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UPDATE:
When it comes to releasing wrongfully convicted border agents Jose Compean
and Ignacio Ramos,
the wind has changed
direction again!
Of course, Congressman Rohrabacher -- the gentleman that he is and in the spirit of bi-partisanship -- has taken back his previous criticism and welcomes this development. That just goes to show what can be done when we make our voices heard.
Frankly, THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH! THESE AGENTS MUST BE RELEASED NOW!
You and I can make that happen. We have the momentum, now is the time to drive the point home! Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, the Members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Call the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on the carpet. Tell them they should be championing this movement to release Compean and Ramos, two brave United States citizens of Hispanic descent who were trying to apprehend a criminal drug smuggler! Demand that the House Judiciary Committee vote on the Delahunt-Rohrabacher-Reyes resolution IMMEDIATELY and bring it to the floor of the House for a vote. And while you're at it, tell President Bush to keep a promise he made to the American people a YEAR AGO. Tell him to review the case and PARDON COMPEAN AND RAMOS! http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/freecompeanandramosiv.html If the above hyperlink does not function, please copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
President Bush Released A List This Week Of Those He Is Pardoning. Guess Who Was Not On The List! You read that right! President Bush just released a list this week of the people he is pardoning.
According to Rohrabacher, President Bush's list of pardons includes "eight drug dealers" but not the "unjustly imprisoned Border Patrol agents."
29 wrongdoers are getting a pardon for Christmas... for Compean and Ramos, a lump of coal! Rohrabacher added: "The President's heartless ignoring of the fundamental miscarriage of justice in the case of agents Ramos and Compean... is a snub to the families and a slap in the face to millions of Americans who have pleaded with the president to show some mercy for Ramos and Compean... Instead he turns around and shows mercy to drug dealers and other criminals and leaves Ramos and Compean to suffer in solitary confinement." When asked WHY Compean and Ramos did not receive a pardon, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said: "Well, there's processes in place for pardons, and those two individuals, if they want to seek a pardon, they can go through the process, as well." So, it's Compean and Ramos' fault they were not issued a pardon? You might remember what Tony Snow said almost a year ago: "What we're doing is getting the entire trial transcript so everybody can see what happened in trial, and we can try to discern the real facts of the case." So what happened? Only the Administration can provide an answer! Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, the Members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Call the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on the carpet. Tell them they should be championing this movement to release Compean and Ramos, two brave United States citizens of Hispanic descent who were trying to apprehend a criminal drug smuggler! Demand that the House Judiciary Committee vote on the Delahunt-Rohrabacher-Reyes resolution IMMEDIATELY and bring it to the floor of the House for a vote. And while you're at it, tell President Bush to keep a promise he made to the American people a YEAR AGO. Tell him to review the case and PARDON COMPEAN AND RAMOS! http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/freecompeanandramosiv.html If the above hyperlink does not function, please copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
"Processes," What Is Perino Talking About? And what's this about "processes" in Perino's statement? Article II, Section II of the United States Constitution reads: "[The President] shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment." Did you see anything in there about "processes?" Neither did I!
Whatever they were -- in both cases -- the respective administrations went through them pretty dog-gone quick! Sorry Ms. Perino, the Administration can not hide behind any phony arguments about process... a year has already passed! It's time for these brave American heroes to go be released! Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, the Members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Call the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on the carpet. Tell them they should be championing this movement to release Compean and Ramos, two brave United States citizens of Hispanic descent who were trying to apprehend a criminal drug smuggler! Demand that the House Judiciary Committee vote on the Delahunt-Rohrabacher-Reyes resolution IMMEDIATELY and bring it to the floor of the House for a vote. And while you're at it, tell President Bush to keep a promise he made to the American people a YEAR AGO. Tell him to review the case and PARDON COMPEAN AND RAMOS! http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/freecompeanandramosiv.html If the above hyperlink does not function, please copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
We Thought The American People Had This Licked! Several months ago -- because of the pressure you brought to bear -- the Senate held hearings on the Ramos-Compean case. The subcommittee examined evidence and listened to self-serving testimony from Johnny Sutton -- the strutting, bragging U.S. Attorney who threw the book at Agents Ramos and Compean as the rest of us gasped in disbelief. And liberal Senator Dianne Feinstein's bipartisan committee concluded "that the sentence does not match the crime" in the case of agents Compean and Ramos. Senator Feinstein herself said: "The sentences of 11 years for Agent Ramos and 12 years for Agent Compean were significantly higher than for many other serious crimes... Ramos and Compean have now served six months in the federal penitentiary, and we would ask the President to review the case closely and commute the sentence." Senator John Cornyn weighed in as well saying: "It is incomprehensible to me that an illegal alien drug smuggler was allowed to violate his immunity agreement, perjure himself and be granted a series of unlimited visas... while two border patrol agents were given excessive prison sentences." But that's not all; Feinstein's Senate Subcommittee revealed that U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton furnished this dangerous criminal with a border pass that allowed him to enter the country AT LEAST TEN TIMES without inspection. And although Sutton's office portrayed their "star witness" to the jury as a man beyond reproach... a victim of the system who only smuggled drugs into the United States just once to pay his poor sick mother's medical bills... it was well known that this drug smuggler was a dangerous career criminal! Senator Cornyn offered into evidence a document indicating that the illegal alien smuggled drugs while making at least one of those allowed trips across the border. There is no more excuse! Decency demands that our elected leaders do only one thing. Release these men TODAY. Now is not the time to give up this fight. Compean and Ramos will be released as long as we don't allow our elected officials to think that WE'VE FORGOTTEN! These brave American heroes should not spend another day in prison! Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, the Members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Call the Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on the carpet. Tell them they should be championing this movement to release Compean and Ramos, two brave United States citizens of Hispanic descent who were trying to apprehend a criminal drug smuggler! Demand that the House Judiciary Committee vote on the Delahunt-Rohrabacher-Reyes resolution IMMEDIATELY and bring it to the floor of the House for a vote. And while you're at it, tell President Bush to keep a promise he made to the American people a YEAR AGO. Tell him to review the case and PARDON COMPEAN AND RAMOS! http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/freecompeanandramosiv.html If the above hyperlink does not function, please copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser.
Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
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