LETTER TO GEORGE W. BUSH – PARDON THE COPS
Dear Mr. President,
Now that your term is near an end, you’ll be doing what all lame-duck presidents do just before leaving the Oval Office; issuing dozens of pardons and commutations to America’s prison inmates. As of December 23rd, you’ve issued only 191 presidential pardons. Some may think that admirable, but the truth is, all of them came after the convicts already completed their sentences. Among those pardoned, were drug dealers, embezzlers, unlawful gun dealers, tax evaders, thieves, one bomber and a host of others. Besides the pardons, you’ve commuted nine sentences, thereby shortening prison time for those convicts.
Contrast your record of compassion to that of other presidents: Wilson 2,480 pardons, Truman 2,044, Hoover 1,385, Lyndon Johnson, 1,200, plus Clinton, Reagan and ford, all of whom pardoned over 400 each.
It’s time, Mr. President, to right a grievous wrong.
It’s one thing to pardon people who made a habit of committing of crime, it’s another to pardon those who lived a life fighting crime on behalf of Americans. I’m talking about those who make Americans safer, who risk their lives every day on the front lines of the war on crime, who are there for you and me when we need them in times of crisis.
There are several of those who are serving long undeserved sentences in prison. Among them, Border Parol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, serving eleven and twelve years respectively for shooting a criminal in the buttocks, a career criminal who was trying to smuggle nearly a thousand pounds of drugs into the U.S., and who was given special privileges and rewards in exchange for his testimony against these officers. And from there, he arrogantly continued to smuggle and break American laws, while the prosecutor’s office turned a blind eye in order to nail the cops.
The detailed facts are arguable. Yes, they may have fudged on their reports, yes the Monday morning quarterbacks may have found violations of procedure. Perhaps they deserved admonishment and even charges. But did they…and their families… deserve a decade of life inside prison walls while their wives and children were sentenced to survival without a father in the home?
You know the answer to that, Mr. President, and so does every American who has followed case. Please don’t hide behind the law and swash it all with a lame explanation that they were convicted by a jury of their peers. We all know there is no such thing as a jury of our peers in today’s world. And regardless, if those jurors knew that the criminal had been given special rewards for his testimony, and that he was arrested again for smuggling drugs into the U.S. before the trial date, it’s unlikely the officers would have been convicted. And, if the jurors knew that —according to a technicality in the federal law — any convicted person who commits the “crime” while in possession of a firearm is automatically sentenced to a minimum of ten years, it’s unlikely the officers would have been convicted. However, the prosecutors, led by your appointee, Johnny Sutton, purposely did not reveal these facts to the jury. Consequently, Ramos and Compean — who are required by job description to possess a firearm on duty, got nailed for the maximum…and so did their families.
Non-criminals are wrongly serving time, Mr. President. Criminals who prey on society, are not serving time. How does one explain that?
You know the facts, but for those who don’t check out this link:
While you are at it Mr. President, consider some other officers of the law…some of whom may have made errors in judgement, but certainly did not deserve long prison sentences away from their families, lives wasted, non-productive.
Stephanie Mohr is one of those. A K-9 cop with Prince Georges County, Maryland, Officer Mohr allowed her K-9 partner to bite a criminal who was caught atop a commercial building at 1 a.m. in the morning, a criminal with a past record of drugs and theft and who was in the country illegally. She was convicted on testimony from another cop in big trouble, who was given special treatment in exchange for his testimony..saying the dog bite was unnecessary.
She had served with distinction as a decorated officer with several commendations for putting her life on the line protecting citizens of Maryland. She is now serving her fifth year of a ten year prison sentence. Her child doesn’t have his mom at home in all this time. If ever there was overkill in the criminal justice system, this is it. Stephanie Mohr does not deserve ten years behind bars.
There are others. Check out:
Click here: Chief of Police Richard Thompson
So, Mr. President. Now that you don’t have to run for office any more, and the favors are all paid back to your political backers, it’s time to do the right thing.
You once called yourself a compassionate conservative. Time to put up, or shut up. Pardon these cops, and give them and their families, their lives back. You have the power…until January 20th. I implore you in the name of humanity. Use it.
Great Marshall! I think your efforts are commendable and, you can count on me for whatever it is I can do to help out. For the time being, let’s send this to my email address book so they can send it in turn to GB.
I will write to each of my elected officials and to the President. I hope he chooses to do the right thing but it is doubtful…he would rather kiss the ass of drug dealers and criminals…well demonstrated by his past actions, than to do what is right by these people.
I can only wonder why any individual would be crazy enough to do the job of a law enforcement officer in this day and time….it is thankless, you go to jail for minor things, etc…..it must be all the prestige & pussy you get for carrying a badge and the free meals at all-night restaurants?? I used to enjoy my job when I served….it was good to get rewarded. We kicked the asses of many criminals, we had a means to do what was right by the community and the victims,….all the midnight cruisers were available for a 20 minute ride and everyone covered for everyone else. Today, from what I hear, it is a dogs-eat-dog world with your partner turning on you at the drop of a hat in the name of a righteous way…?!?!?!? Lots of respect, but ………..
I PRAY PRES.GWBUSH DOES THE RIGHT THING AND PARDONS THESE OFFICERS.IT IS UNTHIKABLE THAT THESE TWO OFFICERS SIT IN JAIL BECAUSE OF SHOOTING SOME LOWLIFE.THE ONLY THING THEY DID WRONG IS NOT TO KILL HIM.JOHNNY MAC
Marshall…you are so on target with your update and examples of the many, many wrongly incarcerated federal, state and local law enforcement officers. It’s beyond belief Ramos, Compean, Mohr, etc. etc. are behind bars while so many thugs are still out there operating unchallenged in the drug, robery, burglary, public corruption businesses etc., etc. We all need to pray for the wrongly jailed officers. Johnny’s right…we need to pray for GWHBush to do the right thing and pardon these officers.
Thanks M.F., for the good & timely blog. As
for the Political Imprisonment of Ramos &
Compean, by Johnny “Satan” Sutton, at the
obvious direction of the Mexican Goverment, via orders from President G.W. Bush, I shall
waste no more time or key strokes writing
Bush. No way in hell, will W. swallow his
high false pride and pardon them now.
I am however hopeful that Bush may be moved to commute the sentences(s) of R & C to time
served. Two things may so move him:
1. He may commute & release in self defense, to lesson the chance the US SC may
hear the case on appeal. Should the SC take
the case, W. would not be in power to have
someone drop a dime, as must have been the
case in the sorry Decision by the 5th COA.
Besides, I don’t think a dime would work on the US SC. If the U.S. SC hears the Ramos &
Compean Case, history will nail Bush BAD!
2. He may hear and partially heed the current nationwide clamor to free R. & C.
A commute and release would allow him to
continue the lie, of Ramos & Compean really
being guilty & reduce the clamor some.
Tomorrow, as a CA Resident & Voter, I will
phone and FAX my Congresswoman Jane Harman
and my Senior CA Senator, Diane Feinstein.
As you know, Sen. Feinstein long ago urged
Bush to at least commute the sentence of both Ramos & Compean to time served. She also said the Fed. Gun Crime Law charging, in this case, was outside the intent of the Congress. That 10 year stick was meant for use against drug dealers and violent career criminals. It was not meant by Congress, to be used on cops armed in the line of duty.
Tomorrow, I shall implore Rep. Harman in the
House and Sen. Feinstein in the Senate to
exerpt maximum pressure on Bush, with ALL the help they can muster from other Rep.s &
Senators, to commute all sentence(s) of
Ramos & Compean and cause their immediate
release from federal custody.
I shall also request that when Congress convenes in January 2009, they take prompt
action in their respective chambers to amend the federal firearms law that let
George W. Bush and Johnny Sutton pull this
cheap crap on honest cops in the 1st place.
As for the other fine officers who have been railroaded on the PC tracks of an American Justice System gone astray, some
of those cases are state prosecutions and
not George W.’s to pardon. But, President George W. Bush has set the worst example in history, of how not to support those who protect and serve. The unjust jailing of
Ramos & Compean shall long stain his legacy.
M.F. & ALL: Look at the date on this, click & read. You will then see why I waste no more time writing Bush about Ramos & Compean. W. is blinded by pride, IMHO!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Senators Feinstein and Cornyn Ask President Bush To Commute the Sentences of former Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=DECEFEA1-F89B-D7C4-0295-7F9ECC6A7CFC
Great job Marshall! There is no doubt that these deserve consideration for a pardon. Now the question is does the President have the Courage to follow through.
Mike
I do believe this is a cause worth fighting for. Count on my support in whatever way I can to help.
I’ll start by forwarding your article to all the police officers I know throughout the US and hope that together we can convince the President to issue the pardons.
Tony Socarras
Good Morning, Marshall,
You are absolutely right that Ramos and Compean should be released; should never have gone to jail in the first place. But for me to write a letter to President Bush is a total waste of time. I believe he cares not at all about the opinions of the citizens of this country.
Regards, Bill Bell
Where do I sign?
david
Stand behind for which you have stood for during your office. You can do it!!!!!
Go out with a bang!!!!
OK, I’ll be the bad guy here: While I agree that the gun charge should not have been added, the facts are this: Two agents of the federal government shot a man in the back who was NOT armed and who posed NO threat at all to the officers. Thats fact. Rather than have their pride hurt by letting the CANNABIS smuggler get away, they decided to kill him.
The fact that he was hit in the butt and not the head is just happenstance, and the officers might very well have killed the man…over GRASS!! Marijuana is NOT supposed to get you a death penalty, in any civilized nation, and only the insanity of prohibition causes this madness.
Then, the officers LIED and FALSIFIED reports and tried to cover up their crimes. If they thought they had acted in accordance with the laws intent they would have never ‘ fudged’ ( LIES) on official reports. They KNEW that it was a bad shooting.UNARMED human beings should not be shot at, not for merely trying to satisfy the immense appetite we have for weed, etc.
Sure, mistakes were made on both sides, but imagine if the government had covered this one up and let the cops go free: The Mexicans would have killed wholesale to avenge the BP and teach them some manners.As it was, there were plans being laid for vengeance; Fair is fair after all and shooting an UNARMED man in the back ( dry gulching) is never admired by anyone.
Then, ion a side issue, 10 years may seem like a lot of time, but what about the people rotting in prisons for MINOR petty amounts of pot? 10 years is an average sentence for ‘ drug’ convictions today, with NO parole, so shooting a human being in the back and then trying to cover it up seems to be a lot more serious an offense than someone trying to get high under the onus of prohibition.
Personally, I would allow them to be released after 5 years; thats enough time to convince other agents that human life means something, yet not too much.As far as Mohr, the lady that loves dogs more than people, she got what she deserved. She actually had MORE than one instance of allowing her dog to bite people who were posing NO threat; one guy was laying on a hammock and she loosed the dog. Then, men climbing down from a roof, under the control of THREE COPS with guns are bitten because she thought they ‘ might’ turn and flee. MIGHT. Not did, just might.
the fact is this: Mohr was not prepared to take action without the dog, it was her solution to everything that challenged her. Recall in the old days cops would walk up to a perp and turn them around and cuff them, right? All alone. Now, it takes tazers and dogs and a swat team, with people laying face down on pavement before the cuffs go on. In a culture where a SUPPOSED ALLEGED ‘criminal’ (SUSPECT) loses his humanity and is considered fair game for anything the cop decides to do, no wonder agents are gunning down unarmed men.
Remember that other agents have to live with the violence on the border, and the Mexican cartels would declare open warfare on them if they thought tht they would get shot for every pot offense…it is a danger to the others, and that is a fact.More agents would be killed and assaulted if they thought that the cops had no compunction about shooting unarmed men.
Bush is such a criminal himself that the only pardons he thinks about are the ones he and Cheney will need if their roles in 9-11 are ever disclosed widely.He is a petty, sick man, a liar and total scum, so why should he risk further criticism from people over someone else? He won’t! He would be saying: ” Mexican lives are worth nothing…kill them, shoot them, even when UNARMED if they try and bring some weed in”.
Not likely: Bush has such a terrible legacy, a history of secrecy and lies and coverups, that he would never risk more shame by saying that the agents actions were OK. Thats what most of you here are saying: It is Ok to shoot unarmed men down if they are technically in violation of some law…well, it is NOT!
The police love it when people they arrest get stacked charges and minimum sentences and get thrown in jail for decades for nonviolent crimes, like drug use or possession, but when the shoe drops on them suddenly these same laws are UNFAIR!! Whats good for the goose…
I know most of you here will blast me; save the time, I cannot be affected by nonsense. many of you here would allow cops to gun down anyone, at any time, without review, and assume thaqt they are always right…well, thats not reality.EVERY WEEK I read more and more accounts of cops getting busted for major crimes, and if we give every one of them a pass what does it tell society? That being a cop means a license to kill is bestowed? No good.
I feel for officers that are INNOCENT being railroaded, but that is RARE as hens teeth; most of the time the police act with virtual impunity and get away with, yes, murder.So while I would let Ramos and his pal out early, I would NOT pardon them and send a message that backshooting and lying are OK for federal agents…as soon as that is SOP we are all in danger.
Cops always expect the citizenry to obey every dort and tittle of the law, and use minor offenses to lock up people helter skelter, so they get no slack from me when they cross the line. I support PROFESSIONAL police, and they don’t shoot people for running away from a pot bust…and that is what this is all about.
Although I totally agree with you that the 2 Border Patrol officer should be pardoned (they should never have been convicted)Pres. Bush in this matter has not done the right thing. So many prominent legislators lobbied for their release which he totally disregarded. I voted for him twice, but am deeply disappointed in him in this matter.
A registered letter to the President in on the way and a meeting with US Senator Jim Inhofe is scheduled.
Jack
HOPEFULLY BUSH WILL DO SOMETHING, BUT HIS RECORD REFLECTS THAT HE’S GOOD AT DOING NOTHING, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. LIKE MCKAY SAID, THE ONLY THING THE AGENTS DID WRONG WAS NOT KILLING THE LOW LIFE SON OD A BITCH.
IT’S APPARENT WHERE RICH MOORE IS COMING FROM, ENOUGH SAID, SPARE US PLEASE…
Agree that they should not be in jail. Don’t think that they should be allowed to continue in law enforcement.
Hensley, Bell, and Moore are too busy bashing Bush to accomplish anything. In 2010 they will still be ranting. Moore hasn’t a clue.
It seems that those with the longest responses care more about themselves and their agendas than they do about the subject matter.
I’ll cop a nolo plea to being a wind bag in
search of a soapbox but reject being lumped
in with Moore. Bell is on target with a 10X.
Nice Crystal Ball KR, for you to say I care more about myself, than innocent cops
in prison. I have invested money, time and
tears for Ramos & Compean for 18 months.
OK, so I need to shorten the rants to avoid
being lumped in with the likes of Mr. Moore.
Hows this?
FREE RAMOS AND COMPEAN
An Open Letter to the Honorable Diane Feinstein, U.S. Senator from California:
My Dear Senator:
It is now over 18 months since you and Senator John Cornyn asked President Bush to commute the sentences of Ramos and Compean. He has ignored you, other Senators, several Representatives and hundreds of thousands of citizens.
I appreciate your many efforts, in a quest for justice for Ramos and Compean.
I now ask you and your peers in the Senate to make a final urgent effort!
Please let President Bush know, in no uncertain terms, that his legacy in history
shall be deeply stained, if he fails to free Ramos & Compean, by commutation
of their sentences, prior to his leaving office, Janurary 20, 2009.
I thank you.
Respectfully,
Edward A. Hensley
Harbor City, CA
Submitted for publication to the Torrance
Daily Breeze 12/28/09 – Email the Senator.
Phoned Sen. Fienstien’s local office 12/29
I think you have ucovered an aspect of this process that “we” who are registering our concern which has this “ship of the Fleet” notoriety at the forfront. Based on the other cases of poor timing bad luck or just plain I made a mistake cases, this recommended action should grow feet and be presented every possible time to a/the “President”.
Thanks for reminding me of those warriors who I have read about and just went on with my life “feeling sorry for the myriad people ivolved in the type case that you identify.
I just had a an epiphany: Pardoning the turkey is a planned and expected event with gobbles of press at these ocsssions combined with appropriate humor.
Again, the civilian sworn warrior is in an uprotected class and the turkey, at least one a year is is hallowed ?????????
MARSHALL,
I TOO WILL GET IN TOUCH WITH THE JERKS
THAT RUN MY STATE. I BELEIVE THOSE TWO
BORDER PATROL OFFICERS MUST BE PARDONED.
THANKS FOR THE REMINDER, SOMETIMES WE ARE TOO BUSY TO REMEMBER THE NEEDS.
GLORIA DISANTO
Rich Moore’s rant does not even deserve a reply but I have to do it.
His bias is so blatant that he needs to move to a different country, like Mexico. Maybe he would be happy with their system of justice. He’s certainly not happy here as evidenced by his inane, biased rantings. Obviously he has had dealings with the American criminal justice system that did not go in his favor. Did you do time Rich. Too bad Rich, other countries are calling. Leave now and do us all a favor you are obviously not happy here in this corrupt system.
It appears there are different opinions on these cases.
This graph struck me though:
“We all know there is no such thing as a jury of our peers in today’s world.”
Was there ever?
“And regardless, if those jurors knew that the criminal had been given special rewards for his testimony, and that he was arrested again for smuggling drugs into the U.S.before the trial date, it’s unlikely the officers would have been convicted.”
Food for thought.
But Rich Moore also has a point. If an unarmed person was shot in the back…well, more food for thought. Not so cut and dry.
Terry,
If this career drug runner was unarmed, in
possession of a million dollar pot load, in
the no man’s land of our U.S.- Mex Border
then God does not make little green apples.
Most Americans did not fall off the turnip
truck yesterday, in spite of Rich Moore,
George Bush & Johnny Sutton assuming we did.
I sense a grass roots ground swell, of good
people yelling for justice, as the New Year dawns, with Ramos & Compean still rotting away in Solitary Confinement.
I’d not be surprised, just grateful, if a lot of that grass roots noise comes out of
Oklahoma, after Jack A. Milavic meets with
Senator Jim Inhofe, (R.) Okla. Here’s why:
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/
Bill Bell has it right on!
The President does NOT care what the voters of this country want!
Nor do the U.S. Senators & members of the House!!!
More than 70% of the citizens did not want amnesty, yet most of them voted for it and Pres. Bush pushed for it.
More than 90% did NOT want all this bailout money to be voted for . . . yet they voted for it and Bush pushed it.
Bush has heard pleas from so many, including a petition signed by many in the U.S. Senate and House. Yet he continues to ignore Ramos and Compean!
What makes anyone thing he’ll do the right thing and pardon them now?
Oh, I’ll write a letter . . .but I know it will be another waste of my time. As I have to try for these fine men who’s only crime is trying to protect us from low life!!!
Thanks Marshall for keeping these issues before us. I have done and will continue to do all I can to get justice for these officers.
Rich Moore, can you please remind us once again which law enforcement agency fired you, arrested you or threw your application for employment away.
I don’t always gree with you, but on this I agree and will follow through.
M.F. & ALL: On the subject of pardons;
I appreciate the Posthumous Pardon of the late Charles Winters, by George W. Bush.
Mr. Winters is no less a true American Hero
to Israel, in my opinion, than Harry Truman.
I appreciate the current strong support, by the Bush Administration, of Israel’s self defense actions in the Gaza airstrikes. I
wonder, if the soon to be Obama Admin. will
continue America’s 60 years of such support?
So, I take no pleasure in posting a law.com
article that shows high level connections &
politics are more responsible for this late
pardon, than any sense of justice by Bush.
“Legal Connections Help Win Second Ever Posthumous Pardon”
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202427036846
Kevin D.: NONE.I was a ‘ special officer’ with the City of Miami Police, as a reserve, back in the days of Garmire( chief) and headed a thet detail downtown. I arrested over 100 perps wih a 98% conviction rate. I was in the security business and am a qualified firearms instructor, expert with a .45.
My dad was a career cop and I rode with units all my life.I am NOT anti-cop!! No matter how much people slam me, they NEVER reply to the FACTS!! If a man is shot in the back and is UNARMED, is that OK because qa cop did it? PLEASE! No human being with any sense would Ok such actions.
Backshooting is NEVER justified, even if the perp is hauling some weed. Show me the statute that permits deadly force when no direct threat is present….show me the law that says BP agents get a pass when they LIE and COVER UP…..OR, stop lambasting ME if you cannot.
All I want is professional, law abiding police….is that too much to ask, or are you guys content to see this nation become like East Germany under communism..where snitches compete to betray family members in fear of the government, and where cops could gun down people for little or no reason.
I offer FACTS, you offer whining excuses that do not stand the test of truth and time.If you APPROVE of police shooting unarmed men down, if you condone backshooting, just SAY SO! If you are a bigot and hate Mexicans, have the guts to say so.Just don’t insult our intelligence by mumbling about how bad I am if you cannot defend the facts…have the guts to let us all know you are against the rule of law and human decency. be honest.
NO ONE, not one reply here, mentions BACKSHOOTING and LYING on reports..its like the crimes of the BP agents mean nothing…like they can do no wrong…if you believe that, say so! Just don’t slam the one man telling the truth here: Agents are placed in greater danger by covering up backshooting cops: The Mexican cartels will gladly return gunfire if that is the game they want to play…as it is, a guy bringing in WANTED weed, and is UNARMED, can at least get a trial: getting dry gulched and BACK SHOT is a perversion of justice.
Many of you would pervert justice to keep a cop from facing the consequences of his actions, and that is sick. Playing the game is OK…I played it too, but I never perjured myself, and I never used excessive force…because I knew that I could get wasted on the street getting in my car if the street guys saw me as a bad guy and lawbreaker instead of the law.
I grew up in a police station and know the life well;thank God my dad was a m,an of great principle and never acted illegally or harshly, always a professional.
Answer the FACTUAL part of this or drop it, but making ME the bad guy is silly and far from the point.
Ed Hensley: Evidently some entity other than God is making green apples these days, because NO GUN was seen, found or likley. NO PROOF of a gun. AQs in most cases of a bad shooting, the cop says:” He made a furtive gesture at his wasitband”…c’mon…lets get real.Thats taught in the acadamy today.
Are we to believe that a weed smuggler would risk 5 or 10 more years in order to carry a gun? no way.Are we to believe that the smuggler was SUICIDAL? thats what you are saying: That he wanted to get shot…and made a move…yeah, right. NO WAY! They are not stupid, just criminal.
NO GUN FOUND. NO GUN USED ( except the backshooters, the BP agents) and no gun seen. NO GUN means NO shooting!!The agents simply did not want to lose the guy they were chasing, and at one point they decided that it was better to kill him than get humiliated and frustrated by him getting away, and they fired.
Thats wrong and never justified.
By the way, Ed H., in addition to little green apples, God also makes cannabis, and in Genesis He said it was ‘good’. Who are crooked politicians to say it is bad? Food for thought!
Hey Rich!, – I voted for medical pot in CA
& I support legal taxed sale for adult use.
There ends our agreement in this discussion.
There ends our discussion on this blog.
Have a Happy New Year but waste someone
elses time in two thousand nine! Bye Bye!
Security Guard Rich, knows all about law enforcment. Get a grip, you know nothing. Your lengthy rants are just that, rants.
I so agree with the statement,”Your lengthy rants are just that, rants.”
Rich, you may want to brush up your typing skills also……
(another great article, Marshall!)
Hey Rich, anyone can get a 98% conviction rate when it pertains to shoplifters…..they are caught with the goods before they are arrested. Great police work on your part. Police work, indeed, you don’t have a clue.
I Believe capital punishment is substantiated by the morale code listed in Exodus 20:13. “Thou shall not kill” (Murder). Life should be protected because we (humans) are created in God’s image. The laws need strengthened to reflect this command from God our creator. Additionally, convicts who are sentenced for murder should be prosecuted as fast as possible. We have the guidelines and standards already set if we would only enforce them. As to the police officers, firemen, and military… they come under the jurisdiction of our leaders that God has placed in control within all cities, counties, state, and federal government for our protection. Romans 13, specifically verse 4 which states ” For he is God’s minister to you for good”(NKJV). Especially capital punishment Gen 9:6,Mt.26:52,Acts 25:11. Is there corruption in the criminal justice system? you bet there is. Are there enforcement officers innocent of crimes within the criminal justice system? Again, you bet there is. The point is that an argument can be made for both groups of people. Only when our leaders comply to the letter of the God’s word will our system work expediently and effectively. That starts with obedience from the word of God. I’m sure God will act on behalf of the innocent if they would only commit themselves to the will of God by trusting him in faith and accepting his pardon of forgiveness for their sins through Jesus Christ. This is an individual choice that can only come about through God himself. It is a response from mine and your prayers. We can count on God but we can’t always count on man to help us in our time of need. This was written for one to think about their relationship with God. I for one am very thankful for those who uphold the law “For he is a minister to you for good.