Sipsey Street Irregulars: Close to being the worst idea ever. If John Dodson had been an FBI agent, he would have been found mysteriously dead in the desert and no one -- NO ONE -- would have ever heard about Fast and Furious.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Close to being the worst idea ever. If John Dodson had been an FBI agent, he would have been found mysteriously dead in the desert and no one -- NO ONE -- would have ever heard about Fast and Furious.

Bill by Jim Sensenbrenner would dissolve federal ATF agency

Policy analysts with the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan but left-leaning Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said Tuesday the ATF needed restructuring and it made sense to blend it into the FBI.

There's a clue. If the collectivists at CAP think it's a good idea, it certainly isn't. Let me tell you something. If John Dodson had been an FBI agent, he would have been found mysteriously dead in the desert and no one -- NO ONE -- would have ever heard about Fast and Furious.

Now don't get me wrong, I want the ATF abolished just as much as any of its victims, but I also know that they aren't going to repeal any of the laws they enforce. The worst thing I can think of is to give the job to the secret political police thugs of the FBI.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Don't worry the F.B.I. does not want them. The F.B.I. does not like the ATF nor think of them as equals.; July 9, 2014 at 4:46 PM
Anonymous said...: "Policy analysts with the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan but left-leaning Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said Tuesday the ATF needed restructuring and it made sense to blend it into the FBI."

Supposedly this idea was floated at a very high level during the Clinton years but was dropped because the FBI saw the ATF as a bunch of trigger happy Delta Force wannabe's and wanted nothing to do with them. The need for the FBI to come in and clean up a little PR event in a place called Waco, Texas didn't help any.

That left some teeny tiny problems associated with involuntary separation of lots of people with Civil Service protection.

Can you say "Big Bucks", Boys and Girls? I knew you could!

End of discussion.; July 9, 2014 at 4:54 PM
Anonymous said...: A president is entitled to form his or her own cabinet.
A new president could in fact just shut the ATF down entirely. No merging, no melding and no blending.

The collectivist FEAR this exact development - hence the trial balloon of some kind of merger.; July 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM
Anonymous said...: If you're going to disband BATF, disband BATF. Fire all the BATmen immediately. Ban all past or current BATmen from working for the Federal or any state or municipal government for life, or for any entity that has any government contracts at any level for any purpose whatsoever. And their sons. And their grandsons. Criminal investigations of all living past and current BATmen, and criminal trials for their abuses, are optional but strongly recommended.

Giving the BATF thugs brand new badges that say "FBI" and "Secret Service" and "US Marshal" rewards corruption and spreads the rot even further, and is vastly worse than doing nothing at all. That's probably why they want to do it.; July 11, 2014 at 1:04 AM

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Sipsey Street Irregulars

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Close to being the worst idea ever. If John Dodson had been an FBI agent, he would have been found mysteriously dead in the desert and no one -- NO ONE -- would have ever heard about Fast and Furious.

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