Posted on 07/10/2007 7:15:45 PM PDT by Ladycalif
WHY should they PLEA BARGAIN??? I would NOT plea bargain if I was doing my job, the way these guys were doing their jobs....protecting the border from Illegals and DRUG SMUGGLING!
If it isn't safe for our agents, who are armed, imagine for unarmed citizens.
Ugh, I can imagine. We are sixty miles north of the border. The whole area south of us has gone from being semi-pristine and VERY clean and safe to the horrors I don’t need to preach to the choir.
I posted on another thread this morning how I felt safe hiking and touring alone or with a dog, up until about eight years ago. Now, we’d better be armed and we don’t fish or camp anymore in that whole zone. Those are formerly beautiful public lands we pay for!!
The poor agents - every one I have ever met is clean-cut and polite; I don’t know how they do it. Especially with their own eating their own now.
They wouldn’t be in prison if they hadn’t done things like pick up shell casings and toss them in the river and if they had reported the incident through proper channels. That’s probably all they had to do and they wouldn’t be in prison right now. I don’t have a problem with these guys defending theirselves. I can give them the benefit of a doubt for the judgment call, as I believe their superiors would have. It’s never been answered here as to why they felt they had to cover it up. Some feel none of the above matter as they guy was illegal and a drug runner so it should be open season. However, that’s not the law, right, wrong or indifferent.
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