Posted on 09/15/2006 1:18:49 PM PDT by NapkinUser
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) criticized Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a letter to the Justice Department in the wake of media reports yesterday that the U.S. Marshals raided the Hawaii home of Duane “Dog” Chapman at the direction of the Mexican government.
A spokeswoman for the Marshals Office confirmed yesterday that an arrest warrant was signed Wednesday by a federal magistrate in Hawaii at the urging of the administration. Chapman could now be extradited to to face criminal charges for successfully capturing Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Puerto Vallarta in 2003. Luster, who was wanted in the for rape is now serving a 124-year sentence.
“This Administration routinely tells Congress that they cannot secure our borders and immigration system due to a lack of resources. We are told that the U.S. Attorneys offices in Border States are simply overwhelmed with cases and cannot prosecute all the violations – even serious ones,” said Tancredo.
“Somehow this administration has plenty of time to track down a Mexican drug smuggler and give him immunity so he can testify against our Border Patrol agents,” said Tancredo referring to the prosecution of two Border Patrol agents facing 20 years in prison for wounding a Mexican smuggler during the course of their normal duties earlier this year.
“Americans are apparently supposed to happily accept presence the roughly 100,000 criminal aliens inside our borders – a number that is growing every year – while the Marshals use their resources to track down ‘Dog’ Chapman on orders from a foreign master for successfully brining a convicted rapist to justice.”
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the real problem with this administrations inability to address the failures of U.S. border security policy is not so much a lack of resources as it is one of misplaced priorities,” concluded Tancredo, “I’m beginning to wonder who is in charge of prioritizing assignments at DOJ. Is it this administration – or the one in Mexico City ?”
Obviously uber macho man, Chapman, didn't.
"Obviously uber macho man, Chapman, didn't."
Dane, let me state the obvious, you didn't answer the question.
What would you have done, armchair quarterback?
Now let's hear you hem and haw, and not answer the question.
"I wouldn't have done it in the first place" Comes to mind.
So is having a single round of 9mm, .45 ACP, 7.62x51 or 5.56 ammunition.
I did answer the question. First of all I didn't skip bail in Mexico, Chapman did.
Second Chapman is the one who is considered uber brave and uber macho, with his skipping bail, it proves he is neither.
Like I said if he been convicted in a Mexican court, the resulting publicity would have realeased him, but with his cowardly skipping of bail he made that all moot.
Why the contempt for Dog? Because he gets the bad guys? That's what he does you know--gets the bad guys.
The problem with that is they, the Mexican government, don't want them back.
"Bounty hunters? Fry em."
I see - it really has nothing to do with legalities, just your opinion concerning bounty hunters.
Have you been arrested before?
But the Chinese who tell the truth in China are criminals, in China.
If they are american, should we capture them, and send them to China?
Same thing.
That's a problem I'd like to see fixed.
Oh, I don't know. All I have is press releases like this one, that conclusively proves that he's not interested in working with them.
These PR salvos are great for fundraising, but at the same time they pretty much guarantee that Tancredo will be on the outside looking in.
I'll let Dog know.
He jumped bail because Mexico is a corrupt third world nation and what he did kind of hurts the Mexican business of taking bad guys in for money.
Chapman has money, so first look for Mexico to hold a gun to his head in fines compared to most other people.
Then look for them to jail them as an example to others who would think to do something regarding this drug cartel run third world nation.
If he would have been a man and faced his charges in Mexico this would have been moot.
What type of Judge, even a Mexican one would send a man to prison for capturing a rapist.
JMO, Chapman should have faced the Mexican charges and IMO would have been acquitted, but we will never know since he cowardly skipped bail and dug himself a deeper hole.
I am sure that made sense to you. Perhaps you need a bunny with a pancake on it's head.
Because Tancredo is both a Buchananite and a self-serving, sanctimonious, sorry excuse for a legislator. Because Tancredo the House version of the Senate's McCain -- no, not McCain, but the latter's toady, Lindsay Graham. Because, as I said in my earlier post, Tancredo, a supposed Republican (but actually a true RINO*), never has a good word to say about the Republican President or administration.
(*Republicans in name only don't always tilt left. Some tilt to the far edge of the other direction.)
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