the Centrist

            Let me make something clear about the two border guards (Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean) sitting in a federal prison sentenced to at least ten years apiece for shooting a fleeing illegal alien drug runner: ‘We the people’ , or at least a great majority of us, feel the same way about this prosecutor as we did about Duke Rape Case’s delinquent D. A. Mike Nifong.  This is in no small part because justice was not served.  Although this prosecutor did follow the ‘letter of the law’, the spirit of the law was broken.  Citizens depend on prosecutors.  They are our first line of defense against criminals.  We expect them to behave like New York State’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.  He ignored party affiliation and investigated New York’s Democratic Governor Spitzer and his staff in use of the State Police to smear Republican State Senate Majority Leader Bruno.  But this was not the case in the border shooting.  According to Worldnetdaily (WND): U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R.-Calif.,  reflects most of America’s outrage:  the drug runner who “testified against them when they were convicted in the case was issued unconditional, unescorted access to the United States during a period that included his involvement in a second drug smuggling incident … It appears as though the U.S. Attorney’s Office was so intent on getting Ramos and Compean that their judgment was totally clouded to the degree they aided and abetted a criminal who was at that point actively engaged and already involved with a drug cartel … Obviously, giving a free border crossing pass to a known drug smuggler either reflects total incompetence or a warped sense of prosecutorial priorities which has plagued this case from the beginning.” Rohrabacher said.  Moreover, the jury was not told that this man was a criminal; they were told he was a hard working Mexican truck driver trying to make ends meet for his family.
I could care less that this fleeing fugitive guy got shot in the butt.  He was a drug dealer who was illegally in the United States trying to harm our society. What is worse is that he was portrayed as a victimized working stiff to the jury.  It mattered not to the prosecution that this criminal had broken a plethora of American laws; the only important thing was to win.  Conviction is all that is important in this paragon to some prosecutors.  While I admit it is a stretch to compare this to the Duke case, after all, there were no laws broken by the Lacrosse players, and these guards did not file the proper forms and picked up their shell casings.  Yet even to the casual observer it is obvious that the more grievous crime was that of the smuggler.  And rather than protect society from this vermin, the prosecutor chose to give him immunity while simultaneously ‘protecting’ us from these decorated border guards. The tired old argument that American soldiers, police, and other heroes must go the extra mile and be a cut above, is falling on deaf ears.  These brave souls must sort out the legal boondoggle while their advisories kill their brethren and pillage our land with reckless abandon.  This occurs without anything but a passing word from the press, and a gaggle of ACLU attorneys rushing to the courthouses to protect the bad guys.  So please, it is not that we do not understand the letter of the law; most of us just don’t care.  We do not care about this criminal’s rights because the greater crime was that perpetuated on the American public, and these two border guards.  Furthermore, if those southern borders had been closed this scum would not have been given the opportunity to damage America and perpetuate this miscarriage of justice.