Posted on 09/24/2011 6:04:13 AM PDT by marktwain
Colorado -–(Ammoland.com)- One of my favorite quotes from early in our history came from Patrick Henry of Virginia:
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
His commentary on government and its’ liberty-crushing power still rings true today.
And the fact that British colonial rulers conducted much of their affairs in secret, behind closed doors, out of the public view, provides an eerie parallel to many government agencies operating inside our country today.
The fact is, it’s the responsibility of gun owners and grassroots activists like you and me to keep a close on eye on our government, particularly on departments like the ATF, which has worked so hard for so long to restrict our Second Amendment rights.
That’s why the latest emerging developments coming out of the ATF’s gun smuggling operation, “Fast & Furious,” are so concerning.
Here is a department within our government whose leaders are appointed by President Obama and report directly to the head of the Justice Department – anti-gun Eric Holder – secretly smuggling weapons to drug cartels, all in an attempt to justify crushing our gun rights.
News broke recently that a gun store owner who was pressured by the ATF to sell weapons to members of drug cartels secretly taped conversations with an ATF agent.
In one of the conversations, the ATF agent shrugs off the death of an American border patrol agent saying that the savage murder was “collateral damage.”
* Every American should be outraged.
* Gun owners should be outraged.
This undercover operation, secretly conducted by our government, has now resulted in the death of at least three American border patrol agents.
And a member of the ATF dismisses these deaths as “collateral damage.”
I hope you will crank up the pressure on Congress to dig further into this secret operation that has resulted in the death of Americans.
Make a call today: 202-224-3121. Talk to your member of Congress.
Make sure they know that you want the investigation into the ATF “Fast & Furious” scandal cranked up to another level.
And that you want those responsible held accountable.
I agree with Patrick Henry that you and I will not be secure as long as our government is allowed to conceal scandal and corruption from the public view. Dudley Brown Executive Director
P.S. It has been revealed that the ATF is now responsible for the death of at least three Americans as a result of their secret gun smuggling operation “Fast & Furious.”
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Gunwalker ping.
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Of the Simplicity of Criminal Laws in different Governments
In republican governments, men are all equal;
equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything;
in the latter, because they are nothing.
The Spirit of the Laws, Book VI
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We are NOT 'collateral damage'......we ARE the People.
The sooner we remind our public servants of that, the better off we'll be!
nice quote
EXCERPT 1
Dealer: Unfortunately a consequence occurred from a weapon shall we say that found its way into the wrong area ok and that was not anticipated. Nobody could foresee that that's collateral damage I think the term is. It happened. It's terrible. That's life ok we move on.
ATF 'Fast and Furious' secret audio: Murder of Border Patrol agent 'collateral damage'
And this current mal-administration desires to keep us scattered like sheep without a shepherd .As Noah Webster and later Robert Charles Winthrop noted (the former in his English translation of the Bible ,1833-the latter in a speech given before the Mass. Bible Society May 28,1849 The Bible or the Bayonet) All societies of men must be governed in some way or other.The less they have of stringent State govt, the more they must have of individual self government.the less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Men in a word,must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man,Either by the Bible or by the bayonet.” I have read some of the black robed regiment of the revolutionary era and they seem to have understood as well -i.e. “Give ‘em Watts boys.” -Rev. James Caldwell at Springfield engagement. Understood our rights to religious freedom are guarded by our right to keep and bear arms.
Has it been verified that a gunwalker gun was actually used to kill a border patrol agent? Why does it take so long to do the ballistics?
Excellent.
Thank you for their photos. Their families must be devastated and outraged and I hope they never give up this fight for justice. I am sick when I read these threads.
One of my very favorite quotes:
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke
May God comfort your families.
And pray that those responsible be held accountable.
This morsel gives me an appetite for Burke. I seem to have heard once that the liberal /progressive’ thinks they are the elite that an drive the unfree - I dont recall where I heard it and probably twisted it -such is my habit at times. At any rate if true — it would explain the public persona of the 0 for only an un free people—a people already in fetters would vote for someone whose sole strength was a promise to “fundamentally change” America.
Savagesusie has studied up on the history of leftist thought and has great comments on FR. Sometimes I just do a search of her comments to learn stuff. I wish she’d do vanities but she’s very humble.
:-)
Of even more concern is that dozens and maybe hundreds of agents knew of it and no one spoke up until a BP agent was murdered.
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