Posted on 01/21/2007 12:38:46 PM PST by Ladycalif
At every step along the way – from the initial charges to the trial to the sentencing – Claudia Martinez of Huntington Beach thought that the nightmare would soon be over, that the justice system would finally see the light.
She just couldn't believe that her brother, a U.S. Border Patrol agent, would actually be sent to prison for the shooting of a drug smuggler.
"He didn't do anything wrong," says Martinez, 29, a 10-year Orange County resident who with her brother, Jose Compean, was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. "He loved his country, he served his country in the military and in the Border Patrol. He was just trying to do his job. I thought, this can't happen."
But it did.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
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This will have a chilling effect on border patrol agents -- which will impact American's safety and America's security.
Bush and Gonzales want to sent the BP a lesson - don't mess with illegals ... even if they are drug smugglers.
Sad but hopeful bump.
Rep. Walter Jones: "I believe sincerely that this whole prosecution of these two men is one of the greatest examples of an injustice that I have ever seen. And somewhere along the way, I think there is a skunk."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ceyHtS-6w
Border Agents Wrongfully Convicted
06:44
It is curious how Mr. Bush has used his pardon powers to pardon several criminals over the Christmas holidays -- even pardoning a turkey on Thanksgiving day.
He seems to have Christian mercy for those that commit crimes, but not for those that put their lives on the line for America. Curious.
Yes, the shame of it is that many of President Bush's Christmas Pardons went to convicted drug smugglers, and the President will not now pardon these Border Patrolmen who, in the performance of their duty, shot a drug smuggler. It makes the mind reel at the injustice of it all. It's too bad the President isn't running again for office in 2008, because if he were, my vote would remember his support of Mexican drug smugglers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757336/posts
somewhere along the way? How about...further up the line?
1. The Dems have been talking impeachment for several years.
2. The Dems now control both houses of Congress.
3. He continues to lose Republican support.
I thought I read where Bush was going to meet with the families of the BP agents. Did that take place?
I have not heard that. I did hear that the WH has finally responded to pleas, and the president will at least consider the matter of pardon.
after reading the artile at WND http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53856
It sounds to me like Compean and Ramos were a couple of bad eggs, so bad in fact that the testimony of an illegal allien drug smuggler was enough to put them away. They are more likely bad cops that got caught nothing more than grown up bullies.
A federal prosecutor "finds" a foreign drug dealer in Mexico (how? did they have prior contact?.} He grants the drug smuggler immunity so that he can use his testimony to destroy the lives of two loyal law enforcement officers who STOPPED the drug dealer. This case stinks. The prosecutor stinks. He may well be in league with the drug traffickers. Bush need to free the Border patrolmen and investigate the prosecutor.
Try reading this one:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26224
People of the Year: Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean
By FrontPage Magazine
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 1, 2007
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26224
Returning to Mexico, Aldrete-Davila related his misfortunes to his mother, who contacted the mother-in-law of Border Patrol agent Rene Sanchez. Sanchez in turn tipped off a member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who went to Mexico to offer immunity if Osbaldo would act as a state’s witness against Ramos and Compean: the feds wanted to prosecute the agents shooting the alien narcotics supplier.
i read the interview, it seems like the agents recognized the fact that the media in this country (left leaning), would rather see soldiers and agents dead or seriously injured because they have to think about the politcal ramifications and pc, ten years is too long, and i'm very suspicious about the lawyer in mexico story
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