Posted on 07/26/2007 10:10:54 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
A team of inspectors from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives fled an Idaho gun shop where they were inspecting sales records when they learned their actions were being recorded on a blog.
The federal agency and Red's Trading Post of Twin Falls, Idaho, have been disputing for six years already over the store's license to sell firearms, with regulators using rules infractions such as a missing poster to attack Red's business operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be three aisles at the mini mart.
ID P-list ping.
More on Red’s and the ATF.
If the ATF flees in fear from a camera, imagine how much fear they have of illegal gun smugglers! No wonder they spend their time harrassing legal gun dealers! Real criminals are just too scary!
Coming from the BATFE, that statement just has to win some kind of hypocrisy award!
ROFLOL!
Harass and intimidate, indeed.
Feds don’t like their actions being public, where have I read about something like that?
Awwwww. Poor babies. I feel so sorry for them . . . NOT!
Y’know, this is the sort of thing the founders intended. The government and its agents were supposed to be - if not fearful, then at least more respectful of the people. Now, after shoving the recent immigration bill back up Bush’s ... well, never mind, and now this. Maybe there’s still hope for a relatively peaceful turnaround in this country yet.
It is worrisome when your law enforcment officers object to their carrying out their jobs under public scrutiny.
Like cockroaches fleeing the light.
Except that the cockroaches earn an honest living without harrassing the crap out of other insects, killing their pets, burning their children, kicking the egg sacks of expectant mother insects, burning down the homes of other insects, preventing other insects from earning a living or depriving insects of their means of self-defense.
I therefore beg the forgiveness of cockroaches everywhere for insulting them. Sorry, I just couldn’t think of a better example. Maybe a dung beetle...nah, they work an honest living also, and actually clean up the world.
This copies, exactly, the premise of “Max Headroom”. Remember that show ?
The only defense against criminals was having the television camera on, and the only way your camera could be on was to be broadcasting something news-worthy.
It seemed they were ok with their “we do what we want” search until the “cameras” were turned on.. and there was apparently nothing they could do about it.
I would envision them destroying the PC in a “whoopsie” before letting it prevail.
"Look out! The man pulled out his keyboard!!! RUN!!!"
I hate to say it but I figured that out just from reading the article. And I'm not even an ATF agent.
The ATF has decided it's much easier to go after the law-abiding public than it is the criminals.
Very big difference.
So many laws and rules that it's impossible to not break one. Talk about perfect "job" security for the clowns that call themselves ATF.
Scary stuff. Is this part of the globalist’s plan? What will stop them?
"The person in question who photographed them was a 70-year-old man in a Hawaiian shirt who is balding (Sorry, Al) and has a broken foot. Yet three inspectors felt that they were in danger," he saida.
And churches in Waco.
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