July 29, 2008
Fifth Circuit Upholds the Sentences of Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean
Statement from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher:
Unfortunately, the Court has sided with the prosecutors who threw the book at the good guys and the good guys have lost this round. This makes President Bush’s role in this miscarriage of justice even worse. Affirming U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s decision to give the benefit of the doubt to an illegal alien drug smuggler in order to win at all costs and destroy the lives of our brave border agents simply magnifies the horrible travesty this really is.To review, a drug smuggler got shot in the butt after attacking two border patrol agents. The drug smuggler got immunity from prosecution and the two border patrol agents got 10+ years in prison each. They received their draconian sentences owing to a provision in federal law requiring mandatory minimum prison sentences for use of a firearm in connection with a federal crime. This prosecutor, Johnny Sutton, decided it would be a good idea to use this law, which was intended for career criminals and hardened thugs, to seek enhanced sentences against men and women in law enforcement.
Every time I hear some kool-aid drinker wax poetically about what a "good" and "decent" and "truly great" man George W. Bush is, I'm reminded of these two good men rotting in prison under the heel of the Bush Administration. Bush could free them with a phone call or a stroke of a pen, but he prefers instead to let them rot. This thought makes me ill.
Michelle has more.
By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at July 29, 2008 11:10 AM | | l digg this
