A sign that one's society has an illness.
Posted on 03/17/2011 1:07:13 PM PDT by Voice of Reason88
Project Gun Walker, also known by the case name “Fast and Furious” and “Operation Gunrunner,” was a plan in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives would deliberately allow guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, in order to “see where all the guns ended up, build a big case, and take down a cartel,” as whistleblower agent John Dodson explained to CBS News.
Exactly how was this boneheaded plan supposed to work, anyway? It doesn’t seem as if those guns were implanted with any sort of tracking device, and you’d need the starship Enterprise to track the position of thousands of weapons over long distances.
Writing at the St. Louis Examiner, gun rights advocate and blogger Kurt Hofmann questions “the BATFE / Department of Justice spin that this was a perhaps ill-considered, but still honorably intended, effort to bring down at least one major Mexican drug syndicate,” and suggests a more straightforward purpose for the seemingly incomprehensible Gun Walker operation was to “pad the statistics about Mexican ‘crime guns’ coming from the U.S. civilian market.” This would “strengthen the BATFE’s argument for more funding and power… and gun control advocates’ calls for more restrictive gun laws.”
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Actually it was a deliberate act to allow guns into the hands of the cartels in order for the BATF to blame US gun shops. And declare war in gun sales, gun owners and the 2 A altogether, anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot...
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms. Waco alert! Burn all toddlers first police. Also caught red handed selling guns to the Mexican cartels!
A sign that one's society has an illness.
You mean, BATFE was concocting an operation to basically conquer all of Mexico?
The narco-corruption goes from top to bottom in Mexico, from the lowest border-crossing peon with a gunny sack full of black tar heroin strapped to her back all the way up to El Presidente of Mexico and all his army generals. Everybody else gets their heads sawn off and tossed in the street.
Who in the hell did BATFE think they were going to serve an arrest warrant on down in Mexico, and under what authority?
Disband the BATFE. Reduce them to a minor bureau in the US Treasury and tell them to shut up and do nothing but licking tax stamps and slapping them on the caps of booze bottles.
You only have to look at the results to come to the conclusion that it was always about our right of self-defense.
There seems to be a lot more activity in trying to use this issue to take out the 2nd amendment than to take out the cartels.
Someone had some interesting speculation on one of the other sites out there.
They were speculating as to whether this type of gunwalking could have taken place in the southeastern states and Tucson in particular.
It was sort of along the lines of why wait for a crisis when you can create one?
Welcome to the party, Mr. Hayward!
That is my guess too.
They wanted to find as many U.S. guns as possible in Mexico even if they had to provide them, or at least encourage their “walking” into Mexico.
BINGO!. If they haven't been able to 'bring the cartel down' for drugs, how were they going to do it for guns?
"Boneheaded"?
Evil is more like it.
Facilitating the smuggling of weapons into Mexico to manufacture evidence which would be used by THE REGIME to bolster its case to re-enact some kind of assault weapons ban is much worse than boneheaded.
Helping to get innocent people killed to push an agenda aimed at depriving American citizens of 2nd Amendment rights is much worse than boneheaded.
Be Ever Vigilant!
That's commonly know as a conspiracy to viloate our civil rights under color of law...punishible by incarceration, (preferably in a Mexican prison)
“....and you’d need the starship Enterprise to track the position of thousands of weapons over long distances.”
“Unintended consequences” are usually caused by voids in the brains of morons, idiots, or Liberals....redundant I guess, but seems to be a common thread in the fabric of this administrations binding.
Whom once were the Jesters of the court are now the court.
“Boneheaded” in the sense that as cover story and to why they were doing this, it did not pass the smell test.
If they had intercepted the guns before they could be used by the cartels and made some arrests, then maybe the story might have been ‘believable’.
In addition, of course if the administration weren’t using this as a way to try and destroy the 2nd amendment that would have lent some credibility to the cover story as well.
However, we all know at least the circumstantial facts surrounding this case and we can make up our own minds.
When you start out with a lie - The 90% lie - you shouldn’t expect people to believe what else you say on the subject.
Mexican cartels making payoffs to the highest levels in our government and with this incident it was exposed.
Some might say seditious.
Sorta like Bush Sr. looking the other way as the cia flew cocaine into Mena. ATF was investigating this when OK’s Murrah blew up. Corruption stops at the water’s edge, and both sides hold the threat of blackmail, keeping the whole scam just humming along.
I’m sorry but the BATFE explanation of “we’ll give the cartels guns to make them vulnerable for prosecution” reminds me of the old saying... “F#$king for virginity”.
I’m rather insulted that DOJ, the White House and ATF leadership thinks that we, the general public, are that stupid to believe that line.
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