Posted on 12/04/2008 4:25:46 AM PST by IbJensen
“The fact that the president has neglected to free these men from their imprisonment while freeing drug dealers, embezzlers and other criminals is insulting to the American people. For the sake of justice, let’s hope this is not the last round of pardons and commutations.” - Congressman Dana Rohrabacher
Apparently some in the Bush Administration believe drug dealers, tax evaders and bank embezzlers are deserving of pardons...... but former Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos - serving a combined 23 years for what Congressman Tom Tancredo described as "doing their jobs" - don't even deserve the time of day!
President Bush recently issued 14 pardons and two sentence commutations. Among those issued pardons and commutations were bank embezzlers, tax evaders and a rapper, John E. Forte, who was convicted of aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Agents Compean and Ramos were NOT on the list.
Such egregious neglect prompted Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to say:
“The fact that the president has neglected to free these men from their imprisonment while freeing drug dealers, embezzlers and other criminals is insulting to the American people. For the sake of justice, let’s hope this is not the last round of pardons and commutations.”
According to Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum:
"The end of President Bush's final term is quickly approaching. Less than two months remain until he will hand over his White House keys to Barack Obama, but we cannot let him leave office without resolving one very important issue: he must commute the prison sentences of convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean!"
We could not agree more.
President Bush still has time to make things right and it's up to folks like us to make sure he does the right thing!
Time is running out for Compean and Ramos!
That's why now is NOT the time to stop pressuring President Bush and our elected officials to do the right thing and release these American heroes from prison!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate. Tell them that the arrest, conviction and sentencing of Ramos and Compean -- two men bravely defending our nation's borders -- is a gross miscarriage of justice and perhaps one of the most cynical misuses of power in our nation's recent history.
More Harsh Words For The Administration...
Others were not as polite as Rohrabacher or Schlafly.
Conservative columnist Doug Patton called this travesty "a stench in the nostrils of every thinking American who loves justice."
Patton adds:
"But I will lose my last ounce of respect for this man as my president if he does not pardon Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean before he leaves office. These men put their lives on the line for us just as surely as our brave troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and justice demands a full presidential pardon."
You're already familiar with the case.
Compean and Ramos were convicted almost solely on the word of a known illegal alien drug smuggler who claimed that Compean and Ramos shot him in the butt while he was attempting to escape.
Incidentally, this smuggler was attempting to transport 743 pounds of marijuana into the United States at the time of the incident.
In exchange for his testimony, the smuggler was granted blanket immunity and allowed to come and go across the border almost at will and was actually caught attempting to transport more drugs into the United States while waiting to testify against Compean and Ramos.
The court WOULD NOT allow this fact to be submitted during the trial.
And, in what may be the greatest irony of this whole case, the smuggler was eventually convicted of the smuggling offenses that occurred AFTER he was granted immunity and was sentenced to LESS TIME than Compean and Ramos.
Patton yet again:
"It also turns out that this low-life drug smuggler re-entered the United States at least 10 different times in 2005 and that he was caught smuggling drugs while he was waiting to testify against Ramos and Compean. These facts were not brought up at their trial."
Phyllis Schlafly stated:
"The severity of these charges and the harshness of the punishment are totally disproportionate to the violation in question. Even the illegal drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, was sentenced to less prison time than our fellow American border guards!"
Such irony is shameful!
Now is the time to demand justice!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate. Tell them that the arrest, conviction and sentencing of Ramos and Compean -- two men bravely defending our nation's borders -- is a gross miscarriage of justice and perhaps one of the most cynical misuses of power in our nation's recent history.
http://www.grasstopsusa.com/releasecompeanandramosii.html
Even More Harsh Words For The Administration...
The Washington Times called President Bush's failure to act, "blindness."
The Times wrote the following in a recent editorial:
"It's both baffling and disappointing that President Bush has not already pardoned two U.S. Border Patrol agents imprisoned since 2007... Time is running out for Mr. Bush to act to correct what one Congressman [Rep. Dana Rohrabacher] calls 'the worst miscarriage of justice that I have witnessed in the 30 years I've been in Washington.'"
Congressman Tom Tancredo:
"These are the kinds of men whose government failed and destroyed them - all while they were serving a cause greater than themselves. These men deserve justice. I, and many other members of Congress, have repeatedly called upon President Bush to exercise his power to pardon - but he has not done so.”
Congressman Ed Royce stated:
“Ramos and Compean have been living in the torture of solitary confinement for almost two years for something they never should have been prosecuted for in the first place. We are pleading with the Pardon Attorney to make a favorable recommendation of commutation to the President so he can finally do the right thing by these men and their families."
Blogger Andrew T. Durham claims the case "stinks to high Heaven" and wrote:
"It is literally a crime that apparently President Bush is not granting pardons to immorally imprisoned border [patrol] agents Ramos and Compean."
Now may be your last chance to make your voice heard!
At the very least, this may be President Bush's last opportunity to listen!
The time to release Compean and Ramos is NOW!
(His actions have prevented another 9/11, and two men doing the job assigned them will be freed from a serious miscarriage of justice.)
If he doesn't free them that non-act will overshadow all else.
These Border Patrol agents should have never been on trial.
Now G.W. Bush has the ability to right a wrong. If he fails to pardon these two it will be two more things I take umbrage with him.
A long list I have problems with G.W. on.
While I don't know every detail that jury heard, there has been plenty of time to correct the mistake.
I still think there was pressure from the Mexican side to make an example of these men, and promises were made.
I'm even sorry I voted for McCain.
Sure wish my party would return to me. :(
The case was a perversion of justice, symbolic of what is occurring throughout our court system, and a reminder of how bad guys are going free by subverting our system of laws.
The failure to grant a pardon will be a permanent stain on this president’s record.
Me too! Perhaps it takes a plunge into the abyss to shake off all the RINOs before it returns to us.
Instead of standing by like a globalist stump, shilling for Mexico, he should have fired Johnny Sutton and given medals to our two border guards.
To turn his back on two public servants deserving of accolades rather than prison sentences took the wrong kind of courage on Bush's part!
I'll remember him for this and also remember how foolish I was to donate cash and time for his campaigns to keep the 'lesser than two evils' from becoming president.
Ditto that! I've been voting for the lesser of evils since Reagan left office and look where it's gotten us. Royally screwed.
Agents Compean and Ramos were NOT on the list.
I hope and pray that President Bush pardons these good men. If he does not it will be a permanent stain on his legacy. It is beyond me to understand why he has such disdain for the people who put him into office.
If anything Bush has caused me to take a look at a third party because the Republicans are less than empty suits. That is another forthcoming legacy of the Bush Admnistration.
Bush, despised by the left, despises by the right and just generally hated by those in the middle.
I have lost all respect for ANY Bush.
Bush, despised by the left, despises by the right and just generally hated by those in the middle.
I have lost all respect for ANY Bush.
Aha, stock, we agree on something again. My sentiments precisely. No more Bushes, period. But believe me, two more Bushes are hovering on the horizon. Jeb Bush and his son Prescott who is ambitious. Jeb will run for the Senate, and then 4-8 years from now, when everyone has forgotten about Jorge Bush and everyone is sick of Obama, then Jeb will run for Prez. Mark my words. And his son Prescott will take Jeb’s place in the Senate.
No more Bushies for me. Or ANY RINOS.
Aha, as I said, we probley hold the same views except for a little information.
Should you read the link I posted I think you will say, “oh my God”.
Compassionate conservatism is doublespeak for republican socialist
Stock, go read the thread just posted entitled:
European Banks to be Hit very hard by Collapsing Emerging Markets
Another eye opener.
I liked Jeb until he wimped out and allowed that poor lady to be starved to death. He should have had the Florida National Guard take her out of that nursing home and turned over to her parents to care for like they begged to do.
Time to Freep President Bush. The clock is ticking folks. Lets get these guys home for Christmas!
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Wow. Another Ramos-Compean effort that asks for $$$, your name, address, tel # and credit card.
Shocking.
Don’t the Minute Men Project close down recently due to mismanagement of funds by Simcox and Gilchrist?
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