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Video: Wives of Ramos and Compean rejoice at commutation
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... Join in if you like, but I still remember Andy McCarthy’s excellent, ballsy piece for NRO two years ago. The length of the sentence was debatable, he conceded, but the fact that they deserved prison isn’t: Compean and Ramos are bad guys. Once Aldrete-Davila was down from Ramos’s shot to the backside, they decided, for a second time, not to grab him so he could face justice for his crimes. As they well knew, an arrest at that point — after 15 shots at a fleeing, unarmed man who had tried to surrender — would have shone a spotlight on their performance. So instead, they ...
A Final Bit of Ignominy
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... I don’t often agree with NRO’s Andy McCarthy, but his 2007 column on these two thugs was spot on. Of all the people in federal prison who actually deserve a commutation or pardon, Bush picks these two. ...
Illegal aliens awarded $78,000 in damages against Arizona rancher who held them at gunpoint
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... given their own attempt to cover up their crime. That said, how can a guy be liable for holding potentially dangerous trespassers on his property at gunpoint until the cops come? A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn’t violate the civil rights of a group of illegal immigrants who claimed that he detained them at gunpoint in 2004. The eight-member civil jury also found Roger Barnett wasn’t liable on claims of battery and false imprisonment. But the jury did find him liable on four claims of assault and four claims of infliction of emotional ...
Hannity Distorts And Falsifies Border Agent Case To Suit His Agenda
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... Conservative Andrew C. McCarthy, in The National Review, wrote an excellent and detailed article laying out the facts and the legal issues behind the case against the two agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, convicted in 2006 of shooting an unarmed drug smuggler in the buttocks. Former President Bush commuted the two agents' sentences before leaving office last month and yesterday they were freed. Although Hannity, back when he was working on Hannity & Colmes, has hosted the prosecutor of the case to explain why the agents were prosecuted (because, essentially, they ...
Glenn Beck's Selective Respect For "Our Rule Of Law"
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... In fact, Ramos and Campeon, were tried and convicted of felonies after shooting an unarmed drug smuggler and then trying to cover it up, could be the poster children for the need for standing up for the rule of law against mob rule. As conservative Andrew C. McCarthy wrote in his excellent article explaining why, though we might hate the drug smuggler, Ramos and Campeon deserved their fate: ...
Video: The obligatory “Glenn Beck interviews Ramos and Compean” post
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... by the Fifth Circuit last summer.) Even so, we are dealing here with two guys convicted in federal court of committing crimes and credibly accused of trying to cover them up. As Andy McCarthy (in)famously said , “Compean and Ramos are bad guys.” Beck treats them as if they were political prisoners, even calling them “the dynamic duo” at one point. Dynamic at what? Generating red meat for blogs and talk radio? Give him credit, though, for smoothly integrating this story into his running narrative about how alone and powerless Americans feel. The man is always on message. ...
