Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Hill: "Subpoenas are coming." "Sources said the interviews produced a plethora of new evidence . . . regarding who gave the ultimate go-ahead."

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The Hill: "Subpoenas are coming." "Sources said the interviews produced a plethora of new evidence . . . regarding who gave the ultimate go-ahead."

The Hill, read by every Congresscritter and DC minion, heralds the coming of the Gunwalker Scandal to the gates of Mordor.

The move by Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, comes on the tail end of a series of interviews with government officials and witnesses that the panel’s investigators conducted last month. Sources said the interviews produced a plethora of new evidence and information regarding who gave the ultimate go-ahead for ATF’s “Fast and Furious” operation.

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Anonymous said...: Made a comment that it appears that the entire fedgov is holding up extended middle fingers to all of us peons. Don't suppose it will have any effect but I needed to vent since I was there. Do you think they know what that means, or should I go back with crayons and draw pictures? Hold up a mirror maybe?; June 7, 2011 at 8:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Who is the voting public going to believe--witnesses interviewed under oath or Holder's protestations of innocence?

How will it look for a Nobel Peace Prize recipient to be exposed as the author of a program that led to the death of hundreds of Mexican nationals and at least two US government agents?

What will Congress's reponse be to a rogue agency that deliberately schemed to violate the very laws it is established to enforce?

Let ther siege of Mordor begin! :^)

MALTHUS; June 7, 2011 at 9:11 AM
pdxr13 said...: The ultimate go-ahead (perhaps a trusting "you know what to do") is from The Executive. Loyal underlings like Mr. Holder understand from a lifetime of service to the power of government that incremental progress against the enumerated rights of Citizens and Residents of the American Nation can be advanced directly, by flanking, or by traitors in the rear.

A "Grand Restriction" of Citizens right to own and possess useful and effective weaponry; in the spirit of the
1934 NFA,
1968 GCA,
1986 FOPA,
Import of effective firearms ban of 1991,
1994 inexpensive ammunition import ban,
1994 Crime Control Act,

leading to a UK-style elimination of legal weapons/ammunition in the hands of lawful civilians must be assumed to be the objective of the current Administration. Mr. Obama has stated that it is a major political objective. Mr. Holder has several times stated that this is a policy objective.

The objective appears to me to be found "in the air we breathe". In newspaper/magazine reporting, in broadcasts, in Hollywood cinema, in gov't-sponsored "Public Service Announcements", the message is clearly that passive response to aggression is the best or only response. If police (or men who shout "POLICE" for 15 seconds before breaking in) are at your door at 3:45AM, comply. If a purse-snatcher grabs your bag, let him go "it's only replaceable things". If the County wants to take your farm to build a shopping mall on to increase tax revenue (and reward local politically-connected construction companies), it's for "the greater good" that Eminent Domain be applied. If Muslim men 18-45 years old with box cutters hijack your aircraft... strip-search all air travelers except Muslims who object as a group.

The light of day is what the criminals fear most. Shine on, Mike.

Cheers.; June 7, 2011 at 10:48 AM

"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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The Hill: "Subpoenas are coming." "Sources said the interviews produced a plethora of new evidence . . . regarding who gave the ultimate go-ahead."

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