The Obama Administration, frustrated by the lack of any substantial evidence that legitimate American firearms dealers were selling guns to drug cartels came up with an ingenious plan. They’d do it themselves through the gun dealers, and then use the statistics to deprive Americans of their Constitutional right to own firearms (Second Amendment guarantee). However, trusting a law enforcement agency to engage in a clandestine political activity and not botch the job completely has never been a very good idea.
“But ultimately the Obama administration still faces a bigger problem. Can they ever come up with any remotely plausible explanation for why anyone would have started a program to push untraceable guns into Mexico? The longer it takes to provide an explanation, the more plausible the conspiracy theorists sound that this was all done for politics.”
Law Enforcement is not able to toss the cloak of “national security” over an operation like Gunrunner/Fast and Furious. Particularly when they don’t even attempt to track the weapons that they sold to Mexican drug cartels.
The “Fast & Furious” scandal is getting messier and messier. New e-mails finally released late this past Friday reveal that the Department of Justice personal viewed the then-secret operation as a way to push for more gun control laws. Read more at American Perspective.
And I can’t help but think that this gross attempt to deprive Americans of their Constitutional Rights is one of those things that the US Justice Department was designed to prosecute. The problem is that it’s that very Justice Department who promoted this practice. What then is the remedy. Who prosecutes the US Justice Department? Congress is not really set up to do that. They can Impeach but they’re not prosecutors. We could call for a removal from office, but it would be that very same Obama Administration who replaced the wrong doers with other operatives from its ranks of Democratic Party Faithful.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
(Who watches the guards?)
It’s useful at this point to review the Mexican Organized Crime Groups that are operating in Mexico today because you can’t tell the players without a program.
- Sinaloa Federation Cartel
- Los Zetas
- Arellano Felix Organization (Tijuana Cartel )
- Carrillo Fuentes Organization (Ciudad Juarez Cartel )
- La Familia Michoacana , officially destroyed this summer, because they changed their name to Los Cabelleros Templario (The Knights Templar). So were they destroyed by the Mexican Government or did they just call themselves something different in order for MEXGOV to claim a victory in their war against drug cartels?
- La Mano con Ojos (The Hand with Eyes)
- South Pacific Cartel (Beltran Leyva Cartel)
- Milenio Cartel (also known as the Valencia Cartel or the New Colima Cartel
- La Nueva Administracion (The New Administration Cartel, operating principally in Mexico City)
- El Cartel Independiente de Acapulco (CIDA) (The Independent Cartel from Acapulco)
- El Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion
- El Cartel de Colima Nueva Generacion
- La Resistencia
- Gulf Cartel
- Norte del Valle de Colombia (Yes it’s a Colombian Cartel, but they have a presence in Mexico
- Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC) – Colombian Marxist revolutionaries who are not strictly operating in Mexico and across the US Border, but they have a close working relationship with Mexican Organized Crime so I added them gratuitously to the list.
If I missed your favorite cartel, please forgive me. They do tend to pop up regularly under new organization.
Now, this is my question to you, dear readers. Which of these drug cartels should the US Justice Department sell firearms to without tracking them and call it a “secret law enforcement operation”? Should we be a respecter of cartels, or should we sell to them all out of a sense of fairness? AND if the shoe was on the other foot and Mexican Drug Cartels sold automatic weapons, purchased from China and the Middle East to American drug gangs, should we protest (because they do)?
This mess is brought to you by the US Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Attorney General – and his boss, President Barack Hussein Obama.
Welcome to the ObamaNation…
Hey! I've got this great idea. Let's sell a bunch of Mexican murderers some guns, then we'll track the weapons by seeing how many cops are killed with them. How innovative! How clever!
I can't tell the players even with a program. Too many bad guys to count.
Thanks for the link, btw.
I don't know the answer. In the short run, this will hang around the neck of Obama and the so-called Justice Department as an albatross going into the upcoming election. And I have a hunch there will be more revelations.
Kind of like one woman after another coming out of the woodwork.
I've been watching some of the hearings on Holder and want to punch his face right through my TV screen. Him and his lies, and his boss disgust me
This is a major cluster @$#%#%
If Hollywood wrote it, nobody would believe it…
Obama: "Eric, would you say they have a plethora of guns?"
Holder: "…a what?"
Obama: "A plethora."
Holder: "Uh, oh yes, they have a plethora of guns."
Obama: "Eric, what is a plethora?"
Holder: "Why Barack?"
Obama: "You just told me they had a plethora, and I just want to know if you know what a plethora is? I would like to think that someone wouldn't tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that person, has no idea what it means to have a plethora!"
I'm totally discussed and just want to add that most Obama voters are too stupid to read a ballet.
Race – Hollywood wouldn't ever write it unless the bad guy could be a Republican.
MCat – Me too.
Odie – The voters have a "Frail grasp on the Big Picture" (Song by the same name sung by the Eagles)
Opus – The hits keep on coming.
Fuzzy's Dad – Some would say 'Goat Fuck', some would say 'Pig Fuck' – pick your barnyard animal and it applies.
WoFat – I can only hope that the Fast and Furious body count will end sooner than later, but I think that is unlikely.
What then is the remedy. Who prosecutes the US Justice Department? Congress is not really set up to do that. They can Impeach but they're not prosecutors. We could call for a removal from office, but it would be that very same Obama Administration who replaced the wrong doers with other operatives from its ranks of Democratic Party Faithful.
The House would likely impeach, but this Senate would never convict. We are left with only one remedy: It will (or will not) occur on November 6, 2012.
Yep, and they are STILL trying to blame the whole program on Bush, even after that has been proven NOT to be true… sigh
Old NFO – "Blame Bush" is the mantra for the ObamaNation
LA – You're spot on. It will happen next year or it won't. And while it's completely beyond my control, it's unfortunately not beyond my concern.
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