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(1) Before being elected a U.S. House Rep., Ted Poe was a Harris County(Houston) chief felony prosecutor and then a felony court judge. Everyone inside the Houston GOP and legal circles knows Ted. He is tough on Mexican border security, illegals, greatly dislikes U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s abuse of power, and will continue to be a go-to guy in this Ramos and Compean matter. Many hope Ted will run for Texas Governor in 2010. Here’s the website. – FlA

01.19.09 FR: Bush Commutes Sentences of Two Border Agents Convicted of Shooting Drug Dealer
- - Despite the great news today, this matter is not over. First, it will be two months before Ramos and Compean are released from prison for time served. Second, many “GOP Interests” still support attempting to overturn these two border agents convictions before the SCOTUS. Third, there is good support from the majority of U.S. Congress Republicans and a number of Democrats to change the federal firearms discharge law to protect border patrol agents doing their job in the line of duty. – FlA, SFARI

01.19.09 Dallas Morning News: Immigrant advocates warned that leniency would encourage aggressive tactics by U.S. border authorities. Mexican officials were dismayed by President Bush’s sentence commutation arguing that U.S. border agents must obey the law regardless of how suspects behave. "This sends a very bad and difficult to understand message," Carlos Rico, the assistant foreign minister for North American affairs, told reporters in Mexico City.”
- - FlAttorney Says: Ramos and Compean should have been given a pay raise and accommodation for shooting the fleeing career drug smuggler (currently serving 9 years in prison) who ignored their orders to stop so he could be questioned and subsequently arrested for trying to smuggle over 700 pounds of marijuana into Texas. If drug smugglers and illegals don’t fear our border patrol agents we will never get our extremely serious Mexican border problems under control. The problem is so serious and out of control the U.S. government should have/should legally declare the entire Mexican border as an official war zone. But no, the H.W. Bush Cartel and “W” were too busy all these years kissing Mexican government officials butts, while they tied our courageous border patrol agents hands. This is one of the reasons “W” will be remembered as the worst GOP President in my lifetime – some GOP political experts say in U.S. history.
I/we like this GOP statement - "Today marks the end of an injustice," said U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas. "Especially as drug trafficking and violence continue to assault our border, our Border Patrol agents should know that their government will support and defend them as they risk their lives for the security of our nation." - - I am glad Pete is the new NRCC Chairman. He has an excellent conservative track record and is an asset in the “New GOP”. - FlA

All The Way!

TAB

Thanks. Can’t wait until they are both free.

Yes, March 20th will not come soon enough ~ TAB

Poe said he does not believe this enhancement should apply to law enforcement officers and said he plans to intro-duce legislation this session to amend and clarify the federal law.

Don't get me wrong, these guys were railroaded, but if that stupid law applies to me then it needs to apply to cops as well. The Kings men are NOT a special class of citizens. Despite NRAs support, Project Exile is a federal encroachment on local jurisdiction.

"Poe said he does not believe this enhancement should apply to law enforcement officers and said he plans to introduce legislation this session to amend and clarify the federal law."

So if you are Joe Criminal Sixpack you get ten years, if you're Joe Criminal Law Enforcement officer you get a pass. One set of laws for cops, one set of laws for peons. Sounds sweet to me if I'm a scumbag criminal with a badge. Does the word impunity mean anything???

Here in the U.S. we have this pesky little thing called the 14th amendment, that guarantees among other things, Equal Protection of the laws.

"no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".[1] The Equal Protection Clause can be seen as an attempt to secure the promise of the United States' professed commitment to the proposition that "all men are created equal"[2] by empowering the judiciary to enforce that principle against the states.