Sipsey Street Irregulars: Fast & Furious: Still unresolved

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Fast & Furious: Still unresolved

Since an outrageous proposal from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to restrict a common type of rifle ammunition backfired — and since ATF Director B. Todd Jones resigned — the agency's deputy director, experienced primarily with keeping a lid on things, has been running the show. He's Thomas Brandon, a 26-year ATF veteran who played a major role during the Obama administration's Fast and Furious damage control.

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Anonymous said...: Only liars need "damage control" specialists. Truth can stand on it's own two feet..; May 14, 2015 at 5:22 AM
Anonymous said...: You bet truth can stand up on its own two feet! That's why EVERYTHING done by government is supposed to be out in the open for all to see. Yes, there is one exception that proves the rule- it's fine to keep military action totally secret, on the individual mission level, until after the mission takes place...but even then, after the mission even that information should be open to public inspection.

I realize some folks reading (including the fella writing this blog) has dear friends Inside and associated with the BATFE but I have to say - the ATF pulls what it pulls, does what it does, and gets away with what it gets away with ENTIRELY BECAUSE of the people within the ATF that buy into the "secrecy is better" malarkey. So with that fact in play - how can they be good folks? Seems to be a open and plain dichotomy eh?

Gun grabbing corruption is like illegal border jumpers....for every one that gets caught there is a hundred or maybe even a thousand that walk right on through undetected. And it all goes on in plain sight.

Both the B Todd resignation, we are right back to the same old excuse - no leader in place. Yeah, THATS why the ATF is corrupt. Uh huh. Nope. Enough!!!! It's time those "good folks" blow the lid off all of it - now. Absent blowing it all wide open, it's time to admit it - they just aren't the good folks they claim to be BECAUSE they are the very reason the secrecy and the corruption CONTINUES.

There is only one way to stop the madness. Start telling the TRUTH! And Start accepting the hardest truths told....including the TRUE content of character DEMONSTRATED. What's more important guys and gals - your paycheck and pension buying your ongoing silence or your COUNTRY and the RIGHTS it was founded to defend? Hmmmmm?; May 14, 2015 at 7:24 AM
Oldfart said...: A much smarter man than I wrote this. I'm at least smart enough to see the truth in it.

"Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any Church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--- you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
R.A.H. Revolt in 2100.; May 14, 2015 at 9:27 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.

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Fast & Furious: Still unresolved

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