Lou Dobbs, the King of Xenophobia rallying around (in favor of) Hispanics — FAT CHANCE!, …
….. unless the Hispanics are his Mexican wife, and two half-Mexican daughters.
Just before Obama took over, idiot Bush “took a final dump” on his already super-soiled legacy, by commuting the sentences of two “Hispanic Ex-U.S. Border Patrol agents,” who had been convicted of shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler.
The two men, Texas-based agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos, were serving prison terms of 12 years and 11 years, respectively, after being found guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon, defacing a crime scene and violating the smuggler’s rights.
Compean and Ramos shot admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled a van full of marijuana. They argued at trial that they thought Davila was armed and that they shot in self-defense, but the prosecutor said no evidence linked the van to Davila and that the agents didn’t report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.
They were fired after their convictions, and all charges but obstruction of justice were upheld on appeal.
One former Justice Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of criticizing president Bush, decried the commutations. “These men were totally unrepentant, there was obstruction of justice, they shot a man in the back. I am speechless. These are terrible clemency cases,” he said.
I have said this before: Anybody who commits an act of theft (smuggling) of any kind belongs in jail. Similarly, anyone who takes the law into his own hands — and then shoots anyone, including smugglers, in the back, “for sport,” unprovoked or just because he/she thinks he/she can get away with it (with the aid of RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT public sentiment) — is a cold-blooded murderer, or in this case — a cold-blooded attempt to murder, followed by a cover-up.
Compean and Ramos belong in jail. These two “thugs in uniform” were sentenced to jail by a federal jury of their PEERS.
They thought that they are above the law, and therefore chose to shoot an un-armed man, who posed no threat to them — IN THE BACK!
But, that has not prevented the self-ordained independent “Populist Propagandist,” CNN(s) and America(s) modern day Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Lou Dobbs, from describing these two VIGILANTE THUGS as “outstanding Border Patrol agents.”
No they are NOT Mr. Dobbs, especially when we all know that a racist like you will pivot on anything… anything that gives you an opportunity to demonize immigrants, especially Hispanics. These two are just but vigilante bogeymen — a “useful” conduit through which right-wing extremists like Dobbs and his filthy cousins at Fox News — gleefully use to promote an agenda of hate against ALL immigrants.
By pardoning these two, Bush has emboldened the anti-immigrant movement — A movement of Racist White Americans (Mostly Republicans) whose sole aim — is to rid America of all Hispanics, Blacks and even non-Anglo whites, if the opportunity presents itself.
Numerous cases of vigilantism and racist attacks on immigrants go un-reported in the United States. Families of immigrants are being petrol bombed, threatened and killed by racist thugs. Immigrants(legal and “illegal”) are under siege, and are terrified all over this land.
Fortunately, President Obama who soundly defeated right-wing America, is aware of this, and has even called Dobbs and Limbaugh — hate-mongers.
By releasing these two, George W. Bush has proven one thing — When he initiated the immigration debate three years ago, it was not a heartfelt gesture, rather, it was a despicable political maneuver that ended up falling flat on its face.
Compean and Ramos are Hispanics, and I am 100% with Hispanics when it comes to the persecution of Immigrants in the United States, but when you are held in “High-Esteem” by right-wing racists for doing their dirty work for them, against your own people, and you do not show any contriteness, then you are essentially as despicable as those butt-licking, boot-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized and homogenized black Uncle-Toms running around Fox News, wiping the asses of Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly.
SOURCE: James Opiko – PoliticalArticles.net
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