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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

If it is on television, it must be true.

Senator Examines Gun Claim in Agent's Death: MyFoxPHOENIX.com

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Great - now you have a local Fox affiliate covering the store. Forward this and the other materials to other members of the mainstream media. The fact that Fox ran this story gives credibility to it in the view of reporters new to the story. Senator Grassley letters + Fox story = more coverage and press attention in the next week or two.; February 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Uncle Al said...: It is gratifying to see this on a network-affiliated local news show.

I expect ATF and White House bowels are already loosening and heads will start exploding no later than Friday and probably earlier.; February 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM
Anonymous said...: My, My, My....

Well, let's see if even Fox News decides this is worthy of reporting.

I almost want to take bets because I can't tell any longer where they are with that fair and balanced thing.; February 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM
Dakota said...: Yeah I bet they're (BATF) "Not Commenting"

Wheeeeeeeeeee....; February 1, 2011 at 3:44 PM
Dennis308 said...: Oh How Sweet it is, Now if Grassley and the Judiciary Don't drop the ball we can see some results from all work you've done Thanks Mike.

I'm Calling Hutcheson and Cornyn Again, Lets see some action Senator.

Dennis
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Texas; February 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM
rustynail said...: I sent the following note to Jeff Sessions, our junior Alabama Senator and ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee:

Senator Sessions, I understand that the Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the BATFE. I urge that you pursue a vigorous investigation into the actions of the BATFE, and in particular the perjurous testimony presented by agents of the BATFE that have resulted in conviction and imprisonment of innocent Americans, such as David Olofson. Currently, it appears that the BATFE may have been instrumental in facilitating movement of firearms to Mexico, including the rifle that killed Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry. This Agency has been responsible for many atrocities in the past several decades and it is time for the outrages to be exposed. It is also time for its role in law enforcement to be carefully examined and possibly changed.; February 1, 2011 at 5:47 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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