Stormin Mormon
2007-01-11 23:14:16 UTC
An Open Letter to All Border Patrol Agents
Written by Doc Farmer
Monday, January 01, 2007
Dear Border Patrol Agents, Officers, and Employees,
First of all, thank you for your service. Your dedication
to this
nation is impressive and humbling. You do a tough job without
nearly enough
support from the government, in either manpower or equipment.
You catch
illegal aliens and drug smugglers, only to see them back on the
American
streets weeks (or even days) later. While you no longer have the
infamous
"catch and release" program, there's still no effective handling
of the
massive illegal alien problem by your employer--the United States
government.
However, that aside, you do your best with what you've got,
and that's
all that Americans could ask of you.
And yet, you're getting a really raw deal right now.
Some time back, two U.S. Border Patrol agents, Ignacio
Ramos and Jose
Compean, tried to catch a fleeing illegal alien at our border
near El Paso,
Texas. The guy was apparently a drug smuggler to boot. They
fired their
weapons at the vehicle after they noted that there was a gun in
the illegal
alien's possession, but he got away. However, the illegal drug
smuggler,
one Osbaldo Aldrete-Davilla, didn't get away unscathed. He ended
up (pun
intended) with a bullet in his backside. While hardly life
threatening, I'm
sure that the guy was fearful of brain damage.
This happened back in February 2005. Aldrete-Davilla was
caught again
in December 2005, again illegally in our country, again smuggling
drugs.
Was he arrested? Nope. In fact, this illegal alien drug
smuggling
scumbag obtained immunity from prosecution by U.S. attorneys, in
exchange
for his testimony against the U.S. border agents who shot him in
the correct
execution of their duties.
What's worse, and what boggles my mind no end is that these
two
honorable men were arrested on the word of a known drug dealer
and illegal
alien, convicted, and sentenced to over a decade of incarceration
in a
federal prison. Their sentences were 12 years for Compean, 11
years for
Ramos.
Aldrete-Davilla, on the other hand, not only gets no prison
time, he
also gets the opportunity to sue the federal government for his
breaking of
our laws and the resulting hot lead spank in the posterior that
he so
rightfully received.
That's millions of our (and, by the way, your) tax dollars
going to an
illegal alien/drug dealing scumbag, while two men who swore to
protect our
borders, who went out on a daily basis to risk their lives so
that we could
be safe, are about to be sent to a federal penitentiary. A place
where law
enforcement officials who are now residents don't fare very well,
safety-wise.
There have been many calls for the president to provide a
pardon for
these two gentlemen. Fifty-one congressmen signed a letter
asking the
president to intervene on their behalf. Well, George W. Bush did
issue some
pardons a short while back. However, he was apparently too busy
pardoning
convicted drug dealers to get around to pardoning two men who
were wrongly
prosecuted and persecuted for trying to stop a drug trafficker
who was
illegally in our country.
Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are
scheduled to
report to prison on January 17, 2006. Illegal Alien and Drug
Smuggler
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davilla is laughing all the way to the bank.
If this isn't a perversion of justice, I don't know what
is.
There are nearly 30,000 border patrol agents, officers and
employees
currently out there, doing a very necessary but very hard job.
Now I, as an American, am going to ask you to do something
very, very
hard.
I'm asking all of you, on January 17, 2006, to quit your
jobs.
No two-weeks notice, no nice words. Just 30,000 letters of
resignation, handed in all at the same time. Something to the
tune of --
-----------------------------
Dear President Bush,
Due to the incarceration of two of my colleagues in the
Border Patrol,
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, I no longer believe that I can
perform my
lawful duties without fear of prosecution by your own federal
attorneys and
federal judges. Therefore, I hereby resign my position in the
United States
Border Patrol, effective immediately.
Yours respectfully
-----------------------------
Turn in your guns, badges, vehicles, keys, uniforms, and
any other
U.S. government property with your letter, so you don't get
wrongly accused
of stealing and end up in the slammer for that.
I am not talking about a PATCO-type strike. I am seriously
and
honestly asking you to lay down tools and walk away.
Permanently. You
won't be breaking any anti-strike laws by doing that. You'll
just be
exercising your right as a free individual to end your
employment. If
you've got a contract with the government people, break it. They
could try
to sue, but I doubt they're going to flood their already
overloaded courts
with suits they'll never collect a penny from. And if they try
to force you
back to work, may I suggest you invite a couple of Minutemen over
to your
house? Since Janet Reno's no longer in a position of power, I
doubt very
much that there'll be any early morning closet raids in any
event.
Now, why should you give up your jobs? It's an honest
question.
Here's a brutally honest answer. Because paid or not, you'll
never be able
to do your job properly. Your own employer is royally boning two
of your
fellow colleagues, and if you remain in the Border Patrol, you're
in the
same position (bent over, ankles gripped firmly in hands).
The President of the United States, the chief law
enforcement officer
of the nation, is unwilling to override this travesty of justice.
This
should worry you. I know it worries me!
Dubya doesn't even talk a good game anymore when it comes
to border
protection. Sure, he has nominally expanded your ranks.
However, he's also
put into place a system that emasculates your ability to enforce
the laws
that are already on the books. The U.S. prosecutor and the
federal judge
who presided over this charade are both Bush appointees.
I support George W. Bush on the War on Terrorism. In other
areas, I
also find him to be a good president. However, he's dead wrong
on the
idiotic non-protection protection of our nation's boundaries.
Protecting
our borders is a necessary element in the War on Terrorism. Why
Dubya
doesn't see that is frankly beyond my ken.
Unemployment rates right now are at historical lows. That
means that
you've got an excellent chance of finding new jobs quickly.
There are a lot
of communities in the country who would gladly pay top dollar for
your
training, your expertise, and your dedication to service.
Without putting
you in the position of threatening you with imprisonment for
actually doing
your job.
Now, those of you who stay on (because I'm certain that
some always
do) should remember one very important thing. You may continue
to draw a
paycheck. However, you'll always be at risk of prosecution from
your own
employer, for the simple act of doing the job you swore an oath
to do.
Think about that. You can keep a job where you have to violate
an oath, a
promise before God, to protect American citizens.
Could you really sleep at night, knowing that?
I couldn't.
I suspect that a lot of people who live near the border
wouldn't sleep
too well either, knowing that you weren't able to do your job to
the best of
your ability.
Moreover, I don't think you could either. Because you took
this job
not to protect politicians or protect corruption, but to protect
America.
If you are not permitted to do that, if you're under threat of
imprisonment
by your own boss for doing your job, well, I'd say you're already
in the
wrong job.
Time to find a new one.
--
--
Ray Keller
***@rnsmte.com
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and
every other
terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an
American ...the
unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the
federal or
state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain,
in the
hands of the people.
-Tench Coxe, 20 Feb 1788
Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley,
raped and
strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a
woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal
bullet wound
Every man, woman, and responsible child has a natural,
fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right (within the limits of the Non-Aggression
Principle) to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any
weapon -- handgun, shotgun, rifle, machinegun, anything
-- anytime, anywhere, without asking anyone's permission.
,
The Atlanta Declaration
-- L. Neil Smith
http://www.lneilsmith.com/
In truth, one who believes it wrong to arm himself against
criminal
violence shows contempt of God's gift of life (or, in modern
parlance,
does not properly value himself), does not live up to his
responsibilities
to his family and community, and proclaims himself mentally and
morally
deficient, because he does not trust himself to behave
responsibly. In
truth, a state that deprives its law-abiding citizens of the
means
to effectively defend themselves is not civilized but barbarous,
becoming an accomplice of murderers, rapists, and thugs and
revealing
its totalitarian nature by its tacit admission that the
disorganized,
random havoc created by criminals is far less a threat than are
men and
women who believe themselves free and independent, and act
accordingly.
- Jeffrey Snyder, "Nation of Cowards"
Written by Doc Farmer
Monday, January 01, 2007
Dear Border Patrol Agents, Officers, and Employees,
First of all, thank you for your service. Your dedication
to this
nation is impressive and humbling. You do a tough job without
nearly enough
support from the government, in either manpower or equipment.
You catch
illegal aliens and drug smugglers, only to see them back on the
American
streets weeks (or even days) later. While you no longer have the
infamous
"catch and release" program, there's still no effective handling
of the
massive illegal alien problem by your employer--the United States
government.
However, that aside, you do your best with what you've got,
and that's
all that Americans could ask of you.
And yet, you're getting a really raw deal right now.
Some time back, two U.S. Border Patrol agents, Ignacio
Ramos and Jose
Compean, tried to catch a fleeing illegal alien at our border
near El Paso,
Texas. The guy was apparently a drug smuggler to boot. They
fired their
weapons at the vehicle after they noted that there was a gun in
the illegal
alien's possession, but he got away. However, the illegal drug
smuggler,
one Osbaldo Aldrete-Davilla, didn't get away unscathed. He ended
up (pun
intended) with a bullet in his backside. While hardly life
threatening, I'm
sure that the guy was fearful of brain damage.
This happened back in February 2005. Aldrete-Davilla was
caught again
in December 2005, again illegally in our country, again smuggling
drugs.
Was he arrested? Nope. In fact, this illegal alien drug
smuggling
scumbag obtained immunity from prosecution by U.S. attorneys, in
exchange
for his testimony against the U.S. border agents who shot him in
the correct
execution of their duties.
What's worse, and what boggles my mind no end is that these
two
honorable men were arrested on the word of a known drug dealer
and illegal
alien, convicted, and sentenced to over a decade of incarceration
in a
federal prison. Their sentences were 12 years for Compean, 11
years for
Ramos.
Aldrete-Davilla, on the other hand, not only gets no prison
time, he
also gets the opportunity to sue the federal government for his
breaking of
our laws and the resulting hot lead spank in the posterior that
he so
rightfully received.
That's millions of our (and, by the way, your) tax dollars
going to an
illegal alien/drug dealing scumbag, while two men who swore to
protect our
borders, who went out on a daily basis to risk their lives so
that we could
be safe, are about to be sent to a federal penitentiary. A place
where law
enforcement officials who are now residents don't fare very well,
safety-wise.
There have been many calls for the president to provide a
pardon for
these two gentlemen. Fifty-one congressmen signed a letter
asking the
president to intervene on their behalf. Well, George W. Bush did
issue some
pardons a short while back. However, he was apparently too busy
pardoning
convicted drug dealers to get around to pardoning two men who
were wrongly
prosecuted and persecuted for trying to stop a drug trafficker
who was
illegally in our country.
Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are
scheduled to
report to prison on January 17, 2006. Illegal Alien and Drug
Smuggler
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davilla is laughing all the way to the bank.
If this isn't a perversion of justice, I don't know what
is.
There are nearly 30,000 border patrol agents, officers and
employees
currently out there, doing a very necessary but very hard job.
Now I, as an American, am going to ask you to do something
very, very
hard.
I'm asking all of you, on January 17, 2006, to quit your
jobs.
No two-weeks notice, no nice words. Just 30,000 letters of
resignation, handed in all at the same time. Something to the
tune of --
-----------------------------
Dear President Bush,
Due to the incarceration of two of my colleagues in the
Border Patrol,
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, I no longer believe that I can
perform my
lawful duties without fear of prosecution by your own federal
attorneys and
federal judges. Therefore, I hereby resign my position in the
United States
Border Patrol, effective immediately.
Yours respectfully
-----------------------------
Turn in your guns, badges, vehicles, keys, uniforms, and
any other
U.S. government property with your letter, so you don't get
wrongly accused
of stealing and end up in the slammer for that.
I am not talking about a PATCO-type strike. I am seriously
and
honestly asking you to lay down tools and walk away.
Permanently. You
won't be breaking any anti-strike laws by doing that. You'll
just be
exercising your right as a free individual to end your
employment. If
you've got a contract with the government people, break it. They
could try
to sue, but I doubt they're going to flood their already
overloaded courts
with suits they'll never collect a penny from. And if they try
to force you
back to work, may I suggest you invite a couple of Minutemen over
to your
house? Since Janet Reno's no longer in a position of power, I
doubt very
much that there'll be any early morning closet raids in any
event.
Now, why should you give up your jobs? It's an honest
question.
Here's a brutally honest answer. Because paid or not, you'll
never be able
to do your job properly. Your own employer is royally boning two
of your
fellow colleagues, and if you remain in the Border Patrol, you're
in the
same position (bent over, ankles gripped firmly in hands).
The President of the United States, the chief law
enforcement officer
of the nation, is unwilling to override this travesty of justice.
This
should worry you. I know it worries me!
Dubya doesn't even talk a good game anymore when it comes
to border
protection. Sure, he has nominally expanded your ranks.
However, he's also
put into place a system that emasculates your ability to enforce
the laws
that are already on the books. The U.S. prosecutor and the
federal judge
who presided over this charade are both Bush appointees.
I support George W. Bush on the War on Terrorism. In other
areas, I
also find him to be a good president. However, he's dead wrong
on the
idiotic non-protection protection of our nation's boundaries.
Protecting
our borders is a necessary element in the War on Terrorism. Why
Dubya
doesn't see that is frankly beyond my ken.
Unemployment rates right now are at historical lows. That
means that
you've got an excellent chance of finding new jobs quickly.
There are a lot
of communities in the country who would gladly pay top dollar for
your
training, your expertise, and your dedication to service.
Without putting
you in the position of threatening you with imprisonment for
actually doing
your job.
Now, those of you who stay on (because I'm certain that
some always
do) should remember one very important thing. You may continue
to draw a
paycheck. However, you'll always be at risk of prosecution from
your own
employer, for the simple act of doing the job you swore an oath
to do.
Think about that. You can keep a job where you have to violate
an oath, a
promise before God, to protect American citizens.
Could you really sleep at night, knowing that?
I couldn't.
I suspect that a lot of people who live near the border
wouldn't sleep
too well either, knowing that you weren't able to do your job to
the best of
your ability.
Moreover, I don't think you could either. Because you took
this job
not to protect politicians or protect corruption, but to protect
America.
If you are not permitted to do that, if you're under threat of
imprisonment
by your own boss for doing your job, well, I'd say you're already
in the
wrong job.
Time to find a new one.
--
--
Ray Keller
***@rnsmte.com
Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and
every other
terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an
American ...the
unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the
federal or
state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain,
in the
hands of the people.
-Tench Coxe, 20 Feb 1788
Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley,
raped and
strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a
woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal
bullet wound
Every man, woman, and responsible child has a natural,
fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right (within the limits of the Non-Aggression
Principle) to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any
weapon -- handgun, shotgun, rifle, machinegun, anything
-- anytime, anywhere, without asking anyone's permission.
,
The Atlanta Declaration
-- L. Neil Smith
http://www.lneilsmith.com/
In truth, one who believes it wrong to arm himself against
criminal
violence shows contempt of God's gift of life (or, in modern
parlance,
does not properly value himself), does not live up to his
responsibilities
to his family and community, and proclaims himself mentally and
morally
deficient, because he does not trust himself to behave
responsibly. In
truth, a state that deprives its law-abiding citizens of the
means
to effectively defend themselves is not civilized but barbarous,
becoming an accomplice of murderers, rapists, and thugs and
revealing
its totalitarian nature by its tacit admission that the
disorganized,
random havoc created by criminals is far less a threat than are
men and
women who believe themselves free and independent, and act
accordingly.
- Jeffrey Snyder, "Nation of Cowards"