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© Chuck Baldwin
Posted: September 2, 2011
11:00 am Eastern
 Not
that the national media notices much, but the federal
government under President Barack Obama has been supplying
guns to Mexican drug gangs for quite a spell. With only a
few print media bothering to cover the story, Obama’s
Justice Department has been discovered secretly supplying
firearms to Mexican drug lords using taxpayer “stimulus”
monies. If that wasn’t bad enough, guns supplied to these
Mexican miscreants by federal agents were used to kill at
least one US Border Patrol agent. After the death of the BP
agent, California Congressman Darrell Issa launched an
investigation into the matter and uncovered what most anyone
would correctly describe as a vast government conspiracy to
supply firearms to Mexican drug cartels. As a result of
Issa’s congressional investigations, numerous heads at the
ATF have lost their jobs–or more correctly–have been
“reassigned.”
Two days ago, the Washington
Post reported, “The ATF head has been reassigned amid an
investigation into a controversial U.S. gun-trafficking
operation, part of a broader shake-up at the Justice
Department in which the U.S. attorney in Phoenix also
stepped down, officials said Tuesday.
“Kenneth E. Melson, acting
director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives, will become a senior adviser on forensic science
in the department’s Office of Legal Policy. He will be
replaced as acting director at ATF by B. Todd Jones, the
U.S. attorney in Minnesota, the department said in a
statement.”
The Post report went on to
say, “In a sign of the continuing fallout, Dennis Burke,
the U.S. attorney in Phoenix who worked closely with ATF and
provided legal guidance for “Fast and Furious,”
[codename for the ATF gunrunning operation] has resigned,
the department said Tuesday. He is being replaced on an
acting basis by his deputy, Ann Scheel.
“An assistant U.S. Attorney
in Phoenix, Emory Hurley, who helped oversee “Fast and
Furious,” is being transferred out of the U.S.
Attorney’s Office’s criminal division and into the civil
division. That means he will not be involved in criminal
cases.
“The multiple moves
amounted to an extraordinary shake-up for a Justice
Department that has been under fire for the gun-trafficking
probe, which critics consider ATF’s biggest debacle since
the deadly 1993 confrontation in Waco, Tex. ATF is part of
Justice.”
The Washington Post has since
revised this report. See it at:
http://tinyurl.com/3ncvnym
Back in July, World Net Daily
ran a story featuring Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America
in which he warned the American people of the ATF’s
horrific scheme by saying, “Ten million dollars, and one
of the ways they were spending it was a paid FBI informant
who was a drug dealer they had flipped. So he was buying
lots of guns with that stimulus money.”
Pratt went on to say, “We
can say there’s one thing that was stimulated by the
stimulus bill and that was the Mexican undertaker business.
Mexican authorities say that 150 people were murdered using
these guns.”
World Net Daily also
reported, “Firearms law analyst and writer David Codrea
believes that even if there is evidence to prove that known
criminals used taxpayer money to get guns to take to Mexico,
nothing is likely to be done with the evidence.
“‘If left to Holder’s
Justice Department, nothing, because it shows this had to be
top-level DoJ-authorized,’ Codrea explained.
“Reports say other federal
agencies have also been drawn into the operation. The DEA,
FBI and upper-level DOJ officers, including the U.S.
Attorney’s office in Phoenix, have been named.”
WND goes on to state,
“Pratt also believes that some of the guns were purchased
by the Mexican cartels directly from federal agents.
“‘One of the founders of
the cartel, one of the top 14 directors if you will, a guy
whose nickname is El Mamito, has said that he was buying
guns directly from the federal government,’ Pratt
explained.”
And one more quote from the
WND report: “Pratt said he believes for the guns to go
across at a designated location, there had to be
coordination between several federal law enforcement
agencies.
“‘There had to be some
kind of a deal with the Border Patrol. . . .We know that in
the ’09 meeting that set up Fast and Furious, those four
or five agencies were all part of the deal,’ Pratt
said.”
See the report at:
http://gunowners.org/beltway-gunrunners.htm
What makes the ATF’s
criminal gunrunning conspiracy even worse (if that’s
possible) is the fact that, much like his superiors Obama
and Holder, Melson has a career-long reputation for wanting
to curtail the right of law-abiding US citizens to keep and
bear arms. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in the weird world of
Obama/Holder/Melson, law-abiding US citizens cannot be
trusted to keep and bear arms, but US tax dollars and
federal police agencies are used to provide firearms to
Mexican drug gangs. Then, when Mexican drug gangs using
firearms supplied by the US Justice Department murder one of
their own Border Patrol agents, the only retribution that
follows is for underlings to be “reassigned.”
Seriously folks, have you
ever known of any federal agent being brought to justice for
even the most egregious violations of life and liberty?
Where was the first federal agent brought to justice for the
murders of over 80 mostly old men, women, and children
outside Waco, Texas? Was agent Lon Horiuchi brought to
justice for murdering Vicki Weaver? That monster shot Vicki
in the face with a high-powered, scoped rifle as she stood
in her kitchen holding her little baby. Not only was this
creep not punished, he was later promoted and continues to
work in law enforcement today. (Horiuchi was charged with
manslaughter in Idaho State court, but US District Judge
Edward Lodge dismissed the case. In justifying his horrific
ruling, Lodge said that the Supremacy Clause of the US
Constitution “grants immunity to federal officers acting
in the scope of their employment.” Way to go judge! Heil
Hitler!) Oh! And by the way, Horiuchi was a federal
sharpshooter at Waco, too.
So, one more time, criminals
inside the US federal government have been found out! I hope
Congressman Issa will not be content to let the matter die
with the reassignments of a few underlings. The American
people have been enduring criminality, bloodshed, and death
perpetrated by rogue elements inside the federal government
for far, far too long! It is time now for true justice to
come to the US Justice Department!
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