are no different than Bill Clinton.

If the law does not allow for an exception, it means THERE IS NO EXCEPTION.

How many of you are willing to be hypocrites to defend a couple of law-breaking agents?

Talk is cheap.

[YOUGOTIT]

The Congress is critical but as usual the congress will do nothing. All they have to do is cut off any funding for the US Persecutor who took them to trial and to call her before the congress to explain why she has given the drug runner TWO pardons one before and one after the trial. They could have cut off her money before the trial. But as usual the congress just sits on their butts and does nothing. But then they are going to give aid and comfort to the Islamic terrorist so we know they are traitors.

[stopem]

And I will defend the law more than I will a drug smuggler!
An ILLEGAL alien drug smuggler!

Those Border agents did their job, you weren't there nor was I but when an AMERICAN says they defend a bum drug smuggler and NOT the law and those who upkeep the law it is a sad day in America!!

Anymore than those that tried to convict our Military not to long ago when they were accused. We all supported and stood by our military and I would do it again just as I stand by the BORDER PATROL AGENTS!

Anyone can come over the OPEN border, terroists with suitcase nuclear weapons and stinking drug smugglers!

[Dane]

Why doesn't Rohrbacher slam the jury of the agents peers that convicted the two border agents.