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YOUR BLAST FAX MESSAGES
TO: President
George W. Bush
The Leadership of the United States Senate and the
United States House of Representatives:
The Hon. Mitch
McConnell, The Hon. Jon L. Kyl, The Hon. John Cornyn, The Hon. John Ensign, The Hon. Kay Bailey
Hutchison, The Hon. John R. Thune, The Hon. Richard
Burr, The Hon. Norm Coleman, The Hon. Larry E.
Craig, The Hon. James M. Inhofe, The Hon. Olympia J.
Snowe, The Hon. John E. Sununu, The Hon. David
Vitter, The Hon. Jim DeMint, The Hon. John A.
Boehner, The Hon. Roy Blunt, The Hon. Eric I.
Cantor, The Hon. Adam Putnam, The Hon. Kay Granger,
The Hon. John R. Carter, The Hon. Thaddeus
G. McCotter, The Hon. Tom Cole, The Hon. Robert C.
Byrd, The Hon. Harry Reid, The Hon. Richard J.
Durbin, The Hon. Charles E. Schumer, The Hon. Patty
Murray, The Hon. Byron L. Dorgan, The Hon. Debbie A.
Stabenow, The Hon. Jeff Bingaman, The Hon. Hillary
Rodham Clinton, The Hon. Blanche L. Lincoln, The Hon.
Barbara Boxer, The Hon. Thomas R. Carper, The Hon.
Bill Nelson, The Hon. Russ Feingold, The Hon. Nancy
Pelosi, The Hon. Steny H. Hoyer, The Hon. James
Clyburn, The Hon. John Lewis, The Hon. Rahm Emanuel,
The Hon. John B. Larson, The Hon. Xavier Becerra,
The Hon. Rosa DeLauro, The Hon. George Miller, The
Hon. Chris Van Hollen, The Hon. Joseph Crowley, The
Hon. Diana L. DeGette, The Hon. Ed Pastor, The Hon.
Janice D. Schakowsky, The Hon. John S. Tanner, The
Hon. Maxine Waters, The Hon. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, The Hon. G.K. Butterfield
RE: Time Running Out for Border Agents Compean and
Ramos. The American People Have Not Forgotten.
The Washington Times stated 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.'"
I agree. To put it in the words of Congressman Ed
Royce: “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."
Some have said that Compean and Ramos were pursued
to send a message to all Border Agents that
aggressive enforcement of our immigrations laws will
not be tolerated. Others have said the lives of
these two loyal public servants were destroyed to
placate a foreign nation.
One thing is certain. This travesty of justice must
be reversed. These brave men should not spend one
more day in prison. President Bush must pardon
these agents or commute their sentences
immediately!
Sincerely,
Your
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Yes Jeff:
Please send my personalized and urgent 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 two
men 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.
Please accept my financial contribution to send these
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“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!
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Yes Jeff:
Please send my personalized and urgent 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 two
men 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.
Please accept my financial contribution to send these
Blast Faxes and support the vital work of the people at
the Center for Individual Freedom who have a heart for
this great country and so honestly want to serve me.
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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!
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Yes Jeff:
Please send my personalized and urgent 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 two
men 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.
Please accept my financial contribution to send these
Blast Faxes and support the vital work of the people at
the Center for Individual Freedom who have a heart for
this great country and so honestly want to serve me.
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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!
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Yes Jeff:
Please send my personalized and urgent 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 two
men 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.
Please accept my financial contribution to send these
Blast Faxes and support the vital work of the people at
the Center for Individual Freedom who have a heart for
this great country and so honestly want to serve me.
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Yours In
Freedom,
Jeff
Mazzella
President
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