Sipsey Street Irregulars: More along the lines of "The Militia is the Enemy of the People."

Sunday, December 1, 2013

More along the lines of "The Militia is the Enemy of the People."

The Houston Chronicle reports that the poor little ATF is "underfunded and under the gun" with the comment "It is not a secret that the agency has drawn plenty of enemies as it has gone up against street gangs, militia members and outlaw bikers."

"Militia members?" Really?

Larry Karson, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Houston-Downtown, said the ATF has drawn plenty of controversy and taken plenty of heat but also sends agents into undercover missions that other agencies shy away from.

"Few other organizations will take the time, trouble and expense to deal with the dangers of going undercover against bikers or radical militia organizations," said Karson, a retired Customs Service agent.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Poor little BATFEces. Underfunded, oft maligned, whipping boy. Boo freakin' hoo.
If they would stick with their original mandate (whatever that was), and quit screwing the gun-owning public and manufacturers (large and small), they might find that we would give them some help and respect, albeit grudging.

This sounds like the bully complaining that no one like him, while DEMANDING that we "respect his authoritah."

B Woodman
III-per; December 1, 2013 at 8:24 AM
countenance said...: ATF doesn't generally get down and dirty on street level because they don't have to or need to. Local/ground level LEAs uncover Federal offenses then the ATF moves in then the U.S. Attorneys move in.

The ATF doesn't need a huge budget.; December 1, 2013 at 2:27 PM
SWIFT said...: Every POS person and group on the planet has it's apologists. No matter how low they stoop, someone will stoop to love them. ATF? Nuff to make you vomit.; December 1, 2013 at 6:13 PM
Anonymous said...: "Bikers" ... are we now on the side of the Angels?

III; December 1, 2013 at 8:28 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.

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More along the lines of "The Militia is the Enemy of the People."

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