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| Posted By: |
Fish Person |
| Date: |
30-Mar-2007-00:30:31 |
| Subject: |
Petition to Pres Bush in support of Ramos/Compean |
In February, 2005, two patriotic US Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, apprehended an illegal immigrant who was smuggling drugs and other illegal immigrants near El Paso. Shots were fired and Compean went down bleeding. Responding to Compean's desperate pleas for backup, Ramos arrived on the scene, saw Compean bleeding and the illegal immigrant, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, brandishing what appeared to be a weapon while trying to flee. Ramos shot Aldrete-Davis in the buttocks but the wound was not fatal, and Aldrete-Davis returned to Mexico.
Rather than honor these brave agents for their courage, however, the government saw fit to pay for Aldrete-Davis' treatment. Forrest Gump called being wounded in the buttocks a million dollar wound, but this wasn't enough for Aldrete-Davila, who sued the US government for $5 million for violating his civil rights.
Furthermore, the government saw fit to imprison its two own agents for over 10 years each as its way of thanking them for successfully defending America. Ramos has also been the victim of brutality behind bars.
If you are outraged by the treatment meted out to these brave men--after all, it is because of the courage of the men and women in the Border Patrol that Carizzo Gorge isn't overrun with drug deals every night--I would recommend signing the petition at the following site:
http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp
How can America defend herself if this is how Border Patrol agents doing their job are treated?
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- :-) -- abc 20-Jan-2008-09:10:36
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