A Low Down, Dirty Shame

Two US Border Patrol Agents are facing a minimum of ten years in prison for doing their jobs. Read the story.

I watched a report on O'Reilly last night, and Glenn Beck did an interview with one of them tonight on his TV show. It's pretty sad. They are up for sentencing on August 22nd.

Basically, the agents came under fire after pursuing a drug smuggler, returned fire, and were found guilty of aggravated assault. They face federal minimum sentencing of ten years. Here's the problem with federal criminal law. The judge has no discretion in what sort of sentence is handed down. It's all prescribed by law, so justice can't really be had.

So the bottom line is that agents were doing their jobs, returned fire when they were shot at, and are going to prison. To me, this shows that our government has no interest in protecting us whatsoever. The prosecuting attorney should be flogged for bringing something like this. The judge should be drummed out of office for not dismissing this case. The EL Paso jury should be ashamed of themselves for doing this, but what did we expect from an El Paso jury against La Migra? Not exactly a fair venue for this trial.

Plus, the drug-soaked wetback is suing us for 5 million dollars. My only regret in all of this is that the prosecuted agents didn't shoot straight enough to hit something vital. Glenn Beck pointed out the same guy has been re-arrested for drug smuggling since this incident, and deported yet again. Yet he's suing for a violation of his civil rights.

Tell me what kind of sense that makes. When something like this is allowed to happen, it pretty much indicates we are living in a world gone completely mad.

Grassfire.org has a petition aimed to shame Bush into pardoning these guys. Go sign it.

Then start kicking every rotten elected official out of office that condones, either passively or actively, crazy crap like this.

We will not survive as a nation if this idiocy keeps up.