{"id":1304,"date":"2007-07-21T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/07\/21\/free-the-texas-three\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T03:32:26","slug":"free-the-texas-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/07\/21\/free-the-texas-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Free the Texas Three!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1305\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/texas-three.gif\" alt=\"texas-three.gif\" class=\"right\" \/>And secure the borders while we&#8217;re at it. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and a pox on illegal alien drug runners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/\">The Patriot Post<\/a> has taken the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.patriotpost.us\/pub\/07-29_Digest\/index.php\"\">Texas Three<\/a>&#8216;s plight to heart and arranged a petition to ask that their sentences be commuted, that the borders be secured and that the illegal alien scumbag that got a bullet in his backside be prosecuted for his drug-running offenses.<\/p>\n<p>You should read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.patriotpost.us\/pub\/07-29_Digest\/index.php\">Mark Alexander&#8217;s Article<\/a><\/strong> on this issue for all the details.<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s a good cause. Here&#8217;s the text that came in the mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Make your voice heard TODAY!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join fellow Patriots and sign &#8220;<strong>Free the Texas Three and Secure our Borders<\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; A citizen petition calling on <strong>President Bush<\/strong> to commute the sentences of both former Border Patrol agents <strong>Ignacio Ramos<\/strong> and <strong>Jose Alonso Compean<\/strong>, and their colleague, former Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy <strong>Guillermo Hernandez<\/strong>; asking Congress to insist that the <strong><em>DEA prosecute Mexican national Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila on felony drug distribution charges<\/em><\/strong>; and demanding that Congress and the Bush administration secure our borders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<em>It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice.&#8221; -Thomas Jefferson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To sign this petition online, go to &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/PatriotPetitions.US\/borders\">http:\/\/PatriotPetitions.US\/borders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please forward this invitation to Patriot family members, friends and associates.  In order to encourage serious consideration of this critical issue, we must collect in excess of 100,000 signatures.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it just me, or does United States Attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/usao\/txw\/us_attorney\/index.html\"><strong>Johnny Sutton<\/strong><\/a> specialize in prosecuting law enforcement officers protecting our international borders? Why does he believe the testimony of degenerates and criminals over that of the officers themselves? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And secure the borders while we&#8217;re at it. Oh, and a pox on illegal alien drug runners. The Patriot Post has taken the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-international","category-law-and-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}