Bush Throws Some Pardons: What About The Border Agents?
Posted on November 25, 2008
President Bush, who apparently uses the same pen for veto’s and pardons, has given out 14 and commuted the sentences of 2 others. All were pretty much low level scumbags who pretty much hurt no one but themselves, but what about the border agents?
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., noted that the list also did not include former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up. Ramos and Compean are each serving sentences of more than 10 years for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks while he was fleeing from an abandoned marijuana load in 2005.
“President Bush still has time to do the right thing and commute wrongly imprisoned Border Agents Ramos and Compean,” Rohrabacher said. “The fact that the president has neglected to free these men from their imprisonment while freeing drug dealers, embezzlers and other criminals is insulting to the American people who have been begging and pleading for the president to release the agents.”
While I am hopeful that President Bush will pardon them, or at least commute their sentences, I kinda doubt he will. Dubya has had years to do the right thing, and failed miserably. He did nothing after Ramos was beaten up in prison. He did nothing when the illegal alien they popped in the butt was indicted for drug smuggling. He gave pardons to drug dealers and carjackers in 2007. When the issue was brought up by the House and Senate, Bush ignored them. When a petition was delivered by Rohrabacker to W with hundreds of thousands of signatures, Bush did nothing. He has a few months left. Maybe he will do the right thing. But, I doubt it.
Fausta notices the Ramos and Compean issue as well, and provides a number to call the White House. You can also check Grassfire. Amanda Carpenter and MacRanger also are calling on W to pardon the two Border Agents.
Meanwhile, Alan Colmes and good blog friend The Gun Toting Liberal go silly. Down With Tyranny just plain loses all connection with sanity. And at Firedoglake, braincell deficit
Of course, you have to actually give a crap about what the law and the regs say in order for that to be operative. And we’re talking about Bush/Cheney here, aren’t we?
Yeah, because liberal icon Bill Clinton really cared about The Law when he was throwing around pardons like candy for donations.
PS: Since the libs are already discussing losing their minds over possible pre-emptive pardons, can we discuss the fact that folks like Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, Charlie Rangel, and Chris Dodd pre-emptive pardons for what they have done?
More: Jazz Shaw at The Moderate Voice has an interesting article about the case for and against pardons.
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AND NOW FOR THE REALLY BIG PARDON
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/11/trigger-for-cheney-presidential-pardon.html
Stories just don’t get much better than this.
Bush will bailout his friends on Wall St first, then his political friends next, then all the dregs of society – to make himself appear compasionate to the average dope. But for the good people of this country who are true patriots, he gives them the middle finger.
Bush has been an abomination. Aside from his stupidity and destruction of the English language, he has us bogged down in Iraq for war profiteering purposes while he sits on his royal throne in Washington and our boys get their limbs blown off – and the survivors face prosecutions by Bush for doing their jobs.
He has overseen the robbing of our Treasury and then does his best to intimidate the citizens of this country with “economic destruction” if we disapprove of his buddy, Hank Paulson’s $7 trillion bailout package…pushing it through like a gangster. Of course a week after it passed, then Bush does a complete 180 and changes his tune, saying the economy is doing well.
I could go on and on, but i’m sure everyone here is aware of this despicable man’s antics.
Bush epitomises corruption, ineptitude, and socialism for the rich. Period.
And for those of you who think Obama is the next savior who will bring massive CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN, Just look at his appointees thus far…all Clinton re-treads. So much for change.
The people of this country are screwed.