Operations Fast & Furious

[koalabear]

Because in the scheme of things liberals believe it's okay to invent a crisis in order to create a basis to infringe upon our constitutional rights. They believe it's okay to break the law, violate your oath of office, and be a party to a murder in pursuit of the greater good of advancing their political agenda down the road to serfdom.

In a conference call this morning with Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa, reporters were told the Attorney General in Mexico has confirmed at least 200 murders south of the border happened as a result of Operation Fast and Furious. Eleven crimes in the United States have been linked to Operation Fast and Furious up to this point.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...d-furious-program-linked-to-over-200-murders/

It's ok, it's just mainly smelly brown people (as daily likes to refer to them) getting murdered.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Attacks against Holder are racist.

I notice the SEC didn't pick up Franklin Delano Raines or Tim Johnson either...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Can anyone explain to me why the media isn't talking about this issue every day. I mean corruption or incompetence under any administration is a major issue.

Holder lied people died comes to mind, but nobody even the OWS crowd are saying a damn thing about it.

Mexican nationals and police officers were murdered because of this operation and nobody cares. It's so depressing.

Where are all the people who are stilling scream about the US government selling/giving weapons to unsavory people decades back? Why is this administration getting a pass? Anyone going to bring this up during the election?

The media votes 90% Democrat.

Obama is their guy, they made him, they elected him, they run interference for him and silence seems to be the best way to circle the wagons other than have the President gather his entire cabinet to chant, "He never, not once, had sex with that woman!" while wagging their fingers at us.

He never once, ONCE, read that, or any other memo...

 

[koalabear]

The media votes 90% Democrat.

Obama is their guy, they made him, they elected him, they run interference for him and silence seems to be the best way to circle the wagons other than have the President gather his entire cabinet to chant, "He never, not once, had sex with that woman!" while wagging their fingers at us.

He never once, ONCE, read that, or any other memo...

memo, what memo....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Exactly, the buck never got here...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In 2007, a member of the Blue Steel Democrats, an online organization that supports a citizen's right to bear arms, wrote a letter to then-Senator Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, asking for his position on the Second Amendment. Obama made it clear where he stood.

We must work to ensure that guns do not fall into the hands of criminals or the mentally ill through an effective background check system. We also have to strike a reasonable balance between public safety and sportsmen's rights.

I will continue to work for effective gun laws, including reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that the last Congress allowed to expire, and effective law enforcement

Obama was true to his word. On February 25, 2009, approximately a month after the president took office, his attorney general told a reporter that "there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make."

Among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.

Holder

In the same February press conference, Holder linked the ban to cracking down on Mexican drug cartels. National Rifle Association president Wayne La Pierre weighed in on the attorney general's remarks, stating, "I think there are a lot of Democrats on the Hill cringing at Holder's comments right now." Indeed there were.

A few weeks later, on March 17, 2009, a group of 65 House Democrats sent a letter to Holder urging him to reconsider his campaign to reinstitute the assault weapons ban.

As strong supporters of the Second Amendment, we were very concerned to see your recent remarks suggesting that the Administration will push for the reinstatement of the 1994 ban on "assault weapons" and ammunition magazines. We believe this ban was ineffective during the 10 years it was law, and would oppose its reenactment."

When the gun ban was first signed into law in 1994 during the Clinton administration, 54 House Democrats lost their seats; they weren't about to repeat history. In a CNN March 26, 2009 interview with Wayne LaPierre and Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation, Lou Dobbs noted "the cavalier way in which Eric Holder, the attorney general, brought up the assault weapons ban reinstitution idea gives you very clear evidence, if we needed it, as to how opposed this administration is to the second amendment" (my emphasis).

The Democrats' letter ended up sending a loud and clear message to Holder and the administration: "back off -- Congress is not about to revisit the ban on assault weapons."

In the same March 2009 interview, six months before Operation Fast and Furious commenced and long before the scandal hit the news, Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) told the CNN correspondent, "I think many members of Congress, probably a majority, have real problems with an administration who using [sic] drug violence along the border as an excuse for gun control. It's like they have a hidden agenda, and we're very aware of it."

Clinton

Was Smith right? When Hillary Clinton visited Mexico City on March 26, 2009, she touted the ban as an effective law, saying it had been instrumental in driving down the crime rate. She also told Mexican officials imposing the stricter control on the sale of assault weapons was going to be difficult. "Politically, this is a very big hurdle in our Congress." Clinton then blamed the United States for the violence.

Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade[.] ... Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.

By the time AG Eric Holder visited Mexico a week later, pressure was on to steer clear of references to the assault weapons ban. At a press conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico on April 2, 2009, Holder complied, dutifully promising to "stand shoulder to shoulder" with Mexico and saying that "the United States shares responsibility for this problem and we will take responsibility by joining our Mexican counterparts in every step of this fight."

Mexico's President Felipe Calderón weighed in on the issue of reinstatement of the gun ban when he questioned Obama's commitment to the matter in a meeting on April 14, 2009; Obama promised not to give up the fight. Calderón got on board with the widely parroted but eventually debunked assertion that "90 percent of the weapons seized in Mexico could be traced to the United States, adding that organized crime increased after the ban expired."

Napolitano

Janet Napolitano was also on message just before she headed to Mexico herself. On March 29, 2009, testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on U.S.-Mexico border violence in Washington, Napolitano said that "she hopes an upcoming series of meetings with Mexican officials involving her, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder will lead to more U.S. interdiction on southbound guns and cash."

All four principals -- Obama, Holder, Napolitano, and Clinton -- visited Mexico in March and April of 2009. All four raised the issue of smuggled guns, and each in his or her own way vowed to "take the fight to the Mexican drug cartels." All four supported tightening loopholes in existing gun laws and reinstituting the AWB. All four have denied knowledge of a program named Fast and Furious. All four executives in charge should have known what we citizens now know.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011...ey_had_guns_on_their_minds.html#ixzz1hAuWOoiF

 

[Ishmael]

Of course all of the above ignores the fact that what the politicians are referring to as 'assault weapons' are NOT assault weapons. Assault weapons are a very specific class of weapons capable of fully automatic or 'burst' fire. Dealers that have access to these weapons must have a Class 3 license and any potential buyer, as an individual, must under go an extensive background check as well as jumping through a significant number of other hoops in order to purchase and store said weapon.

The weapons the politicos are referring to as 'assault weapons' are functionally no different than an off the shelf hunting rifle, albeit with a fancy stock.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Of course all of the above ignores the fact that what the politicians are referring to as 'assault weapons' are NOT assault weapons. Assault weapons are a very specific class of weapons capable of fully automatic or 'burst' fire. Dealers that have access to these weapons must have a Class 3 license and any potential buyer, as an individual, must under go an extensive background check as well as jumping through a significant number of other hoops in order to purchase and store said weapon.

The weapons the politicos are referring to as 'assault weapons' are functionally no different than an off the shelf hunting rifle, albeit with a fancy stock.

Ishmael

'assault weapon' = scary-looking gun



:nods:

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

My 30.06 looks perfectly harmless...

 

[MeeMie]

"Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians."

Whoooo knew she was so clairvoyant?

... and then went on to prove their point by giving weapons to illegals to cross the border with to arm criminals who will cause the deaths of border control agents, police officers, soldiers and civilians...

They were all in on the plan. Each and every one of them involved should have a light shown on them.

Shame when ideologies replace common sense and fairness.

 

[MeeMie]

Sadly the assault weapons ban and other such crap is what you get when people who don't know a fucking thing about guns are regulating them.

You should see the devastation that these jerks cause on the fishing industry in New England.

 

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[MeeMie]

Hopefully, the loonies will be regulated out in the next election.

 

[koalabear]

Sadly the assault weapons ban and other such crap is what you get when people who don't know a fucking thing about guns are regulating them.

Just because a sound suppressor is classified as a weapon doesn't mean they are stupid.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Hopefully, the loonies will be regulated out in the next election.

You got environmental loons in every party.




Gun bans will get some Republican support too...

 

[MeeMie]

CNN Compares Obama Fast and Furious Scandal To Watergate


Could this be Obama’s Watergate?

So goes the question from CNN’s Jack Cafferty. While quite a bit late to giving long-ago deserved coverage of the Fast and Furious scandal – the fact CNN is now jumping on board and asking questions appears to show Fast and Furious will prove a potentially debilitating subject as Barack Obama hopes to win re-election in 2012.

http://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Obamas-Watergate.jpg



Congressman Darrell Issa is now calling for detailed Congressional hearings at the start of the new year specifically targeting the Obama Department of Justice and its role in the Fast and Furious gunrunning program that led to the deaths of hundreds of Mexican civilians and U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry. Nearly 100 members of Congress now indicate “no confidence” and/or are now demanding Obama Attorney General Eric Holder resign amid charges of obstruction and lying are leveled against the embattled Holder.

CNN’s Jack Cafferty asks his audience to answer the question of whether or not Fast and Furious is the Obama administration’s Watergate? He points out that Holder has refused to leave his position, and that the Attorney General most recently “played the race card” in stating the criticism against both himself and President Obama is racially motivated.

(It should be noted one of the leading members of Congress calling for Holder’s resignation, Allen West, happens to be Black.)

Read the entire CNN/Cafferty article HERE:
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2...eventually-become-president-obamas-watergate/

 

[MeeMie]

Merry Christmas, Attorney General Eric Holder !!!


It’s the holiday season, and you know what that means: Eric Holder is being investigated. Again!

http://cdn2.dailycaller.com/2011/12/Eric-Holder-v.-Neil-Munro-e1324307707778-320x150.jpg
Holder calling out DailyCaller for reporting on Fast & Furious


Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman has directed the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which he chairs, to investigate miscommunication between law enforcement agencies related to the Justice Department’s Operation Fast and Furious.

A spokesperson told The Daily Caller Wednesday that Lieberman ‘believes that the lack of interagency coordination along the border merits further examination, and as Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he has directed his staff to follow up with the relevant federal agencies on that topic…’

With Lieberman’s committee now investigating Fast and Furious details, that means two Senate committees are probing the matter — the homeland security committee and the judiciary committee.

Sixty-one congressmen, two U.S. senators and two sitting governors have called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation over Fast and Furious.”

If this keeps up, Holder might just give Obama a present on Christmas 2012 - a U-Haul truck!

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/t...s-attorney-general-eric-holder/#ixzz1hHRgHD2L

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Eric Holder showed his true colors when he played the race card. he's lower than scum on par with Pedophile. oh wait, Pedophile's know the difference between what's right and wrong.

Merry Christmas, Attorney General Eric Holder !!!


It’s the holiday season, and you know what that means: Eric Holder is being investigated. Again!

http://cdn2.dailycaller.com/2011/12/Eric-Holder-v.-Neil-Munro-e1324307707778-320x150.jpg
Holder calling out DailyCaller for reporting on Fast & Furious


Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman has directed the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which he chairs, to investigate miscommunication between law enforcement agencies related to the Justice Department’s Operation Fast and Furious.

A spokesperson told The Daily Caller Wednesday that Lieberman ‘believes that the lack of interagency coordination along the border merits further examination, and as Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he has directed his staff to follow up with the relevant federal agencies on that topic…’

With Lieberman’s committee now investigating Fast and Furious details, that means two Senate committees are probing the matter — the homeland security committee and the judiciary committee.

Sixty-one congressmen, two U.S. senators and two sitting governors have called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation over Fast and Furious.”

If this keeps up, Holder might just give Obama a present on Christmas 2012 - a U-Haul truck!

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/t...s-attorney-general-eric-holder/#ixzz1hHRgHD2L

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's not lying, it's a mind set...

 

[miles]

http://patriotupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/eric-holder-cartoon.jpg

 

[koalabear]

http://patriotupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/eric-holder-cartoon.jpg

that card has been used so much it's useless now.

 

[koalabear]

It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how-dare-you accuse-us bleating emanating from Eric Holder’s Justice Department these last nine months.

Operation Fast and Furious — the “botched” gun-tracking program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — did, in fact, deliberately allow some 2,000 high-powered weapons to be sold to Mexican drug cartel agents and then waltzed across the border and into the Mexican drug wars — just as Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, who are leading the congressional investigations, have charged all along.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinio...ous_lies_0EAFsSpd9y1RaeAxikkGUN#ixzz1hHvrZKsE

 

[JohnnySavage]

Mexico needs to secure it's boarder

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sorry, but that does not take state-of-mind into account.




His state of mind was as pure as the driven slush...