Mr. President, Free the Border Agents (more irresponsible demagoguery from Dana Rohrabacher)

Human Events ^ | December 16, 2008 | Dana Rohrabacher

[EveningStar]

For over two and a half years, the unjust prosecution and imprisonment of U.S. Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean has weighed heavy on the hearts and minds of millions of Americans.

[dalereed]

You are a liar!!!

[familyop]

All who read the article will know that the agents did not commit the crime that they were charged with. Prosecution is properly limited to the intent behind creating a statute—not what imaginations of activist judicial officials decide for interpretation in a single case.

It’s good to see Dana abandoning liberal-tarianism on this issue. The Californian Ideology is antagonistic to morality and the antithesis of our Constitution.

[EveningStar]

FWIW, Rohrabacher's district is adjacent to my congressman's district.

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[eclecticEel]

They should have gotten a departmental slap on the wrist, which is the excepted punishment for improper paperwork-filing. Instead they get thrown in jail for a decade.

[spectre]

Even putting them under House Arrest would be better than the isolation they've had to endure.

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[EveningStar]

The judge had no discretion. The sentences were mandated by law. :(

[pointsal]

Well...yeah....
In my town... I am now the minority....

Send all of these folks to Crawford, Texas. Let them deal with the nonsense.

[allmost]

I said in #5 here that reassignment was IMO appropriate. To another spot ;) These guys need to be freed.

[allmost]

Prosecutorial misconduct can be determined by a judge I think.

[1rudeboy]

Where does "judicial activism" come into play here? If anything, precisely the opposite happened. The District Court judge applied the law and the Appeals Court upheld the application.

You should argue that the judges involved here are taking a stand against legislative complacency (which leads to judicial activism).

[EveningStar]

No. I’m just an opinionated SOB. :)

[Crim]

Never heard of the term “railroaded” eh?

They got the nifong treatment...you appluad...

Begone from the ranks of logic.

[DLfromthedesert]

Shot an illegal in the ass. Deserve medals, not jail.

[DLfromthedesert]

Sutton should get the same punishment as Nifong.

[eleni121]

You are wrong on the boder agents and you are way off really really wrong on Santa Claus:

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[tioga]

and a bah, humbug to you.

[EveningStar]

You’re misinformed to compare Sutton with Nifong

[DLfromthedesert]

Which one is sleazier?

[Crim]

“You’re misinformed to compare Sutton with Nifong”

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[smokingfrog]

Commute their sentences. Would be a nice Christmas present. They don’t deserve to be in solitary confinement or service a sentence that is more severe than the criminal illegal alien they were trying to arrest.