Posted on 07/03/2007 2:52:26 PM PDT by SittinYonder
n the wake of President Bushs clemency of former vice presidential chief of staff Lewis Scooter Libby, Rep. Tom Tancredo urged the president to take it a step further and fully pardon two former Border Patrol agents whose case has galvanized conservatives.
The agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos were convicted of shooting a suspected drug smuggler and trying to cover up the incident. They are serving 12 and 11 year sentences, respectively.
Supporters say the agents were convicted wrongly for protecting the U.S. border against criminal intruders. Their case has become a cause celeb for conservative talk show hosts and groups that advocate stronger immigration controls.
Tancredo, a GOP presidential hopeful, said that the sentences in the case were grossly unfair and a result of an overzealous prosecutor. He also said in a statement that the men were at risk of violent attacks at their current prison cell locations and that their families are suffering. Ramos was beaten by other inmates earlier this year.
I hope the president will consider providing the same relief to these men and their families that he did yesterday to Mr. Libby, Tancredo said.
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton of San Antonio has stood by his prosecution of the agents.
Kennedy should be in jail anyways for accidentally drowning a woman!
How do you know that for a fact...when I don't know that for a fact?
It is the law that you verify, as my second post notes, and we all know why you didn’t (or so you say).
Run along, Sally.
I didn't break any laws. I've told you that many times. Stop your BS lying.
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization or local government) commits a federal felony when he:
* assists an alien whom he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him to obtain employment,
Your version of don't ask - don't tell doesn't fool anybody. As I said, you and your weak, greedy kind are the enemy.
Good point. Being compared to DCP is an unfair slur upon the good name of most fools. My regrets to fools I offended.
I think you have been reading the wrong things.
Read the transcripts and then analyze them. I don't know where you got the over 20 shots, but even the testimony limits the shots to 14 plus one. One agent, who changed his testimony, reports that Compean counted out nine shells, added to that were five shells that Compean ostensibly moved and you get 14. The last shot was the one that hit Davila in the butt. Second, Davila was never captured, he supposedly raised his hands, but that occurred only one step away from Compean. That was Davila's own testimony and that event occurred after he had advanced over 30 to 40 feet through a ditch to reach the position one step away. Throughout his advance, which was at a "like a bullet" rate, he was ordered to stop. He did not. The prosecution questioned why Compean did not use his baton. Well, what that tells me is that even the prosecution deemed it appropriate to "bean" Davila. Furthermore, I would not set aside a loaded shotgun to whip out a baton, when the threat of the shotgun was not sufficient to stop a charging suspect. And Compean chose the shotgun as his weapon while Davila was being chased in the van and he did not stop then. Compean was not a psychic so he chose the weapon most appropriate for an unknown threat which had exited a known drug "corridor".
There is so much more in the testimony that points to the innocence of the agents, yet somehow people will not look at and analyze the testimony.
The agents performed in a reasonable manner. They had seconds to react. The whole scenario from Davila's exit of the moving van to his disappearance after the last shot lasted from 80 to 120 seconds by my estimation.
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