[FOXFANVOX]

I think everybody is just getting tired and frustrated. Let's all remember that criticism is good, it will help us find the truth [I think, everybody's goal]. We need to point out discrepancies so they can be addressed.

My bias up front is that the government used the power of the Fed to smack a couple of guys who should have been handled locally and administratively. I think that Johnny Sutton has abused his power previously and is doing it again. That is my interest. Plus, I like mysteries, and this case is full of intrigue and changed testimony and outright lies. Neither side is looking real good at this point, but I always side with the cops, unless they are shown to be really bad, and so far the gov't has not shown that to me.

[Iwo Jima]

I don't always side with the cops. I do always look at things from the perspective of the accused, because that's the law and the just thing to do, and in this case that's the cops.

It is a good mystery, and it is clear that so much more is at stake other than the surface allegations. It's that "something else" that is of interest to me. Just why did this trial even happen at all? If anyone else had called the authorities and said "I got shot in the butt while running drugs and I won't testify" the only thing that the LEO being contacted would have done is bust a gut laughing so hard as he hung up the phone.

I hate to say it, but what's really going on here is more important than the guilt or innocence of Ramos and Compean, and getting to the bottom of it is more important than their being pardoned.

[calcowgirl]

..full of intrigue and changed testimony and outright lies...

And, amazingly enough, that is an understatement! LOL.

To find the truth, Bump! :-)