Bruce,

the main disgrace is, that the DA gave a drug-dealer twice immunity.
The second disgrace is on the border-patrol for firing 15rounds with only 1 hit.
The third disgrace is, that that hit wan't even fatal.
and now the drug-dealer is suing for $5mio. very clever. he'll probably get it 
too.

Now, giving them 11 and 12 years is more than harsh. 
You can get less for murder.
==> Better weapon training and hitting the target might be usefull.

There is so much to be fixed when these 8 disastrous years are over.


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:15:15 -0500, Bruce Collins 
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>Michael Baier wrote:
>
>
>>http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53805
>
>>Disgrace or what?
>>Giving the drug-dealer full immunity not once but twice.
>>Another heck of a job.
>
>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
>
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