Compean And Ramos Anniversary

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: January 18, 2008
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Well its been one year and the border guards and decorated defenders of our nation are still sitting in jail for shooting a drug smuggler that was running from a van with 700 pounds of drugs in it.

George Bush has pardoned 117 criminals so far while in office.
George Bush has pardoned 11 people of drug trafficking, possession and dealing crimes.

But he won’t pardon the two decorated officers for trying to arrest a repeat offender drug dealer.

The smuggler was the repeat offender, drug smuggler and illegal Mexican immigrant trying to drive drugs into the United States. The agents both hispanic and decorated heros have just finish one year in prison in their 10+ year sentences.

Despite 10’s of thousand of letters and formal protests, President Bush refuses to pardon the decorated border agents. Both men are family men, and both have been attacked and beaten in prison by illegal immigrant inmates.
(as per Glenn Beck expert interview 1/17/08)

President Bush pardons his friends instantly and lets these family men rot in prison.

Here is a great editorial I found online that says it better than I could.

“To the Editor,

With so much attention focused now on the Primaries for the next Presidential election, it might seem a strange time to be assessing the sitting President and his record. However, thinking about it, it is the very best time. Since change seems to be the buzzword of the “out” party candidates, and nearly all Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with many trends now existing in national government, what exactly is the unhappiness about?

We are dealing here with George Bush and the Presidency, and what we really want in the next President. Here we can only deal with the most pressing issues of border control and national security

The war on terror has for George Bush been a plus, but in the related subject of the integrity of our borders, he doesn’t even rate a C minus. Perhaps it is his Texas upbringing, his familiarity with the Hispanic portion of the population there, but he has been woefully soft on illegal immigration. This is also related to his internationalist bent, and his desire to have all North America one big happy family, with trade barriers erased and our laws subjugated to international law. Our borders with Canada and Mexico, already like a sieve, would practically become non existent, and our national sovereignty would go down the drain. Even our currency would be transformed into “Ameradollars”

One glaring proof of this bent is Bush’s refusing to pardon two ethnic Hispanic Border guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who shot a fleeing drug smuggler in the buttocks. The Criminal and repeat offender Osvaldo Aldreto Davila, managed to escape back across the border and drive away in a waiting van on the Mexican side. Not the end of the story!

The van Davila had loaded and left behind contained an 743 pounds of marijuana, which were of course confiscated. More than a million dollars worth of contraband kept off the streets, and out of reach of young people. But no thanks were given to Ramos and Compean, who were hauled up and convicted of the shooting of Davila. This because of an incredible government policy which stated that Patrolmen were not to chase a fleeing suspect without first getting permission from their supervisors, a ridiculous restriction that gave the suspect time to get back over the border. The lesser crime was that they failed to report the firing of a gun.

“THEY HAD A FAIR TRIAL”

The President, under pressure from 55 members of Congress, well over 150,000 petitions, and 15,000 faxes asking him to pardon these men, merely responded that they “had a fair trial.”

Well, hardly.

The U.S. Justice Department sent federal agents into Mexico, who tracked down the escaped drug smuggler and gave him total immunity from prosecution for coming back into the United States to testify against Ramos and Compean, which he was glad to do. He was also treated for his flesh wound in a U. S, Hospital. Emboldened by these indulgences, he is now suing the U. S. Government for violating his civil rights! As if an illegal border invader has civil rights in the country whose laws he is flaunting.

Quite obviously, the point of all this was, by punishing our own, to send a message to all Border Patrolmen not to be too gung ho in doing their duty against illegals. Worse yet, the message also tells all would be comers that they will be dealt with gently, if not protected.

The Judge, Kathleen Cordone, and Prosecutor U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton were both Bush Appointees, and Bush is well known for his often blind loyalty to his friends, teams and appointees. Remembered also is an almost fawning friendship with Mexico’s former president Vicente Fox, whose avowed and official attitude toward the illegal exodus of Mexicans into the U. S. is a documented fact. He supported it to the hilt, while punishing with great harshness illegals coming across his own southern Border in incursions from Guatemala and Honduras, among other places to Mexico’s south.

This trial was rigged. The Prosecutor even attempted to level a charge of attempted murder against the patrolmen, of which the Jury rightly acquitted them. Their only real offense was failing to report the firing of weapons, a much lesser charge. They were still sentenced to a major portion of their lives in prison, because they believed an obvious criminal, under immunity from prosecution, rather than these two honorable servants of their country.

These men, both with clean and commendable records, are scheduled, nine days from this writing, to begin respectively 11 and 12 years in federal prison. They are now in jail awaiting the beginning of these sentences, and have already been under attack from fellow prisoners, as all law enforcers experience when penned with the men they have imprisoned.

Meanwhile their families languish.”

From www.thepaper24-7.com

Compean And Ramos Anniversary border agents spend 1 year in prison