Posted on 02/21/2007 5:43:19 AM PST by libstripper
We all remember the embarrassing list of presidential pardons that finalized Bill Clinton’s legacy of sleaze. It was a tawdry list of 145 drug dealers, income tax evaders and the notorious Marc Rich, who fled the United States in the midst of his trial on charges of making oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis.
Clinton also pardoned corrupt former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (18 terms, 17 indictments) and his own cokehead brother, Roger Clinton.
Since taking office, George W. Bush has issued 113 pardons, but there are four more he needs to add to his list.
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Put the Camp Pendleton Eight on that list.
Excellent....I can't add anymore.
and even Bush had time over the Christmas holidays to pardon FIVE DRUG DEALERS,
so he needs to get off his arse and pardon these BP agents.
I'm getting a little tired of the Tony Snow daily "song & dance" routine.
Since taking office, George W. Bush has issued 113 pardons, but there are four more he needs to add to his list.Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, two former border patrol agents, are now serving hard time in prison. If you are unfamiliar with these two men, you are getting far too much of your news from the mainstream media, which has virtually ignored their story. Ramos and Compean were on duty along the Rio Grande in Texas when a Mexican drug smuggler named Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila tried to flee back across the river into Mexico. Aldrete-Davila brandished what the agents thought was a gun. Ramos and Compean fired their firearms at the suspect, but when he continued to flee, they logically assumed he had not been injured.
PING !!
The case of the two border patrol agents, left to rot in prison ("the thanks of a grateful nation"), and the rigged charges against the Duke lacrosse players (which case is STILL going on with no end in sight) have made me lose
faith in the justice system in the US.
The government lets the two agents sit in prison where they are subject to retaliation and attacks from the very criminals they tried to protect us from.
And it will not intervene when a hate group (new black panther party) threatens the lives of defendants in a criminal trial in Durham. (How long would it be before FBI agents arrived if the KKK were threatening defendants there, or if someone questioned a muslim at the airport?)
I once thought the Justice Dept. protected our civil rights; now I understand that if protecting your civil rights offends someone else (Mexico, or the PC crowd),
then you will be tossed under the bus.
I can. How about the hundreds of people thrown in to prison by ATF for paperwork "violations"....non-personal, non-violent infractions that got them 10-20 years for trying to run a business?
So let’s review: Two border agents shoot a drug smuggler and end up serving time in federal prison.And that is even doubtful, no?? The gunshot wound would have taken him down, yet he RAN AWAY, right??
Your observations reminds me of a short poem my college professor once cited during a lecture:
The wise commit the errors, bump! bump! bump!
The good commit the sins.
The brave are full of terror,
Only the LOSER wins ...
"Dog"?? The guy went to a foreign country and made the #1 mistake Americans make: Go to another country wearing the U.S. Constitution on your back. It doesn't work there. You go at your own risk and subject to the laws of that country. That was the advice we got when we were kids and would go to Mexico for less than honorable reasons. We were told if you get arrested, good luck. Stupidity is no reason for a pardon.
Maybe I am missing something, but how could President Bush "pardon" Dog the Bounty Hunter when, as far as I know, hasn't commited any crime in the US. He is wanted in Mexico for a so called crime he comitted there. Can a President pardon a person for a foreign crime?
Well,I bash Bush often,not because I hate the guy personally I just have a hard time understanding his "compassionate conservative" ways of doing things.There's certainly room to debate what this guy's really about when he pardons drug dealers but turns his back on two border guards who were railroaded.In this regard he seems an awful lot like Bill Clinton to me !!!
ATF ..... another government organization out of control
But President Bush has commuted a few sentences, so it's more likely that a request for executive clemency could be successful.
The pardons that GWB has issued the last six years are to people that have served their time and wish to clear their names. He has commuted a couple of sentences for conspiracy in drug related cases, but only after the people have served long terms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_George_W._Bush
Their are specific guidelines that the President follows on pardon requests.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/blprespardons.htm
Scooter Libby hasn't even been convicted of anything to pardon him for.
After having seen Clinton pardon cronies and rascals, you should not expect this President to pardon who he feels like pardoning.
I don't see where the bounty hunter needs a pardon--or that Bush even could pardon anyone for criminal charges in another country, for that matter.
He just needs to tell the Mexicans to go pound sand as far as any extradition is concerned.
I don't believe the president can pardon someone who has not been convicted yet.
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