Posted on 09/17/2014 1:34:37 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator
A top Republican House member on Wednesday proposed eliminating the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, writing a bill that would freeze all hiring at the troubled agency and require the Justice Department to come up with a plan for transferring its duties to other agencies.
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the Wisconsin Republican who wrote the bill, called it both a chance to streamline government and to clean up an agency that’s been criticized from the right and the left for botched gun-running operations.
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“I don’t know if his plan is good or not, because having the Justice Deparment transfer the duties would put even more power into the demonic hands of Eric Holder or other evildoers of his ilk. Why not simply eliminate the duties of the ATF entirely, and have all of its employees executed for treason?
A CAPITAL idea! Turn them over to ISIL!
Those faces would Drive a man to Drink.
Re your pic: It would have taken a LOT of liquor.
ATF is an agency of the executive branch thru the US Treasury. Secret Service is Treasury also.
Prohibition Poster: Fact or Fiction?
Erection snipers and %ock blockers, the whole lot of them. Coming home to them IS the original “Icewater Challenge.”
In Pennsylvania back in the 1990’s then Republican Governor Tom Ridge campaigned on the notion that the agency regulating the environment was not organized properly and he gave it a new name.
It didn’t stop the environmental regulation, just gave it a new name.
Since this country is trillions in the hole, I would shut down agencies entirely like OSHA and EPA and let the soverign states deal with those issues. They already have their own agencies.
The problem with that is the bagmen would have to do 50 times more travel to pay out their bribes.
Really! Technology needs to meet the processes of governing.
OK, fair enough -
pass me some whiskey, would ya?
I just want to be sure...
Why stop there? How about the EPA, too?
And the Department of Education.
For starters.
Thanks for note. However, not only is executive branch constitutionally required to faithfully make sure that all laws are faithfully executed as evidenced by Section 3 of Article II, but also consider the following. Regardless of which branch of federal government that ATF belongs to, the Supreme Court has clarified in general that powers not delegated to the federal government expressly via the Constitution are prohibited.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers when they wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress's favor in 1942, the justices wrongly ignored that a previous generation of justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds to the feds to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So if the ATF is regulating intrastate commerce in any way, then they have no constitutional authority to do so.
Each week Decimate every federal agency. That means each week you take one in ten and get rid of them. After nine weeks, keep what's left and give them a useful skill the people need.
Thank You for that post and depressing reality. I think you might be my daughter in law school? She is a real facts in law kinda gal. You can’t ask for the salt at our chrismas dinner table without my daughter researching salt distribution accross seating lines and it’s legal case precident.
Seeing that pic, I’d think it an incentive to drink...
There’s one in Colorado.
That right there is the most effective liquor advertisement I’ve ever seen. No two ways about it!
I hope that your daughter is studying Supreme Court case opinions written before FDR’s puppet justices nuked the Constitution, sweeping the 10th Amendment under the carpet in order to give corrupt Congress the green light to greatly overstep its constitutionally limited powers.
When you go to law school you don't get to pick which side of a case you prepare for. She's better than I am. I would be advocating this or that view. She is being a lawyer as required. Down the road she can go after legal issues more aligned with her own thinking and those of her paying clients.
I am a really blessed parent. All my kids are amazing thinkers and fiercely independent. They are certainly my betters.
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