Posted by
Charlie on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:00:40 AM
Ramos and Compean are still in prison. Two weeks have passed and these two men who were only trying to do their job of securing our border are still being unjustly held.
The only bright spot is that Press Secretary Tony Snow, who left an honorable job as a TV commentator to shill for the Bush administration, is going to have an informal meeting with some comgressmen to discuss the case. The meeting is being delayed, while Ramos and Compean languish in prison, because there is some difficulty getting a transcript of the trial.
It seems to me that a transcript is unecessary to reach a just conclusion in this case. A trial transcript is a record of lawyering the worst way to reach a fair conclusion in any case.
Let's just look at the facts that everyone agrees on:
This slimy Mexican skunk (my apologies to skunks everywhere) was trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States. He was caught by Ramos and Compean. He was shot by Ramos and Compean while trying to escape back to Mexico. Case closed. Ramos and Compean were doing their duty. If they committed some infraction of Border Patrol rules the harshest sentence they should have received was extra time on the pistol range so the next time they are in a similar situation the suspect won't be able to get away.
Let's look at one more thing.
Three of the jurors say they were misled to think that they had to come up with a unanimous verdict - that there could not be a hung jury. How do ignoramuses like this get on juries? And what were the other nine thinking to vote for conviction in the first place?
In spite of the protestations of the three jurors who said they were misled in the jury room the vicious judge refused to continue bail for Ramos and Compean, pending an appeal, and sent them to prison immediately.
Regardless of the obvious injustice done in this case Bush refuses to pardon these two men. He reserves his pardons for drug dealers and other felons.
This makes me FURIOUS!!!!!!