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Senate criticizes sentences for border agents

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Posted by 2007-07-18 07:30|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "I do not take lightly the decision to prosecute a law-enforcement officer for using his gun," Sutton said.

I saw this yahoo last night on Fox trying to justify this prosecution, and he's pretty young. But, I'm still gonna go out on a limb and guess he was a Clinton appointee.

And, even though I know they're grandstanding, you've gotta (almost) admire Feinstein for this. Of course, I'm sure if the public backlash of the Amnesty bill weren't still fresh on their minds, this Committee hearing would've NEVER taken place.

Posted by BA 2007-07-18 09:47|| 2007-07-18 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 This Yoob was appointed by Bush! Sounds like he needs to fire ONE mor AG.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-07-18 10:19|| 2007-07-18 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Bush sent Sutton there to railroad the border guards. Bush needs a brain flush. He woke up one morning believing he was a Mexican and he's been fighting extradiction ever since. Would Bush be the first president to go bonkers while in office ?

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-18 11:09|| 2007-07-18 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Before we get too crazy, what are the facts? If indeed the BP agents destroyed the crime scene, covered up the shooting and shot an unarmed man, than frankly, 12 years is too LIGHT a sentence.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-07-18 12:21|| 2007-07-18 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 I disagree, Doc. That would be if they did all that to a law-abiding citizen. However, this guy was nowhere near that status AND he was shot in the butt, for Pete's sake...hardly a life-threatening wound. Yeah, a slap on the wrist for the (supposed) cover-up/crime scene thingy, but shooting at an (intruder, by the way) illegal alien carrying 700+ pounds of drugs? No way!

Compare this with the Colorado State Patrol officer who off'd the yahoo in front of the Governor's pad earlier this week. Latest report is that he fired 2 shots to the chest and 1 to the head! Yet, no "reprimands" (at least, not yet) for him!

Posted by BA 2007-07-18 13:20|| 2007-07-18 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 We're supposedly fighting a war on drugs. If this foreign national was crossing our border with 743 pounds of dope, he deserved shooting. I suspect if this had been on Mexico's southern end, his body would be moldering in an jungle thicket someplace. The Federales don't screw around with illegal immigrants; they often shoot them. Maybe that's why Mexico has a lot less problem with them.

Posted by Mac 2007-07-18 18:23|| 2007-07-18 18:23|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if the sentences were some kind of payoff by the Bush administration, to Vinnie "The Weasel" Fox, at the time, president of Los Mexicanos, in exchange for the return of the scumbag who murdered CHP officer David March?

I'd hate to think so. Cuz if it were the case, even having voted for Bush twice, I'd start to think about impeachment. There is something that smells like the most colossal skunk of all time here...

Posted by Tell D Truth 2007-07-18 18:54|| 2007-07-18 18:54|| Front Page Top

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