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By your logic, if I know of someone who has committed a crime, or not defended against a crime, it should give me license to do the same?

You are making my point.

Our frustration and anger is making us crazy. We lost the election. It is time to suck it up, stop pointing fingers, and gain some pragmatism and common sense.

You can gain more attention from a whisper, than from yelling at the top of your lungs.

The government has failed at the border for 40 years, but now that it is a political issue, Bush is supposed to fix it all by himself?

Reagan didn't fix it, nobody fixed it, yet because we are pissed off, we blame it on Bush?

By your logic, if I know of someone who has committed a crime, or not defended against a crime, it should give me license to do the same?

Read again, I asked if the govenment was above the law, I didn't advocate breaking the law, and a pardon for these two agents would be within the law.

Most every FReeper is for following the law, that's what's so maddening.

While Bush and the federal government have ignored and continue to actively ignore the laws regarding illegals and enforcing the borders, they used every power of government to persecute these two agents who were trying to enforce the laws.

The government has failed at the border for 40 years, but now that it is a political issue, Bush is supposed to fix it all by himself?

It's become a political issue on Bush's watch, who else would we ask to fix it? As Bush continues to refuse to enforce the law and borders he deserves strong criticism.

I also blame Bush's lack of a winning plan on illegal immigration for the defeat of the Republican Congress.

Two years ago even Senator Frist was saying secure the borders first. If, at that time Bush had worked with fellow Republicans and truly secured the border, he could have come back to a Republican congress a year or two later and asked for a guest worker plan, they would have gladly passed that.

Then Bush could have sailed into the past elections with his fellow Republicans happy with a secure border and Hispanics happy with a guest worker plan, a win-win deal.

But no, Bush went with the lose-lose plan, where he angered his base voters and angered the Hispanics, who then went 70%~76% for Democrats. Fellow Republicans paid the price for his short sightedness.