"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Ramos and Compean

Jacob Sullum explains why President Bush should not have commuted the sentences of two Border Patrol agents who shot a drug smuggler in the back.

David Weigel argued much the same back in 2007. Check out the link in Weigel's post to a piece by former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy on the National Review's Web site to see that not all conservatives made poster boys of the shooters.

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