Do you remember one of the screwiest convictions in recent American history? That would be Prosecutor Johnny Sutton’s successful conviction of former Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean for discharging their weapon at fleeing drug dealer and illegal alien Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila. Aldrete-Davila was actually abandoning a vehicle full of Marijuana on the American side of the border while fleeing to get to the Mexican side of the border.
To put it simply Sutton suppressed evidence while giving Aldrete-Davila blanket immunity in some kind of witch-hunt of Ramos and Compean.
One of the last times I posted about this was when some Congressional members were attempting to pressure President Bush to Pardon or Commute the sentence of Ramos and Compean was in December 2007. At that time a Bush spokesman said no to pardons at a press conference and refused to take questions or dodged questions about Ramos and Compean.
I received an email from the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF). Actually the email was one of those paid ads that HumanEvents.com sends out CFIF paid for it.
It was one of the emails promoting the use of the Internet for chain emailing to build a Net pressure on President Bush. I am going to post that email however I am not going to use the entire bell and whistle colors of the email. There is a link to view the bell and whistle colors but I am uncertain how long that will be available.
Below is the CFIF email:
JRH 12/7/08
***************************************************
President Releases Drug Dealers - Ignores Compean and Ramos
Jeff Mazzella
Center for Individual Freedom
December 7, 2008
Apparently some in the Bush Administration believe drug dealers, tax evaders and bank embezzlers are deserving of pardons...
... but former Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos - serving a combined 23 years for what Congressman Tom Tancredo described as "doing their jobs" - don't even deserve the time of day!
President Bush recently issued 14 pardons and two sentence commutations.
Among those issued pardons and commutations were bank embezzlers, tax evaders and a rapper, John E. Forte, who was convicted of aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
“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. For the sake of justice, let’s hope this is not the last round of pardons and commutations.”
"The end of President Bush's final term is quickly approaching. Less than two months remain until he will hand over his White House keys to Barack Obama, but we cannot let him leave office without resolving one very important issue: he must commute the prison sentences of convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean!"
President Bush still has time to make things right and it's up to folks like us to make sure he does the right thing!
That's why now is NOT the time to stop pressuring President Bush and our elected officials to do the right thing and release these American heroes from prison!
- Send My Blast Faxes -
More Harsh Words For The Administration...
Others were not as polite as Rohrabacher or Schlafly.
Conservative columnist Doug Patton called this travesty "a stench in the nostrils of every thinking American who loves justice."
"But I will lose my last ounce of respect for this man as my president if he does not pardon Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean before he leaves office. These men put their lives on the line for us just as surely as our brave troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and justice demands a full presidential pardon."
You're already familiar with the case.
"It also turns out that this low-life drug smuggler re-entered the United States at least 10 different times in 2005 and that he was caught smuggling drugs while he was waiting to testify against Ramos and Compean. These facts were not brought up at their trial."
"The severity of these charges and the harshness of the punishment are totally disproportionate to the violation in question. Even the illegal drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, was sentenced to less prison time than our fellow American border guards!"
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate. Tell them that the arrest, conviction and sentencing of Ramos and Compean -- two men bravely defending our nation's borders -- is a gross miscarriage of justice and perhaps one of the most cynical misuses of power in our nation's recent history.
- Send My Blast Faxes -
Even More Harsh Words For The Administration...
The Washington Times called President Bush's failure to act, "blindness."
"It's both baffling and disappointing that President Bush has not already pardoned two U.S. Border Patrol agents imprisoned since 2007... Time is running out for Mr. Bush to act to correct what one Congressman [Rep. Dana Rohrabacher] calls 'the worst miscarriage of justice that I have witnessed in the 30 years I've been in Washington.'"
"These are the kinds of men whose government failed and destroyed them - all while they were serving a cause greater than themselves. These men deserve justice. I, and many other members of Congress, have repeatedly called upon President Bush to exercise his power to pardon - but he has not done so.”
“Ramos and Compean have been living in the torture of solitary confinement for almost two years for something they never should have been prosecuted for in the first place. We are pleading with the Pardon Attorney to make a favorable recommendation of commutation to the President so he can finally do the right thing by these men and their families."
"It is literally a crime that apparently President Bush is not granting pardons to immorally imprisoned border [patrol] agents Ramos and Compean."
At the very least, this may be President Bush's last opportunity to listen!
- Send My Blast Faxes –
Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
President
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/flash_2.htm
P.S. Please help us reach as many concerned Americans as possible by forwarding this e-mail to at least 10 of your friends and family members.
The CFIF Action Alert is a service to the conservative community. If you would like to subscribe please go to http://tool.donation-net.net/entrance/enter.cfm?dn=1043&source=2&CFID=6218992&CFTOKEN=46085308.
_________________________________
A Pardon Ramos and Compean Plea
John R. Houk
© December 7, 2008
__________________________
President Releases Drug Dealers - Ignores Compean and Ramos
Center for Individual Freedom
113 S. Columbus St., Suite 310
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-535-5836
Fax:703-535-5838
CFIF is a 501(c)(4) not-for-profit constitutional advocacy organization with
the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights.
Contributions to CFIF are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Contributions may be deductible as a business expense.
To put it simply Sutton suppressed evidence while giving Aldrete-Davila blanket immunity in some kind of witch-hunt of Ramos and Compean.
One of the last times I posted about this was when some Congressional members were attempting to pressure President Bush to Pardon or Commute the sentence of Ramos and Compean was in December 2007. At that time a Bush spokesman said no to pardons at a press conference and refused to take questions or dodged questions about Ramos and Compean.
I received an email from the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF). Actually the email was one of those paid ads that HumanEvents.com sends out CFIF paid for it.
It was one of the emails promoting the use of the Internet for chain emailing to build a Net pressure on President Bush. I am going to post that email however I am not going to use the entire bell and whistle colors of the email. There is a link to view the bell and whistle colors but I am uncertain how long that will be available.
Below is the CFIF email:
JRH 12/7/08
***************************************************
President Releases Drug Dealers - Ignores Compean and Ramos
Jeff Mazzella
Center for Individual Freedom
December 7, 2008
“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. For the sake of justice, let’s hope this is not the last round of pardons and commutations.”
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher
Apparently some in the Bush Administration believe drug dealers, tax evaders and bank embezzlers are deserving of pardons...
... but former Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos - serving a combined 23 years for what Congressman Tom Tancredo described as "doing their jobs" - don't even deserve the time of day!
President Bush recently issued 14 pardons and two sentence commutations.
Among those issued pardons and commutations were bank embezzlers, tax evaders and a rapper, John E. Forte, who was convicted of aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
- Agents Compean and Ramos were NOT on the list.
Such egregious neglect prompted Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to say:
“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. For the sake of justice, let’s hope this is not the last round of pardons and commutations.”
- According to Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum:
"The end of President Bush's final term is quickly approaching. Less than two months remain until he will hand over his White House keys to Barack Obama, but we cannot let him leave office without resolving one very important issue: he must commute the prison sentences of convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean!"
- We could not agree more.
President Bush still has time to make things right and it's up to folks like us to make sure he does the right thing!
- Time is running out for Compean and Ramos!
That's why now is NOT the time to stop pressuring President Bush and our elected officials to do the right thing and release these American heroes from prison!
- Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate. Tell them that the arrest, conviction and sentencing of Ramos and Compean -- two men bravely defending our nation's borders -- is a gross miscarriage of justice and perhaps one of the most cynical misuses of power in our nation's recent history.
- Send My Blast Faxes -
More Harsh Words For The Administration...
Others were not as polite as Rohrabacher or Schlafly.
Conservative columnist Doug Patton called this travesty "a stench in the nostrils of every thinking American who loves justice."
- Patton adds:
"But I will lose my last ounce of respect for this man as my president if he does not pardon Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean before he leaves office. These men put their lives on the line for us just as surely as our brave troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and justice demands a full presidential pardon."
You're already familiar with the case.
- Compean and Ramos were convicted almost solely on the word of a known illegal alien drug smuggler who claimed that Compean and Ramos shot him in the butt while he was attempting to escape.
- Incidentally, this smuggler was attempting to transport 743 pounds of marijuana into the United States at the time of the incident.
- In exchange for his testimony, the smuggler was granted blanket immunity and allowed to come and go across the border almost at will and was actually caught attempting to transport more drugs into the United States while waiting to testify against Compean and Ramos.
- The court WOULD NOT allow this fact to be submitted during the trial.
- And, in what may be the greatest irony of this whole case, the smuggler was eventually convicted of the smuggling offenses that occurred AFTER he was granted immunity and was sentenced to LESS TIME than Compean and Ramos.
- Patton yet again:
"It also turns out that this low-life drug smuggler re-entered the United States at least 10 different times in 2005 and that he was caught smuggling drugs while he was waiting to testify against Ramos and Compean. These facts were not brought up at their trial."
- Phyllis Schlafly stated:
"The severity of these charges and the harshness of the punishment are totally disproportionate to the violation in question. Even the illegal drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, was sentenced to less prison time than our fellow American border guards!"
- Such irony is shameful!
Now is the time to demand justice!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate. Tell them that the arrest, conviction and sentencing of Ramos and Compean -- two men bravely defending our nation's borders -- is a gross miscarriage of justice and perhaps one of the most cynical misuses of power in our nation's recent history.
- Send My Blast Faxes -
Even More Harsh Words For The Administration...
The Washington Times called President Bush's failure to act, "blindness."
- The Times wrote the following in a recent editorial:
"It's both baffling and disappointing that President Bush has not already pardoned two U.S. Border Patrol agents imprisoned since 2007... Time is running out for Mr. Bush to act to correct what one Congressman [Rep. Dana Rohrabacher] calls 'the worst miscarriage of justice that I have witnessed in the 30 years I've been in Washington.'"
- Congressman Tom Tancredo:
"These are the kinds of men whose government failed and destroyed them - all while they were serving a cause greater than themselves. These men deserve justice. I, and many other members of Congress, have repeatedly called upon President Bush to exercise his power to pardon - but he has not done so.”
- Congressman Ed Royce stated:
“Ramos and Compean have been living in the torture of solitary confinement for almost two years for something they never should have been prosecuted for in the first place. We are pleading with the Pardon Attorney to make a favorable recommendation of commutation to the President so he can finally do the right thing by these men and their families."
- Blogger Andrew T. Durham claims the case "stinks to high Heaven" and wrote:
"It is literally a crime that apparently President Bush is not granting pardons to immorally imprisoned border [patrol] agents Ramos and Compean."
- Now may be your last chance to make your voice heard!
At the very least, this may be President Bush's last opportunity to listen!
- The time to release Compean and Ramos is NOW!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate. Tell them that the arrest, conviction and sentencing of Ramos and Compean -- two men bravely defending our nation's borders -- is a gross miscarriage of justice and perhaps one of the most cynical misuses of power in our nation's recent history.
- Send My Blast Faxes –
Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
President
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/flash_2.htm
P.S. Please help us reach as many concerned Americans as possible by forwarding this e-mail to at least 10 of your friends and family members.
The CFIF Action Alert is a service to the conservative community. If you would like to subscribe please go to http://tool.donation-net.net/entrance/enter.cfm?dn=1043&source=2&CFID=6218992&CFTOKEN=46085308.
_________________________________
A Pardon Ramos and Compean Plea
John R. Houk
© December 7, 2008
__________________________
President Releases Drug Dealers - Ignores Compean and Ramos
Center for Individual Freedom
113 S. Columbus St., Suite 310
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-535-5836
Fax:703-535-5838
CFIF is a 501(c)(4) not-for-profit constitutional advocacy organization with
the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights.
Contributions to CFIF are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Contributions may be deductible as a business expense.
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