Cassi Creek
There is a witch-hunt
taking place in Washington, D.C.
The attorney
General, Eric Holder, is going to be found to be in contempt of the Congress. He should be, for Congress is nothing if not
contemptible.
Mr. Holder
refuses to provide some document that Rep Issa and his minions believe might
possibly help them in their 3.5-year long quest to overturn the 2008 Presidential
election. Mr. Holder is obviously a
suitable witch candidate by virtue of his race and his association with
President Obama. Mr. Holder, and now
President Obama, who invoked executive privilege yesterday in this matter are
going to be declared to be in contempt of Congress in pursuit of the effort to delegitimize
President Obama.
Following the
death of a border patrol agent, it was found that the weapon, which was used to
kill him, was involved in a tracking operation by the ATF. This operation, with roots in the Bush II
administration, was ill conceived from the beginning. “Operation Fast and Furious?” Who has so little and so poor an imagination
as to use that movie title?
Congress, the
GOP/teavangelist, wings of it anyway, hopes to pin a wrongful death and an
imagined cover up on Holder and his Justice Dept. If they can’t find a means to
remove Obama, they will eagerly pick off one of his friends. This is rather reminiscent of the 1993
efforts to paint a suicide as murder and tar the Clintons in the beginning days
of the effort to unseat him. Any member
of the Obama administration is fair game for slander. Any Obama appointee is to be kept dangling,
un-approved, while they lies and slander machine lambasts the Obama admin for
failing to fill appointee slots. A witch
is a witch in the eyes of the teavangelists and any witch will do for a public
inquisition and burning. Congress is
truly contemptible.
But even more
contemptible is the less apparent reason for the witch-hunt. The ATF maintains that hundreds of
assault-style rifles are being purchased at gun stores along the U.S.-Mexican
border and then smuggled into Mexico in violation of the laws of both
nations.
Commentary: NRA could help stop Mexico's gun violence
Andres
Oppenheimer | The Miami Herald
“When we talk about the violence
that has left nearly 50,000 dead in Mexico over the past five years, we usually
focus on Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, or the Juárez cartel, but it may be time to
include the U.S. National Rifle Association cartel…”
“Last
year, the NRA sued the Obama administration for regulation requiring that gun
merchants in U.S.-Mexico Border States report bulk sales of assault weapons. It
accused the administration of acting without congressional approval. Arulanandam
said the measure is “ridiculous,” because “it tries to go after
multibillion-dollar criminal enterprises like drug cartels by going after them
with a paperwork violation.”
“My opinion: The NRA and U.S. gun
manufacturers have the right to defend the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment
provision allowing Americans to keep and bear arms. But the Second Amendment
doesn’t say that Americans have the right to buy bazookas, or AK-47s, or other
military-style weapons, or to purchase dozens of them and sell them to whomever
they want.
“It’s time to stop this nonsense,
which is causing so many deaths in Mexico, and also in the United States.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/06/144400/commentary-nra-could-help-stop.html#storylink=cpy
The
fingers, justifiably pointing at the NRA as a resource for the Mexican drug
cartels and the efforts by the current administration to limit or end such
gunrunning have angered the men who make their immense incomes pimping for the
arms merchants who make and market knock-off copies of Soviet-era assault weapons,
as well as U.S. manufacturers firearms.
The NRA, as we all know, funnels
millions of arms dollars back to re-election campaign funds. They are in league with Congress and in
thrall to the arms traders, large and small.
I am a gun owner. Do not belong to or pay any money to
the NRA. I’ve been a shooter
since my earliest Boy Scouting days. I
happily pay the taxes on guns and ammunition that help fund wildlife preserves,
animal conservation, and state conservation agencies. Legal gun owners pay those taxes with each
purchase. Straw buyers, those purchases
the NRA claims don’t take place, don’t pay those taxes. In effect, those smugglers and gunrunners are
cheating the hunters who still provide meat for their tables. The NRA is no longer working to benefit
hunters and marksmen. It is not really
interested in maintaining the 2nd Amendment for any purpose other
than to bring in huge paychecks for the lobbyists and pimps who have no claim
to a shared history with the men and women who fought to free this nation from
its colonial status.
If pressed, I’d have to say that I
hold the NRA in greater contempt than Congress. But only slightly greater. A whore by any other name still fills a
Congressional seat.
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