Sipsey Street Irregulars: Another David Codrea Exclusive: " ATF Denies Being an ‘Agency’ to Avoid FOIA Compliance Requirements."

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Another David Codrea Exclusive: " ATF Denies Being an ‘Agency’ to Avoid FOIA Compliance Requirements."

It looks like an agency, walks like an agency and quacks like an agency. It calls its field operatives “agents,” not “bureaucrats.” It’s an agency when it wants to be, when there’s something to gain, like an approved budget, or more power and prestige. When that’s perceived as a liability, when there’s something to hide, something to stonewall, something to lose, they all of a sudden become something else.

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Anonymous said...: Since I live 43.7 miles from where Moses lost his sandals my internet bandwidth is crup.

Codrea is quite the interesting guy, but it takes feffingforever do download his site.

I quit.

Dick; August 11, 2015 at 7:15 PM
Dr.D said...: seems like it would be a relatively simple task to peruse the public record for both written and video statements of ATF officials referring to their "activity" as an agency..; August 12, 2015 at 8:32 AM
Anonymous said...: All public records should be available to the public, agency or not. Even if it is not an agency, one still has common law rights to inspect public records. So courts should be subject to a record request as well as any other person's records that have public records. To claim that the ATF is not an agency is an old ploy to delay providing records to the public. And its a ploy may by total jerks who should not be collecting a taxpayer dime. Did you know that your congressman's records are not available because they don't work for an agency (congress is not an agency) but their committee records are ~ but some will try to hide all their records under the claim that they are not an agency. But they are members of public agencies of the committees that they work on. And common law again, makes their records available.; August 12, 2015 at 4:52 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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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Another David Codrea Exclusive: " ATF Denies Being an ‘Agency’ to Avoid FOIA Compliance Requirements."

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