[monday]

“Do you have no sympathy for them? I actually agree that they screwed up. I think it is really unfortunate that they got charged under that stupid firearms statue with the ten year mandatory minimum though.”

Meanwhile swat teams can break into the wrong house, shoot innocent people, and not only do they not go to jail or lose their jobs, they don't even have to apologize to the victims family. I guess Mexican drug smugglers are more important than innocent Americans, at least to the Bush administration.

[1rudeboy]

That’s not a very good analogy, unless you wish to argue that Ramos and Compean were shooting at the wrong guy.

[TKDietz]

“Meanwhile swat teams can break into the wrong house, shoot innocent people, and not only do they not go to jail or lose their jobs, they don't even have to apologize to the victims family. I guess Mexican drug smugglers are more important than innocent Americans, at least to the Bush administration.”

It is rare that law enforcement get charged for their screw ups. When it happens they usually don't get hammered this hard. The problem was the firearms statute with the ten year mandatory minimum sentence. That's why these two got so much time. If not for the mandatory minimum sentence they'd probably be home today.