By Semperpapa
Most of the news media outlets are completely ignoring this story, mostly because it is as explosive as a political scandal could be, deeply damaging for the current regime in Washington.
Operations Gunrunner and Fast and Furious are, though, getting quite the attention of Rep. Darrel Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who appears to be set on getting to the bottom, or better yet the top, of the food chain that authorized or was in the knowing about this travesty.
These operations were directed at allowing gun dealers in the border states to sell weapons to dubious buyers. Many dealers would report their suspicions to the DoJ and ATF and were told to go ahead and complete the transactions, allowing thousands of weapons to make their way into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. The scope of the operation, officially, was to track the weapons and get to the big fishes of the drug operations.
Some of these weapons were connected also to the killing of two US federal agents, Brian Terry and Jamie Zapata.
Rep. Issa has been trying to get the head of ATF, Kenneth Melson, and AG Eric Holder to come clean about the operation, in the attempt to find out how high the knowledge of the operations went, but both stooges are clearly non-responsive to the requests possibly forcing the House Committee to issue contempt charges.
The reality is that the two cronies are obviously protecting their boss from such an explosive scandal. The real reason for the operations is to have the issue of weapons in the United States, the very Second Amendment of our Constitution, become an international issue paving the road for what the United Nations is trying to achieve with the Small Arms Treaty.
When Obama told Sarah Brady that he was working under the radar to kill the rights of the American people as afforded by the Constitution, he was not joking. This is one of the "under the radar" efforts to generate support from the domestic liberal terrorists and the international community to force the UN treaty upon the American citizens.
I hope that Issa will continue to press with his requests. The obvious goal for the Obama regime is to keep this farce incognito until the elections in 2012, while instead it should be a campaign slogan for any of the republican contenders. The national media is greatly aiding in this effort and will do all necessary to avoid the issue for as long as possible.
Just my thoughts!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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Let's be honest about the origins of these two operations, shall we? Please?
ReplyDeleteOperation Gunrunner finds its origins in Texas some time in 2007/2008 (lest you doubt me) under GWBush. Operation Fast & Furious began in 2009, with its origins somewhere in 2007/2008 in Phoenix (again, lest you doubt me, but also under the watch of GWBush.
I can appreciate slamming Obama for perpetuating this garbage, but I cannot stand idly by and watch him be blamed for the operations' origins. Call attention to the origins or acknowledge that failure by the media to do so is blatant hypocrisy.
No I am not denying in the least the timeline of this farce, knowing too well that the inception of this moronic operations goes back to the GW time. In fact I never stated that Obama is the architect of any of this.
ReplyDeleteBut it was Obama and Clinton to conduct the first attack against the Second Amendment when they blamed the violence in Mexico on weapons smuggled from the United States.
It was under Obama that the operations were intensified and expanded.
And again it is Obama who made the statement to Sarah Brady about working on solving the "problem" of firearms via means "under the radar".
Such a statement is a clear declaration of intent to wanting the subversion of one of the most important Amendments of our Constitution.
Moreover, there is a small issue of the United Nations and their clear attempt to deeply interfere with the freedoms of us Americans. It may be your idea of a coincidence, but I do not believe in coincidences when it comes to Obama wanting to render the Constitution ineffective.
The blame Bush thing is getting old now.