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2006-10-20 Fifth Column

Border Patrol agents sentenced to prison

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Posted by Snuns Thromp1484 2006-10-20 00:36|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 WTF? Sounds like these guys deserve an award, not jail time!

Posted by mac 2006-10-20 09:51|| 2006-10-20 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Federal agents who protect our border
deserve our respect, gratitude and trust -- it is a difficult and dangerous job," United States Attorney Johnny Sutton said in a news release after the sentencing. "But when law enforcement officers use their badge as a shield for carrying out crimes and then engage in a cover up, we cannot look the other way. Agents Compean and Ramos shot an unarmed, fleeing suspect in the back and lied about it."

This is an outrage. US Attorney Johnny Sutton should be fired. He should never be allowed to hold another government job. Let him go to work for the ACLU. Deport him to Mexico so he can see what the future holds for this country if guys like him have their way.

The Republicans better get their act together on this issue or we will end up with Hillary in the White House. Conservative voters will stay home on election day rather than vote for the likes of John McCain.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-10-20 11:25|| 2006-10-20 11:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Lou Dobbs is gonna go apeshit at 6pm today.

Posted by facta non verba 2006-10-20 12:16|| 2006-10-20 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The judicial branch is out of control. They have been subverted by the continual appointments of communists to the bench by Bill Clinton types. We reel from one outrage to another. How do you come down on Border Patrol doing their job ? How in hell do you expect to add agents when they are treated like this? This is a farce and can't be allowed to stand. Contact your Congress horse and bitch. Loudly.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-20 12:20|| 2006-10-20 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 FWIW: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/cardoneresume.htm

Kathleen Cardone
Birth: December 25, 1953 Medina, New York

Legal Residence: Texas

Education: 1971 - 1976 State University of New York at Binghamton
B.A. degree

1976 - 1979 St. Marys School of Law
J.D. degree

Bar Admittance: 1979 Texas

Experience: 1979 - 1980 Briefing Attorney to the Honorable Philip A. Schraub
Southern District of Texas

1980 - 1990 Kathleen Cardone, Attorney & Counselor at Law
Sole Practitioner

1983 - 1990 Municipal Court for the City of El Paso, Texas
Judge

1990 - 1995 Family Law Court of Texas
Associate Judge

1995 - 1996 383rd Judicial District Court of Texas
Judge

1997 - 1999 Texas Arbitration Mediation Services
Attorney/Mediator

1998 - 2001 (part-time) World Gym
Fitness Instructor

1997 - present (part-time) El Paso Community College
Instructor

1999 - 2000 388th Judicial District Court of Texas
Judge

2001 - present (part-time) EP Fitness
Fitness Instructor

2001 - present Texas Arbitration Mediation Services
Mediator

2001 - present State of Texas
Visiting Judge

Posted by RWV 2006-10-20 14:12|| 2006-10-20 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 The problem here is kinda the same as we have in Iraq --- the rules of engagement are f*cked up.

Insurgents shoot at you from a house? You ought to be able to level it. Period. They run into a Mosque? It ought to be reduced to rubble instantenously.

Drug smugglers and dealers attempt to cross the border? They should be shot on sight. Period. They get interdicted and flee? Too bad. It should only insure they get shot in the ass, instead of the belly.

As long as we try to deal with deadly force situations with kid gloves, applying more and more rules in the name of being civilized and protecting 'civil rights' (BTW, since when does a Mexican drug dealer trying to smuggle drugs into the US have any US civil rights?) we might as well look forward to more unjust and outrageous decisions. Try finding good people to do a tough job under these conditions. The only ones who'll thrive in such a politically correct climate will be the ineffective lemmings who don't mind swallowing their pride on a daily basis.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-20 14:57|| 2006-10-20 14:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe they should have just killed the drug dealer instead of just shooting him in the buttocks. This is an outrage. What penalty does the drug dealer draw? Send these agents to sniper school so that they are better shots!

Posted by JohnQC 2006-10-20 21:36|| 2006-10-20 21:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe they should have just killed the drug dealer instead of just shooting him in the buttocks.

This is always the case. Dead people cannot sue.
Two in the chest, one in the head! Works every time.

Posted by NoBeards 2006-10-20 23:18|| 2006-10-20 23:18|| Front Page Top

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