The Political Puppet Show - Starring Johnny Sutton

All but one of the above quotes were in Johnny Sutton's testimony before the

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which occurred on July 10, 2007. The only quote which was not heard in the testimony was: "This has always been about the rule of law". Although Sutton referenced the "rule of law" during his testimony before the Committee, the quote appeared in one of the many official press releases made by Sutton's office in reference to the Ramos and Compean case. The news release is dated December 3, 2007 and appears on the U.S. Attorney's Office - Western District of Texas website.

Here are the quotes used in the above graphic and an explanation as to why each quote was chosen:

1. "This has always been about the rule of law."

Clearly this has not "always been about the rule of law" because if this were true, then the U.S. Attorney's Office would have abided by the "rule of law" and not mislead the jurors by intentionally suppressing evidence about Aldrete-Davila's career as a drug smuggler.

2. "The jury heard all the evidence."

The jury DID NOT hear all the evidence. Thanks to Judge Cardone, the jury only heard the evidence that Sutton and his staff wanted them to hear. The jury did not hear the truth about Aldrete-Davila, the drug smuggler. The jury was mislead to believe that Aldrete-Davila was just some poor, innocent "mule", who was caught up in the middle of a drug war when in reality he is a career drug smuggler. The jurors would have been more likely to believe Aldrete-Davila was carrying a gun had they heard the truth about him.

3. "They deliberately shot an unarmed man in the back without justification."

Yes, Agents Ramos and Compean did deliberately shoot a career drug smuggler because as both agents testified, Aldrete-Davila pointed a weapon at Agent Compean. In addition to assault on federal officers, Aldrete-Davila illegally entered the United States, smuggled drugs into the United States, failed to yield to law enforcement vehicles, ignored all of the agents' commands, willfully resisted arrest, and fled to Mexico to evade arrest.

However, they did not shoot Aldrete-Davila in the back, they shot him in the buttocks. The evidence presented during the trial proved that the direction of the bullet was consistent with the agents' story that Aldrete-Davila was turned toward the agents as if he were pointing something at them.

4. "We were faced with two agents who had shot somebody and covered it up and a mule who was on the Mexican side where we had no evidence to make a case against him."

As previously explained, Aldrete-Davila was not a "mule" and the U.S. Attorney's office had sufficient evidence to make a case against him. Instead, Johnny Sutton and his staff chose to use the evidence they had against Aldrete-Davila to build a case against Agents Ramos and Compean.

5. "We don't know yet whether he ran another load of dope."

Yea, and we don't know yet whether Johnny Sutton lied about this case. Read two related articles:

WorldNetDaily: "Drug smuggler arrested for 2nd marijuana load" - 11/15/07

CNSNews.com: "AG Must Investigate Ramos-Compean Case, Senator Says" - 11/20/07

6. "The reason all this happened is because Agent Compean and Ramos shot an unarmed guy running away and covered it up."

The reason all this happened is because Mexico demanded the United States take action. Johnny Sutton and his staff took advantage of the fact that Aldrete-Davila absconded to Mexico and presented the lies of a career smuggler who claimed he did not have a gun.

WorldNetDaily: "Mexico demanded U.S. prosecute sheriff, agents." - 2/13/07

7. "It wasn't just the word of a drug dealer against them."

It was just the word of a drug smuggler against the two agents. The U.S. Attorney's entire case against the agents revolved around "the word" of a career drug smuggler. The three Border Patrol Agents who testified against Ramos and Compean at the trial were coerced and threatened with prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office, and subsequently changed their stories several times. After the case, one resigned in lieu of termination and two were terminated by the Border Patrol because their version of events changed so many times.

DailyBulletin.com: "Border Agents who testified against convicted co-workers will be fired."

8. "These guys committed serious crimes and should be prosecuted."

Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean did not commit serious crimes. There was no willful intent on the part of Agent Ramos or Agent Compean to commit a crime. The actions of Ramos and Compean were a direct response to the actions of Aldrete-Davila, who committed several serious crimes on that day and should have been prosecuted.

9. "The whole narrative of he has a gun is false."

The whole narrative of he has a gun is false only if you choose to believe a career drug smuggler who illegally entered the United States, smuggled a large quantity of marijuana into the U.S., failed to yield to law enforcement, resisted arrest, assaulted federal officers, and fled to Mexico to avoid being apprehended. The whole narrative of he has a gun is false if you suppress evidence about Aldrete-Davila's career as a drug smuggler and misrepresent him as some poor, innocent, unarmed, Mexican caught up in the middle of a drug war.

Border Patrol's Nascar Pit Crew

Forget the lack of manpower on the border and ignore all those mindless details to other sectors and stations that are understaffed, the Border Patrol now has more important duties for Border Patrol Agents to fulfill. On November 27, 2007, San Diego Sector announced a detail for Border Patrol Agents to serve in the mission-critical role as a member of the pit crew for the Border Patrol sponsored NASCAR race car.

According to the memorandum, the Office of Border Patrol is "seeking outstanding Border Patrol Agents to represent the Border Patrol as a member of the Border Patrol NASCAR Pit Crew Team." The Patrol Agents In Charge are to select "one exceptional Border Patrol Agent from each station." That list will be forwarded to the Office of Border Patrol where someone there will make the selections. Since the Office of Border Patrol is making the selections, agents can guarantee the selections will be made by cronyism.


Upon selection and completion of NASCAR training, the agents will be "professionally trained and certified by NASCAR". Agents will then be assigned to the NASCAR Recruitment Team. The NASCAR Recruitment Team will consist of thirty agents (six squads of five agents) to attend four races throughout the country.


What's next, a detail to the Office of Border Patrol to drive Chief Aguilar around? Oh wait, that detail was already announced. According to NBPC Local 2544 (Tucson Sector), the Office of Border Patrol recently sent out a memo for a six-month detail to serve in another mission-critical role as personal driver for Chief Aguilar.

Border Patrol Chief Aguilar - Honor Last

Chief David Aguilar is recognized as the leader of the "Honor Last" society for numerous reasons, most of which were cited when the National Border Patrol Council announced the vote of "No Confidence":

Chief Aguilar shamelessly promoted a guest worker program as a means to reduce the flow of traffic at the borders. He had the audacity to stand before Border Patrol Agents and accept legislation that would grant guest worker permits to illegal aliens living in the United States. According to Chief Aguilar, why would we [U.S. citizens] stop comprehensive immigration reform just because it addressed four percent of the current U.S. population [illegal aliens].

Chief Aguilar continues to advance the National Border Patrol Strategy regardless of the failures, which are proven by one simple fact: the number of illegal aliens residing in the United States steadily increased since the strategy was first implemented in 1994. (http://www.desertinvasion.us/data/invasion_numbers.html).

Chief Aguilar continues to promote terrorism as the number one priority of the Border Patrol, while Border Patrol Agents around the country recognize that illegal immigration is still the number one priority and if and when a Border Patrol Agent apprehends a terrorist, that apprehension will be subsequent to apprehending illegal aliens. Chief Aguilar plays the "terrorism" card to unilaterally implement policies that have very little impact on illegal immigration and/or terrorism and to unilaterally abrogate policies that benefit Border Patrol Agents in the field.

Chief Aguilar reduced the authority of Sector Chief Patrol Agents and restricted their ability to negotiate and communicate with local union officials. Chief Aguilar said he did not want a sector Chief to have to deal with Union officials in one local proposing to implement a policy that was negotiated in another local. If a Chief in a sector cannot handle a task this simple than that person should not have been promoted to a Chief Patrol Agent. Ironically, Chief Aguilar provided the Labor Employee Relations (LER) Kingdom unfettered authority over all matters raised by the Union and stripped that authority away from Chief Patrol Agents in the sectors. Since LER officials have never worked as Border Patrol Agents, they have very little understanding of the policies that affect us and very little empathy toward Agents in the field.

Chief Aguilar focuses far too much attention on the quantity of recruits and not enough attention on the quality of new recruits. In his quest to meet the goal to hire all 6,000 new agents, Chief Aguilar is turning a blind-eye to the quality of agents being hired and sent to the sectors from the Academy. Chief Aguilar's efforts in the recruitment area will undoubtedly result in an increase in corruption in the future.

Chief Aguilar has failed miserably in efforts to improve the retention of experienced Border Patrol Agents. He advances policies which negatively impact Border Patrol Agents who work in the field. His efforts in this area will most likely cause further spikes in attrition in the near future.

The above list is not a comprehensive list of the issues that led to the vote of "No Confidence" and his position as the leader of the "Honor Last" society.

Border Patrol Chief Aguilar - "NO CONFIDENCE"

In response to the orders to remove the Local 1613 Notices and the NBPC press release related to the vote of "NO CONFIDENCE" in Chief Aguilar, Local 1613 created some new flyers and handouts to be distributed at stations throughout San Diego Sector. Here are the flyers that were distributed. If you did not receive a copy at your station, please contact your Lead Union representative.











NBPC Local 1613 flyer pertaining to the vote of "no confidence" and management's attempt to prevent contractually obligated communications between the union and the membership:






























Chief Aguilar and his followers can try to claim that the rank and file do not support the vote of "No Confidence" against him, but we have data that proves otherwise. Local 1613 conducted a random sampling of over 100 Border Patrol Agents assigned to the San Diego Sector and the results are in:




















Do you agree with the unanimous vote of the delegates who attended the NBPC Convention on February 28, 2007? In other words, do you agree with a vote of "No Confidence" in Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar?

Read the National Border Patrol Council's official press release

Union representatives at the Campo and Brownfield station were also ordered to remove the official Union notice from the official Union bulletin boards within each of these stations. These orders came after Chief Aguilar's visit to San Diego. These violations will be addressed in subsequent grievances or Unfair Labor Practices.

Read the response to the Union-initiated grievance filed by San Clemente Border Patrol Station Lead Union Representative T. Shigg.

Local 1613 Lead Union Representatives at Imperial Beach Station and San Clemente Station were ordered to remove an official Union notice from an official Union bulletin board located within each of the stations. The official Union notice notified bargaining unit members of the vote of "No Confidence", included an official picture of Chief Aguilar, and provided a brief synopsis of the vote. Yesterday, at the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station, the Patrol Agent In Charge (PAIC) took it upon himself to remove the official Union notice from the bulletin board and then later informed the Lead Station Representative of his actions. Then, the PAIC went back to the Union bulletin board a day later and removed the National Border Patrol Council's official press release on the vote of "No Confidence". Ironically, Chief Aguilar is coming to San Diego Sector on Friday and Saturday and will be appearing at musters at both the Imperial Beach and Chula Vista Border Patrol Stations. Grievances were filed regarding two of the incidents and the Union is currently contemplating filing an Unfair Labor Practice for the third violation (Grievance copies: San Clemente BPS and Imperial Beach BPS).

NOTE: From what we have recently learned, these recent violations were at the direction of the Labor Employee Relations (LER) division. This should be of no surprise to anyone who has dealt with the LER kingdom since they are responsible for repeatedly providing bad advice to management. Instead of being concerned with improving relations, they are purposely destroying any relations that did exist between management and the Union just so they can justify their existence and build another bureaucratic kingdom paralleling all the other new kingdoms within Homeland INSecurity. Since LER has instructed management not to enter into any discussions with the Union because they have the funds to fight the Union in arbitration, I guess it is time to take a look at where exactly they are using all of the taxpayer's money. I believe the taxpayers deserve to know why CBP has allocated so much money to fight the frontline agents instead of providing the agents with better equipment to perform their jobs.