An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Time Is Running Out!
Prosecutor of Jailed Border Patrol Says Sentences Too Harsh — Time For Bush To Pardon
Mr. Bush, please listen to your federal prosecutor who doggedly tracked down a convicted drug smuggler in Mexico to convict Border Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos for allegedly over-zealously shooting at the smuggler after a car chase and then a foot sprint back across the border.
To many supporters of the Border Patrol, Prosecutor Sutton himself was guilty of overzealousness in pursuing a criminal conviction of these agents.
But this is what Sutton says about the two agents rotting in prison after two years separation from wives, children, parents and life (with nearly a decade still to serve):
I think a legitimate question, is: ‘Is the punishment too harsh?’ I have always said the punishment in this case was harsh.
If you haven’t sent Pres. Bush a last-minute fax begging for a pardon, please do so.
At stake is the morale of our Border Patrol and their ability to protect us from massive armies of illegal workers coming to steal jobs and put Americans out of work, from drug smugglers, from violent cartels, from terrorists, from slavery rings and from murderous para-military squads.
It’s a free fax! Click on the link! If Bush does NOT pardon these two young men, it will be one of the bigger stains on his presidency. This was not justice, it was a kangaroo court that favored the criminal. Nothing new these days, but still unacceptable.
Dear President Bush:
I respectfully ask that you pardon the two border agents, Jose compean and Ignacio Ramos. They were doing their jobs to protect the citizens of this country.
If this is the penalty our border agents will pay to protect us, they will probably not work too hard at their jobs, and we can see more drug dealers coming in to our country.
Please Mr. President, their families need them. Thank you.
Respectfully, Teresa Cozzo
Hope ya clicked the link!
I will definately go back and click the link.. I’ve been following this case from the beginning. I think Sutton should be thrown out of office for this case, much as the DA in the rape case in the Duke case was thrown out. And thrown into jail, let HIM sit in prison in solitary. I’ve been following it also through KSEV? am 700 in Houston, Edd Hendee and Pat Gray have taken up donations for Mrs. Ramos and Mrs. Compean, and brought it to them, in past times. And Bush says he won’t pardon them. This is to his shame if he does not pardon them.
I think Bush will raise his standing with the American people, if he pardons these men.
Well Teresa, I sure am hoping so! Right now, I don’t think it would hurt him at all if he actually LISTENED to We, The People right now.