>
>I've been inundated with this case when I was in Montreal by that bastion of
>journalistic integrity, Lou Dobbs on CNN. Fortunately, when I'm here in
>Toronto I don't get CNN so I get a break from Lou. This is the first that I
>heard of the particulars of the charges and I have to say that I agree with
>them.
>
>Let's see, you have two guards who fired on a suspect because they thought
>he was armed and then when it turned out that he wasn't gathered up all the
>evidence and didn't file the report. The fact that he was later confirmed to
>be smuggling drugs is irrelevant.
>
>It's kind of like invading a country because you think they have weapons and
>then when it turns out that they didn't you switch positions and say that it
>was all justified because the leader was a bad guy.
>
>The problem isn't really that Bush failed to pardon these guys for their
>actions, but that he expects pardon for his.
>
>Note the following:
>The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas issued a
>statement in September arguing "the defendants were prosecuted because
>they had fired their weapons at a man who had attempted to surrender by
>holding his open hands in the air, at which time Agent Compean attempted to
>hit the man with the butt of Compean's shotgun, causing the man to run in
>fear of what the agents would do to him next."
>
>The statement said, "Although both agents saw that the man was not armed,
>the agents fired at least 15 rounds at him while he was running away from
>them, hitting him once."
>
>=======
>Bruce


Bruce,

from what I heard and read this weekend, the above statement was given by 
the captured drug-dealer. 
According to his statement, he attempted to surrender.

This statement contradicts the statements by the border-patrol and therefore 
he was given immunity twice, that he could be a witness for the prosecution.

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