Maybe the confluence of interest from the ATF, FBI, IRS and OSHA are coincidental. Maybe not.
The insidious part of government out-of-control is that you’re a lot less sure it’s coincidence than you were last week.
Tag: BATFE
ID This
Flying requires an ID and a State-sanctioned groping, so it’s hard to figure why casting a vote should not require you to at least identify yourself. But in Attorney General Eric Holder’s opinion showing an ID to vote is a “racial burden.” Of course, he also thinks complaints regarding his own prevarications about supplying guns to Mexican drug gangs are racist. He wants to limit you to purchasing one handgun per month, but voting more than once is not to be hindered.
Requiring ID has a history of being used to keep blacks from owning firearms. Since voting and owning a gun are Constitutional rights, Eric Holder should advocate disbanding BATFE, a clearly racist organization by his own definition.
If it’s OK to require ID and registration to buy a gun, a clearly Constitutional right, why should voters not have ID? Which is most dangerous to the Republic, flying without ID, unlicensed guns or voter fraud?
Leading suppliers of guns to Mexican gangs? DoD DoS DoJ
Tom Stilson at BigGovernment.com suggests the U. S. Government May Be Primary Suppliers of Mexican Drug Cartel Guns:
Based upon the statistics I have compiled, our State and Defense Departments may be the premier suppliers of weaponry to Mexican drug cartels…
These statistics imply the State and Defense Departments may very well be the top suppliers of small arms to Mexico’s drug cartels and not civilians. Only the information obtained from ATF Firearms Traces will tell. However, those records are not public
Yes, indeed. I wondered about this very question in a letter to BATFE in April, 2009:
Have any of these weapons been traced to aid provided to Mexico by the United States through official channels? That is, which, if any, of these firearms were legally imported by Mexico from United States law enforcement or military sources, or any other government departments or programs?
I assume that transfers from any programs officially sanctioned by the United States will have been precisely documented.
I got stonewalled. So I asked again in June of 2009:
I am in receipt of your letter dated 22-June-2009, a response to my inquiry of 20-April-2009. The information was not helpful and I do need further assistance. [He asked me to let him know.]
In my April 20th letter, I asked for specific information about the sources of US firearms submitted to BATFE for tracing. You indicate that you have no information about “the total number of firearms seized by government authorities in Mexico.” Thank you for letting me know that cannot answer that question, but I did not ask it.
What I did ask, and what has not been answered, regards information you certainly have.
What are the various sources in the United States of those firearms submitted by Mexican authorities to the BATFE for tracing? That is, of the submitted firearms you have, or have had, in your possession – where in the US did they come from?
I specifically inquired about the following: “Which of these weapons can be traced to official aid provided by the United States to Mexico? That is, which, if any, of these firearms were legally imported by Mexico from United States law enforcement or military sources, or other government departments or programs?
I assume that such transfers from law enforcement or military sources in the United States will have been precisely documented.
In addition, can you provide a breakdown by type of weapon? Handguns vs long guns and the number of semi-automatic, automatic and other types would be extremely helpful.”
I think it is obvious to both of us that you have this information, since you have had the firearms in question in your possession for the purposes of tracing them.
Thank you in advance,
etc.
Haven’t heard anything since.
Eric Holder: "No, Bush didn’t do it."
As if Bush committing an act of war against Mexico would justify Obama doing it. That is the argument you’ve been hearing from Democrats, though.
John Cornyn forces Eric Holder to admit Wide Receiver is not comparable to Fast and Furious. That won’t stop the other apparatchiks from saying it, of course.
Besmirching All Top Feds’ Ethics
Time for a Special Prosecutor:
ATF: The White House Knew
Lethal fiasco
Vast and Curious
On the heels of their claims that 90% of weapons supplied to Mexican drug gangs originate from the collusion of BATFE DoJ rogue US firearms dealers with HSA officials FBI informants purchasers who failed the National Instant Criminal Background Check, the Obama administration is preparing new anti-2nd Amendment proposals:
“As you know, the President directed the Attorney General to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common-sense measures that would improve Americans’ safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights.”
-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, July 7.
Carney’s right – if the stakeholders are straw purchasers abetted by BATFE, if working groups are Mexican drug cartels and if shipping weapons to Mexico is a common-sense measure that respects human life.
Otherwise, not so much.
Carney unaccountably failed to euphemize “public/private partnership” and “smart diplomacy.” The former is BATFE using “stimulus” funds to mount an operation forcing firearms retailers to make sales they knew were bogus; the latter is DoJ failing to inform the Mexican authorities.
I wonder if the jobs “created or saved” by the Gunwalker stimulus expenditure is greater than the number of lives “negated or destroyed” as a result.
Update: 4:20PM
Mark Steyn: It’s time to re-aim our pitchforks
Best sentence:
“Stimulus dollars went to fund one federal agency to buy guns for the paid informants of another federal agency to funnel to foreign criminals in order that the first federal agency might identify the paid informants of the second federal agency.”
That’s the most concise and lucid explanation of Gunwalker/”Fast and Furious” you’re ever going to see.
GunHolder?
Email Confirms ‘Gunwalker’ Known Throughout Justice Department
It strains credibility to claim that the assistant attorney general, the AGAC, the directors of the five major DOJ agencies in charge of law enforcement, and all the U.S. attorneys in the Southwest region were privy to Gunwalker, but that the attorney general himself was unaware of the operation. It suggests that either Holder is being untruthful about what he knew about the operation, and when he knew about it, or that he is so out of touch with a major operation conducted by his key law enforcement agencies that he is too incompetent to fulfill his official duties.
Indeed.