Bush And The Two Convicted Border Patrol Agents

    From The Constitution Party, we get a look at the case of the two U.S. Border Patrol agents who are basically convicted of shooting a criminal in the ass and not reporting the fact that the firearms discharged.

   Their prison terms started on January 17,with 11 and 12 year terms ahead of them. This is an assault on justice for either of these two men to be imprisoned.

The C.P.

President George W. Bush pardoned 16 criminals including five drug dealers at Christmastime, but so far has refused to pardon the two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were trying to defend Americans against drug smugglers. It makes us wonder which side the self-proclaimed "compassionate" President is on.

The White House and the U.S. Department of Justice are stonewalling requests for a presidential pardon from 55 Members of Congress and U.S. citizens who have sent at least 160,000 petitions and 15,000 faxes. When the Bush Administration deigns to respond at all, the official line is that the Border Patrol agents got a fair trial.

But that’s not true; they didn’t get a fair trial. They were convicted because the Justice Department sent investigators into Mexico, tracked down the drug smuggler, and gave him immunity from all prosecution for his drug smuggling crimes if he would please come back and testify against Ramos and Compean.

     That's Bush Crime Family justice at its finest! I guess that the criminals in the world do look out for each other, sometimes.

 

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The U.S. Democracy For Iraqi Oil

The Independent

Noam Chomsky: The US says it is fighting for democracy - but is deaf to the cries of the Iraqis
They are not building a palatial embassy with the intention of going
Published: 11 February 2007

There are, then, very powerful reasons why the US and UK are likely to try in every possible way to maintain effective control over Iraq. The US is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis. All of this is quite separate from the expectations that matters can be arranged so that US corporations profit from the vast riches of Iraq.

   Most of us have known that this fiasco of a war has always been about the oil and not any form of Democracy.

 

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