Here is the official Press Release from Amie Pollard..
Radio Station Supports Incarcerated Border Patrol Agents & Jailed Deputy SheriffStarts Nationwide Radio Campaign…..Hundreds of thousands demand Border Patrol Agents be released and pardoned Contact: 95.5 WTVY
Amie PollardProgram Director/Morning Show Co-host(334) 792-0047pollard@955wtvy.com Magic BroadcastingDoc ThompsonDirector of Operations(334) 792-0047doc@MagicBroadcasting.net -FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- [February 9, 2007 DOTHAN, Alabama] - US Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos are serving 12 and 11 year sentences, respectively, for shooting a Mexican attempting to smuggle marijuana into the United States while Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez awaits his fate in jail with a sentencing date set in March for his confrontation with illegal immigrants who were attempting to enter into the states illegally.WTVY Program Director Amie Pollard and Morning Co-Host K.C. Ken Carlile believes these men were simply upholding their sworn duty to protect the USA and has teamed up with www.grassfire.org to get these men pardoned by President George W. Bush. WTVY radio is helping draw attention to this terrible injustice via their active listener ship and asks that other radio stations join them by encouraging Americans to contact The Whitehouse Comments line daily with a simultaneous phone call at 9am everyday. They are also asking listeners to send an email daily to Vice President Cheney and call the Republican National Committee Chairman once per day! Information can be obtained at http://www.955wtvy.com/Article.asp?id=335854. It directs both concerned citizens and media outlets on how to proceed. Over 300,000 signatures have already been sent to the White House and Capitol Hill demanding these men be set free. More signatures are expected to pour in as more people hear about this story. We need your help in spreading the news about “Country Cares About Our Country”….our listeners have been outraged over this news and we have already made our presence known….with other stations and media on board the volume of calls will force our leaders to recognize this injustice. “It is unbelievable that these agents are in prison first of all, for doing their jobs and serving to protect our borders...it is inconceivable that Ramos has been put in danger by being placed in general population prison and as a result has recently had to endure beatings from prisoners who are illegal. These men are not criminals and we have got to take a stand,” said Amie Pollard yesterday “Together our voices won’t be denied…..Mr. Comean, Mr. Ramos & Mr. Hernandez have helped keep us safe for years… now it is time we help them.”
We have all heard by now the fight that 95.5 WTVY has taken on for the Border Patrol Agents. What a lot of us did not know is that this is not the first incident. Edwards County Deputy Sherriff Gilmer Hernandez was indicted for an offense that basically read that an illegal was deprived of her rights protected by our Constitution. Hernandez is presently being held in Del Rio, Texas until his sentencing on March 12. Yes, we will join in this fight too. To find out more about Gilmer Hernandez, take a look at http://www.freegilmer.com/articles.html .
Other links about this story are:
http://www.rockspringsrecord.com/front1.shtml
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_release/2006/hernandez_delrio.pdf
Here is another link that the wife of Agent Ramos is using to Blog about her husband. Please visit this and keep up to date on this story. Also scroll down this page and see what other steps you can take to help these men out.
http://www.firesociety.com/
For radio listeners: (Please call and E-Mail once a day)
1. Call the White House comments line at 1-202-456-1111
2. E-Mail Vicepresident@whitehouse.gov and comments@whitehouse.gov
3. Go to http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp and sign the petition.
4. Go to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt and enter your zip code to get the names and contact information for your Senators and State Representatives. E-Mail or call them and voice your opinion.
5. Call Republican National Committee Chairman every hour @ 202-863-8700 or 202-863-8500.
For fellow broadcasting stations:
1. Post previous message on your website for your listeners.
2. Call to action: ask your listeners to E-Mail and call once per day.
3. Promote Promote Promote - Ask your listeners at least once an hour to take action.
4. Click here http://www.grassfire.org/ for interviews, information, and more.
5. Tell fellow broadcasters.
Haven't heard about this story? Click here
http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp
For Immediate Release
Contact: Michael Brumas or Emily Mathis
(202) 224-4124
January 22, 2007
Notice to Alabama Constituents Concerned with the Conviction of Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean
What Alabama Constituents Should Know About Pardons:
The power to pardon the two border agents who have been convicted of federal crimes, or to commute their sentence (reduce the amount of time they must serve) is vested in the President alone. This is called "the clemency power."
According to standard Department of Justice (DOJ) procedures, a person may not apply for a full pardon until at least five years after his or her release from prison. Since the border agents have just begun to serve their sentence, DOJ regulations would prevent them from being eligible for a full pardon, according to the Department's standard process for reviewing pardon requests. This is a discretionary process, however, and as expressly guaranteed by the Constitution, the President has authority to grant pardons at any time he sees fit, regardless of time served, although that has rarely been done outside the Department of Justice pardon process.
The President also has the ability to immediately commute, or reduce, their sentences. When deciding whether to reduce a sentence, the President takes into consideration the amount of time served. The chance that a sentence reduction request will be granted increases as more time is served.
According to the Department of Justice Website, "...commutation requests are generally not accepted from a person who is currently challenging his or her conviction or sentence through appeal..." Since the border patrol agents plan on appealing their conviction, the regular DOJ process must be waived if their sentences are to be commuted before their appeals are over.
What Alabama Constituents Can Do:
Constituents who want to help the border patrol agents can:
Write the President's Pardon Attorney to express public support for a Presidential pardon and/or reduction in sentences the border patrol agents are currently scheduled to serve. Specifically, they should ask that the regular process of waiting until appeals are exhausted be waived and that the President commute or reduce the sentences of the border patrol agents immediately.
Write Attorney General Gonzales and ask that he instruct the prosecutor to reconsider the charges and the severity of the sentence. Specifically, they should ask that the agents be offered a lower sentence as part of settling the appeal.
Office of the Pardon Attorney
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
1425 New York Avenue, N.W.
U.S. Department of Justice
Suite 11000
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
Washington, DC 20530-0001
(202) 616-6070
(202) 353-1555
Emily Mathis
Press Assistant
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL)
Phone: 202.224.6617
Fax: 202.228.5703
Oher numbers and contact info to help us with this fight are:
chairman@gop.com
info@gop.com
administration@gop.com
finance@gop.com
202-863-8700 202-863-8560 202-863-8545 202-863-8614 202-863-8720 202-863-8743
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