[zarf]

It sounds like a situation that needs careful review. On the face of it it doesn't seem like these guys deserve prison but if they covered up the facts they committed a serious offense.

The president is being responsible by considering all the facts involved. I don't get the hysteria by the border nuts.

[Nuc1]

Strictly speaking as a "Border Nut" I don't understand all this sympathy for the perp. Further, I am sick of legal eagles that attack the people who defend this nation via arcane laws and 20-20 hindsight. The only crime the agents are guilty of is poor marksmanship. For that they should be given remedial training.

Far from being angry at the agents, I am furious at a legal system that could charge them in the first place and then convict them. My God, these people were justifiably afraid of loosing their lives, their future, and their families due to a run away Judaical system that persecutes the innocent. And that is just what happened. The full force of the government came down on them in support of...the criminal. Imagine that.

If this nonsense keeps up, one day we will all wake up and find the armed forces and security forces held a trial and found that we were not worthy of their protection. And who could blame them?

[taxed2death]

"I don't get the hysteria by the border nuts."

Many of us concerned about the porous border don't understand illegal apologists either.

[processing please hold]

It's Border bots. Shall we call Bush bots, Bush nuts? You're trying to hang a negative connotation on people who want our country secured on the invasion from the south.

[sgtbono2002]

I dont consider myself a Border nut although I do feel we cannot have a country where people merely walk back and forth across our borders as they please.

Some things are right and some are wrong.

Imprisoning these men is dead wrong. Especially on the word of an admitted criminal.

[Amerigomag]

but if they covered up the facts

That has long been a problem for may folks.

In circumstances similar to those being discussed, the original actions were possibly questionable or imprudent but substantially not grave or illegal. Driven by fear of overzealous prosecution, the perpetrators attempt to obfuscate or alter the record of their actions and in the process they conspire.

The act of conspiring oft times carriers legal penalties well in excess of those accorded to the original action even if those original actions were subsequently deemed illegal.

This may well be the case in these circumstances.

[TheeOhioInfidel]

"I don't get the hysteria by the border nuts."

Certified Border nut, and proud of it.