Posted on 02/01/2007 5:44:17 AM PST by GulfBreeze
***But to federal prosecutor Johnny Sutton and his defenders, the two Texas-based agents abridged the public trust by attempting to cover up an unauthorized shooting and must face the consequences.*****
They needed firing ,not jailing.
What does the Prez care, he's not in jail with a bunch of guys he put there.
Assclown.
The administration is taking the side of the law. While I agree that these guys deserve a pardon review, they filed false reports and hid evidence.
Every LEO knows that if they get caught doing this stuff, they are going to be made an example of.
"In an interview on the Fox television network Wednesday, Bush again said he is bound by strict federal guidelines on pardons and cannot immediately grant a pardon to the two agents."
This is crap. The laws which set up the review boards specifically state that notwithstanding those laws, NOTHING
interferes with a president's power to issue pardons on his own initiative any time he wants.
The "I have to wait for the process to end" line is a cop-out. The buck stops at the President's desk, and he's
avoiding it.
These guys may or may not have overreacted; but the penalty for that should be a suspension without pay for a couple of months, not a prison term, which for LE is much worse
than an ordinary citizen to boot.
And while the pardon boards and federal attorneys and review boards sit on their fat behinds every day, these
guys will be in prison every day.
To borrow a slogan from a recent demonstration, "END IT NOW, MR. BUSH!"
Sorry, these guys abused their position of authority, covered up the scene, and shot an unarmed man ( they knew he was unarmed ) in the back, obstructed justice and failed to report any of it. If you or I did this we would be in jail. These two belong in jail.
Unfortunately, this incident will probably discourage qualified people from working for the border patrol. They will figure, "What the hell...we have to fight the bad guys AND our own government...forgetaboutit". Political correctness (weakness) has a price to be paid. Sad.
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Let the trial go through the appeals motion. If that doesn't work then pardon them.
'These guys' have arrest authority. The 'suspect' was fleeing arrest. Is there something wrong with those having arrest authority using it?
and shot an unarmed man ( they knew he was unarmed ) in the back
Where do you find this information? Even if true, what is wrong with those having arrest authority using that authority? Where is that so-called 'authority' if the enforcers have to jump through hoops to exercise it? The law should be there to protect society, not criminals.
Bush wants to be free to 'give a pass to Democrats' like Sandy
Burger, but for these guys he wants to make sure no border agent messes with his open border policy. Is he getting a cut of the drug traffic? This policy makes reason stare.
Since when does an illegal alien crossing the border illegally have any "constitutional" rights?
IMO, they should shoot all illegals in the butt as soon as they step onto American soil.
They should switch to rubber bullets and give em HE**
But then we would be required to air drop safety glasses into Mexico. /sarc
Will someone please explain how anyone can do dirty work without getting their hands dirty at times? I believe most right thinking people resent that these agents were prosecuted at all... while another certified criminal goes free on a 'technicality'.
If you had heard Rohrbacher's interview on Fox, you might be dialing the White House in outrage at this very moment.
The White House number is 202-456-1111.
If one of these agents is killed or stabbed while in prison, President Bush will lose another bunch of Representatives for whatever he wants to do with the rest of his Administration.
Oh please. Pardons aren't something that a president (unless he's x42) scribbles out like a grocery list. There's a process to the matter and that process is being followed. How hard is that to understand?
The union that represents most nonsupervisory Border Patrol agents is also waging a vigorous campaign to obtain pardons for the two agents. "The front-line agents, the ones who actually do the work, are extremely upset," said T. J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council. "They're very concerned that the same thing could happen to them."
Right. Well, if you follow procedure and don't try to cover-up a snafu out in the field, you won't run into any of the same problems.
It chaps my hide that these agents are acting like they're nothing but a couple of babes in the woods. If they'd followed procedure instead of trying to cover up a shooting, nothing would probably have ever come of the situation. No drug dealer is going to come back across the border to lodge a complaint when he has 750 lbs. of weed to own up to, and no D.A. is going to go after a couple of border patrol officers who did what they were supposed to do.
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