If I weren’t a responsible, upstanding, law-abiding citizen, I might be planning a jailbreak to bust loose two honorable men languishing in prison cells who no more belong there than O.J. Simpson belongs on the streets.
No, I’m not seriously plotting any nefarious illegal acts to free Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean from the federal penitentiary. But I am organizing an effort to free them. And I hope you will join me.
I want them home for Christmas. How about you?
You know their story. We’ve chronicled it in great detail many times in WND. And we will be telling it many more times in the days and weeks ahead – right up until Jan. 20 – if Bush doesn’t respond sooner.
But just to briefly recap: Ramos and Compean were Border Patrol agents who slightly wounded an illegal alien drug smuggler with a gunshot while in pursuit and in the line of duty. A federal prosecutor gave the drug smuggler full immunity to testify against them. They were convicted of a charge never intended to be used against law-enforcement officers and sent to prison for more than a decade by a jury that has since expressed regrets – with several members saying they were pressured.
They have already served nearly two years – mostly in solitary confinement.
It is a disgrace – a repulsive blemish on American justice.
These men are suffering every day. Their wives are suffering. Their children are suffering. And you and I know they pose no threat to society. In fact, these are the kind of men we would all love to have as neighbors and friends.
George W. Bush got elected by telling America he was a “compassionate conservative.” It’s time for him to show some of that compassion.
Join me in urging him to free Ramos and Compean.
I sometimes have trouble sleeping at night thinking about innocent men in prison. I have to set my mind on other thoughts, it’s so troubling. Imagine what it is like being a member of the Ramos or Compean family!
We have a nation overrun by illegal aliens.
These brave men were on the front lines, trying to defend our borders and protect us. The thanks they got was imprisonment. The insult to that injury was having a notorious criminal used as a tool to put them behind bars.
America is losing its moral bearings, and few stories illustrate it better than the story of Ramos and Compean.
It’s an upside-down, parallel universe where black is white, left is right and right is wrong.
We’ve got to start making things right, again, in this country.
I can think of no better place to start than by freeing Ramos and Compean.
There is not a doubt in my mind that if enough Americans simply make their voices heard on this issue, justice will be done.
No, that’s not quite true. Ramos and Compean won’t get their jobs back. They won’t get two years stolen from them back. They won’t ever get back those lost years with their kids and wives. They won’t get back their paychecks.
But they will be freed – if only you take a minute to show you care.
That’s what Bush needs to hear.
It’s legacy time for Bush.
He wants to be remembered fondly by the American people. Let him know it’s time to free Ramos and Compean. Let him know you care.
The devils are here
Ben Shapiro