Posted on 09/12/2008 6:00:19 AM PDT by kellynla
EL PASO, Texas Two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up have been denied a request for a new hearing.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans denied the request by Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean on Wednesday. The same court upheld the men's convictions in July.
No reason was given for the Wednesday's denial.
Ramos and Compean are each serving sentences of more than 10 years for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks while he was fleeing from an abandoned marijuana load in 2005.
Aldrete was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison for his role in two seperate smuggling efforts later that same year.
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If that picture truly connoted the meaning of a freeper (or FReeper), I think the traffic to freerepublic.com would experience a steep decline.
Thank goodness many disagree with you on the definition.
I stopped taking this thread seriously a long time ago.
I've never said otherwise or implied otherwise. I've only supported the notion that Davila was shot due to his actions. Had I done what Davila did I would have been rightly shot in the ass.
Let me give you an example.
Last week I was coming on an Air Force base to go to work. Security is tight obviously so everyone is inspected entering the gate. I presented my ID to the nearest gate guard who checked it and he passed me through the gate. I sensed something unusual as I passed through since the location just ahead of my vehicle was unoccupied. I passed two other security guards at the gate as I entered the facility. To make a long story shorter after about two miles down the road into the base I was stopped by security police. At first I thought I was being pulled over for speeding, but the fact that the officers did not approach and that soon many other security vehicles arrived gave me a hint that this was no simple traffic stop. All traffic was routed around me as I was handcuffed and searched. I was accused of running the gate. After a few hours of this treatment I was released and given a warning, I guess in order for the security forces to save some face. I was notified that I could file a complaint against the security forces by the officers who apologized, they were the ones who stopped, searched, and detained me. Well what does that have to do with the border incident? I didn't get shot because I did what I was ordered to do even though I was in the right. Finally, I have no intention of complaining about the incident since the individuals involved were doing their jobs. And I would much rather have suffered the slight indignity than have terrorists running around on this base.
“Now that is gay!”
And that is why you don’t have the first FReaking’ clue what a real FReepr is...and never will.
Lurkers take note. Here was a group of ballsy FReepers putting their ass on the line directly in front of hundreds of spitting, venemous Clinton supporters, only on the chance that we may be able to get some TV juice out of it and blunt the Hillary worship that the media was sweeping the country with during her book tour.
Andrew posts it as something to be ashamed of and calcowgirl calls it “gay”.
They don’t know the first thing about FReeperdom, FReepers or putting your money where your mouth is.
They’re just posers living off the activist FReeper history created by dozens of people like myself and our great LA Chapter.
This is why the attacks and zingers of posers like Andrew and calcowgirl mean nothing to me. I’ve been down and dirty in the trenches against the worst the libs have to offer. These posers are like annoying flies...them and they’re childish and ineffective arrows are at most amusing and just swatted away.
I'm telling you to do your own work, and suggesting that you do it right.
CCG, I have renewed respect for you. If possible, when you see this stuff make and effort to take it down because when you don’t their mud gets splashed on your spats.
In other words, you’ve seen others make the argument also. No need to be coy about it.
“If that picture truly connoted the meaning of a freeper (or FReeper), I think the traffic to freerepublic.com would experience a steep decline.”
Crap. Now I’m back to thinking you’re a buffoon.
I just think it is funny, but it appears to piss you off. Now if you were civil, I would not resort to anything but being civil.
No. No other words. Do your own work. I've seen arguments that Compean was mad and posted references to them. That does not mean I support or believe them.
For some reason I have a suspicion that if you were shot you’d be taking a different tack.
This is just another one of those “some of my best friends are black” diversions. It has nothing to do with the discussion at hand and whose only purpose is to make you feel better about a position with which you yourself struggle.
“I just think it is funny, but it appears to piss you off.”
No, please keep reposting it, I love it!
“If that picture truly connoted the meaning of a freeper (or FReeper), I think the traffic to freerepublic.com would experience a steep decline.”
One more reason why your judgement is in serious reconsideration.
Bob, I applaud the objective. I applaud the street-corner rallying (I’ve stood on a few myself).
On the other had, I’ll stick with my assessment of that photo being “gay” as I think you look silly and childish, something that (IMO) did little for the cause of making people understand Clinton’s true transgressions and misdeeds, i.e. lying in a court of law.
Disagree with me? Fine.
I was simply posting my opinion.
I’m just gauging how selective your memory is: I noticed you had a problem with it days ago.
It is that overactive "mindreading" that you seem to possess. Except that it really doesn't work, but you think it does.
No the story is relevant. I followed instructions. Davila did not. He got shot. I didn't. And at the front gate there is a great big sign with red lettering which prominently displays these words.
When it goes beyond opinion and is overly offensive, I hit abuse and let the mods decide.
That you suggest it splashes mud on MY spats is YOUR problem.
I don't post it. I don't endorse it. I don't even acknowledge it.
Yet you falsely attribute it to ME.
The solution lies within YOUR reach.
You’re the one that complains about long postings which contain the evidence of your lack of memory or disingenuousness.
I'm sorry, what does "silly and childish" have to do with being "gay"?
"...something that (IMO) did little for the cause of making people understand Clintons true transgressions and misdeeds, i.e. lying in a court of law."
When you say "Pinnochio" to someone the thought that pops into their head is a wooden child whose nose got bigger ever time a lie was told.
I wore that costume with a Hillary mask and a huge 12' nose.
I did it at a signing for Hillarys new book "Living History".
We did it surrounded by signs that said "Lying History".
We got that on local news shows.
Now I don't know what kind of marketing and PR expertise you have, but if the brilliance and execution of that manuever escapes you, I suggest you reserve your own silly and childish comments for a board that doesn't understand the concept of effective activism.
"Bob, I applaud the objective. I applaud the street-corner rallying (Ive stood on a few myself)." Well then, how egalitarian and supportive of you to describe my considerable and effective efforts as "gay". You're a poser calcowgirl, you don't have the street cred to tie my shoes. I'd say more but to be honest you're not worth the effort. I'll reserve my really good stuff for the first team, not the back benchers.
Wrong again.
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