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The ballad of Ramos and Compean
How the anti-immigration right -- and Lou Dobbs -- turned two rogue Border Patrol agents into heroes and got Congress on their side.
By Alex Koppelman [2007-09-04]

  • @John-E

    Soooo... you believe they should rot in jail for 12 years because you don't believe in mandatory sentencing? And you think that they, because they are law enforcement officers, do?

    Yeah, that'll teach em, those bastards!!

    First of all, this isn't about Mandatory Sentencing. If it were, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing would've been called "The Hearing to Determine the Appropriateness (or not) of Mandatory Sentencing blah blah blah"... or some such nonesense.

    Instead they called it, "Hearing to Examine the Prosecution of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean"... meaning that something didn't smell right about THIS PARTICULAR PROSECUTION. Meaning some prosecutor, or judge, or jury did something that didn't pass the "smell test".

    -- Rubick Cube
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    Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:47 AM
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