[TheeOhioInfidel]

Navarrette is a columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune. His e-mail address is

ruben.navarrette@uniontrib.com

This guy is stupid. I've already emailed him.

[freekitty]

If he does get it he sure is trying hard to convince us he doesn't.

[xcamel]

Typical of the leftist pro-invasion moonbats. Load the story with tons of weasel-words and hyperbole. Twist the facts and the time line, Make the poor gooberment lackeys the victim of a right-wing jihad. This guy is a real classic example of what is wrong with the press in the US.

[calcowgirl]

Ruben Navarette Ping! (barf alert is appropriate)

[AZRepublican]

"You cannot make and official act, done under color of law, and without criminal intent and from a sense of public duty, a crime."

John Bingham, co-author 14th amendment

[calcowgirl]

Unfortunately, Navarrette actually gets widely published. I've seen this same article listed in other publications (under different titles) for about the last week.

[ansel12]

"This guy is stupid. I've already emailed him."




It won't do any good, the San Diego Union is a pro Mexican newspaper, and was before they made Navarrette their dominate voice, at one time they tried adding a Spanish language page to that section.

[DaveyB]

It is amazing how lazy the press has become. Just quote the DA, don't bother investigating, don't question questionable assertions, just let your friends tell you how it is and report what they told you.

I just spent last week witnessing a senior DA prosecute a friend of mine for carrying a concealed weapon with a permit in the airport. The DA wanted a felony! The DA conveniently lost much of the exculpatory evidence, and lied on several occasions to the jury. The jury did not buy it (thank God!). My friend had legal authority and no motive. But, I witnessed how a DA can stack the deck against someone, imtimadate them, even lie. I don't trust them anymore, I just can't figure out why the press would!

[Arizona Carolyn]

I've read other pro-illegal articles from this man.

[canuck_conservative]

"... I'm in the business of locking up illegal aliens who come across and drug smugglers who come across ..." [- Johnny Sutton]

Not this time you weren't.

[Ikemeister]

Guys like Navarette aren't the problem. The main problem sits in the White House like a potted plant.

[PatrickF4]

At least it was in the Opinion section.

What is the border patrol supposed to do? Ensure a safe crossing to drug smugglers and other criminals?

The Federal Government's lack of attention to the border issues goes against the spirit of the Constitution which was enacted to "provide for the common defense". And because the have so long looked the other way, they have created a huge problem. Now, they charge those guarding our border with attempted murder?

[RJL]

Hence the accusation by some that Sutton - along with his bosses, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush - has become an agent of the Mexican government.

I've been wondering, is it true that Bush's presidential library is going to be built in Mexico City, Mexico?

[napscoordinator]

The agents collected the shell casings and filed false reports, trying to cover up the incident.



Why did they do this???? This is probably the reason they are in jail and most likely the reason they have not been pardoned yet. I just don't like the idea they covered it up. Am I alone in this bothering me?

[investigateworld]

"We just evaluate the facts," Sutton said. "We don't get to choose the facts. We don't get to choose the witnesses.

Mr. Sutton, you are a liar. The court record shows your office made dozens of motions to exclude witness and facts you didn't want on the record.

[RJL]

Ramos and Compean testified they made a point of looking at the suspect's hands and saw no weapon. Compean fired at least 14 rounds and Ramos fired once.

Hey Ruben Navarrette, since the trial transcripts haven't released, let's have a source for this so we can be sure it's not from the same Johnny Sutton who also lied when he claimed the illegal drug smuggler was shot in the back.

Ramos wounded the suspect and saw him limp into Mexico. The agents collected the shell casings and filed false reports, trying to cover up the incident.

Again, please source this incriminating statement that could only have come from Mr. Ramos. Every other report I've read said the illegal drug smuggler ran back to Mexico seemingly uninjured.

[Spunky]

From article:Ramos and Compean testified they made a point of looking at the suspect's hands and saw no weapon. Compean fired at least 14 rounds and Ramos fired once.

Who is the Reubin Navarette guy who wrote this article? From everything else I have read this statement is a lie. All the articles I have read said they thought they saw him with a gun in his hand. Besides who believes that a drug runner would be running drugs without carring a wheapon? NOT ME!

[bigdcaldavis]

If anybody should be put in gen-pop, it's the criminal prosecutor for violating their civil rights and the criminal warden for participating in a criminal cover-up of the beating of Ramos and not allowing him to have medical treatment for his injuries. Both of them deserve to be prags.

[NapkinUser]

Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Solana Beach - who used to be a lobbyist for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nativist organization that wants to limit even legal immigration - quipped that, since Bush wants amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants, he should simply add two more names to the list.

Basically, Bilbray lumped together former Border Patrol agents with illegal immigrants.

I agree. The border patrol agents don't deserve to be lumped in with the criminal aliens flooding across our southern border on a daily basis.

[BnBlFlag]

The Constitutional Power of a President to Pardon is explicit. A "Pardonable Offense" is whatever the President says it is.

[JSteff]

Note that in the article none of the Reps wanting the BP agents released are dems. The dems will do anything to hinder border control and you will not see any of them working to defend our borders.

Border control is almost wholly a Republican thing. The dems want all the new voters they can get.