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 ?”
Name one politician that isnt full of his own press
Mexican laws aren't worth wiping the undigested remains of a bad burrito from one's backside. The truth is that Dog, Leland, and Youngblood failed to bribe the right people. Mexico is a thirdworld cesspool, run by narco-terrorists, and policed by corrupt thugs. I would put Mexican laws in the same category as Somalia's or Zimbabwe's laws. I am actually surprised that "conservatives" would place Mexican laws up there with American laws.
That is precisely the point and you stated it well IMHO. Tancredo, OTOH, used hyperbole and used the word 'direction' which has a whole other meaning than request.
A treaty that we signed and ratified is a U.S. law...
Considering part of what you posted was an out right lie, I'll leave it!
Okay, that's a recitation of the facts. Why didn't the Mexican police arrest him? You say there is no evidence that the Mexican government was being paid off. What would you like, signed receipts? Let ME go on the record as saying that he was MOST LIKELY paying someone off. A rich American rapist, living in Mexico, they didn't know he was there, and he wasn't paying anyone off, I'm sorry but that kind of strains cedulity a bit.
As far as the FBI being only "hours away from an arrest", spare me. As far as Mexico "sending him back", that was probably just a gigantic CYOA on the part of Mexico, motivated by a gigantic CYOA on the part of the FBI. There is no doubt in my mind that if Dog had not gone down there, this rapist scum-bag would still be down there sipping Tequila and raping Mexican girls while the local cops continued to collect their bribes and look the other way.
While you gave a recitation of the facts regarding the generation and execution of the warrant, that still doesn't explain why the U.S. government jumped right on this particular extradition request instead of just back-burnering it like they should have. The answer to that question, I believe, is most likely (no evidence) that the FBI was just embarrassed that Dog got to him first while the FBI was playing silly diplomatic games or sitting on their butts.
I've heard lots of legal gobbledy-gook, speculation, and fact recitation of this thread, but no has been able to explain to me why this extradition request from Mexico was not just back-burnered into oblivion. That would be REAL quid-pro-quo with Mexico.
Let's see if I can get this right. The Mexican government refused our requests to extradite a violent rapist, but they expect us to extradite the individuals who captured that violent rapist and brought him back to the U.S. for trial. Well, I guess that's ok, since all other penalties apply to the U.S. and its citizens throughout the world, but not to others. SHEESH!!
So how long until Mexico sends authorities to the U.S. to pick up all those illegal immigrant lawbreakers?!?!?!?
Dog?! They've arrested *DOG*?!?!?!
That's just insane. Tancredo's 100% spot on with this one.
Prayers for Beth and Dog's kids who probably witnessed this, and for the rest of their family. This is just crazy, arresting the people who enforce the law. >:-(
They pull crap like that on the good guys and then wonder why they don't get respect.
Yeah, the Dog better walk the line but some fence-jumper has carte blanche to break the law, even if he's a felon.
As someone else pointed out, the man signed an agreement to be picked up anywhere, anytime and then broke the agreement. It's not so much that he broke Mexican law, but that someone was being paid to protect the guy and got embarrassed by Dog's capture of him. It's banana republic vengeance, not justice.
You mean like tancredo's press release.
That's the bottom line here. That and the fact that this administration will not use existing laws to secure our borders come hell or high water.
His sister-in-law is from Mexican aristocracy. That is why he is so close to them.
He beats a liberal rino TX now has for goernor.
Right. Does everyone on earth not know that the Mexican government is hopelessly corrupt? There is no justice in Mexico. And if something else were not involved, it would not have taken the federales so long to pull this off. Dog has been the most highly-rated show on A&E for 3 years. What does that tell you? It should tell you that this is beind-the-scenes politics. The question you should be asking is why? And why now? Personally, I vote that we offer a trade: Dog, Tim and Leeland for, let's say, 10,000 illegal immigrants that Mexico can have back.
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