More on the Border Patrol

Tammy Bruce gives us a heads-up on the most recent goings-on in this case that is now spiralling out of control. Via World Net Daily: (my emphasis)

"A heavily redacted Department of Homeland Security report on the prosecutions of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean was issued by Assistant Inspector General Elizabeth M. Redman, one of four investigators called upon to resign for lying to Congress.

"The 77-page report – which Redman issued with her signature in November – was released to the public yesterday on the heels of DHS Inspector General Robert Skinner's admission at a hearing that his deputies falsely told lawmakers the agency had documentary proof the border agents were rogue cops 'out to shoot Mexicans.'"

The report is linked, but I don't know that it is all that helpful to understanding the case. The main point here is that DHS lied under oath. Who can you trust these days?

Meanwhile, Ignacio Ramos has been beaten in prison by "fellow inmates." What does the AP story fail to mention?

The assailants were quite possibly illegal immigrants.

Honestly, my head is starting to spin over this. Keep in mind the following:

1) The drug smuggler, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, was given immunity by the U.S. government to testify against the two border patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. Aldrete-Davila is now suing the Border Patrol for five million dollars (U.S. taxpayer funded, naturally) for civil rights violations.

2) The prosecution and the Department of Homeland Security, at best, used false testimony or, at worst, lied about the events of the day of the shooting:

"The prosecution contended Compean called the alien victim a 'Mexican piece of sh-t.' The DHS went further, telling concerned Congressmen in Texas on September 26 that the agents confessed they 'were out to shoot Mexicans.' The department’s Office of Inspector General has provided no proof for the assertion. Nor do they seem concerned that both alleged racists, Ramos and Compean, claim to be of Mexican descent."

3) From Deb Saunders (as previously linked here): "Two of Aldrete-Davila's family members, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin that the smuggler had been dealing drugs since age 14 and, according to one, he 'wouldn't move drugs unless he had a gun on him.'"

4) The judge has acted in a corrupt manner: (emphasis mine)

"Some of the jurors broke down in tears at the reading of the guilty verdict. Three jurors – Robert Gourley, Claudia Torres, and Edine Woods – came forward days before the sentencing in October to say they had been holdouts against a guilty verdict and only voted with the majority when other jurors told them the judge would not allow a hung jury. Doing so, they noted, violated their consciences. Gourley wrote, 'Had we had the option of a hung jury, I truly believe the outcome may have been different.' Two days later, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone denied the motion for a new trial.

"Although many Congressmen hoped for a federal investigation, Judge Cardone – a 2003 George W. Bush appointee whose near-total focus before assuming the federal bench had been family law – had also refused to delay sentencing until after any potential review, saying it would only 'postpone the inevitable.' Ultimately, no review ever came.

"In October, Cardone sentenced Ramos to 11 years, and Compean to 12 years, imprisonment – 6-7 years longer than the sentence a U.S. district judge imposed that July upon another Border Patrol officer who had smuggled 100 illegal immigrants into the country."

5) The feds knew the smuggler.


Doesn't this SCREAM of a presidential pardon? As I've asked before, who in their right mind would want to work as a Border Patrol Agent after this mess?

With our sieve-like borders becoming more transparent by the day, and with DHS lying to protect illegal immigrants and turning against its own people...how can ANYBODY take the president seriously when he rhetorizes how tough we have to be in the War on Terror? Who doesn't think, at this point, that radical Muslims are watching the details of a case like this and thinking to themselves "America will take care of itself! We don't have to do anything!"

With our increasingly lax immigration policy, our declining overall birth rate, and the lack of assimilation among those immigrants here (legally or illegally), it won't matter that we haven't had an attack like September 11th in over 5 years.

We're allowing the takeover to occur without attacks even happening.