Posted on 12/20/2011 1:51:29 PM PST by neverdem
In all of my years fighting on behalf of the National Rifle Association to defend the Second Amendment, I never thought I would see a White House so vehemently opposed to gun ownership that it would be willing to arm violent criminals and endanger American lives in pursuit of a gun control agenda. Readers will recall that a little over two months ago, in this same space, I wrote:
"I would like to believe that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder – no matter how much they oppose our Second Amendment rights – would never break the law and endanger human lives in their mission to score political points against gun owners...
"However, to believe all of this, I would have to ignore a lot of facts."
And now, according to new documents obtained by CBS News, we are faced with the fact that the Obama administration helped transfer illegal guns to drug cartels in Mexico to build a case for gun control – specifically, gun registration – here in America.
"If these reports are true, even by Washington standards this reaches a new level of arrogance and corruption," remarked Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). Unfortunately, Sen. Cornyn is not exaggerating.
On July 14, 2010, Mark Chait, who served as Assistant Director for Field Operations for the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (BATFE) sent an email to Bill Newell, BATFE's special agent in charge of operation "Fast and Furious." Chait's email said:
"Bill, can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time? We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long-gun sales. Thanks."
Just six months later, after a press conference to announce arrests made in "Fast and Furious," Chait emailed Newell again, saying:
"Bill--well done yesterday... (I)n light of our request for Demand letter 3, this case could be a strong supporting factor if we can determine how many multiple sales of long guns occurred during the course of this case."
"Demand letter 3" is a letter sent to U.S. firearms dealers in the four southwest border states, demanding that they register sales of more than one semi-automatic rifle to the same person within five business days.
Under its "Fast and Furious" operation, Obama's BATFE had been forcing licensed firearms dealers to sell semi-automatic rifles to shady straw purchasers, who would then supply them to drug cartels in Mexico.
Many of these dealers were extremely apprehensive because BATFE was, in fact, forcing them break the law. In fact, one licensed dealer emailed BATFE numerous times to express his concern, not only could these sales jeopardize his livelihood, but also that the guns he was being forced to sell could end up in the hands of criminals south of the border, where they might be used to harm or kill American Border Patrol agents.
BATFE reassured him that everything was fine and that he should just keep following their orders. As we now know, the dealer's concerns were more than justified.
In April of this year, the Obama administration unilaterally imposed the "Demand letter 3" registration requirement. The National Rifle Association is currently funding lawsuits to end this unconstitutional edict.
"Very clearly, they've [the Obama administration] made a crisis and they're using this crisis to somehow take away or limit people's Second Amendment rights," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who is leading the House investigation into "Fast and Furious."
"There's plenty of evidence showing that this administration planned to use the tragedies of 'Fast and Furious' as rationale to further their goals of a long gun reporting requirement," stated Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), who is leading the investigation on the Senate side.
Even Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, recently admitted to Congress that "Fast and Furious" guns would continue to show up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico "for years to come" – just as two of them were found at the murder scene of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Ever since the "Fast and Furious" scandal first broke, Eric Holder and his colleagues in the Obama administration have refused to fully cooperate with congressional investigators. Now we know why. Because the truth is uglier than we ever could have imagined. Our own federal government willingly endangered American lives to build a case for weakening our Second Amendment freedoms.
Should read...
Obama Administration orchestrates mass murder to advance gun control agenda.
This is way beyond criminal. This is an act of war against Mexico, which so far as I know, is still a sovereign nation, even though it is undergoing internal strife.
When one nation makes a policy of supporting rebels or even terrorists in another country, this is regarded as very bad relations. As a parallel situation, say, Iran or another nation known to support terrorists against their enemies, like supplying arms and rockets to Hamas, to be used against Israel, that is provocative action that could only be called war-like.
In this era of undeclared and irregular wars, the intent of making weapons available to known terrorists is in itself an act of terror, and in a larger sense, yet another undeclared but active war.
There is an awful lot of “walking” that is going to have be done here. Like maybe a “perp walk” for a number of as yet unindicted co-conspirators.
That would darned near clear out the Department of Justice.
Accurate and appropriate.
It could also be called state-sponsored terrorism.
That is what our State Dept. calls it when Iran, NK and other nations do it.
What I would like to know is WHY the gaggle of Republican presidential candidates are not even mentioning F&F.
The first one to bring it out in the open for all to hear will be my choice.
At least the Republicans are no longer calling it a little BooBoo the administration accidentally made.
I once heard about a similar scam involving William Randolph Hearst trying to arm Pauncho Villa to incite more border violence to get federal protection for his (Hearst’s) timber interests in Mexico. I heard about it from one of Pershing’s cavalry officers in the early 1970’s.
Using an issue that few people know about and is still in the putative stages of Congressional investigation as a campaign issue isn’t a winner. It’s risky even.
Sad but true. Almost everyone that I have mentioned it to has never heard of "Fast and Furious" even those Conservatives who are very against Obama.
Dems Blame Bush For Operation Fast and Furious With Lies
That's from the Post Chronicle (Denville, N.J.). Foxnews and other Murdoch outfits have covered F & F plenty. So did the LA Times and CBS, at least online. It's been om PBS' Newshour and NPR. It's just not getting on much broadcast coverage. I've posted F & F online stories from all over the country. If folks don't know about it they're just not that well informed on current events.
Just wait till Holder gets impeached.
Bill Clinton is Patrick Henry compared to our current Black Panther President. So what if one (Yeah, right) American LEO and over 300 Mexicans were killed?
“He is building his army of criminals and thugs. Do any doubt that? “
No doubt at all, but his “army” is a joke. Holder sent his fat slob SEIU “peoples” to disrupt our tea party meeting. By the time we were done with them, they had locked themselves in a building and were crying for the cops to rescue them.
The first one to bring it out in the open for all to hear will be my choice.
Finally: Fast and Furious Comes up as GOP Debate Topic
Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked the question about Fast and Furious without mentioning Brian Terry, didn't give background on the operation and framed it in a way that benefited Eric Holder. She asked Rick Santorum and Rick Perry if republicans were politicizing the scandal by calling for his resignation. Rick Perry has joined with 57 House Republicans in calls for Holder to resign immediately.Megyn Kelly? 8^)
>>No doubt at all, but his “army” is a joke. Holder sent his fat slob SEIU “peoples” to disrupt our tea party meeting. By the time we were done with them, they had locked themselves in a building and were crying for the cops to rescue them.
Hm, now that sounds like a story. Care to share?
All gun control laws endanger American lives. They do nothing to prevent criminals from getting guns. Because criminals do not obey laws.
It looks like YouTube has mixed in the various Tea Party events all onto one page. You’ll need to sift through these videos to find the incident with SEIU in Greenville, SC. There was a YouTube page which featured only the Greenville event, but I can’t find it. Sorry.
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