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newsblaze.com - 12/18/2008
Demanding a Full Presidential Pardon of Ramos and Compean
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Fellow patriot, This is the most time-sensitive message we've sent to date AND certainly one of the most important... Fellow border security groups have joined us in rallying on this one poignant issue, which serves as the emblem of the Bush Administration's failed immigration policy...the ...

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mypetjawa.mu.nu - 12/24/2008
George W. Bush Pardons 19; Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean Not on the List
— mypetjawa.mu.nu — Via AP:WASHINGTON – Before leaving for the holidays, President Bush on Tuesday commuted the prison sentence of a drug offender and granted 19 pardons, including one to a man who helped the Jewish resistance in the 1940s. With this latest... (more) George W. Bush Pardons 19; Ignacio Ramos and Jose ...

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/25/2008
Pardon Him
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — The Presidential pardon power is just hanging out there begging to be abused and so of course you get stuff like this : President Bush pardoned a Brooklyn real estate developer accused of scamming hundreds of poor, minority homebuyers — and ... (more) Pardon Him

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Johnny Taliban's Moonbat Mommy and Daddy Bleat for Pardon
Moonbattery — ... Given the insanity into which our political system is disintegrating, Lindh is more likely to get a pardon than Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, the heroic border agents who were given ...

Demanding a Full Presidential Pardon of Ramos and Compean
blonde sagacity — ... "The severity of these charges and the harshness of the punishment are totally disproportionate to the violation in question. Even the illegal drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, was sentenced to less prison time than our fellow American border guards!" (Read the entire piece) ...

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