THE FED'S ARE PUTTING MILITARY, BORDER GUARDS AND POLICE IN JAIL

The Feds sought 7 years in jail for yet another Texas cop for just doing his job. A Texas Deputy Sheriff has been convicted for violating the civil rights of illegal aliens that were attempting to murder him, he has been sentenced to a one year jail term
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By de Andrea

It has become quite evident that our Federal Justice System has become so corrupt by Globalist Politics that there may now be absolutely no Justice for Americans. An American apparently does not have the right to defend himself against a murder attempt by a criminal illegal alien. Especially if one is an officer of the law. One must obviously either accept death by murder or seven to twelve years in prison. The civil rights of criminal’s now trump the rights of Americans to defend their own lives. Does this now, subject Americans to the mercy of any criminal alien or is it only when the corrupt Mexican Government dictates it. The corruption of other governments must somehow be rubbing off on our own.

When a US Federal prosecutor takes direction from a foreign government, and is willing to lie and withhold the truth in order to appease a foreign entity by achieving a false conviction of American Law enforcement officers and protectors of our leaky borders, then we as free American Citizens have lost our country and our freedom. It is as if our Fed Justice system does not have enough criminals to indict, so they are now preying on the law abiding like Martha Stewart, Mr. Scooter Libby Mr. Ramos, Mr. Compean, and now Mr. Hernandez. If they just plain don’t have enough to do, maybe we should just lay them off, before they do any more damage by destroying more innocent people’s lives

The federal government has recommended a seven-year prison term for Gilmer Hernandez, a Texas deputy sheriff who drew grass-roots support after he was convicted for violating the so-called civil rights of an illegal alien bent on running the officer down with his van. So now we make sure that we have civil rights for criminals while law informant officers have no rights at all, not even the most basic right of defending their own lives.

A similar case also prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in El Paso, was the high-profile prosecution of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, Hernandez was charged after stopping a van full of illegals for running a stop sign April 14, 2005, in Rocksprings, Texas.

The driver of the van attempted to run over Hernandez, prompting the officer to fire his weapon at the rear tires. A bullet fragment hit a Mexican illegal alien, Marciela Rodriguez Garcia, in the mouth, cutting her lip and breaking two teeth. Hernandez's boss, Deputy Don Lettsinger, said he considers the sentencing guidelines severe, especially since he believes "Deputy Hernandez should never have been indicted for this incident in the first place." Hernandez's sentencing hearing has been scheduled for March 19 in the court of Robert T. Dawson from the U.S. District Court, Western Arkansas, in Port Smith; Ark. Dawson is a 1998 Clinton appointee.

"I am hopeful that Judge Dawson will deviate from the government's guidelines, which he has the authority to do," Lettsinger said. "I am hoping the judge saw the truth in the courtroom."
Jimmy Parks, Hernandez's attorney, said his client is "in shock at hearing this news. He's terrified.” Parks said Hernandez "knows that in a short time, if the judge sends him to prison, he will spend every day of the next several years trying to protect himself from the very people he dedicated his life to protect us from."

"Gilmer worked diligently and assiduously to put criminals away, to assure that they are placed behind bars to protect us," Parks explained. "And now all of a sudden Gilmer is facing a time where he will be locked up in a cage with these same criminals, and he knows they are ready and prepared to retaliate and seek their vengeance.” Parks said Hernandez knows his life may come to an end in prison.

"All he can think about is his little baby Electra, who will be home with his wife," Parks said, "and him being in his position where he is going to have to pray to survive every single day."
Ramos and Compean now are serving 11- and 12-year prison sentences for their part in the shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler who was given immunity to testify against them. Ramos, after his supporters expressed similar fears, was beaten by fellow inmates following the airing of an "America's Most Wanted" television program in which his case was featured.

As in the Ramos Compean case the federal prosecution of Hernandez began only after the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas, wrote a series of letters demanding that the Bush Administration prosecute him for injuring a Mexican national. So again our President and the US Federal Courts are taking direction from the Mexican government regarding the treatment of our law enforcement officers.

Lettsinger believes Hernandez did nothing wrong, and that the Texas Rangers were not going to recommend prosecution as a result of their investigation. Hernandez is in federal prison, under the custody of U.S. Marshals in the Del Rio, Texas, Val Verde County detention facility.

Parks said Hernandez's wife is devastated by news of the sentencing guidelines. "Her husband wanted to be in law enforcement. He took his oath very seriously," Parks said.” She never would have believed that Gilmer would be facing sentencing for a felony conviction."

Parks expressed hope that Judge Dawson would consider the guidelines as only advisory.” The guidelines have never taken into account the extreme and extraordinary duress law enforcement officers face on the border after 9/11," Parks said. "The guidelines have never been adjusted to reflect the pressure law enforcement on the border feels when they get directives from the Department of Homeland Security that puts an extraordinary onus upon them."

Border Patrol officers are told they are the first line of defense from terrorist activity that comes across the border from the Middle East or Central America, including the notorious MS-13 gang, Parks argued. "The MS-13 gang had a directive that they were to kill any police officer who pulled them over," said Parks. "MS-13 had a special holiday called 'Kill a Cop' day in which they were each supposed to make an effort to kill a police officer."

Parks said he will immediately begin preparing a response to the sentencing guidelines because of this duress and extreme heightened sensitivity to the danger law enforcement on the border faces.

"The people in Rocksprings and Del Rio County feel an obligation and a responsibility to jump in on Gilmer's behalf because of what he has done for them," he said. "This has never happened to me before as a criminal defense lawyer."

Investigators had no plans to bring charges against Texas Sheriff's Deputy Gilmer Hernandez until the Mexican government intervened and demanded it, the officer's supervisor reviled.
Sheriff Don Letsinger of Rocksprings, Texas, said the Texas Rangers were not going to recommend prosecution, but federal law enforcement took over the case in response to the Mexican government's intervention.

Also, in the high-profile case of border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, the Department of Homeland Security investigation was opened March 4, 2005, the same date the Mexican Consulate demanded prosecution for the shooting of drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, according to numerous agency investigative reports authored by Special Agent Christopher Sanchez.

No documentation can be found of any Border Patrol investigation launched against Ramos or Compean prior to that date.

In both trials, it has been uncovered, that the prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, withheld key, possibly exculpatory, information from the defense and the juries.

"Deputy Hernandez had a right to stop that vehicle," Letsinger said. "Can you look at what happened and say that Deputy Hernandez intentionally wanted to injure someone in that vehicle? No you cannot. Deputy Hernandez did not want to injure anyone that day. That is why he fired at the tires to stop the vehicle and he was justified in doing so."

In early 2006, Letsinger suspected the FBI was conducting a criminal investigation against Hernandez in Edwards County when he was notified by the Little Miracle Child's Care in Rocksprings that two FBI agents and a Texas Ranger had come to the child care center and interviewed Ashley, Hernandez's wife, for several hours without any advance warning. "Ashley became very upset by the FBI visit," Letsinger said, "and so did the director of the child care center."

Up to that point, Hernandez had continued to perform his normal law enforcement duties under the direction of Letsinger.

On April 14, 2005 – the shooting incident involving the van of speeding illegal immigrants in Rocksprings, Texas.

April 18, 2005 – as previously reported, the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas, writes Letsinger demanding the incident not go unpunished.

April 20, 2005 – the Mexican consulate in Eagle Pass writes Norman Townsend of the FBI in Laredo, Texas, a similar letter demanding punishment in the incident.
April 29, 2005 – Letsinger advises Texas Ranger agent Robert Smith that state and local law enforcement have been removed from the Hernandez investigation and the FBI and the federal government were taking over.

Early 2006 – FBI interviews Ashley Hernandez at the Little Miracle Child's Care.
June 7, 2006 – Gilmer Hernandez is indicted under 18 U.S.C. sections 242 for violating the civil rights of illegal alien Maricela Rodriguez Garcia and prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton begins.

Letsinger insisted nothing would have happened without Mexico's intervention. "Without a letter from the Mexican consulate," he said, "I do not believe federal authorities would have gotten involved in the case.” He was equally firm, after reading the investigative report that the Texas Ranger probe against Hernandez would not have resulted in a grand jury indictment. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, said it appears the Mexican government was "the driving force in the Hernandez case. “ The Mexican government wanted a Texas deputy sheriff prosecuted and they got their way," Poe expressed confidence in the report by Texas Ranger Bobby Smith not recommending prosecution. "In my 30 years experience in law enforcement, the Texas Rangers have as good a reputation as Scotland Yard, precisely because the Texas Rangers don't play favorites with anybody," he said. "Whatever the Texas Rangers recommends is, in my experience, always the way justice truly prevails in the case.” Poe was adamant that the Hernandez prosecution was unwarranted.

"In this case, it comes across that the Mexican government arrogantly demanded prosecution and our Presidential administration, because of certain political aspirations, succumbed to the pressure and hung these agents and this deputy out to be sacrificial lambs," he said. "Unfortunately, the rest is history."

"The statements by the prosecution that Gilmer Hernandez had chased the illegals across a pasture, cursing them and shooting at them were completely false," he said. "The Texas Ranger and a federal ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) agent and an ATF dog were taken to that location. That dog searched that location thoroughly and could find no shell casings. When the dog failed to find the shell casings, the officers used a metal detector to search the field thoroughly and failed to find any alleged shell casings."

Letsinger added he has no way of knowing for sure what the federal grand jury was told or was not told. He suspects "the grand jury was told about the shell casings, but most probably not about the law enforcement search that failed to find the shell casings."

In the Ramos-Compean case, March 4, 2005 as the date the Mexican consulate intervened with Sutton's office, according to notes from a staff member of the Texas Republican congressional delegation that attended a Sept. 26, 2006, briefing with three DHS investigators from the Inspector General's office.

According to the staffer's notes: Several weeks later (following the February 17, 2005 incident involving Aldrete-Davila at the border), the Mexican Consulate contacted the U.S. Consulate in Mexico saying that they have a person who claims to have been shot by a Border Patrol agent. On March 4 2005, the U.S. Consulate contacted the U.S. Attorney.

At trial, Border Patrol Agent Rene Sanchez testified (trial transcript Volume VI, page 239) he wrote a memo to his supervisor, dated March 3, 2005, documenting a phone call he had Feb. 28, 2005, with his mother-in-law, who disclosed to him the identity of the drug smuggler Aldrete-Davila. Rene Sanchez grew up in Mexico a friend of Aldrete-Davila's brother.

DHS Agent Christopher Sanchez testified (trial transcript Volume VI, page 266) Rene Sanchez's March 3, 2005 memo was handed to him, along with an accompanying memo written by Rene Sanchez's supervisor, at the start of his DHS investigation on or about March 4, 2005.
From Feb. 17, 2005, until they were arrested March 18, 2005, Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean continued their normal duties. There is no record in the documents or the trial transcript that Rene Sanchez's March 3, 2005, memo had initiated any formal Border Patrol investigation of Ramos or Compean. The congressional staff notes from the Sept. 26, 2006, meeting indicates the Mexican Consulate knew Aldrete-Davila's identity when its March 4, 2005, contact was made to the U.S. government, independently of Rene Sanchez's investigation.

A potentially exculpatory DHS investigative report was withheld from the defense, in likely violation of both the Jencks Act and the Brady standard. Information concerning a second drug offense Aldrete-Davila committed while under immunity to testify against Ramos and Compean was withheld from the jury and sealed by Judge Kathleen Cardone at the trial.

Hernandez is under the custody of U.S. Marshals in at the Val Verde County detention facility in Del Rio. Hernandez is scheduled to be sentenced on March 12, the day President Bush is scheduled to be in Mexico meeting with Mexican President Calderon.

The proverbial buck that stops here, is begging to be pointed out in the cases of these prosecuted heroes for doing nothing more than protecting our border. This action by the Bush administration to sacrifice the lives of our Law Enforcement officer’s to promote and advance President Bush’s personal cause of Globalism in the creation of a European like Union, into a single country known as the North American Union is not only blatantly evident but it is inexcusable.

Johnny Sutton certainly should be investigated for withholding evidence, conspiracy to commit fraud, lying to a grand jury by knowingly presenting false evidence, lying to Congress, and a number of other charges. The real criminals in these cases are obviously those who are involved in railroading these fine defenders of this country for political purposes. Moreover, if in fact the President is the WHIP behind this atrocity then he should be impeached for Abuse of Office and brought up on charges.

Being a history buff, I cannot help paralleling this kind of political corruption of Justice with the prosecution of innocent people in countries such as Communist Russia or Communist China or Communist Cuba just for the political purposes of the dictator. Why there isn’t a revolt in the streets of this Nation by its Patriotic Citizens is a mystery to me. If this can so easily happen to the people that protect this Nation from an overwhelming evasion, unchallenged and without any repercussions, then it will happen again and again and to anyone who dares to interfere with whatever agenda our government may trying to carryout behind the backs of the free people of this Nation.

THE BOTTOM LINE: When a people fear prosecution by a corrupt Justice system then we the people have lost control of our government and oppression has begun. The question begging to be asked is how much to you value your rights and freedom, enough to contact your Federal representatives, and demand Justice by prosecuting the Illegal alien drug smugglers instead of politically railroading our Law Enforcement Officers?

de Andréa