The Cynical Patriot

On June 25, 2008, The Yuma Daily Sun reported the release of a murder suspect by a unnamed Mexican Judge. The victim in the case was US Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar. Agent Aguilar was run down in the Imperial Sand Dunes while deploying spike strips to stop a suspected drug/human smuggler. The suspect was fleeing pursuing agents and was trying to get back into Mexico.

While we could spend days talking about the futility of current immigration policy, my focus is on the tragedy of the loss of Agent Aguilar and the subsequent travesty of justice when a Mexican judge released the suspected killer. I had the honor of meeting Agent Aguilar’s family as they transitioned out of Yuma; I met a family who was trying to figure out how they were going to cope with the loss of their husband and father. Two young children who will never truly know their father, and a wife who will have to figure out how to provide for her family both financially and emotionally. The dust hasn’t even settled, and the Mexican government has coldly poured salt into this young family’s wounds. The man that killed their father is still out there.

I don’t know what upsets me more, the fact that the American press refused to run with this story; or, that a corrupt Mexican government let this monster free. This case now amounts to no more than state sponsored murder and smuggling. Today’s myopic media would rather focus on Lilo’s eating habits or Brangelina’s pending births. Where are you CNN? Fox? MSNBC? Hello, is anyone listening? Doesn’t anyone care?

Has this world gone so wrong, that the most viable answer to have justice served is sending Dog the Bounty Hunter back to Mexico for a second tour of duty? Is that what we’ve come to? A truly sad commentary of today’s American culture. Our reality TV based, celebrity obsessed focus is sickening.

How I long for a President with a spine, one who will protect its citizens first. One who will protect its sovereign land. Instead we have a President who allows our public servants to be murdered by illegal, foreign sponsored terrorists. A President who allows other nations to run roughshod over American foreign policy, in order to appease a certain growing demographic group. All the while, sending out troops overseas to protect non-Americans and jacking up our gas prices. Don’t get me started on the inumerable armed incursions by Mexican military units that supposedly, “Got lost.” Of course they were lost, I’m sure they weren’t providing an armed escort for some cartel or another. What would FDR do? What would Teddy do? What would Reagan have done?

To Agent Aguilar’s family I offer my most profound condolences, you have already suffered enough. Your family’s sacrifice for this nation and your husband’s defense of our nation does not go unnoticed. And in no way do you deserve this injustice. You are my inspiration to bring light to those things in our society that are wrong. On this fourth day of July, I thank you, and I thank all others who have sacrificed for this once great nation. May we someday be great again.

http://www.yumasun.com/articles/reportedly_42563___article.html/suspect_agent.html