Posted by
Charlie on Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:23:07 PM
Headline from Reuters: "Border Agent Faces Murder Charge"
Once again we see the travesty of A Border Patrol Agent trying to enforce our laws being persecuted for doing his job. The Agent Nicholas Corbett shot the illegal alien when he was threatened with a rock. Apparently our Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to defend themselves until their heads are bashed in, as has happened, without winding up in court on felony charges. The chief witnesses against Corbett are three other illegal aliens whose word the prosecutors will take as gospel. Let's hope Arizona juries, where this incident occurred, have more sense than Texas juries who sent Ramos, Compean and Gilmer Hernandez to prison.
Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear of a Border Patrol Agent or one of our soldiers, fighting the terrorists in Iraq, being brought up on some trumped up charge. We know this administration doesn't want to enforce our immigration laws. Should we also question its commitment to winning the war in Iraq. It certainly isn't boosting troop morale when our soldiers and Marines are court martialed on the word of Iraqis alone. We have seen time after time that some of our best troops have their lives ruined and their freedom taken away on trumped up charges.
Even if they are acquitted the enormous expense of defending themselves is often ruinous to not only the defendants but their entire families as well. Of course, the government won't reimburse them. They only reimburse other politicians for their legal fees.
Jurymen of Arizona; ACQUIT, ACQUIT, ACQUIT.
If you don't it will make me FURIOUS!!!!!!