Posted on 07/21/2007 7:28:09 AM PDT by kellynla
As to the question at hand. I am not influenced by the talk show hosts you demean. [Who, BTW, played a critical role in defeating that very poorly constructed piece of legislation about immigration.] I am influenced by having read the Ramos-Compean trial transcript, which was kept from the public for an extraordinary period.
Requesting that Pres. Bush intervene and pardon a perceived miscarriage of justice is neither conservative nor liberal. I have seen people on both ends of the political spectrum be opposed to the way this trial was conducted. That Article II, section 2 of the Constitution states the President has the power to issue pardons, simply means citizens are partitioning and exercising their constitutional rights to ask the President to exercise his.
I totally disagree with your characterization of the US Border Agents. But, that is your opinion. However, your inability to see the inappropriateness of their sentence concerns me. To alter an old saying, “Justice abused is justice denied!”
What I find compelling is the transition in Cornyn’s position—toward full support of Compean and Ramos. Shortly before the hearings, he was singing some of the same Sutton/White House mantra, saying only that he thought the sentences seemed excessive.
He has since seen the misrepresentations made by the prosecution, the withholding of information from the jury, etc. Once he did his homework, he saw the light.
No pardon for these two, but 12-20 million pardons for people here illegally.
I think Jorge has lost it.
“Yes, sure. My friend, Harriet Miers. My friend, Alberto Gonzalez. My friend, Johnny Sutton”
My friend, Gonzales.....My friend, Chertoff.....
ad nauseum!!
Thanks for the info, Kelly!
B U M P
“Screw Bush and Sutton!”
Right now, it is the other way around : )
His first talking point was “an unarmed person...was shot in the back.” Well, it turns out the only person who knew the first “fact” for certain was Davila, and he had no incentive whatever to admit it. The second “fact” was, in fact, proven wrong by the medical examiner who said the bullet entered Davila’s left buttock from the SIDE! So after distorting the “facts” in such a way to a jury who counted on the prosecutors not distorting the truth, Sutton claims the jury’s verdict vindicates him. But, then he always seems to over look the members of the jury who admitted they would NOT have voted “guilty” had they had the information that Sutton suppressed.
This case is uncomfortably like the one here in North Carolina where the DA just was fired and disbarred for suppressing evidence that would have proven the Duke students innocent. I can only hope a similar fate awaits Mr. Sutton, but I will not hold my breath.
Me too!
You’re welcome.
working with new pc & Vista
the reference link did not come up in the post for whatever reason.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2007/02/17/lets_prosecute_drug_smugglers,_not_border_patrol_agents&Comments=true
Like all good Marines, I am off to “hit the beach!”LOL
Have a good one!
Does anyone know the website for donating to help these agents’ families? I hear they are stretched to the limit for keeping their families intact.
I just donated and I think it was through Grassfire. Let me see if I can find a link. I trust that org and believe the money will get to the agents.
OK, there are links in the center of this page to donate. They also recently sent us the agents’ addresses, but those are on my other computer. Maybe they are listed on this site too.
GWB is afraid of offending muslims and leftists. After all, he needed the democrap’s help in trying to ram Shamnesty down our throats.
“He has no intentions of pardoning them...”
As he has no intentions of dealing with Iran, either. Those miserable, subhuman bastards will continue to kill our troops, while we sit around with our thumbs up our backsides.
Have a great weekend, kelly!
Not stupid; arrogant and stubborn. Just as he is on illegal immigration. He actually thinks his experience with Mexico and a Mexican nanny in Texas translates to justice and reality today. He is wrong and a dunderhead here. But, those two character traits also make him right on the WOT. Why he cannot see the two questions are linked is beyond me but it is not stupidity , it is self righteousness.
Sutton came off as a “hack” for Bush and the Mexican consulate !!
Totally!
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