Border agents going to jail for trying to bust a violent smuggler

border patrol agents going to jail

This is one of those stories where ... um ... I just cannot imagine the ... hmmm ... it is hard to pull together. So much so, in fact, that I just wonder if the portrayal I heard this morning is accurate. The guy is Mark Taylor ... filling in for Dennis Prager ... who along with US Rep Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) talked about what happened to these guys ... a story so over the top that I would not be too surprised to find out much of what they said was not true.

Because if it is true ... I just don't know ... I do not get it ... I cannot imagine the circumstances under which all this could have happened.

Here is how they spelled it out ...
1) agents confront drug dealer ... after all this happened they find the truck the guy was in had 800 lbs of pot in it
2) at some point they shoot the guy in the butt after the guy beat up one of the agents and knelt as if position to shoot the agents ... guy manages to cross back into mexico and is gone. Note: agent only shot ONCE, but ultimately they did mess some of the reporting up after the fact.
3) turns out the smuggler is a friend of some other US border agent, this other border agent helps guide the drug smuggling criminal on how to manipulate the US system to nail his fellow agents
4) US attorney works with the drug smuggler to nail the US agents. This includes a free pass to go back and forth on the border, including getting busted for bringing in more drugs!!! Also includes all sorts of courtesies and medical care ... paid for by taxpayers, of course.
5) Several of the jury members who ultimately found the guards guilty complained they were pressured to come to their verdict.

BTW ... you could put a freaking gun to my head and I would sooner have my brains splattered then give these guys up ... so the jurors who were whining are a bunch of total asses. I promise you some of the other jurors (assuming these were the ones applying the pressure) would have gotten their heads smashed if my happy butt would have been in that room. Of course, I have a brain, which was obviously one of the disqualifying factors for jury members in this case ... so I could have never made this jury.

Higher thought ... if Bush does not give these guys pardons ... then exactly when the hell does he think the president SHOULD give a pardon? Even if these guys screwed up ... even if they never should have shot this bastard ... 10 years for shooting a drug smuggler in the middle of the commission of the crime, and the guy goes on to commit more crimes during the trial? I do not even think OTHER drug dealers get 10 years for shooting other drug dealers!!!

The longer Bush serves, the more he makes me absolutely ill.

Actions speak louder than words

Do you not want to absolutely PUKE every time a democrap lies about how they love, honor, cherish ... blah blah blah ... our soldiers? And do you not want to as readily regurge chow when they talk about how they want the US to win the war on terror?

Oh the dems really do support our troops and want us to win? OK ... let's see them prove it!

Because those dirtballs sure are good at tearing our soldiers down, with hope above hope that the blood of our soldiers stains Bush. And the sheer ugliness of the political battle is without precedent ... accusing the commander-in-chief during a hot fight of everything ranging from incompetence to war crimes.

So, let us watch as they enthusiastically cheer the attack on the Al Queda renegades in Somalia. Let us here them commend the Bush administration on a job well done, both in coordination and execution. Let us hear how they admit to being wrong about our inability to carry this war wherever and whenever we need to.

Uh - huh ... how many of you are holding your breath???

You know ... if you have any professional training in human interactions, heck they probably now teach it in high school or college ... you learn to complement FIRST, find the good things FIRST, before offering opportunities to improve (i.e. criticism). Buried in that method is the concept that by doing this you demonstrate a real desire to understand ... that you have taken the time to weigh and contemplate the matter. Democrats fail miserably in this realm, limiting their "complements" to generic and insignificant trivialities ... "we appreciate and honor their great sacrifices" (oh yeah? which one? duh, um ... ) ... and never ... and I mean never ... acknowledging ANY success without a much more negative caveat ... what Laura Ingraham calls the "butt monkey".



Oh ... sidenote about the new "stem cells" discovery ... amniotic fluid ...

I will bet anybody that the radical leftists will be besides themselves to demonstrate the "safe" stem cells extracted from the fluids are not as effective as those abstracted from mutalated babies. Bottom line is that the dead baby studies were all about producing a consumer market for dead baby parts ... and had nothing to do with research that will ever lead somewhere.

Way overdue : Comments on Supreme Court in the War on Terror

Way back when there was a ruling that the lefties applauded ... oooohhhh, big surprise there! It had to do with the Geneva conventions and terrorists and all that.

Remember? Sorry it took so long to reply ... like I said ... busy busy busy. However, I scribbled down some notes and was in the middle of my desk cleanup ... so here goes.

But I interrupt that thought for a "higher thought" ... as a conservative ... we have been brutalized (better stated ... allowed ourselves to be brutalized) by the liberal goofs and their media alliances. To wit ... most of our "leaders" ... ahem ... were the ones we could 'slip by' the democraps. Therefore ... we end up with these worthless chumps ... Frist, Hastert, McCain, et al ... while staunch conservatives ala Gingrich, Delay, etc. have been trashed. THAT is also why we have the ridiculous supreme court that we have today DESPITE THE FACT THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE SELECTED MOST OF THE MEMBERS.

As long as we continue to allow our enemies to pick our leaders, we will continue down this path. We (conservatives) need great leaders, but WE MUST BE DETERMINED TO STAND BEHIND THEM!

OK ... back to the original topic. This abomination of a ruling should never have happened ... the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction in the matter. There is a good reason for that ... the Court cannot rule in international / foreign affairs matters ... because in theory only one party in the matter is bound to abide by the court ... namely the US government. Terrorists and rouge dictators could give a hoot if THEY are on the losing side of a Supreme Court ruling (of course, the terrorists, like their allies the Democraps, are overjoyed when the Court rules in favor of terrorists).

However, there are two greater points here ... the Court rules that the US Government must grant priveledged status according to a treaty, despite the fact that the treaty specifically bans those combatants from having that status (terrorists are not protected specifically because they hide in and target civilians ... DUH ... they are terrorists!). Even more ridiculous is the fact that the US Government is being told to abide by a convention that is way too vague. If Congress were to ever pass a law this vague, it would be thrown out before the ink was dry.

The elephant in the living room, however, is that our enemies in this battle have no intent to ever abide by any conventions, regardless. This is exactly why we don't run international affairs in accordance with the "black and white" letter of the law in the Courts.

Nancy Pelosi : Millionaire in an apron?

I have acknowledged in the past that when somebody lies to me, I take it personally. I get angry ... *real* angry. It is an automatic response ... I do not have to think about it. In fact ... in some cases I end up having to apologize for this acute sensitivity, since sometimes the leftie I am arguing with is too steeped in their liberal swill to even know what they are saying is total bull. The reason for my anger is that I see somebody lying to me as calling me "stupid" ... like I am too stupid to know what is really going on. Admittedly it gets silly sometimes ... like when I see liberal goofs on various media broadcasts and take it personally / get angry.

But in the case of Nancy Pelosi ... you are dealing with a doofus who is so mindless in her arrogance, that you just have to shake your head.

In a part of her speech after being elected the very first female Speaker in the history of this country ... contemplate that for a moment, please ... this multimillionaire, child of priveledge, elitest swine actually made a comment about moving from the kitchen to Congress.

I was dumbfounded ... I mean ... this idiot had been planning for this moment for years, and that is the line she comes up with? It would be stupid if it were true! Yet it is a total smack in the face to us "little people" ... because we're so dumb that we would believe that Nancy Pelosi was the apron bound housewife prior to her stellar climb to the 3rd spot on the presidential roster.

Now, abstract yourself from this to the "higher thought" ... because it WAS a historical moment ... this lie will be embedded in that history forever! Nevermind that she totally blew a chance to do something substantial here ... to sieze an opportunity for greatness ... you would expect somebody this clueless to blow an opportunity like this. But to instead use the moment as an opportunity to try to create a delusion? I have to admit that as much as I despise these people, not even I thought she could be this stupid and arrogant.

It should just shake you to the core.

Now ... a bit of "self-flagellation" here ... an abstraction to the "higher thought" ... (would that be a "higher, higher"?) ... the thought is this : our side lost to these buffoons!

God! I wish we had Reagan back!

OK ... one more thing ... remember how the leftist media destroyed the first president Bush because THE PRESIDENT was not real familiar with grocery store scanners (like it is somehow something to be ashamed of that he was unfamiliar with modern retail store mechanics after the 12 years he was VP / President)?

Think that one through.

Been way too long

Got really bogged down at work ... so no entries for a real long time. Sorry

OK ... some short quips:

re: Iraq. Solution to the problem is very confusing. Why? Try again, higher thoughts here ... WHY???? Why would it be soooo difficult to resolve all the problems as they are presented?

Well, because you are not responding to the truth, but to bald faced lies.

DUH!

We're losing (according to the looney left) ... yet the enemy does not own one scrap of land, has no army, has no superior anything; and factions of the enemy are killing EACH OTHER at far greater rates then they are killing (or trying to kill) us. If we're suffering humiliating defeat ... it is only thousands of miles from where the action is ... in Iraq we are not losing anything. Nobody questions our ability to crush anybody in theater, it is just that we are NOT willing to kill the woman who's skirt the terrorist coward is hiding under.

I mean, Vietnam was weird ... we were kicking their ass *so* bad the enemy was rushing into villages and forcing toddlers to fight at gunpoint. The enemy had thrown everything they had at us and we literally slaughtered them. Some reports I have seen had the Vietcong at under 10% of their forces remaining. But at least they had the jungle ... nobody really knew how many of them there were and we did not know that traitors like Kerry and Cronkite and the rest were all lying through their teeth.

This is not the same with the Iraq situation ... we have a good idea of where the bad guys are ... they have a real hard time moving around unless we let them. We're picking off hundreds and sometimes thousands of them in a month, they pick off one or two. They hold no land, no anything ... they're fighting with garbage they pull together from the rubble we leave behind ... we OWN the place.

Yet, we are now getting our newsfeeds from the enemies themselves, and WE BELIEVE IT!!!! How screwed up is that? And we KNOW this is what they are doing ... it is not like it has not been widely reported that this is EXACTLY what Osama told the bad guys to do.

So is it any wonder that we cannot come up with a "comprehensive" solution?

OK ... new higher thought ... why the hell do we have to come up with a "comprehensive" solution to ANYTHING??? Why is it that we always allow the hypocrite democraps define the terms on everything? Can you name me one of their asinine programs that has turned out to be the comprehensive solution to anything?

Fine then ... let's turn the tables on the jokers ... Democrats are total failures in the war on poverty, and we're "pulling out" ... i.e. terminate EVERY federal program. Education is one helluva lot worse now on just about every measure than it was a few decades ago, so we're calling our troops (i.e. money) back home ... end all federal education programs. The list of democrap / liberal / socialist failures is too long to list here ... and yet we are not allowed to turn back any of them.