Posted on 01/17/2008 11:37:31 PM PST by pissant
Two California Republican congressmen yesterday called on President Bush to pardon two former U.S. Border patrol agents sent to prison a year ago this week for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he fled back into Mexico.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher accused Mr. Bush of being "arrogant and heartless" for refusing to pardon or commute the sentences of former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who were ordered last January to serve 11- and 12-year prison sentences, respectively.
He said they had spent the past year in solitary confinement "suffering conditions worse than detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
"It has been a year since Border Agents Ramos and Compean entered prison," Mr. Rohrabacher said. "This marks a year of shame for President Bush, who has been fully aware of the details of this blatant miscarriage of justice and chosen to do absolutely nothing about it.
"The president has shown us his arrogant and heartless side by permitting the wrongful incarceration of Ramos and Compean to continue," he said.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican presidential candidate who in- troduced a still-pending bill last year to pardon the agents, said Congress and the American people have "repeatedly expressed their outrage that such an injustice has been allowed to occur."
"These agents were convicted solely on the testimony of the drug dealer, who has since been indicted on federal drug charges for running drugs into the United States while serving as a federal witness," Mr. Hunter said. "Most disturbingly, he did so with border crossing cards he obtained for his cooperation."
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Ramos/Compean/Hunter PING
They shot him in the back(side)?
Sounds real honorable.
Duncan Hunter can’t even get top billing in a news headline.
How do you expect him to get top billing on the GOP ticket?
EAGLES UP!!
Thank you for supporting those two Border Agents.
EAGLES UP, everyone!
And, DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT BUMP!
It exited the front of him so, six of one, half dozen of the other.
Good for them.
On a similar topic, I just saw an article on MSN that says the death penalty in the U.S. is forcing crimianl fugitives to flee to Mexico. No kidding: Fugitives Flee to Mexico to Avoid Death.
Like they would stay here if life in prison was their option.
I’m too lazy to post it.
Checking my e-mails earlier there was one from a “conservative” org that have been championing Ramos & Compean’s cause. While they praised Rohrabacher to high heaven, providing his phone number to call and thank him, they never mentioned Hunter or the bill HE introduced to free our agents.
That’s because the MSM, the RHINO’s, the DNC, the gov within the gov, Mexico, the CFR, China, OPEC, etc., do not want a true conservative as POTUS. They do not want another President with any core values close to Regan’s, PERIOD!!
Rohrabacher/Hunter ‘08
you are halfway there
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The bullet was never proven to have come from a BP gun...
And he was shot in the side of his backside and never complained about it for a month...
just when was he actually shot ????
“Duncan Hunter can’t even get top billing in a news headline.
How do you expect him to get top billing on the GOP ticket?”
My expectations are high Oh ye of little faith...
From the description of the wound, it’s sounds if it could be from a gun hidden in his waistband that discharged during his escape. (or as he was removing it)
We’ll never know what really happened.
Slow day over at DU?
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