Posted on 07/17/2007 7:55:33 AM PDT by Calpernia
::shrugs::
Until he officially announces, I wouldn’t lend weight to anything he says anyway.
JMO
Actually, the BOR describes rights of “the people”, which is a much different concept that “people”, and is much more closely defined with “citizens”.
Hunter on Lou Dobbs last night:
Tomorrow, one of Ramos and Compean’s biggest supporters, Congressman Duncan Hunter, will be testifying before that Senate Judiciary hearing. And so far, 95 Republicans have signed onto or are co-sponsoring Congressman Hunter’s legislation calling for a Congressional pardon for Agents Ramos and Compean. Congressman Hunter joins us tonight from Capitol Hill.
Congressman, tomorrow — let’s start straightforwardly.
Is this going to be a hearing that gets to the issues and to the facts of the case, do you think?
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R), CALIFORNIA: Yes, Lou, I think it will get to the facts of the case. And I think it will get to the basic injustice of this case.
The interesting thing about this case is even if you take the drug dealer’s testimony that at as he was — after he had run this load of drugs across the country and he’d — he’d had a — he’d had a little wrestling match with Compean, or Compean was on the ground, Ramos was running past him, the drug dealer claims he was running away unarmed. Although he was never frisked, so nobody really knows if he was unarmed. That couldn’t be established by Johnny Sutton.
But the facts are these guys were given — for wounding a drug dealer who went right back into business smuggling drugs — they were given, basically, murder sentences by the United States of America. They were given 11 and 12 years in the federal penitentiary.
DOBBS: Right.
HUNTER: The average murder in America does eight-and-a-half years in custody.
DOBBS: Yes.
HUNTER: So this is — I’ve seen a ton of cases under the UCMJ, Lou. You know, I’ve been on the Armed Services Committee for 26 years. I’ve never seen an Army or a Marine —
DOBBS: Code of Military Justice, for those who have not — who are not familiar with your work on the Senate Armed Services Committee or haven’t been in the military.
HUNTER: (INAUDIBLE).
I’ve never seen — I’ve never seen a uniformed officer in the services treated as unjustly as Compean and Ramos.
DOBBS: Congressman, let me turn this back to — to one other thing, too.
The — one of the issues here is obviously Johnny Sutton’s prosecution; the question of Mexican involvement; the question of sealed evidence; a number of the issues.
And as you have said on the House Armed Services Committee, you also represent the district in San Diego.
You’re — there are all sorts of allegations here that the reasons that evidence has been sealed is to protect the prosecutors from charges of undue influence on the part of the government of Mexico.
What is your reaction to all of that?
HUNTER: Well, I think it’s clear that the government of Mexico has put pressure on the United States to push back on the Border Patrol when they get tough on these people that are crossing illegally, especially the drug smugglers. I’ve seen the communications that say we want to have prosecutions when — when people come in across illegally are treated in the least way in an untoward manner by agents.
So I think there’s been pressure on the administration.
But, you know, Lou, this thing cries out for basic fairness. You don’t have to find a conspiracy theory to say that this — this jury and this judge together have delivered this incredibly hard sentence, a murder sentence on two guys for wounding a drug dealer who went right back to moving drugs.
DOBBS: And, you know, you were talking about the average sentence. In point of fact, a couple of interesting elements — as we have the wrap up here, Congressman.
But the fact is Ramos and Compean were both offered plea bargains with significant reductions in their — the potential jail term they faced. They’re — they believe themselves innocent and resisted those offers. A lot of questions to be answered. Hopefully those answers will begin tomorrow.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/16/ldt.01.html
RM this is a great post, with all the links to Hunter’s statements on these issues. I’ve looked for these on my own, this makes it much easier.
Thanks for posting this! Time to free these men!
Thanks for posting this, bump for Duncan Hunter & read later.
Duncan Hunter BTTT
Ramos & Compean ping.
BTTT
actually yes we should indict anyone who does that... are you saying we sholdn’t?
I am not sure if the facts are even true- it was from the prosecutor, and he could be a lying weasel.
Do you discourage aeveryone from trying to find the truth? Just askin’
ping
Now if California would just help us get him into the White House come 2009, the rest of us conservatives would be very grateful. :-)
Thanks, I missed that one.
Early this morning on FOX they were showing Hunter at the Hearing while they were interviewing another good San Diego congressman, Brian Bilbray on the border and illegal issues.
Duncan Hunter has been out front with the border issues and illegals for years and years. All the other wanna bees don’t have a fraction of Hunter’s knowledge and background.
Another reason we need Hunter in the White House.
The hearing was not shown as C-SPAN has to show congress when in session. They may repeat this later.
I heard that U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton went after five border patrol agents.
Could he be on some kind of fishing expedition?
Just wondering.
>>>>Could he be on some kind of fishing expedition?
AuntB, did you bookmark that URL about John Sutton? The archived FR one.
If not, I’ll look for it in a bit.
I think this is what I was looking for. If not, AuntB might have a better link when she comes by:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817368/posts
For evidence of that, we only need to turn to the House of Death mass murder case, which also was overseen by Sutton’s office.
As you recall, in that case, a U.S. government informant helped to arrange, and even participated in, the murders of a dozen people in Juarez as part of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation targeting a narco-trafficking cell headed by Heriberto Santillan-Tabares. To date, not one U.S. law enforcer or prosecutor has been held accountable in a criminal court for their complicity in the House of Death murders.
More at link
Thanks, and the more I learn, the less I trust Sutton.
I’ll check out the FR link, and bump it while I’m there.
“’The president’s fellow Republican and presidential candidate, Congressman Duncan Hunter of California, said 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.
And my question: Since there are hundreds of sponsors of a bill to this effect, these two agents are in solitary. Why won’t the president show the same mercy to them that he showed to Libby,” Kinsolving asked.”
You can read the rest at: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56708
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