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Neal Barton's POV
A crying shame
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POSTED: Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 6:52pm
UPDATED: Friday, August 19, 2011 - 7:40am
tyler — This is one of those stories that makes me want to bang my head against the wall.
And it drives me crazy there is not more outrage. It's Operation Fast and Furious.
The dream child from some government egghead that never realized how dangerous this program was going to be if it went wrong. Well, it went wrong and some have been hurt and even killed.
Just in case you don't know, it was a half-baked scheme by the ATF to allow bad guys from the drug cartels in border states to buy weapons in the U.S..
The cute little plan was we'll sell the guns to bad guys and then track them down and smile big for the press release.
Well, guess what? Something went wrong. The guns could not be traced. A U.S. border agent was killed with one of them. Eleven more crimes were committed with these weapons.
Gun store owners in Texas and other border states called the ATF and said these shady characters are wanting to buy guns. The ATF's answer: let them buy them.
They did, now, we know we have a mess.
There was news this week of the three ATF big wigs who okay'd this were promoted. The L.A. Time reports that's not true, they were just transferred to other jobs.
But Attorney General Eric holder and the rest of high level feds have some explaining to do.
Plus, why hasn't this scandal been reported more? Why hasn't this investigation been fast-tracked? This is government incompetence at its worst.
That's my POV, what's yours?
You can email me @pov@ketknbc.com.
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There was nothing haphazard about this operation: it was created by the current wanna-be dictatorial administration with the intent that the results from finding U.S. guns in Mexico would allow for some basis to implement more GUN CONTROL!
IF...!! this is able to be fully prosecuted, it will lead right to the wHITEOUSE! Doesn't this constitute treason; after all, we are at WAR with the drug cartels??
THIS JUST SHOWS THAT THE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ARE DEALING DRUGS, WEAPONS, AND WHTEVER ELSE THAT THEY'RE INVOLVED IN, AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED HAVE SUPPOSEDLY BEEN PROMOTED, OR EVEN TRANSFERRED, AND THE ATF HASN'T EVEN FIRED THEM OR ANYTHING. LET SOMEBODY ON THE STREET SELL SOME GUNS TO THE CARTELS AND GET CAUGHT AND SEE HOW FAST THEY GET THROWN IN JAIL, OR BURIED UNDER THE JAIL. ALL THIS TIME THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN DEALING DRUGS, AND WEAPONS AND AMERICANS JUST JUST LET IT HAPPEN...
Americans have learned to keep their mouth's shut when it comes to the actions of government at any level. From the tax collector to the attorney general and every affirmative action hire in between, the government badge or letterhead trumps any and all wrongs. Honest citizens do their jobs, pay their taxes, go the their state approved church, and hide in their homes not to become a victim of some bureaucrat or cop having a bad day. Unless you are old and wothless, you should do the same.
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