Ramos and Compean to be freed! It’s about damn time!
I am overjoyed that Bush finally decided to free these two good men. One thing that saddens me is that they weren’t completely exonerated of any wrong doing. They shot a stinking-ass drug dealer in the butt - hell, they should have gotten a medal for that! But I am grateful that Ramos and Compean will soon be with their families after two miserable years in the pen. Now I can finally remove the flag that I have had flying at half-mast here for two years - congratulations Ignacio and Jose - thank you for your service to this country as lawmen, I appreciate your dedication. (See article below).
FoxNews.com - On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.
The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.
Their sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.
Ramos and Compean were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and …
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