Posted on 07/16/2011 8:51:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
They choose a pivotal moment in the Gunwalker investigation to announce a gun-control bill.
A handful of Democratic lawmakers in Congress and a fish cop held a press conference Friday to announce a new gun control proposal, the “Stop Gun Trafficking and Strengthen Law Enforcement Act.” The proposed law has no chance of passing, and seems orchestrated as a Democratic response meant to draw attention away from the still-developing “Gunwalker” scandal:
U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) will join other members and a leading law enforcement organization for an event Friday, July 15th, 11:00 a.m. at the House Triangle to introduce the “Stop Gun Trafficking and Strengthen Law Enforcement Act,” which establishes a dedicated firearms trafficking statute to empower law enforcement to keep high-powered firearms out of the hands of dangerous criminals, including Mexican drug cartels.
The exact same agencies that would be charged with enforcing the proposal are currently under investigation — and may eventually face felony charges — because they broke existing laws and participated in widespread gun trafficking. To borrow from a reader, the federal government is using federal agencies to break federal laws so that same federal government can impose more federal laws on the people that did not break the law.
It is Orwellian in its absurdity, and yet entirely real.
For those of you arriving to the story late, the scandal of Gunwalker began when ATF whistleblowers testified about a multi-agency federal program in Arizona called “Operation Fast and Furious.” The program was carried out by a multi-agency task force involving elements of the Department of Justice; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Drug Enforcement Agency; and the Internal Revenue Service. It would also have likely required the involvement of the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security.
As executed, the plot allowed straw purchasers to buy thousands of firearms and deliver them to Mexican drug cartels, presumably so that the ATF could learn who the primary gun smugglers were inside the cartels in order to shut them down. It was recently revealed, however, that at least some of the men the ATF were seeking may have been paid informants for the FBI and DEA.
Within the past week, evidence has emerged suggesting that the plot was not confined to Arizona. Similar programs existed in at least three other regions, including an operation that may have been called “Castaway” that shipped roughly 1,000 firearms to the violent gang MS-13 in Honduras from a multi-agency operation based in Tampa.
These politicians — who seem immune to either common sense or irony — can perhaps be convinced to re-title this legislation the Eddie Espinoza Act of 2011, in honor of the Democratic mayor of Columbus, NM, who was recently convicted of trafficking guns to Mexican drug cartels. Espinoza may face up to 65 years in prison — up to 10 years in federal prison for each of the smuggling counts and up to five years for the conspiracy charge as well as each of the false statement charges — for committing many of the same criminal acts (on a much smaller scale) as those carried out by the federal government that prosecuted his case.
Representatives Maloney, Cummings, and Carolyn McCarthy seem to be far less interested in holding those responsible for Gunwalker to account than they are in persecuting gun owners and hobbling the investigations into the scandal being played out in the House and Senate.
We saw this disreputable behavior from Cummings when he held a minority forum several weeks ago that was focused on blame-shifting instead of accountability, and in the 26-page political report that minimized the magnitude of the crimes perpetrated under the guise of law enforcement while building the case for gun control.
Anti-gun Democrats are pushing laws that would only affect the law-abiding, while attempting to direct attention away from what appears to be a widespread criminal conspiracy by executive branch agencies to arm narco-terrorists and then use the violence caused by those weapons to influence U.S. gun laws.
Americans don’t need more gun laws.
What we need are federal law enforcement agencies, legislators, and elected and appointed officials that aren’t willing to “break a few eggs” — or a few hundred lives — in order to take part in an illegal and murderous conspiracy.
Boehner should announce at his next presser that the debt ceiling will not b raised until gun walker is n the books. Then when everyone who has no clue about this says, “what?” announce it to the world.
That is exactly true. No one died during Watergate
Wesley Mooch and Dr. Ferris would be proud of this administration.
5.56mm
Any issues I had with W were based on sound conservative principle.
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2010 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the 2010 Buckeye Firearms Association A percent in 2010.
2010 In 2010 Gun Owners of America - April Ratings gave Representative Boehner a grade of 82.
2010 In 2010 Gun Owners of America - Candidate Ratings gave Representative Boehner a grade of A.
2010 In 2010 the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund gave Representative Boehner a grade of A.
2009 In 2009 Gun Owners of America gave Representative Boehner a grade of A-.
2008 In 2008 National Rifle Association gave Representative Boehner a grade of A, in its scorecard for candidates seeking office in 2008.
2007 In 2007 Gun Owners of America gave Representative Boehner a grade of A-.
2006 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 100 percent in 2006.
2006 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2006, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Boehner a grade of A (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).
2005 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 50 percent in 2005.
2004 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2004, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Boehner a grade of A (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).
2003-2004 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 70 percent in 2003-2004.
2003 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 5 percent from 1988-2003 (Senate) or 1991-2003 (House).
2003 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence 0 percent in 2003.
2003 In 2003 Gun Owners of America gave Representative Boehner a grade of 70.
2002 On the votes that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence considered to be the most important as of 2002, Representative Boehner voted their preferred position 5 percent of the time. These scores are cumulative for each representative's time in their current office. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence considered votes from 1988-2002 in the House and 1991-2002 in the Senate when determining these scores.
2002 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2002, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Boehner a grade of A (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).
2001-2002 Based on the results of a questionnaire the Gun Owners of America assigned Representative Boehner a grade of 0 (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F-).
2001 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence 0 percent in 2001.
2000 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2000, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Boehner a grade of A+ (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).
1999-2000 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence 0 percent in 1999-2000.
1999-2000 Based on the results of a questionnaire the Gun Owners of America assigned Representative Boehner a grade of 0 (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F-).
1993-1994 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the National Rifle Association 100 percent in 1993-1994.
1991-2009 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 4 percent between 1991-2009.
1990-1996 On the votes that the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence considered to be the most important in 1990-1996 , Representative Boehner voted their preferred position 0 percent of the time.
1988-2008 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all candidates from 1988-2008, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence assigned Representative Boehner a grade of 4 percent.
1987-1999 Representative Boehner supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 7 percent in 1987-1999.
That has nothing to do with your Bush Derangement Syndrome. The Speakers of the House's last name also starts with the letter B. I knew I should have given you a hint
Had I said anything derogatory about the Speaker, I could see your point. As it is, I’m waiting to see how he performs, rather than acting as a cheerleader. Trent Lott had an R after his name. Didn’t really work out for me. Or America.
The whole Obozo/Holder gun running scam was intended to push their gun control agenda by herding the sheeple here into the NWO corral.
While swearing they’re both pure as nuns,
seems Obozo and Holder ran guns.
Down to old Mexico
did these firearms go
and their hubristic plot simply stuns.
Dick Bachert
No tinfoil hat needed there; you laid it all out very clearly.
Blame? I simply characterized this as a fly for him to swat. And that's all it is. A minor nuisance, easily dealt with...if it ever rises to the level of a vote.
Fox News is droning on and on about Casey Anthony.
Casey should have use a few “long rifle” rounds to cover up the drowning. Cuz Zanny the nanny was in MS13 donchano. /s
“Never mind that we got caught, we’re going to do it anyway.”
Deluded
Egregious
Marxists
Orchestrating
Criminally
Repugnant
Awful
Totalitarian
Sh*t
I’m being quite patient. But Boehner will get credit for what he delivers, not what he promises, on Gunwalker and everything else. The Republicans won the House. That carries a huge responsibility. Does he stand with the people, or with the ruling class? He can go down in history as a Statesman, or he can go to work at Trent Lott’s lobbying firm.
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