Off Topic.
August 6, 2008
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/ca52_hunter/Davila_sentencing.shtml
SENTENCING OF DRUG SMUGGLER “PERFECT OPPORTUNITY” FOR PRESIDENT TO INTERVENE IN BORDER AGENT CASE
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) responded to the sentencing of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, the drug smuggler whose testimony led to the convictions of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, by calling it a “perfect opportunity” for the President to pardon the agents or commute their sentences. Davila was sentenced today to two consecutive, 57 month terms in prison.
“The sentencing of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila offers the President yet another opportunity to do what is right and either pardon or commute the sentences of Agents Ramos and Compean,” said Congressman Hunter. “These agents have spent almost two years in federal custody because of Davila’s testimony. The fact that Davila continued to run drugs into the United States after receiving immunity from federal prosecutors, in exchange for taking the stand against the agents, calls into question his testimony. His sentencing discredits it altogether.
“Agents Ramos and Compean should be released immediately and returned to their families. They shouldn’t have to serve one more day in custody.”
NOTE: Hunter and several other Members of Congress recently sent a letter to President Bush requesting that he consider, at the very least, commuting the sentences of Agents Ramos and Compean to time served. Congressman Hunter also introduced H.R. 563 in the House of Representatives, legislation initiating a pardon for the agents. The bill currently has 104 cosponsors.
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http://ezralevant.com/Complaint%20rejected.pdf
http://ezralevant.com/2008/08/punished-first-acquitted-later.html
“Punished first, acquitted later”
By Ezra Levant on August 6, 2008 10:34 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “My lawyers have just received a copy of a letter from the Alberta Human Rights Commission dismissing the complaint of “discrimination” filed against me by the radical Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities. They had complained that by publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in the Western Standard in February 2006, I had engaged in an illegal act.
Their complaint was identical to the one filed earlier by an anti-Semitic imam named Syed Soharwardy. Soharwardy abandoned his complaint this spring. You can see Soharwardy’s complaint here; it named both me and the magazine. The Edmonton complaint named just the magazine. My initial legal response is here.
The two complaints cost Alberta taxpayers in excess of $500,000 and, according to access to information documents, involved no fewer than 15 government bureaucrats. What a scam – on the part of the complainants, who were able to wage “lawfare” against an infidel without paying a cent; and on the part of the HRC, as a make-work project.
Fire. Them. All.
You can see the Notice of Dismissal here..
You can see my press release on the subject here (it should be up at around 3 p.m. ET).
I’ll have an Op-Ed in the National Post, and it should be available here shortly.
Is this a victory? I suppose, in a narrow technical sense, it is. I’m off the hook now for both of the HRC complaints. That’s two legal battles done – though I’m still up to my eyeballs fighting defamation suits and other legal actions that the human rights industry piled on top of these complaints.
But I’ve read the dismissal letter three times now, and each time it makes me more angry. Because I haven’t been given my freedom of the press. I’ve simply had the government censor approve what I said. That’s a completely different thing.”