PT's Randomness

    I cause I spoke too soon when I welcomed common sense to the party over on Randomness Without Ritalin. The Georgia Attorney General, Thurbert Baker, has said that he will appeal the decision. Who does Thurbert Baker think he is? I seriously doubt that the people of Georgia wanted their money spent prosecuting Genarlow Wilson in the first place. How do stupid prosecutors like this guy and Johnny Sutton look at themselves in the mirror each morning? I am sure they laugh all the way to the bank where they deposit your money. Talk about a great rate of return.


Great article from ESPN from awhile ago

Wilsonappeal.com

Mark Cuban blogs about the injustice.

Genarlow Wilson's Wikipedia entry

Labels: injustice, insanity, tyranny of tolerance

    For some odd reason, the father of Josh Hancock has decided to sue based on the events that led to his son's fatal accident. Dean Hancock is suing the following people:

Mike Shannon's Restaurant for providing the alcohol

Mike Shannon's daughter because she is the restaurant manager

The guy whose car was stalled on the highway

The tow truck driver who stopped behind the stalled car and put on his flashers to warn vehicles

I don't understand this. Why would you put your son's memory on trial here? You are forcing someone to take a stance that it basically was your son's fault he got killed that night. I understand that I can not really understand what it is like to lose your son, but I am confident I would not act in this way. While you are at it Dean Hancock, why don't you sue the following people:

The woman who called Josh's phone that night as he was driving

The company that made the phone and the company that provided the cell phone service

Josh's Cardinal teammates he was going to meet

The city of St. Louis for giving Mike Shannon's a business license.

MODOT for not putting a shoulder there on 40

A-B for making the beer Josh probably drank

The Cardinals for paying Josh the money he may have used to buy the drinks

This was a tragic accident. Who can really say what caused it? Don't do this, Dean Hancock.


Supporting articles

KSDK
Stltoday

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  &nsbp I find it humorous that the NBA told Don Nelson, the Golden State Head Coach, that he couldn't bring beer into the post-game interview. This is the same NBA that had an All-Star Game in Vegas that just about out-Vegased Vegas.

Here's a good column from a paper in Long Beach, CA pointing out the overreaction in sports towards drinking after Josh Hancock's death, which probably had a lot more to do with the cell phone and the tow truck parked in the middle of a lane than alcohol.

Labels: insanity, rant, sports

    Mexico continued its winning streak in U.S. courts with the conviction of Gilmer Hernandez back in December. Monday, Hernandez, a Sheriff's Deputy, was sentenced to a year and a day in jail andwas also ordered to pay $5,347 to the "victim" and a $5,000 fine. His crime? Shooting at the tires of a Suburban carrying illegals immigrants after the vehicle had tried to hit him during a traffic stop. An initial investigation cleared the deputy, but the Federal Government opened another investigation after talking to the illegals in the van, according to the Washington Times. The Federal Government had recommended a seven-year sentence for Hernandez, who leaves a wife and seven-month old daughter at home.

Hernandez stopped the vehicle after it ran a red light on the night of April 14, 2005. When he went to question the driver, he noticed that the passengers in the vehicle were crouched down. He then asked for identification and the vehicle took off, swerving towards him as it fled. He drew his firearm and shot 2 times at each rear tire. Further down the road, when the Suburban crashed, 8 or 9 illegals fled. The "victim" was found crouched in the back cargo area of the vehicle. A fragment from either the bullet or the vehicle had clipped her lip and broke two teeth. Gilmer Hernandez was convicted of violating her civil rights by "recklessly" shooting at the vehicle. The woman reported that she paid about $2,000 to be smuggled in in that Suburban.

Jeez, just think when all the illegals figure out they can turn jumping the border into a profitable venture.

Free Gilmer website

Labels: border patrol, injustice, insanity, law, tyranny of tolerance

    Students, parents, and I think a School Board member are still sitting in Mayor Slay's office protesting his support of a state takeover of the St. Louis Public School District. They have given a list of demands to Mayor Slay, which you can view here. I love how they say:

"Explain in writing why you are treating our district differently then other districts"

I didn't realize there was a comparable school district in the St. Louis area that was as dysfunctional as the SLPSD. I am pretty sure the SLPSD brings a new whole meaning to the term "dysfunctional".

I was under the impression that one of the main reasons for the sit-in was fear that the state yanking the District's accreditation would keep some students from going to college or getting scholarships. The University of Missouri-Columbia and several other schools have already come out and said that it wouldn't affect admission.

Pubdef.net is probably the best place for coverage of the ignorant protest. The best video has to be this one where the Post-Dispatch reporter (at about the 4 min mark) tells one of the students that they are lying about the University of Hawaii pulling a girl's scholarship. True, it probably wasn't the best way for the reporter to bring that fact up, and it probably wasn't the most solid way to research the accusation, but it makes for a funny end to the video.

Labels: insanity, political, rant

    Seriously, who let the middle school student government put up bills at the state level? Anti-bullying bills in the House AND Senate?

Next up: A bill to outlaw cliques in high school.

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    Much like one would question how much a referee is making off the opposing team, I question how much Johnny Sutton's office is making off of Mexico? First, the Mexican Consulate encouraged the prosecution of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Now it comes out that they also had a say in the prosecution of Gilmer Hernandez.

View the letter: (page 1) (page 2)

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    The trial transcript of the BP2 trial is now available and "surprise surprise" it confirms that the dirty Mexican drug runner was involved in bringing another load of drugs into the U.S. AFTER he was given immunity for load he brought over in February of that year. The judge in the case ruled that the defense could not bring up that October incident because the trial was not about the dirty Mexican drug runner, it was about the fine Americans shooting the dirty Mexican drug runner.

Mr. dirty Mexican drug runner painted a picture of himself on the stand of an inexperienced drug runner who was just doing it in February for some extra money to pay mama's medical bills. The judge in the case apparently went along with the lie in not allowing the jury to see that this was a man who proceeded to continue his drug running ways despite having his urethra severed by a bullet in Feb. It's too bad there weren't two fine Americans around to "illegally pursue him at a high rate of speed" and illegally shoot him in October like there were in February.

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    According to this article from World Net Daily Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean would probably not have been charged if it wasn't for the Mexican government insisting on it. Ya know, I think it is really best to just let Mexico make all our decisions from now on. They do such a good job of running their own country. Just think if the United States wasn't here to make things easy for them. What would they do with all those extra citizens? How would they deal with not having all that money coming in from the illegal aliens?

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    World Net Daily just posted a story about how a Department of Homeland Security memo indicates that two supervisors were on the scene when the BP2 shooting took place. Link. So if Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean committed the horrible sin of not filing a report, what about the two supervisors?

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    Ignacio Ramos, one of the Border Patrol 2, celebrated his 38th birthday recently in federal prison. Did he get to talk to his three sons on his birthday? No. You want to know how he celebrated it? With bruises caused by getting jumped in prison by a group of inmates. How's that for a birthday present?

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    Monica Ramos, the wife of Ignacio Ramos, has started a blog through Grassfire.org's new FireSociety. Her first post talks about how both her husband and Jose Compean have been moved to prisons out of state. Ignacio Ramos is in the general population at the prison. I imagine he is almost more of a target than that ex-guard from Prison Break

Read the blog

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    Ignacio Ramos has been sent to a prison 1,500 miles from his hometown. Because of this he can't even see his family while in jail.

Here isthe NewsMax story

I am glad the Democrats in Congress are worried about passing non-binding resolutions while all this is going on.

Note to MO voters:

Todd Akin is the only member of the Missouri delegation that has voiced his support for Ramos and Compean. He signed on to a bill urging a pardon of the BP2.

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    Here is the story of Gilmer Hernandez, a sheriff's deputy in Edwards County, Texas. Mr. Hernandez, 25, was convicted on Dec 1. of violating the civil rights of an illegal alien who was being smuggled to Austin in a Suburban. Hernandez, stopped the Suburban late at night for running a red light. When he attempted to talk to the driver, the vehicle sped away. Hernandez fired 4 shots at the back of the Suburban, aiming for the rear tires and flattening one. One of the illegals in the car sustained a minor injury that a doctor didn't even think could have been caused by a bullet at first.

World Net Daily piece

Here you can find a more detailed report of the incident.



Things of Note:

The driver of the Suburban swerved towards the officer when he attempted to flee.

Gilmer Hernandez shot at the back tires.

The illegals paid in the neighborhood of $2,000 for the ride.

Here is the Code that he was tried under. Remember the lady whose rights Hernandez supposedly violated was crouched in the cargo area of a Suburban that had just tried to run over a police officer. She was in that vehicle because she had paid $2,000 for it to take her into the United States illegally.

Hernandez fired point blank at the back-driver-side tire. I would imagine a bullet riccocheted off something, up through the Suburban and hit the illegal laying in the cargo area. From what the doctor says in the report, I would say it just nicked her lower lip.

A gun an ammo was found in the vehicle.


Gilmer Hernandez faces up to 10 years in prison and will be sentenced in March.

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    New reports are saying that the ballistics used in the BP2 case do not support the claim that a bullet fired from Ignacio Ramos' gun hit the dirty Mexican drug smuggler. Supposedly a Department of Homeland Security agent testified under oath that a bullet from Ramos' weapon hit the dirty Mexican drug smuggler.

Here is the article

So, here is how the bullet was tested:

===Agents supposedly shot dirty Mexican drug smuggler
===Said bullet enters left buttocks area and damages urethra.
===Said dirty Mexican drug smuggler goes to Mexican doctor
===Said Mexican doctor repairs some of the damage to urethra and inserts catheter
===Said Mexican doctor leaves bullet in drug smuggler
===DHS Agent Christopher Sanchez goes to get drug smuggler and brings him back to US
===US doctor extracts bullet. Bullet handed over to Texas Department of Public Safety for testing.

The bullet should have been handed over to the FBI for testing because they handle shooting involving Federal Agents, not the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Agent Christopher Sanchez also happens to be the person who testified that the ballistics test matched Ignacio Ramos' gun.

This article explores the connections between the people involved in bringing the dirty Mexican drug smuggler back to the United States.

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    It is about time the White House looks into this case. This article says that the White House will begin reviewing the official trial transcript from the case. Apparently that may be harder than it seems because the court reporter wasn't exactly primetime according to the article.

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    The two ex-Border Patrol Agents are still in jail while the federal prosecutor, Johnny Sutton, toots his own horn and a National Guard unit is given medals for not firing when Mexicans come at them with guns.

A belated kudos to Rep. Todd Akin, who represents Missouri 2nd Congressional District in the House, for supporting Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean with his support of this bill He is the only elected Missouri Official in D.C. who has supported this cause to my knowledge.

Interesting quotes from the article linked to above where Johnny Sutton toots his own horn:

"They didn't know if he was an American citizen or not. ... It was outrageous behavior, and prosecutors can't look the other way."
---Well, for one he was a Spanish looking fellow, stopped in a van by the border, running away from Federal Agents towards Mexico. And secondly, don't we expect our Federal Agents to act on instinct?

"We didn't give up much in the use of immunity. We offered immunity. Otherwise, he would not come back from Mexico," he said.
--Thank you, Johnny Sutton. You brought a dirty Mexican drug runner back to the United States. Good for you. I hope you sleep well at night. I am sure that most of America would have preferred to have this POS stay in Mexico. But, no, grand 'ol Johnny Sutton had to bring him back. Maybe the wound in his butt and crappy medical care would have kept him from running drugs to America's youth, but No, Johnny Sutton brought him back and had the United States foot the bill for the best medical care. Now, he is all better and ready to smuggle drugs onto the streets of the United States.

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    This article from Fox News reports that Ignacio Ramos' father-in-law has said that Ramos is being kept in solitary confinement in prison. Ramos' father says that he has not been allowed to visit his son as of yet.

World Net Daily Story

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    A U.S. District Judge in El Paso denied the motion by former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean that would have allowed them to remain free during their appeals. She basically ruled that there wasn't a reason for them to be free during their appeals. Kathleen Cardone, the Judge in this case, is one of those judges that makes the good judges in this country look bad.

Read Alan Burkhart's blog post demanding answers from D.C.

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