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, Im beginning to wonder who is in charge of prioritizing assignments at DOJ. Is it this administration or the one in Mexico City ?
He is better than a Kennedy. He got a RAPIST put behind bars at considerable risk to himself and he's man enough to take the consequences. Kennedys do the actual raping.
If you and I did something like this, wouldn't they come after us?????
No. We are not Bounty Hunters and it would simply be kidnapping, which is a job description in the corrupt country known as Mehico.
Tommy should have shut up since the next day the payoff was revealed in the extradition of one of Mexico's biggest drug lords to the US. I wondered what the other shoe on this would be.
You must be easily surprised. Tancredo won't get squat he is strictly fringeville.
Did you even see this or are you going by the "report?" The guy doing the suing was the provoker of the incident and there is absolutely no denying that. I saw it with my own eyes. The motel guy was an animal.
That doesn't mean we need to extradite him. What's the compelling reason why we should do so?
Yet, you seem to act as if you were one of the actual editors and know the "whole story."
You mean, aside from the US-Mexico Extradition Treaty of 1980?
Yeah. =] Aside from that. [LOL]
If that treaty were being respected by the Mexicans, the bounty hunter in question wouldn't have been necessary, and the rapist would have been returned to us by the Mexican authorities.
Lets cowtow even more to those crooked pols and drug dealers south of the border. What a crock.
You seem to really like this guy, who, in my opinion, should be killed. Why do you like the rapist so much?
No.
I'm acting as one who has been present at "news" events which were later televised on the evening news. Nothing was untrue about the broadcasts. They just did not include the whole truth. Some were more accurate than others. What you and others watched was a commercial product packaged for your entertainment and their profit.
Three others have said the same thing as you. For all I know, all four of you could be right. Or, not.
It is just as simple as that.
Did you ever buy the Brooklyn Bridge? Swampland in Florida? Wake up Charlie.
You don't watch much TV do you? All that praying and bringing people to justice sure is sleazy. /sarc
Of all your stupid replies, this is the worst. Think of the words you wrote here: "Chapman could have used...publicity to free himself, but...he was a coward and decided to skip bail."
Using ones notarity to get off would be courageous and skipping out only to be taken into custody by U.S. officials is cowardly? As usual, you have things ass-backwards.
How do you know that? Fact is, you don't--it's as simple as that.
That's a remarkably unfounded statement to make.
I'm arguing that you shouldn't blame Bush for Chapman being arrested for bail-jumping. I'm certainly happy Luster was captured, and would fight for an aquittal for Chapman on the "bounty hunter" charges for that reason.
But how I want the case to turn out is a different question than whether the United States is WRONG to honor a legal and valid request for extradition hearings from a foreign government we have a treaty with. And whether it makes sense to suggest that the President of the United States is personally involved in picking up a 2-bit bounty jumper for the Mexican government because Fox has "something" on him, to name one bizarre conspiracy theory.
You are illiterate as well as dense.
Look at his posts this morning. He's on a strafing run. Good only for a chuckle or two.
Set the Dog Free~!
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