Posted on 01/16/2007 11:00:57 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
"This is the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen"
From what I have read of this, I agree...
Rohrabacher is right. It is going to take a major explosion in this country before there is any serious attempt to defend the border.
"Bush has received a letter about the case from more than 50 Congress members, and yesterday an online petition by Grassfire.org with more than 225,000 signatures calling for a presidential pardon was delivered to the White House."
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Wow, that's a lot of response. I wonder what the White House is up to.???????
Bush is such a disappointment. Snow should not be defending this. It is a travesty, on a par with the Duke Lax case.
The agent that pulled the trigger would stand a better chance of pardon if he had killed an American in the process of law enforcement.
GWBush will go down in history as the only American president to allow, even encourage, a massive invasion by a third world dump without allowing a shot to be fired in our defense.
His absolute refusal to enforce immigration laws against Mexican invaders shows his contempt for America.
I get the impression that if this administration could send more border patrol agents to jail, it would.
The United States of Mexico or UsMex
All respect for Bush is gone, and the same for Gonzalez and the other federal officers who are railroading two brave border agents for doing their duty.
A federal agent sought out the drug dealer and offered him immunity to lie, then rewarded him by free medical treatment for the bullet he received in his buttocks while running from border agents?
Our government colluded with a Mexican illegal to build a case against Compean and Ramos? What kind of deal with Mexico caused federal officers to betray our border agents and throw them in prison to 'make an example' of them for not following exact protocol... A huge coverup? Why aren't we all calling the president and Republican senators, demanding a pardon, at least? This will bring Bush down further, because something is very wrong, and Tony Snow's explanation doesn't absolve the shame.
Nothing will happen.
It will be business as usual with Bush. People in Washington do not care at all. There might be a little grumbling from him, but nothing will happen overall.
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Wherever and whenever the borders and Mexico is concerned, all bets are off: our own border agents are punished for doing their jobs: this is exactly the profoundly disturbing kind of thing we have sadly come to expect from the State Department regarding the behavior of Americans overseas: they bend over backwards to kowtow to foreign governments, however dictatorial, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, whatever, and allow Americans to be imprisoned, harrassed, detained, and every other manner of punishment/ In THIS case, the lawbreaking SMUGGLER is made out to be the hero, and they use HIM to indict the Americans doing their jobs, and send THE AMERICANS to prison. A BIG stink should be made about this: the President should be given a time period to do something about this, and then..............?
can't say I am disappointed or have lost faith in Bush, because I never had much faith to begin with. In a related story, remember the time not long ago during a visit from Chinese "dignitaries" when the Chinese woman physician yelled from the back of the auditorium about the scandals
regarding the Falun Gong prisoners, who it is believed were being imprisoned, then killed so that their valuable organs and vital body parts could be harvested for the black market? She was hustled out, and muzzled at the request of none other than the C- in-C.
I would love to give Compean and Ramos free GPS guidance systems if they ever do escape from prison. I need to match the Mexican Governments assistance to their crimaliens.
I'm completely disgusted.
If we don't protect those who protect us, we're in deep trouble.
Prayers for these men and their families.
Mr. Hewitt, Your good friend Tony Snow (reference interview 1-11-07) is complicit in justifying yet another staggering injustice to the Border Patrol and promoting an Appeasement White House. This wrong on so many levels I can't even begin to describe how much bullshit this represents and, sadly, backed by Bush (I simply will not call him President under these circumstances). I have been a fan of Mr. Snow for some time but he has just crossed the line from Press Secretary to carrying the ACLU's/murdering Mexican felon's water. You know for a fact, if he had the balls he had 4 years ago he would have been screaming as loud as I am about this travesty. The bright lights and the presidential cache have made him one of the new castrati.
Mr. Hewitt, this is yet another example how how rich the hypocrisy and bereft of common sense the Bush Administration is on our "National Security". I am truly bewildered by the stone cold fact that we have our good men and women in the national security services dying to protect Iraq and sending them to jail protecting America.
Morning Glory...Evening Grace...
Since this administration hasn't stepped in....they have sent a huge message to the rest of the world.
The message is that we want you, we will not enforce our border and our sovereignty and we will help you to overthrow our laws.
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