Posted on 07/20/2011 4:18:37 AM PDT by marktwain
Writing for the Abilene Reporter-News, Jorge de la Isla points out a relatively unexplored implication of "Project Gunwalker":
Mexico's presidential election, coming up a year from now, could easily have the U.S. gun policy known as "Fast and Furious" at the center of public debate.
Two weeks ago, Fox News went farther than that, reporting that the potential next president of Mexico (as the likely nominee by President Felipe Calderón's National Action Party), Senator Santiago Creel, has advocated extradition, and prosecution in Mexico, of any U.S. officials behind Project Gunwalker. Says Sen. Creel:
I think we should at least try to prove that what happened in Mexico must be sanctioned by Mexican laws and under our sovereignty," Creel told us. "What can't happen is that this now ends on an administrative sanction, or a resignation. No, no, no. Human lives were lost here. A decision was made to carry out an operation that brought very high risk to human lives.
As the sordid details of "Project Gunwalker" emerge, a growing number of Mexicans are becoming very understandably angry over this monstrous conspiracy to facilitate mass murder in that country, and to destabilize its government by arming the narco-terrorists. Few, if any, people expect the U.S. government to agree to extradite U.S. officials to Mexico, but a closer look is now being taken at arms export laws in the U.S. that might have been broken by those behind "Project Gunwalker."
Attorney and Second Amendment advocate David T. Hardy explains on his Of Arms and the Law blog:
There have been some reports of agents having directly transferred firearms to drug cartel buyers, in order to boost their "street creds."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Gunwalker ping.
There have been some reports of agents having directly transferred firearms to drug cartel buyers, in order to boost their “street creds.” That’d clearly be a violation. In other situations, the person who actually exported the firearms would be in clear violation. But what of those government supervisors who allowed the arms to flow — especially the cases where a protesting FFL was told to sell the guns anyway?
18 U.S. Code §2 provides:
Ҥ 2. Principals
(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.”
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At least as *humane* as these policies have been to the innocent people who died as a result of this atrocity.
Eric Holder is just a pawn in this game.
The blame rests with the man who would be King.
Working under the Radar with Sarah Brady to take away our 2nd.Amendment rights.
Listen to this man , he will tell you what he is doing.Obama is the guilty person in this mess.
It won’t happen. Mexico routinely refuses to extradite their citizens to our country (there is language in their Constitution which actually forbids this). So by the basic rules of diplomatic reciprocity the US will refuse to extradite any of ours to them.
How convenient!
If the administration wants to be so “international” then I dare them to adopt the same illegal immigration stance as the Mexicans. Btw, are the Mexicans ever polled about what they think about all this garbage?
The Mexican general election of 2012 is to be held July 1, 2012.
That is just four months prior to the general election here.
I bet Eric The Pinhead can smell the diesel exhaust from his house...
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