Bush Throws Some Pardons: What About The Border Agents?

Stop the ACLU ^ | 25 Nov 08 | William Teach

[Jay777]

President Bush, who apparently uses the same pen for veto’s and pardons, has given out 14 and commuted the sentences of 2 others. All were pretty much low level scumbags who pretty much hurt no one but themselves, but what about the border agents?

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., noted that the list also did not include former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up. 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.

“President Bush still has time to do the right thing and commute wrongly imprisoned Border Agents Ramos and Compean,” Rohrabacher said. “The fact that the president has neglected to free these men from their imprisonment while freeing drug dealers, embezzlers and other criminals is insulting to the American people who have been begging and pleading for the president to release the agents.”

[mouse1]

Please contact President Bush and request a pardon/release for Compean & Ramos. Let’s get these guys home for Christmas. I know you might not think it will help, but there is strength in numbers.

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[WayneS]

How so?

[Theodore R.]

His legacy will be worse than GHWB even though the latter gave us that awful Souter.

[Citizen Blade]

Bush is unlikely to use the pardon on anyone who is still serving their sentence.

Typically, Presidents use their pardon power to clean the record of someone who committed a crime long ago, served their time, shown remorse for their actions and has subsequently turned their life around.

[Scythian]

You know, Obama ain’t looking that bad these days, who knows, stranger things have happened ...

[caver]

I think the guys should have been pardoned but they made a bigger screwup by trying to cover up their deeds.

[Mark was here]

They altered the scene with the full knowledge that the FBI was coming to check it out. I don't care the shot the guy. I don't care for cops who think they are above the law either.

[Terry Mross]

I’ve known it for a while but kept holding out that maybe it was a faze he was going through.

This time I voted straight republican ticket. I’ll never do it again. The lessor of two evils is still evil which is “WHO” I voted for this time. And the other evil won.

[Mark was here]

I don’t care they shot the guy.

[zerosix]

What I had "heard" some talk of is "commutation of sentence" which is NOT the same thing as a Pardon!!!

Commutation of sentence to time served, acknowledges the person is a convicted felon but grants early release. Pardon, actually forgives the "crime" which we all are aware is a political sentence inspired by the "open borders" crowd (one might also state as "One World Order."

Bush desperately needs to do this but as he is never swayed by public opinion, someone needs to bring it to his attention, that the "grace of God" should be extended to these poor guys just as he has stood by our troops on the battlefield (sort of.)

Bush only appears to be sympathetic to illegal aliens for choosing not to live in their own countries and treat them all as "travelers among us."

[wolfcreek]

“They are just crooked cops.”

So the Mexicans...I mean the Feds say.

You don’t need to be a prick, we’d lobby to get you out too. 8>0

[ExTexasRedhead]

Thousands of telephone calls to the RNC headquarters and White HOuse to convince Bush to pard0n them would be appropriate like starting now.

[mkjessup]

This just convinces me more that we were duped by W. He’s a bigger rino than his dad.

Exactly. And that is why GHWB's incompetence was followed by eight years of Clintonista corruption, and that is why GWB's bumbling and fumbling for eight damn years is why Comrade 0bama and his politburo have seized control of all three branches of our Government.

As for Agents Ramos and Compean, Bush won't pardon those men, he's more concerned with standing shoulder to shoulder with his corrupt pal and 'dear friend' Johnny Sutton.

Former dopers, rappers, etc., are all invited to the GWB pardon table, but Ramos and Compean are left to rot.

That says a lot about what is inside GWB, and it ain't pretty.

[mkjessup]

The trick to serving ones country, is to do it honorably.

There's no 'trick' to it at all.

They are just crooked cops.

Thank you for demonstrating that you don't know WTF you're talking about.

[STE=Q]

“President Bush is on the wrong side of the fence on this issue.”

Yeah, Jorge Boosh is on the Mexican side — as usual!

STE=Q

[TommyDale]

I think we need to raise the issue of the Bush family purchasing thousands of acres in Paraguay. What up with that?

[NCBraveheart]

Do you need any more evidence that GWB is a useless dumba**?

[Mark was here]

Thanks. When I see cops sitting in speed traps, I think so you want to play by the rules eh? I’m not worried about myself, I can afford a stupid ticket, it just those families struggling to survive do not need a kick in the pants, just so some cop can get his quota.

[Mark was here]

Thank you for demonstrating that you don't know WTF you're talking about.

So I am supposed to be impressed by your what the fuc? What do you call altering the scene before the FBI investigates? Honest police work? Yeah, what the F?

[1rudeboy]

I think we need to raise the issue of the Bush family purchasing thousands of acres in Paraguay. What up with that?

I'm sure DailyKos is on it, why don't you pop over there and give us an update?