Posted on 02/23/2007 5:15:54 AM PST by kellynla
It is this reporter's opinion that it is now time to tell the story of former Border Patrol agent Gary Brugman — how in the performance of his duty he was falsely charged and convicted of violating the civil rights of an illegal caught entering the U.S. at the Mexican border.
The case of Brugman, along with the cases of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, Gilmer Hernandez, David Sipe, and others unjustly accused, serves as proof of the malicious prosecution brought by the U.S. attorney, Johnny Sutton, against our brave and dedicated law enforcement officers who dare to uphold our immigration laws.
Just as in the Ramos and Compean case, Sutton collaborated with the Mexican Consulate to locate a deported Mexican national, paying his way to the U.S. to testify against a dedicated border patrol agent (Brugman) on false assault charges.
What incentive was given for his testimony? It is known that a member of the smuggler's family, his daughter, received chemotherapy treatment in the U.S.
A scandalous twist orchestrated by the Sutton prosecution against Brugman was that Sutton brought the convicted and incarcerated drug smuggler from his prison cell to testify against Brugman — the same drug smuggler agent he had captured six weeks prior to the incident for which he was being prosecuted.
Once again, as in the case of Ramos and Compean, there was no previous accusation of a violation to the smuggler's civil rights. But as in the case of Ramos and Compean, the Sutton gang labeled Brugman a rogue cop.
Tragically, no one listened to Gary Brugman's story several years ago — he spent two years in the general population at federal prisons. Because of the constant threats against his life, he was forced to wrap himself in newspapers and magazines taped to his body as protection against inmate knifing attacks.
Gary Brugman lost everything, and his life was totally ruined. But thank God, he survived his sentence and is now a free man.
Brugman, a patriotic American, now tells his story in an effort to help Ramos and Compean, and Hernandez to prove their innocence against the power, influence, and treachery of President Bush, our attorney general, Alberto Gonzalez, and their "Charlie McCarthy" U.S. attorney Johnny Sutton.
The prosecution in the course of Brugman's sham of a trial called a convicted drug smuggler to the stand to testify against him — the same drug smuggler he had captured who had been convicted of smuggling and sentenced to over five years in prison.
They brought the convicted criminal into court escorted by a deputy U.S. marshal who actually sat behind him on the witness stand as he testified against Brugman.
Sutton, on more than one occasion, admitted he was prosecuting Brugman to make an example of him.
During a 20-minute recess in the trial, Brugman found himself in the restroom with Sutton's prosecuting attorney.
Brugman looked him in the eye and asked why he was doing this to him.
To which Sutton's man replied, "It's not a matter of if you are going to prison, it's a matter of how long you're going to prison for. I have a $50 million budget to make sure you're going."
Sutton, at one point, called the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas to help him locate and bring the drug smuggler back into the U.S., offering the dope smuggler immunity and health care for his family in exchange for false testimony against Brugman.
All of this false information was sealed by the judge and withheld during the trial. Brugman says the drug smuggler even testified he did not want to testify against Brugman but was pressured by both the Mexican and U.S. government to do so.
Says Brugman, "The recent exposure of the facts of the Compean and Ramos case, and that of Deputy Hernandez, has torn me apart. I now know how it feels and it is terrifying. God bless these agents and this deputy. May He be with them and their families every moment of the day."
Meanwhile, when will Sutton be exposed for his illegal actions as he represents the power structure of the Bush/Gonzalez abuse of our American judicial system by bringing false prosecutions and imprisonment against loyal border patrol officers?
And there you have another story — the story of Border Patrol Agent Brugman and his unjust prosecution at the hands of Sutton and his gang.
Thanks for pinging your list and posting the story.
Here is the decision from the appeal: USA v. Brugman
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/03/03-50294-CR0.wpd.pdf
As to transcripts, unless someone wanted to buy them for a pretty fee, I don't think we'll find them online. In the Ramos/Compean case, Ramos's father in law said the rate they were looking at was $2 to $3 per page (which at 2700 pages was a hefty price). I think the USAO probably paid for the transcript for Ramos/Compean that they put online on their website.
It fits right in with Bush's NAU plan to roll out the red carpet for Mexico, behind our backs and at our great expense. He can't have a strong border patrol messing things up, can he?
I have heard from many sources that Bush's actions regarding Mexico and the NAU approach treason.
"This whole illegal immigration problem will not be solved before the 2008 election. "
I disagree, it won't be solved until we hang those in power responsible for enabling it and refusing to do anything about it.
This is Treason, short and simple.
I can't get the url to come up. I think it is my cable problem. I'll try later.
Thanks for the info regarding the fees for transcripts.
It still works fine for me. Sometimes it works better if you right click on it and do a "save target as" to download it to your hard drive. For some reason it transmits faster and smoother.
It still doesn't work for me. When I did it with the right click, it said a connection with server could not be reached.
That's really strange because I just downloaded it again as a test... it worked fine. It's only 80KB--not a huge file or anything.
Here is an alternate link to the same file. Maybe it will work for you?
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/5th/0350294cr0p.pdf
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YOU have that one right. I have been a strong supporter of our President. But on this issue he is dead wrong .Dealing drugs, illegally in a country where these dealers " slither over the border like snakes",is in a sense a form of terrorism.Come on Mr.PResident!!!!
I second that.
You are kidding, right?
Have you read the trial transcript in this case? I suggest you do before claiming these guys to be falsely imprisoned or that a miscarriage of justice occurred.
One reason for a pardon is new doubts over the integrity of the conviction. This could happen even after the sentence is over, it is in essence an expungement of the convict's felon status. If the Justice Department concurred, then it would be awfully safe to say that there were big problems with those convictions.
I use to watch George Putnam's news broadcast with my Grandfather when I was in elementary school.
God bless them both....
>>>No drug dealer should be pardoned. Dubya needs to pardon the BP agents.<<<
Dubya is the New World Order's "Manchurian Candidate". Anyone who has not figured that out by now has been living a very sheltered life.
Thanks. This url worked perfectly.
Since this is not the transcript it looks bad for the border patrol agent. I wonder if Johnny Sutton paid the witnesses in social security cards, traveling fees, cell phone bills, ect. Did any of these collect $80,000 like the last case we heard of. Did the border patrol agents who testified against Brugman get a raise and a higher position like the border patrol agents in the Sipe case?
I watched Lou Dobbs tonight and he had a clip from a speech Alberto Gonzales made yesterday. This clip was justifying the governments actions against Ramos and Campean stating that they were guilty, and were convicted by a jury of their peers, and yadayada. I just finished searching the Lou Dobbs site and it is not there. So googled "Alberto Gonzales Ramos Campean". This is the result from the Justice Department:
"United States Department of JusticeAttorney General Alberto Gonzales Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. ... Specifically, Compean and Ramos were convicted of assault with serious ...
www.usdoj.gov/ - 38k - Feb 23, 2007 - Cached - Similar pages "
"United States Department of JusticeAttorney General Alberto Gonzales Attorney General Gonzales Announces New ... Specifically, Compean and Ramos were convicted of assault with serious bodily ...
www.justice.gov/ - 38k - Cached - Similar pages"
This was a little speech by Gonzales yesterday. Guess what! It has been pulled. I wonder why? Gonzales protested so much that it all sounded like a pack of lies and now they have pulled it.
You are totally right!
It's still there. Try Compean. ;-)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Alberto+Gonzales%22+Ramos+Compean+
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