Most of you guys follow this gun stuff as close as I do, but the attention span for the public at large is not going to pick up on what has really gone on with our Executive Branch and firearm policy. I will not hold my breath on the mainstream media picking up on the depth and political implications either. This scandal (if properly exposed) could be enough to sink Eric Holder, all of the brass at the ATF, and (hopefully) Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano, and maybe even President Obama himself.
President Obama has never been a friend to the American shooter and that's probably because he actually understands why our founding fathers wrote the 2nd amendment. So, shortly after taking office BHO made it his mission to roll back our gun rights and made it his stated position that he wanted to re-institute the so called "assault weapons" ban that President Bush allowed to expire. Obama became a friend of gun and ammunition manufactures world wide because a run on firearms in the US took place on an epic scale. Even with both houses of Congress, Obama never got this issue to a vote. Why? Well, he was busy somewhere else. Mexico.
Even in his first days in office, Obama pointed toward Mexico as justification for tighter gun laws in the US. This article from Feb of 2009 has some enlightening groundwork:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1
(Nevermind the fact that automatic weapons and grenades are not fucking available in the US, but why let the facts get in the way of your agenda...this will be a theme.
In their first months in office, the Obama admin were beating this drum virtually non-stop. President Obama, Hillary Clinton and several democrat senators kept rolling out that this statistic that 90% of the guns in Mexico come from the United States. It was a lie, and nowhere close to the truth. Fox News did a great job of pointing out this fact in this article:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-small-fraction-guns-mexico-come/
Obama must have been frustrated that he was not able to simply lie with impunity, and there was one single news organization willing to drag his lies out into the open. So, what to do. What to do. Well, how about having the ATF run a covert operation with the goal of FLOODING Mexico with guns. Hey, if there aren't enough US originated guns in Mexico for you to make your point and get some traction on banning US guns, just fucking plant them there. And when US Gun dealers try to blow the whistle on it, have the ATF cover it up and actively work FOR the Mexican drug cartels in supplying them with weapons. No, not just any weapons, but the exact high tech military style weapons that YOU CLAIM YOU ARE TRYING TO PREVENT GOING TO MEXICO!!
Begin "Operation Fast and Furious". What a great name. After all, when you are trying to create crime statistics in Mexico to further an agenda to restrict American's constitutional rights, there is no time to waste.
This article will show you the tip of the iceberg:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...as-new-testimony-is-expected-to-reveal-depth/
The Kliff's notes version is that the ATF deliberately funneled weapons into Mexico and was encouraging straw purchases in the US. When gun dealers tried to follow the provisions of their FFL and report their suspicions of straw purchases, the ATF ordered them to continue the sales. The estimated death toll for the guns supplied by the ATF operation is over ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, and that's just on the Mexican side. There is reasonable probability that Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed by one of these weapons. A Mexican Military HELICOPTER was shot down with a rifle that was supplied to Mexican cartels by the ATF.
This goes right to the top. An operation of this scope simply does not go off without Presidential Approval, and the Justice Department (most likely Holder himself) would have to personally approve the breech of law that allowed the guns to go across the border.
The frightening aspect of this situation is that it serves as evidence of how far President Obama will go down a path with the ultimate goal of curbing our Constitutional rights. One hundred and fifty dead Mexican law enforcement alone. SEVEN HUNDRED more of these weapons recovered from crime scenes...all with the goal of taking away YOUR gun rights.
I doubt that this will get the traction in the media that it should, and few will understand how outraged that they should be. If President Obama knew of this operation, quite frankly he should be impeached. Ordering US gun laws to be broken to create a Mexican crime wave that resulted in the death of hundreds of Mexican officials (and even one US Agent) certainly qualifies as a "high crime". If a private American citizen knowingly sells a gun to a criminal and that gun is used in a crime, the seller can be charged as an accessory to the crime. Our elected leaders must be held to the same standards, if not higher. Certainly some level of under cover operations should be allowed by law enforcement. The scope of this crime and political nature is totally unforgivable.
President Obama has never been a friend to the American shooter and that's probably because he actually understands why our founding fathers wrote the 2nd amendment. So, shortly after taking office BHO made it his mission to roll back our gun rights and made it his stated position that he wanted to re-institute the so called "assault weapons" ban that President Bush allowed to expire. Obama became a friend of gun and ammunition manufactures world wide because a run on firearms in the US took place on an epic scale. Even with both houses of Congress, Obama never got this issue to a vote. Why? Well, he was busy somewhere else. Mexico.
Even in his first days in office, Obama pointed toward Mexico as justification for tighter gun laws in the US. This article from Feb of 2009 has some enlightening groundwork:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1
(Nevermind the fact that automatic weapons and grenades are not fucking available in the US, but why let the facts get in the way of your agenda...this will be a theme.
In their first months in office, the Obama admin were beating this drum virtually non-stop. President Obama, Hillary Clinton and several democrat senators kept rolling out that this statistic that 90% of the guns in Mexico come from the United States. It was a lie, and nowhere close to the truth. Fox News did a great job of pointing out this fact in this article:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/myth-percent-small-fraction-guns-mexico-come/
Obama must have been frustrated that he was not able to simply lie with impunity, and there was one single news organization willing to drag his lies out into the open. So, what to do. What to do. Well, how about having the ATF run a covert operation with the goal of FLOODING Mexico with guns. Hey, if there aren't enough US originated guns in Mexico for you to make your point and get some traction on banning US guns, just fucking plant them there. And when US Gun dealers try to blow the whistle on it, have the ATF cover it up and actively work FOR the Mexican drug cartels in supplying them with weapons. No, not just any weapons, but the exact high tech military style weapons that YOU CLAIM YOU ARE TRYING TO PREVENT GOING TO MEXICO!!
Begin "Operation Fast and Furious". What a great name. After all, when you are trying to create crime statistics in Mexico to further an agenda to restrict American's constitutional rights, there is no time to waste.
This article will show you the tip of the iceberg:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...as-new-testimony-is-expected-to-reveal-depth/
The Kliff's notes version is that the ATF deliberately funneled weapons into Mexico and was encouraging straw purchases in the US. When gun dealers tried to follow the provisions of their FFL and report their suspicions of straw purchases, the ATF ordered them to continue the sales. The estimated death toll for the guns supplied by the ATF operation is over ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY, and that's just on the Mexican side. There is reasonable probability that Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed by one of these weapons. A Mexican Military HELICOPTER was shot down with a rifle that was supplied to Mexican cartels by the ATF.
This goes right to the top. An operation of this scope simply does not go off without Presidential Approval, and the Justice Department (most likely Holder himself) would have to personally approve the breech of law that allowed the guns to go across the border.
The frightening aspect of this situation is that it serves as evidence of how far President Obama will go down a path with the ultimate goal of curbing our Constitutional rights. One hundred and fifty dead Mexican law enforcement alone. SEVEN HUNDRED more of these weapons recovered from crime scenes...all with the goal of taking away YOUR gun rights.
I doubt that this will get the traction in the media that it should, and few will understand how outraged that they should be. If President Obama knew of this operation, quite frankly he should be impeached. Ordering US gun laws to be broken to create a Mexican crime wave that resulted in the death of hundreds of Mexican officials (and even one US Agent) certainly qualifies as a "high crime". If a private American citizen knowingly sells a gun to a criminal and that gun is used in a crime, the seller can be charged as an accessory to the crime. Our elected leaders must be held to the same standards, if not higher. Certainly some level of under cover operations should be allowed by law enforcement. The scope of this crime and political nature is totally unforgivable.
