Ramos, Compean and Dog: Political Prisoners
By Erik Rush (02/26/07)
If it had been Mexican Federales who’d shot an American drug smuggler in the behind then been prosecuted and imprisoned, I’m sure Amnesty International would be all over it. Well, as far as I can see, the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean (the two U.S. border agents jailed for wounding Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila) isn’t even on their radar.
Why it would be is the logical question at this point, right? After all, the two border agents performed abysmally with regard to Border Patrol protocols during the Aldrete-Davila incident which occurred in El Paso County, Texas on February 17, 2005; their actions up to the shooting and afterward would, in my view, probably call for their severe censure or dismissal.
Of course, I wasn’t there. I’ll wager no one reading this was either.
Why, then do I have a “Free Ramos and Compean NOW!” button on my website, and why would I suppose that Amnesty International should give a rip? I mean, they’re the watchdogs for governments that use their legal systems to persecute citizens for political reasons, right?
Yeah – right.
This is because I indeed do consider Ramos and Compean to be political prisoners. As will the famous bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman be should his extradition to Mexico proceed and if he is prosecuted for his actions connected with his apprehension of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster (a true porno theater floor scraping) in Puerto Vallarta in 2003.
Think it’s a reach?
Some have stated that Ramos and Compean were “convicted by a jury of their peers,” or “convicted in a court of law”. This surprises me, not only because it carries the connotation that everything was above board (i.e., guilty people are exonerated and innocent people convicted on a regular basis in America), but that “the law” is irreproachably and unquestionably just. Thus, any ensuing repercussions (such as Ramos’ prison beating on February 3, 2007) are simply “unfortunate incidents”.
Let’s look at some laws that used to be upheld right here in America…
Slavery as a legal institution, segregation laws, miscegenation (the prohibition of interracial marriage), the prohibition of women to vote, and the Volsted Act (which essentially “made” the Mafia – no pun intended). Some might add unenforceable laws (such as sodomy laws) to that; with any luck, partial birth (full-term) “abortion” will soon be on this list. It ought to be already, but that’s another matter. The point is: Simply because “it’s the law” doesn’t make it right. Ramos and Compean received 11 and 12 year sentences, partly due to smuggler Aldrete-Davila’s testimony, for which he received total immunity from prosecution.
Twisted, yes - but how does that make the Border Patrol agents political prisoners?
Because we’re in a war on terrorism and what amounts to a cultural civil war, that’s how. Global socialists have taken over both houses of Congress; the southern border and our political relations with Mexico figure prominently in all of these. Most Americans have become aware especially of late that over-zealous, blindly ambitious or politically-motivated prosecutors have the ability to craft cases few defense attorneys could win. A proliferation of far-Left, subversive judges has become the scourge of American jurisprudence.
Inasmuch as our enemies in the War on Terror are emboldened by our weak, globalist elected officials and seditious media, scoundrels intent on crossing our southern border – and I don’t mean Mexicans coming here to work – are emboldened by the fact that not only are we unable to control our borders, but we persecute those whose duty it is to do so.
So it may not be fair to blame the jury; still many Americans were outraged by the verdict and most assuredly by the sentences, given the profusion of obscenely light ones they see handed down to some of the most monstrous criminals on a weekly basis. Quite a few are demanding a presidential pardon for Ramos and Compean. As yet, I’ve seen no moves in that direction.
Another aspect of this phenomenon, particularly as it relates to Duane “Dog” Chapman is that of foreign policy. Mexico is a Third World, failed country; were it an island it would more closely resemble Haiti. It is not in the United States’ best interest to smooch the behind of Third World, failed countries – yet we’re doing it, on this front and many others. Mexico needs America far more than America needs Mexico – but you’d never know it given the calluses on our collective lips.
Despite the fact that Chapman may bring off an eleventh-hour appeal, the idea that U.S. officials would even consider extraditing any American for doing what Chapman did is abhorrent. Why did Chapman have to go to Mexico to apprehend Andrew Luster, who’d been convicted of 86 counts of drugging, raping and videotaping young women? Because only one class of people get extradited from Mexico: Poor ones, and even then, it is conditional. This monumentally corrupt country with a national police force that is legendary in its corruption and brutality balks at extradition if international human rights issues are involved. This was demonstrated recently in the case of Raul Gomez-Garcia, who ambushed and murdered one Colorado police officer and seriously wounded another at a baptismal party in 2005, then scurried like a cockroach back to Mexico. Gomez-Garcia (who was in the U.S. illegally) was extradited only after Colorado prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.
In a column a few years back, I stated that America was culturally and morally superior to most nations, and this has always been one of the motivations for immigration to the United States. I said that we were superior – not as a race, certainly, but as a nation – to those which executed women for disobeying their husbands, allowed the rape of girls to atone for family members’ indiscretions, and those which condoned such things as female mutilation, maiming and beheading. I held that denying this superiority was a dangerous practice, and I am proved more and more correct with each passing news update.
The invertebrate proponents of moral relativism among us have brought America to a place where we as a nation are too cowed to do anything decisive without fear of criticism, disapproval or condemnation – even if our very survival hangs in the balance. This was the principal origin of the Republican Party’s failures over the last five years, and why Congress changed hands. True, it’s analogous to taking cyanide to cure your headache when the aspirin fails to work, but there it is.
I suppose if Tiger Woods told himself he stunk for long enough, he’d start playing badly too…
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