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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Irrational exuberance

Will the ATF Gunwalker Scandal Take Down President Obama?

This is the question asked by Brad Kozak over at The Truth About Guns. I left this comment, which at the moment is awaiting moderation:

In two words, probably not. I know a bit about this because I'm the guy (along with David Codrea at War on Guns) who broke this story on 28 December, worked behind the scenes to get the Senators to contact the ATF agents (not the other way around as is being reported, and if you have any knowledge of the way the federal system treats whistleblowers you'll understand why), and first published the Grassley letters (scooping the Associated Press who had been sitting on the first one for days). David and I continue to work this story, using all the sources within and without the agency that we've developed over the past couple of years. For a summary and timeline of the how this scandal broke, go here:

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/01/sources-timeline-summary-of-atf-project.html

For David's latest compilation of posts and timeline, go here:

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/a-journalist-s-guide-to-project-gunwalker

We have both hectored and vectored "authorized journalists" onto this story, gradually convincing them of the story's credibility. You will see much more of this story in the coming year, but it started, following a single rumor posted by an ATF agent on CleanUpATF.org, with our two little blogs.

Knowing what I know from our sources about this scandal, where it came from and who it leads to, I can say that the author is engaging in irrational exuberance. There are employees of ATF and Main Justice who will certainly be risking federal prison in the coming months, including the top tier of Main Justice. I predict flatly that Holder will not survive this scandal. But Obama?

At this point, very unlikely.

Mike Vanderboegh
The alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com
GeorgeMason1776@aol.com

3 comments:

Defender said...: Between Gunwalker and the invitation to the Muslim Brotherhood to get froggy throughout the West, only a true mindless statist could continue to support Obama.
Unfortunately, there's no shortage.
I wonder whether my sister and her husband, both Obama voters "for change" and both compassionate members of the medical profession, realize that they may be pushing ME and millions of others down that cattle chute to our untimely demise. Certainly THEY don't MEAN to, but I think millions of other Americans would be "good Germans" about it. They have said so.; February 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM
Anonymous said...: You're right Mike. Holder or perhaps others, (he is a valued asset and operative) who's entire end function would be as a scalp, to be offered up to protect the truly SHIT*Y and more valuable. Senior levels always seem to be able to produce the "somebody lied to me and I acted in good faith" card.

If you ever ask, as I have, the question; "How did my beautiful country, ever end up in the hands of these shithe*ds?" The answer is, not by accident and yes Virginia, that does mean conspiracy and treason.

There be Marxists HEER!; February 3, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Never mind Holder, it's about time for Hillary to be held accountable for some of the crime in her wake.
Oh, please, please, please,....; February 3, 2011 at 10:07 PM

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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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