In the latter part of 2010, the United States government’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) authorized spending $80 million on a gun running scheme, “Fast and Furious.”
These 1,800 weapons, purchased illegally in the United States by the BATFE from federally licensed gun dealers in southwest border states, were smuggled into Mexico without the knowledge of the Mexican government.
These 1,800 weapons ended up in the hands of the drug cartel, which resulted in the death of more than 200 Mexican citizens (that we know of) and the death of U.S. border agent Brian Terry.
The scheme had one purpose: that all the accusations and charges would be the result of loose gun laws in the United States and that the American gun owners had too many rights and the feds should have more say on gun control and gun registration.
The attorney general’s office, BATFE personnel and all federal agencies who had a hand in this conspiracy should stand as accomplices with criminal intent, which ended up in murder. This has the same government conspiracy stench as Waco and Ruby Ridge, where innocent people were killed and the government walked free.
I have never voted party in my life; it’s always been for the man. But this federal conspiracy authorized by the U.S. Attorney General’s Office and American taxpayer money is positive proof of how far this administration will go to take our guns.
It’s criminal when our government will go into a foreign country and manipulate what it did in Mexico to accomplish a goal of stricter gun control on the American gun owner. Heads should more than roll on this one. Also, check out the United Nations’ intentions on world gun control.
Gun owners, get involved in this one.
Jack Schmidt
Pequot Lakes
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Add commentI don't know what's more outrageous...
...the original Fast and Furious program, or the lack of media attention given to it. This is a scandal of epic proportions and one of the clearest signs that our current admistration is a criminal enterprise.
I have to admit
There is something more than Fishy about this whole thing.
Operation Wide Receiver
If you Google "Operation Wide Receiver," you'll discover that Operation Fast and Furious was very similar to a program conducted by the Bush Administration beginning in 2006. Both operations were aimed at slowing the flow of illegal U.S. guns to Mexican drug cartels and assist agents in making cases against drug kingpins.
I can hardly wait for the
I can hardly wait for the wails of IMPEACHMENT!!!!!! by the same people who were silent during the entire dark years of Bush and Cheney.
Bush didn't
provide guns to shoot at Border Patrol agents with, fish, Obama did. I'd say that's pretty dark, but then you would yank out your racist attack. Get up to Ely and teach those wolves to jump.
Fish,
I don't know how the investigation into Fast & Furious plays out but if the Obama Administration is found guilty of a crime are you saying that impeachment wouldn't be appropriate?
Got to give it to fish at
Got to give it to fish at least he showed up unlike lake,snow, rolf and the rest of the left wingnuts
Maybe he should just say "I
Maybe he should just say "I can't remember". That seems to have worked for one president.
So you condone it
fishhead? You condone selling guns to mobsters, so they can use them to shoot Border Patrolmen and Mexican citizens?
You are exhibiting some normal liberal hatred here but I didn't think you'd stoop to sticking up for a gunrunner that would sell guns to murder American Border Patrol Agents. You've shown more compassion for dogs in traps than humans shot by gangsters..
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does that really work for you?
So that made it
all OK, eyeolf? You libs own nothing, you just leach off the workers.
Operation Wide Receiver was a
Operation Wide Receiver was a joint effort between the US and Mexican governments that was designed to slow the flow of weapons into Mexico. It involved "controlled delivery" of weapons to criminals who were attempting to obtain them illegally. The intent was to arrest the criminals after they had taken possession of the guns (i.e., actually had committed a crime). The weapons used for these sting operations were set up with tracking devices so law enforcement could follow them and make arrests at the appropriate time. In some cases the tracking devices failed and the guns were lost. Nevertheless, at least the plan with Operation Wide Receiver was to take the guns from the criminals before they had an opportunity to use them.
Fast and Furious, OTOH, was a unilateral, and hare-brained “plan” to walk thousands of guns across the border into the hands of ruthless criminals. Don’t worry though, the Obama administration made sure they wrote down the serial numbers so they could track how many people were murdered with the guns they helped provide. Sorry, but “Bush did it,” is not a defense for the stupidity of Fast and Furious, because Operation Wide Receiver was not even remotely like Fast and Furious, and even Holder acknowledged that after he was grilled by Senator Cornyn.
A Botched Operation
According to figures released by the government last week, the number of U.S.-traced guns that "walked" and were later recovered in Mexico were roughly 11,800 in 2007 to 21,000 in 2008, 14,300 in 2009, 6,400 in 2010 and 14,500 in 2011. Further, some of the emails cited in Congressional hearings actually referred to Operation Wide Receiver, not Fast and Furious. This may have been a badly botched operation, but it was botched by ATF agents under two presidents, and is not a sinister plot to confiscate guns.
"Maybe he should just say "I can't remember"
Yes Fish I know that was Bill Clinton's favorite line but you, as a staunch lifetime Democrat, shouldn't be using President Clinton as an example. By the way you still didn't answer my question but you never do, you just make nonsensical comments then run an hide behind a "it's Bush's fault" statement.
Otter, Otter, Otter,
they are two different operations. Obama and Holder refuse to cooperate with investigators. And..... one of Obama's gun buyers murdered a Border Patrol Agent. Don't get confused and off track here. Holder is about to be charged with contempt and his boss should be next. If it comes to perjury I sure hope they don't get a pass like Clinton did. A crime is a crime and the left seems to get away with it a lot.
Otter, you need to do more
Otter, you need to do more research. Operation Wide Receiver was a typical sting operation. The intent was to use guns as bait and arrest the people who purchased them illegally. There were radio chips implanted in the weapons to help track them and there was never any intention that the bad guys were going to get to keep the weapons. When the plan was botched due to technical issues with the chips and a screw up on the Mexican side of the operation, the bad guys got away with a shipment of weapons. Operation Wide Receiver was immediately cancelled because the risk that criminals might get away with more guns was seen as too great.
Fast and Furious, a plan hatched SOLELY by the Obama Administration involved simply handing weapons over to dangerous criminals with absolutely no tracking other than knowing the serial numbers of the guns so that when they were retrieved AFTER murders had been committed. This would be equivalent to selling drugs to a cartel and waiting for people to die from overdoses after the drugs were distributed so you could show the drugs came from US sources.
The Mexican government was not consulted regarding Fast and Furious (unlike Operation Wide Receiver, which was a joint effort to ARREST gun criminals, not get guns into criminals hands, UNTRACKED, so they could KILL people).