What’s The Hold Up On Ramos and Compean?
On one hand, we complain about illegals disrespecting our sovereign border, then we throw the very men and women enforcing our borders under the bus.
Last week, Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Charlie Dent became another influential voice calling on President Bush to pardon two former border patrol agents convicted of shooting an unarmed drug smuggler who was trying to escape across the US-Mexico border. Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are serving more than 10 years each for shooting Osvaldo Davila in the buttocks while he was fleeing from an abandoned van loaded with 750 pounds of marijuana.
The officers, pleading not guilty, argued that they thought Davila, a Mexican with a record of drug smuggling, was armed. Nevertheless, they were convicted two years ago in federal court in Texas of assault, civil rights violations and trying to cover up the shooting. In fact, the officers were unaware that the suspect was shot because he made good his escape across the border the night of the incident. Davila, given full immunity for his testimony, was the witness that convicted them.
Before President Bush pardons a liberal or two to give that New Tone thing a final bow, let’s hope he remembers the millions of us who elected him twice, and show some compassion to Scooter and two federal law enforcement officers who have been imprisoned, thanks to an opportunistic assistant US attorney and a slimy Mexican drug dealer whose word was more acceptable than our agents.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I want more than a pardon for those two. I want their record completely sterilized and allow them full rights as United States Citizens again.
January 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I have heard that Bush pushed the indictment and prosecution of these two border officers only as a gift to then El Presidente Vicente Fox.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Too bad they didn’t use rock salt when they shot the smuggler. Fox would have heard him in Cozumel. The Border Patrol Officers figured the smuggler had a gun, because they usually outgun the Border Patrol agents by using AK-47’s. I would have shot his sorry ass too.
That is the problem to begin with. If they shot a few of them it wouldn’t take long for the bad guys to realize “I might get shot smuggling drugs into the USA”. They would probably still be crooks, but
would find a safer area to prowl, like maybe Central America.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
This is one issue that I have been getting people involved in contacting Bush about.
“To protect and serve…… time!”
January 6th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Amazing. Clinton can pardon FALN terrorists but Bush can’t pardon these two?
January 7th, 2009 at 6:46 am
AK-47 is not exactly being out-gunned.