They Refuse To Do Anything: An Update on the Unjustly Sentenced Border Patrol Agents

In just a few days, on January 17, Agents Ramos and Compean of the US Border Patrol will be forced to report to prison to begin their sentences. In the last few weeks, thousands of Americans, thanks largely to the efforts of groups like Grassfire.org and United Patriots of America, have rallied to their cause demanding that the Bush administration grant these brave men a pardon. In the next few days, we need to continue to flood Capitol Hill with more letters, emails and phone calls. Phone calls are the best means of expressing your opinion at this point as it is nearly too late for letters and emails to have any effect.

As a part of their efforts, Grassfire.org presented 155,000 petitions to US Rep. Dana Rohrabacher at a California Rally held for the two Border Patrol agents. According to a report released by Grassfire.org Rohrabacher has promised to personally deliver those petitions to the White House.

Grassfire.org president, Steve Elliott, has also appeared on FOX News about this issue. The effort helped, as he reported an increase of nearly 40,000 more people signing their petition.

However, these efforts seem to be in vain, as the Bush administration continues to turn a deaf ear to the cry of Americans. The whole case smacks of special treatment and appeasement. For some reason, President Bush seems content to do whatever he can to make the international lawbreakers happy. It is more important to protect drug dealers, child molesters, rapists, and revolutionaries from Mexico than it is to protect innocent, law-abiding Americans.

The conviction of Agents Ramos and Compean is in itself unconstitutional. According to US laws, and illegal alien who has come to this country to commit a felony has no constitutional rights. Yet, these two men were convicted because they violated a Mexican drug smuggler’s Fourth Amendment rights! It seems as if everyone but Americans have constitutional rights these days.

If national security is as important as the administration and Congress claims, then this is the best opportunity to prove it. But, if foreign and globalist agendas are more important, then we shall soon see official evidence of that—by continued silence.

Write and call these officials and demand that Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean be pardoned:

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
202-456-1111

Debra Kanof, Chief of Major Crimes (she was the attorney who prosecuted the case)
700 E. San Antonio
Suite 200
El Paso, TX 79901
915-534-6884

Johnny Sutton, US Attorney for the Western District of Texas
601 NW Loop 410
Suite 600
San Antonio, TX 78216
210-384-7400

Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General
US Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
202-514-2001

Editor/RP

Un-Intelligent Quotes

If these are America's spokespersons, then it is no wonder our country has gone down the tube! If you are having a bad day, thinking that you are not as smart as others, then just read these quotes by some of "America's Elite". -Editor/RP

(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not
live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever,
then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever,
which is why I would not live forever,"
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids
all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love
to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and
death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very
important part of your life,"
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become
Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign .

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part
of my body,"
-- Winston Bennett,
University of Kentucky basketball forward.

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
lowest crime rates in the country."
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC.

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through
our papers. We are the president."
-- Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of
subpoenaed documents. (Alright, she was telling the truth!)

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death
by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
--A congressional candidate in Texas.

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's
the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
--Al Gore, Former Vice President

"We are ready for an un foreseen event that
may or may not occur."
-- Al Gore, Former VP

"I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix ."
- Dan Quayle

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much
clean air do we need?"
--Lee Iacocca

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A
genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude
certain types of people."
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instrutor.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
--Bill Clinton, Former President

"Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come
from overseas."
--Keppel Enderbery

"Your food stamps will be stopped effective
March 1992 because we received notice that
you passed away. May God bless you. You may
reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina

"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack
in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their
heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when
they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

Feeling smarter yet?

Freedom Quotes Vol. IV

When the Government fears the People, there is Liberty. When the People fears the Government, there is Tyranny.
~Thomas Jefferson

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches the jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
~Patrick Henry

A Republic must preserve its virtue or lose its liberty.
~John Witherspoon

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
~Thomas Jefferson

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
~Thomas Jefferson

I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
~General Douglas MacArthur

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
~Thomas Jefferson

Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
~Thomas Jefferson

It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
~Henry Ford

Fincher Case Proves the Constitution and Bill of Rights Are Worthless—To the Government

December 31, 2006

Fayetteville, Arkansas—A 60-year old man in Arkansas is facing the full might of the Federal government. While most of us have been enjoying ourselves with family and friends, lots of presents, and too much good food, Hollis Wayne Fincher has been spending his time in jail. Fincher is not a murderer, nor a burglar, and has not been convicted of any violent crime against humanity. His only crime has been to take the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at face value—he thinks it means exactly what it says!

According to UsvFincher.blogspot.com, a website dedicated to providing information on the case, Fincher’s only crime has been to own “arms the government doesn’t like.” (See note 1).

The fact is the government had been after anyone for a long time. An 8-month long investigation under the direction of the US Department of Justice finally netted Mr. Fincher and his guns. The program, “Project Safe Neighborhoods”, uses federal, state and local resources and monies in order to stop violent crime. Supposedly. The investigation resulted in a total of 14 search warrants and only one arrest. Hundreds of hours, and thousands of dollars were spent to track down and arrest one senior citizen. Thousands of more dollars will be spent to prosecute and attempt to send this same senior citizen to prison for years. (See note 2).

Fincher is a member of a local militia. They just believe strongly in the Bill of Rights. The other warrants were issued for Fincher’s fellow members. But, for some reason, none of them were arrested.

On Fincher’s property agents from the FBI, ATF, the Arkansas State Police, the Arkansas State Bomb Squad, the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, the Springdale Police Department and the Fayetteville Police Department found three homemade unregistered machine guns and one unregistered sawed-off shotgun. Apparently no amount of the taxpayers’ money is too much to spend in going after a grandfather with a gun. (See notes 3 and 4).

In Arkansas it is not illegal to own a machine gun, just as long as you pay a $200 registration fee so that the government can know who owns one and where it is. Fincher and his fellow militia members avoided the registration fee by rebuilding old weapons, which is perfectly legal. They even went a step further to avoid any legal hassles by stamping “non-commercial” on each one in order to prove that they had no intentions of selling or trading guns, just using them for militia purposes. (See notes 5 and 6).

The US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Arkansas is prosecuting Mr. Fincher’s case, and seems very determined to put him away and keep him silent. On Friday, December 29, federal prosecutors expressed their desire to limit what Mr. Fincher and his attorney can say and do when he goes to trial on Monday, January 8, 2007. The motion filed declared that Mr. Fincher should not be allowed to make any constitutional arguments at his trial. After all, it is the government’s responsibility to tell lowly jurors what the Constitution does or does not say. (See note 7).

This case goes to prove that the Constitution and Bill of Rights means absolutely nothing to our federal, state and local governments. Those documents were established for the purpose of keeping the government from going out of control, and it is cramping the style of the “powers that be”. In order to scare the populace into submission the Feds must take their vengeance out on a 60-year old man.

Surprisingly, few voices have been raised over this issue. No national press, and gun-rights advocates like the NRA and Gun Owners of America have been strangely silent on the issue. But, Mr. Fincher’s case is set to go to trial in one week—Monday, January 8, 2007. The citizenry needs to rally around Mr. Fincher; unfortunately time is running out. This could be the beginning of the end upon the assault of our freedoms; whatever we do must be done quickly.

Mr. Fincher’s family and friends have formed the Wayne Fincher Defense Organization in order to help provide funds and support in this case. You can send checks and letters of support to:

The Wayne Fincher Defense Fund
2225 North Mockingbird Lane
Fayetteville, AR 72703

Mr. Fincher will remain in the Sebastian County Jail until his trial on January 8. He can be contacted at:

Hollis Wayne Fincher
C/o Sebastian County Jail
801 South A Street
Fort Smith, AR 72901

(See note 8).

Notes:

1. United States vs. Fincher header, www.usvfincher.blogspot.com
2. “ATF Raid Nets Militia Man, Weapons Rap”, Trish Mehaffey, Friday, November 10, 2006, The Morning News, Fort Smith, Arkansas Times Record, www.swtimes.com/articles/2006/11/10/news/news07.txt
3. Ibid
4. “Government Wants To Limit Arguments In Machine Gun Case”, Ron Wood, Friday, December 29, 2006, The Morning News, www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/12/29/news/123006fzfincher.txt
5. “ATF Nets Militia Man, Weapons Rap”, www.swtimes.com
6. Ibid
7. “Government Wants To Limit Arguments In Machine Gun Case”, www.nwaonline.net

8. US vs. Fincher, press releases, www.usvfincher.blogspot.com