Ramos-Campeon case gets more twisted

From WorldNetDaily...

According to authorities, Cipriano Ortiz-Hernandez, suspected of running a Texas "stash house" where multiple loads of marijuana from Mexico were delivered into the United States, has been arrested and is being held pending trial.

As WND has reported, Cipriano Ortiz-Hernandez already was under indictment on federal drug charges stemming from about 5,000 pounds of marijuana allegedly delivered to his home, mostly in 2005....

Ortiz-Hernandez also has identified Ramos-Compean case witness Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila as the man who delivered 750 pounds of marijuana to that location in October 2005 – while Aldrete-Davila was under a grant of immunity for an earlier drug smuggling operation when he encountered Ramos and Compean, and ended up with a bullet wound.

Those agents chased Aldrete-Davila while he was trying to smuggle a load of hundreds of pounds of drugs into the United States in February 2005, and Aldrete-Davila was injured when the officers fired at him.

He later was granted immunity for that episode by federal prosecutors, and returned to the United States to give testimony that helped convict the border agents, who now are in prison. However, during his testimony, he portrayed himself as someone who had tried to smuggle drugs only the one time because of his financial situation, and the jury never was told that he had been implicated in the second smuggling operation.

So now prosecutors have to play the sick game of pretending that all the drug dealing Hernandez did with Davila is bad enough to send him to prison, but not bad enough to make people wonder why Davila is free, while the border patrol agents that tried to apprehend him are in prison.

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

Also from AmericanPatrol.com...

Agent Ramos is in a federal prison cell - about the size of a bathroom - 23 hours a day. There is a small window; but it is painted dark gray. He is allowed out of his cell one hour a day "for a walk."

Reading material is forbidden. The family and advocates have pleaded with prison officials to let Agent Ramos be provided with reading material. But prison staff state: they must enforce the rule: NO READING MATERIAL in solitary confinement.

The 911 Families sought to present Agent Ramos with a Holy Bible; prison officials stated Agent Ramos, in solitary confinement, could not receive the Holy Bible.

The 911 Families and members of congress contacted prison officials. After extreme pressure, the prison allowed Agent Ramos to receive the Bible. Agent Ramos is allowed no photos in his cell...sleeps on a cot. Agent Ramos can only read one book, the Bible, but:

AGENT RAMOS CAN READ ALL OF THE MAIL SENT TO HIM!

HERE IS THE REQUEST DIRECTLY FROM AGENT RAMOS BELOW:

Agent Ramos would like you to send him letters! His wife, Monica, and father-in-law, Joe, said yesterday: "PLEASE write to Agent Ramos America."

Monica said Agent Ramos used to receive about 50 letters a day - now he is only getting 10 letters a day. Or less. Agent Ramos said the prison staff gage how muchAmerica [sic] supports him via his mail volume.

PLEASE write Agent Ramos once a week or more! PLEASE get your children and grandchildren to send Agent Ramos a letter! Have your friends and relatives write a letter - hold an AGENT RAMOS LETTER WRITING party.

You cannot send him a postcard: ONLY a letter in an envelope.

The letters must be addressed EXACTLY as follows:

Ignacio Ramos #58079-180 FCI
Yazoo City Medium Federal Correctional Institution
P. O. Box 5888
Yazoo City, MS 39194

I decided to do one better. I bought a roll of stamps, then went to my web site http://BytheFireplace.com and chose one of the better books there (The Scarlet Pimpernel, a favorite of mine), copied the first chapter to my clipboard, pasted it into a plain text editor to strip out any formatting, copied and pasted that into MS Word, changed the font to a legible handwriting font, included a personal note at the begriming, printed it out and mailed it to him. I have the next four chapters formatted and ready to be mailed as well. I plan on mailing one a day. Printed front and back, the "letter" only takes up four pages.

I had originally wanted to do The Count of Monte Cristo, but my son thought that would be inappropriate.

I doubt one chapter a day will be enough reading material, so I encourage others to do the same, so he can receive several books in this way. All of the books  at BytheFireplace.com are public domain, so they can be copied freely.

Remember, the reason Ignacio Ramos is in solitary is because the prison failed to protect the border agent from the numerous drug dealers imprisoned there. From WorldNetDaily, February 6th, 2007...

Ramos's wife and father-in-law told WND the former agent said in phone calls to them the assailants "got me pretty good," explaining he was assaulted by five Hispanic men with steel-toed boots – likely illegal aliens – who cussed him out in Spanish.

"They kicked me in the head, they kicked me all over the body. I'm all bruised and very sore," Ramos reportedly said, adding he bled from his left ear....

In a phone call from prison, Ramos told his wife yesterday the assailants allegedly threatened him in Spanish, taunting him with, "**** la migra." "Migra" roughly translates as "immigration," slang for Border Patrol agent....

At Yazoo, Ramos was housed with the general prison population. A medium-security prison such as Yazoo would be expected to house illegal immigrants, including those incarcerated on drug offenses.

So rather than punish those that assaulted him, the officials at Yazoo prison are punishing Ramos. We can deflate their sadistic games, though, by making sure Ramos gets plenty of letters.

Posted by Danny Carlton at April 5, 2007 5:17 AM