Unlike some previous Presidents, Dubya doesn't hand out pardons lightly. He's used his pardoning power very sparingly, especially compared to recent presidents and especially his predecessor.

The last batch of pardons I saw from December 2006 was very short and limited to people who had already served their sentences but had made stellar contributions to society after they had served their sentence and probation. I don't think there was a single person on the list who was actively serving a sentence or currently under indictment.

Now, I'm not saying I don't believe Campean and Ramos shouldn't be pardoned. I do. Just don't expect Bush to arbitrarily do it.

Additionally, there is another Border Patrol agent that is under the gun right now - I think the name is Hernandez. Another BP agent who appears to have just been doing his job as being prosecuted. Heard on KOGO yesterday that a San Diego area BP agent, a thirty year veteran, came to morning roll call and turned in his badge. Said if they aren't going to support us, then I'm outta here.

Give a Democrat Party free America a chance!

C'mon, let's do this properly!

Nobody expects the Fitzmas Inquisition! Our chief weapon is
surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear
and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear,
surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to Howard Dean.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our
weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.

I'd be beyond-happy if voices like his were even allowed in the "debate," but as I've shown here with my remote coverage of CPAC, apparently foul-mouthed pundits trump actual-candidates when it comes to TV coverage, for some reason (coughAntilibertarianBiascough).
JMR

Apparently your logic is based upon the idea that brothers who fight can't be family no matter what blood runs in their veins. I notice you don't bring up Mussolini very much. The first fascist who also helped refuge a whole lot of jews.

Mussolini's own words:"If the bourgeoisie think they will find lightning conductors in us
they are the more deceived; we must start work at once .... We want to
accustom the working class to real and effectual leadership".

He was also a staunch union man:
"Therefore I desire that this assembly shall accept the revindication of national trades unionism"

His words on economy: "Fascism now and always believes in holiness and in heroism; that is to say in actions influenced by no economic motive"

What do historians say about him? "He was coming to the belief which was soon to dominate his life --
that the existing order must be overthrown by an elite of
revolutionaries acting in the name of the people".This summary of Mussolini's developing beliefs in his 20s by Hibbert (1962, p. 17)

"It contained several demands that were decidedly radical: A
progressive tax on capital and a tax of eighty-five percent on war
profits, universal franchise for men and women, a national militia, a
minimum wage, nationalization of the munition industries, worker's
participation in the management of industrial enterprises, the
confiscation of all eccelesiastical property". This is Carsten's (1967, p. 50) summary of Mussolini's June, 1919, political program.
Gee, haven't all I heard lately from leftists is progressive taxation and an end to war profits? Unionization, minimum wage, feminism, etc etc Seems for a fascist he had some good ideas no? In fact, so far the only thing I've found that seperates many fasicsts from communists is nationalism. Wow, one difference. In short, tell me how different is Mussolini's own summation of fascism
much different from today's democratic party talking points? Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State

As for any attempts to deny that racism has any part of marxism, who can name who said this quote? "Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as
Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the
Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in
the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need,
self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering.
What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from
huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Jewry, would
be the self-emancipation of our time.... We recognize in Jewry,
therefore, a general present-time-oriented anti-social element, an
element which through historical development -- to which in this
harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed -- has been brought
to its present high level, at which it must necessarily dissolve
itself. In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the
emancipation of mankind from Jewry".

For those who said Karl Marx, give yourself 10 history pts.

Oh, anyone know who first started using the swastika as a symbol for their movement? That's right, the Soviet socialists of the red army during and after WWII. (note, scroll down a little for the pic) I quote on the swastika: "Prewar socialists (including some American socialists) used it on the
grounds that it has two arms representing two entwined letters "S" (for
"Socialist")." Ludwig von Mises even wrote in 1944: "The Nazis have not only imitated the Bolshevist tactics of seizing
power. They have copied much more. They have imported from Russia the
one-party system and the privileged role of this party and its members
in public life; the paramount position of the secret police; the
organization of affiliated parties abroad which are employed in
fighting their domestic governments and in sabotage and espionage,
assisted by public funds and the protection of the diplomatic and
consular service; the administrative execution and imprisonment of
political adversaries; concentration camps; the punishment inflicted on
the families of exiles; the methods of propaganda. They have borrowed
from the Marxians even such absurdities as the mode of address, party
comrade (Parteigenosse), derived from the Marxian comrade (Genosse),
and the use of a military terminology for all items of civil and
economic life. The question is not in which respects both systems are
alike but in which they differ..." (btw, he also pointed out that Nazism was NOT christian) History is notoriously messy but just because 2 sides fight, doesn't mean they are opposite.