Pardon Me? A Congressional Pardon [Duncan Hunter]

NY Times ^ | May 7, 2007 | By Sarah Wheaton

[Jim Robinson]

The power to pardon traditionally belongs to the president. But Representative Duncan Hunter, who is seeking the 2008 Republican nomination, isn’t waiting for Inauguration Day.

Mr. Hunter introduced a bill in January to initiate an unprecedented Congressional pardon of two former border patrol agents currently serving 11- and 12-year sentences after shooting a drug smuggler on the Texas-Mexico border in 2005.

For Mr. Hunter and other immigration hardliners, their conviction is an “extreme injustice.”

While Constitutional objections are “very much a possibility,” said Joe Kasper, Mr. Hunter’s spokesman, he doesn’t see the measure threatening executive power. The president’s required signature on the bill “would obviously be synonymous with his authority to execute a pardon,” he said. “The Congress is doing nothing more than initiating a pardon.”

[AndrewC]

But a finger is not a gun and we can't have cops going around shooting people because they point a finger at them.

We don't. We have cops that react to situations which involve suspects who have refused to comply with legitimate commands. When they don't, sometimes they get hurt due to their own stupidity in reacting to a stressful situation.

You don't believe in simulations, but who cares. My simulation shows these as approximate times from the moment Compean slips to the last shot from Ramos.

Davila leaves ditch at 01.24, Compean leaves ditch at 01.64, Ramos reaches bottom of ditch at 02.39, Davila reaches North slope of levee at 02.48, Compean reaches North slope of levee at 02.88, Davila reaches Top of levee at 07.53, Compean reaches Top of levee at 07.94, Davila reaches South slope of levee at 08.99, Compean reaches South slope of levee at 09.39, Davila reaches Vega at 12.59, Compean reaches Vega at 12.59, Compean stops at 14.42, Davila escapes at 14.88, Ramos reaches South slope of ditch at 18.38, Compean shoots at 19.84 - 49.92 ft, Compean shoots at 20.24 - 53.82 ft, Compean shoots at 20.58 - 57.12 ft, Compean shoots at 20.92 - 60.42 ft, Compean shoots at 21.33 - 64.32 ft, Compean shoots at 21.79 - 68.82 ft, Compean shoots at 22.23 - 73.02 ft, Compean shoots at 22.63 - 76.92 ft, Compean shoots at 22.97 - 80.22 ft, Compean stops shooting at 22.97, Ramos leaves ditch at 23.19, Ramos reaches North slope of levee at 24.43, Ramos can see Davila at 27.50, Ramos reaches Top of levee at 29.48, Ramos can see Compean at 29.51, Ramos reaches South slope of levee at 30.94, Ramos reaches Vega at 32.86, Ramos yells parate at 32.86, Ramos passes Compean at 33.73, Ramos stops at 34.16, Ramos shoots at 35.12 - 176.84 ft, Ramos stops shooting at 35.12, ----END----

[AndrewC]

I could care less about your stupid ass computer simulation. If you don’t think the hips and pelvis sway at all when a person is in a full run, well, you’re a nincompoop.

It is not my simulation. It belongs to NASA. And people are not ducks, normal people do not waddle, they run.