This is it folks, as much as I love America, today I start thinking about looking for a new homeland because the one we’re living in now has gone wacko. Where once I thought the residents of Wackoville were only in Washington D. C., and with just cause because of the Supreme Court’s ruling of POW status for the terrorist criminals, I now discover that the Zanies* who rule with imputative insanity have spread to Manhattan and El Paso. How else can you explain what is going on in our courts? How else except with a plea of insanity, not by the defendants but by the attorneys, jurors and judges. How else without such inept lunacy can you explain that on Tuesday last, a female radical lawyer, a US citizen named Lynne Stewart, was convicted of passing instructions from her convicted terrorist client to his murderous terrorist underlings in Egypt who have declared war on the United States of America, but she receives only two and one half years for her treason? Then, a mere forty-eight hours later, while seemingly not wanting to fall behind in this rush to utter madness another deranged court in El Paso hands out an eleven-year sentence and a twelve-year sentence to two US Border Patrol Agents, Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, for shooting a known drug smuggler in the buttocks as the smuggler tried to escape! That’s why I am thinking about looking for a new home. This isn’t America anymore, land of the free, home of the brave, with liberty and JUSTICE for all. Our country has indeed become Americo, land of the free loader; home of the politically correct bleeding heart simple-minded, with liberty and justice only for those who break our laws. 

            I want you all to remember this name, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila. He is the drug smuggler who was shot by those bloodthirsty Border Patrolmen, or at least bloodthirsty is the impression our courts seem to want us to have of these two dedicated servants of our nation’s security. Aldrete-Davila, a Mexican citizen, was the driver of a van that was stopped by these two agents on a deserted road as he illegally crossed the Mexican-America border. Inside the van was 743 pounds of marijuana. The agents say that Aldrete-Davila resisted arrest, they believed he was armed and after a struggle Aldrete-Davila fled back across the border and escaped. As he escaped Agent Ramos fired at Aldrete-Davila hitting him in the buttocks. Up to now this all seems like a typical case of ‘cops and robbers’ wouldn’t you say? And well it should be except this is were the crazies take over.

            The wounded Aldrete-Davila’s mother-in-law has a friend who works for the US Border Patrol in Arizona. How proud she must be of her daughter’s choice of a husband. Anyway she calls that friend and complains that some nasty, terrible border agents shot her poor little, hard working son-in-law in his innocent derriere when all he was doing was just trying to get back home to his family. The friend reports the incident to her superiors who in turn send it up the chain of command and the complaint ends up back in Wackoville Central, Washington D.C. And, Bingo, the head wackos now figure that they have two rogue agents out there violating a Mexican citizens civil rights! How they came up with this conclusion is beyond me, but then I’m not wacko, I’m just nuts.

In addition these two rogue agents were not following the Border Patrol policy of NOT pursuing illegal fugitives if they try to escape. You ask, “What did he just say?” Well that’s right, it is an official US government policy not to have our Border Patrol agents pursue illegal aliens or drug smugglers if they try to escape. Nope, I agree with you, that doesn’t make much sense to me either.

Now Wackoville Central sends Federal investigators to Mexico to find Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila who then convinces him to come back to the United States to receive medical attention for his gunshot wound, at US taxpayers’ expense of course. They also promise this scumbag drug smuggler immunity from prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office if he will testify against our two US citizen border agents. Excuse me, I know that the two agents tired to cover up this incident for fear of loosing their jobs, they had after all gone against agency policy of actually trying to apprehend a drug smuggler when that low-life criminal tried to get away. But why on earth would anyone believe a single word that is spoken by a drug smuggler who was shot by officers of the law while committing a crime when he is testifying against those same officers who shot him? What has happened to that simple little value once so revered in our courts of justice called witness credibility?

Agents Ramos and Compean are fired from their jobs and indicted, along with lesser charges, for: 1) Assault with a dangerous weapon. 2) Defacing a crime scene. 3) Using a firearm in the commission of a felony. (A mandatory 10-year sentence.) 4) Violating Aldrete-Davila's civil rights. In other words for these two Americans who were risking their lives to protect the rest of us while we slept comfortably in our beds, their lives are ruined.

Meanwhile drug runner Aldrete-Davila having last been seen inside our borders while sneaking drugs across in the dark of night now returns with a celebrity status, and he hooks up with a celebrity type lawyer, or at least his attorney Walter Boyaki is somewhat of a big fish in El Paso. Aldrete-Davila is treated at a military base for his wounds and put up in what I am sure to him were luxurious accommodations, to await his recovery and plot his revenge against ‘his attackers’ with his testimony at their trial. Ah yes, and let’s not forget, through his esteemed American attorney, Walter Boyaki , Aldrete-Davila is now suing the US Government for five million dollars. In other words this maggot on society has never had it so good.

Former agents Ramos and Compean, US citizens, due to the generosity of our courts and U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, and I say this with all the sarcasm I can muster, will now be able to spend time at home until January 15^th when they are expected to turn themselves into authorities and start serving their sentences. Hopefully our Congressmen, who have started an investigation on just why this case reached such a state of insanity and why such a stiff punishment was handed down to two of our own agents while stopping an illegal alien from smuggling drugs into our country will free these two men before they have to serve too much hard time. With the snails pace that most litigation is achieved in those hollowed halls of Wackoville I would have to bet that these men will not see the light of day for many years to come. As for Aldrete-Davila’s lawsuit my bet is that in this crazy inane atmosphere we live in today that although he will probably not get the full five million he is seeking, he will be a rich man when that court adjourns. My only hope is that his lawyer turns out to be the type of man I suspect he is and ends up with most of the drug runner’s money in his own pocket.

Meanwhile I, like most of us Americans, sit here and wonder what the hell happened to our country? When twenty years ago these two agents would have been given a citation of appreciation for stopping this drug smuggler and confiscating 743 pounds of drugs, fifty years ago they would have been reprimanded for letting him get away, and one hundred years ago they would have been dismissed for not filling him full of holes. Instead today they are sent to prison for shooting the bad guy in the keyster and violating his civil rights. And we Americans are left with a very uneasy queasy feeling that our world just doesn’t seem right anymore and with a Rio Grande filled with questions.

Questions like, why did our own Federal agents and the US Attorney’s Office so fervently and vigorously prosecute two border agents who were seemingly doing what should have been done while the Feds seem so intent on protecting a drug smuggler? Why did a U.S. District Judge hand down such a harsh sentence to two otherwise law-abiding citizens when so many violent career criminals simply get a slap on the wrists? Why if our Border Patrol Agents are authorized to carry firearms is it a felony if they fire one in the execution of their duties? And why, oh why is it a policy of our Border Patrol not to pursue illegal aliens or drug smugglers if they try to escape?

The one thing that jumps out at me the most here is how that 743 pounds of marijuana has been completely forgotten. Or, should I say, forgiven? What happened to that ‘War On Drugs’ we have supposedly been fighting for the last few decades? I know we haven’t won it so it can’t be over. In my humble opinion all drug smugglers and drug pushers should be dealt with in whatever means necessary to stop their smuggling and dealings. Just whom did the Zanies think this 743 pounds of illegal substance was meant to be distributed to? Other criminals? No this dope was bought into our country illegally, one felony count, by an illegal alien, two felony counts, and was meant to be distributed to our children, three felony counts. Yet the only felony counts that were charged in this case were the ones charged against the very men we hired to stop these felonious crimes from happening.  

To try to understand just how much dope 743 pounds actually is, there is nothing in your home that weighs 743 pounds, not your couch, not your refrigerator, not your big screen TV, not your king size bed, not even Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila’s mother-in-law when she comes to visit, nor the combined weights of all the members of your family of five while in a group hug. And these dealers sell this stuff to our children by the ounce. Simply do the math and you will see how many American school children this single drug smuggling puke, and now future millionaire, would have affected. Yet our government decided to give this drug runner immunity so that they could protect his civil rights and to be able to prosecute two of our own who were trying to stop this poison from reaching our children.

Attorney Walter Boyaki argued that if the agents had not been punished, it would have "put a bulls-eye on every illegal alien." What this man has forgotten is that his client was not merely just an illegal alien he was a drug smuggler. Agents Ramos and Compean did not simply shoot an illegal alien who was coming across our borders looking for a better life, they shot a drug smuggler. There is a big difference.

All persons are entitled to their civil rights, whether American citizens or foreigners. But there comes a time when those very people themselves forfeit those civil rights when they decide to commit crimes against society. While in the act of a felony that person has forfeited his right to be treated as others who are abiding the laws of that society. While this certainly does not give law enforcement officers free rein to do anything they want to the suspect it certainly diminishes the criminals’ right to decry a violation of those rights when they resist or try to flee the crime scene. If allowed to simply escape back across the border Aldrete-Davila would have been able to continue his drug smuggling at another time. The United States government and its lawful agents, including Agents Ramos and Campean have not only the right but also the duty to stop, detain and if necessary shoot a fleeing drug smuggler. It is the duty of the United States government to protect its citizens and to stop crime within its borders. If a Mexican citizen illegally enters our country with the intent to commit a crime, in this case the smuggling of drugs, that Mexican citizen leaves his civil rights just south of the Rio Grande.

America we better get a grip on what is right and what is wrong. Because the lunacy that was allowed to take place in two of our courts this last week was dead wrong.

God Bless

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Semper Fi,

Mike

(*Zanies: Crazy people, loonies, madmen, ding-a-lings, flakes, scatterbrains, psychos, fruitcakes, screwballs, crackpots, lamebrains, wackos and just plain idiots. They are usually found in an elected office but may have been simply appointed to their positions. They have no one political affiliation as they are found in all political parties but mainly reside in the Democratic and Republican Parties. They can be found in the highest office of the land and on down through the political structure of our federal, state, county, city and judicial branches of government. Many are found in such obscure, minor positions of authority as the DMV, public library, unemployment offices or your neighborhood homeowners’ associations. You can tell a Zany by their overbearing sense of self-importance, unabashed and unwarranted sense of superiority and their ridiculous statements or judgments. They all demand that you must follow the rules to the letter yet believe that they themselves can do whatever they want. The easiest way to recognize a Zany is when a person of some authority tells you something that is so crazy or stupid you are left standing in silence scratching your head and wondering just how in the hell did that person come up with such an idiotic statement. Note that when you have scratched a hole into your skull you have just encountered a Zany so be careful and exit the area as soon as possible. Zanies can be found leaning both to the left and to the right and a few stare straight down the middle like they have blinders on. Today it is the ones who are leaning to the left that are most dangerous, as they have tipped so far to the left that if we are not careful they will take us all down with them when they finally fall. Sadly all of us must admit to having some Zaniness in us as we keep electing these Zanies to office.)

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