OK, Lex is going to climb out on a legal limb and hope new facts do not surface to make him look dopier than he is. Lex has been mute on the story of the two border guards that shot a drug smuggling Mexican who had been “allegedly” driving a truck loaded with 743 pounds of marijuana near Fabens, Texas. The border cops, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, apparently admit shooting at the drug smuggler, one Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, during a chase and only after the officers say they saw Davila turn with something shiny in his hand. So far so good. Well after apparently chasing Davila back to where he belongs, the officers went about policing up their brass and other evidence that shots had been fired.
Then the cops supposedly failed to file a proper report of the shooting - this fact is in dispute as to what constitutes a proper report. Then the feds get involved and give the dope smuggler – who claims to have been shot by the cops in the butt - immunity to testify against the cops who get convicted and jailed. Now, recently released forensics do not at all support the doper’s account of the shooting. That fact and the other facts of this case have not stopped the doper from suing the good ol’ USA for 5 million bucks.
Now, as you know, Lex doesn’t comment on these cases because as soon as he does new information surfaces. Well, and this is really weird, turns out in a meeting in September, officials from the Department of Homeland Security office of the Inspector General briefed a group of congressmen and told them to listen to Lex - in essence, “Look, you don’t know all of the facts of the case and wouldn’t complain if you did. You will look foolish if you pursue this.” The congressmen, not wanting to look foolish said, “OK we’ll hush up. You get us all of the facts.” Problem is the DHS has never gotten back to the congressmen. Then, and this weird to the point of unbelievably weird, DHS admitted under oath before congress that they gave Members of Congress false information painting Ramos and Compean as rogue cops. Yup, American DHS personnel framed American border security personnel on the behalf of a Mexican drug smuggler. If you have a weirder one that, post it.
What should happen:
The cops should be released from prison immediately. By either a presidential pardon, or a judges order for a new trial, based on the forensic evidence that shows the doper to be a liar describing how was shot, these two should not be in prison another day.
The doper should be persuaded to return to testify against the cops again. When the doper shows up for the new trial, he should be arrested, throw in jail and the keys lost. He is a lying dope smuggler. No doubt his perjury in the first trial, as to how he was shot, constitutes a breech of his immunity deal.
The DHS personnel who lied to congress should be fired. The two cops ought to be able to sue DHS collectively as well as the lying DHS personnel personally.
This whole incident points up two things. America is no more serious about its “war on drugs” than it is about border security.
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The griffin sends:
I guess I can’t seem to get my arms around this mess. If it turns out like you have described I guess we have to consider that we have lost all common sense. Up is down, down is up, and the sun revolves around the earth. If I die in a plane crash my worth is calculated by the airlines/insurance companies based on salary and the number of years I would have worked plus interest, cost of living, and I am dead. But, if I catch a slug in the backside while doing a dope run I have a crack at $5M. Somehow playing by the rules is a sucker bet. Wake up America ! It is time to take the gloves off! Here is my solution!
There is only one cure for this idiocy and that is to invade Mexico and make it a state. We then would have no Mexican illegals coming into the 50 other states, minimum wage laws would drive inflation in our new state to a point where it makes no sense to come to former U.S. as the prices would be same. We would be able to buy vast tracks of land for investment purposes and force the average Juan into a gang filled ghetto. The only problem could the Central Americans coming illegally into our new state of Mexico taking the jobs away from the new Americans/former Mexicans. But if the Mexicans began shooting Central Americans in the backside to keep them from crossing the new and much shorter border, we would have then created a new class of conservative republicans. The democrats would then cast an eye towards Canada to even the red vs. blue political imbalance. But for a while the conservatives would have the upper hand. Border security would be at all time high and we could forget building a fence. Besides, I always liked Kozumel. The democrats can have Saskatoon .
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