Another "Only Ones" Headline for David Codrea: New Orleans' Danziger Bridge Murderous Cops Finally Convicted of Something.

New Orleans Cops Guilty of Conspiracy in Katrina Shooting.

"The federal case follows an unsuccessful murder prosecution against seven officers, which fell apart due to prosecutorial misconduct."

Well, well. Serrano gets another scoop. DEA admits Gunwalker Scandal involvement.

DEA acknowledges supporting role in Operation Fast and Furious

The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration has acknowledged to congressional investigators that her agency provided a supporting role in the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious run by the group's counterparts at the ATF.

Michele M. Leonhart, the DEA administrator, said DEA agents primarily helped gather evidence in cases in Phoenix and El Paso, and in the program's single indictment last January that netted just 20 defendants for illegal gun-trafficking.

The development marks the first time another law enforcement agency has said it also worked on Fast and Furious cases other than the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is under two investigations into why it allowed at least 2,000 firearms to be illegally purchased and then lost track of the guns’ whereabouts. . .

Leonhart made the acknowledgement in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A copy of the letter was obtained Friday by The Times.

Leonhart wrote that her agents in Phoenix and El Paso were "indirectly involved in the ATF operation through DEA-associated activity. "

She added, "the DEA El Paso Division responded to a duty call in March 2010 from ATF for assistance in conducting an ongoing surveillance operation in the El Paso area as part of Operation Fast and Furious."

But she said her agents in Phoenix "had the most notable associated investigative activity, though DEA personnel had no decision-making role in any ATF operations." That included helping obtain phone numbers and addresses, issuing subpoenas for information on the phone subscribers, and paying linguist costs of $128,000 to help translate intercepted calls.

Her agency further helped in the "round up phase of the case with the execution of search warrants, participated in debriefing some of the 20 gun-smuggling defendants who were arrested in the Phoenix area, and attending the Jan. 25 press conference announcing those arrests.

Dawn Dearden, a DEA spokeswoman in Washington, declined to comment further Friday on the DEA’s role in Fast and Furious. "The letter stands on its own," she said. "We’re still in a fact-finding mode, so there’s not much more we can say."

PDF of letter.

Very funny.

"More New Stuff: Buy Now! (Before the ATF Sends It All to Mexico!)"

"Gunwalker Bill" Newell, aka "Bloody Bill," won't be taking any Mexican vacations anytime soon.

"We do not walk guns. We do, however, commit perjury whenever we can get away with it."

From Allan Lendel at Tickle the Wire: Fast and Furious Official No Longer Going to Mexico as Attache; Mexican Govt. Asks for Transcripts of His Testimony

William Newell, who headed ATF’s Phoenix Division during the controversial operation dubbed Fast and Furious, won’t be going to Mexico as ATF’s attache after all.

The agency has decided to to nix that assignment before he even heads south. Instead, he’s been named special assistant to the ATF Assistant Director for the Office of Management in Washington.

The reassignment comes at a time the Mexican Justice Department known as the PGR is reportedly conducting a criminal probe into the Fast and Furious Operation. It has also requested transcripts of Newell’s recent testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, according to two people familiar with the situation.

Concern had surfaced recently within ATF that the Mexican government might arrest Newell if he came down there as the attache.

Lydia Antonio, a press officer for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, declined to comment for this story. An ATF official familiar with the matter confirmed the reassignment, but declined to speculate on why Newell’s Mexico City assignment was changed.

The move to keep Newell in Washington is direct turn about for the agency, which up until recently, had insisted that Newell was still going to Mexico City as the ATF attache even as the Mexican government fumed over Fast and Furious, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers or middlemen, with the hopes of tracing the weapons to the Mexican cartels. Some of the guns have surfaced at crime scenes.

Great comment here at Arms and the Law by Dann in Ohio:

"Concern had surfaced recently within ATF that the Mexican government might arrest Newell if he came down there as the attache."

Well, at least one of the two governments affected by Fast and Furious recognize a criminal act when they see one...

I guess when the Vice President talks about Tea Party "terrorists" this what they have in mind.

With thanks to Weasel Zippers for this, "White House To Monitor Social Networks For 'Extremist Propaganda'" which links to CNET news story here "White House: Need to monitor online 'extremism'"

A White House terrorism strategy released today says Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks aid in "advancing violent extremist narratives" and should be monitored by the government.

The 12-page strategy (PDF), which outlines ways to respond to violent extremism, promises that: "We will continue to closely monitor the important role the Internet and social-networking sites play in advancing violent extremist narratives."

President Obama said in a statement accompanying the report that the federal government will start "helping communities to better understand and protect themselves against violent extremist propaganda, especially online."

While much of the White House document is focused on al Qaeda--which The Washington Post recently reported is on the "brink of collapse"--it also talks about domestic terrorists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semitic groups, and a broad "range of ideologies" that promote radicalization.

Today's announcement may signal that monitoring of social networks will broaden beyond the U.S. Department of Homeland Security already does. Depending on the details, it could also raise concerns about how to balance Americans' privacy rights with desire of security agencies to collect and analyze information that is, more or less, publicly available.

PDF of document.

Interesting.

El Paso Times reports: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine into U.S. for information. And did they do the same with weapons moving south?

LaPierre demands Holder's job. Send money. Plus, "We were one of just a few voices in the wilderness." PS: Send money. Aiding the cover-up.

The only way that Eric Holder will "get to the bottom" of the Gunwalker Plot is when he wipes his own ass after taking a dump. However, the NRA would like to help Obama with the cover-up, as long as they can make a little money at it.

NRA Chief LaPierre: Eric Holder Must Go.

Really? Why now? Don't we need him around to get to the bottom of this? Of course, the only way Eric Holder will himself, unassisted, "get to the bottom" of the Gunwalker Plot is when he wipes his own ass after taking a dump.

Actually, getting rid of Holder now would be an easy, and rare, notch on the NRA coup stick but would actually facilitate the cover-up and protect the White House.

But that's not what this is about. It is about NRA PR and fundraising. For example, take this remarkable statement from the "800 pound gorilla of gun rights."

"When NRA first began our campaign to fire Eric Holder we were one of just a few voices in the wilderness."

Oh. yeah, riiiiiight.

Of course they were.

The NRA had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this scandal, by their own membership agitating from below as well as courageous board members like LTC Robert K. Brown of Soldier of Fortune magazine.

LaPierre himself told media folks early on that they were reluctant to get into this because it was just "rumors" and the NRA didn't want to be seen as "anti-law enforcement."

To demand Holder's removal now is just an attempt to pick low hanging fruit, that won't push forward the investigation into the inner recesses of the White House.

If LaPierre (my French is a little hazy, does that mean "The Peter"?) is serious about getting "to the bottom" of the Gunwalker Plot, he should rather be demanding a House-based independent investigator AND making that a point of scoring politicians by. Anything less and he is just holding Holder's toilet paper for him.

"Full Watergate Mode": The Collapse of the Gunwalker Plot Cover-Up and Legitimacy. For Leviathan, there is no putting this genie back in the bottle.

The Gunwalker Scandal genie is out of the bottle for good.

In political science, legitimacy is the popular acceptance of a governing law or régime as an authority. Whereas “authority” denotes a specific position in an established government, the term “legitimacy” denotes a system of government — wherein “government” denotes “sphere of influence”. Political legitimacy is considered a basic condition for governing, without which, a government will suffer legislative deadlock(s) and collapse. -- Wikipedia.

. . . This is an important piece. Perhaps the most important Gunwalker scandal analysis I've done since I broke the story here on 28 December. I know from friends and correspondents that it has already been forwarded to the offices of Issa, Smith and Grassley, for their in-boxes this bright and shiny Monday morning.

What they do with it is up to them, but, and it is impossible to overstress this point: the entire legitimacy of the federal system, and that of both political parties, and not just the transient hopes of Barack Obama for a second term, hangs on the outcome of this scandal.

History teaches that regimes demonstrated to be illegitimate to their own people are swept away. This is just such a moment. The federal fireman has been caught setting deadly fires. What happens to the arsonists -- and those who gave them the gas, matches and sent them on their bloody way -- will demonstrate to all if this system DESERVES to continue to be tolerated by the victimized people who pay for the entire fire department. In fact, tax receipts will be the least of the system's worries if justice is not done in this monstrous offense to the Constitution and the inalienable, natural and God-given rights and liberties that it merely codifies.
-- A question of legitimacy and a post that bears repeating. "The Official ATF Field Manual of the Gunwalker Scandal," Sipsey Street Irregulars, 16 May 2011.

So I wrote in mid-May. The idea that Fast and Furious is only a piece of a the larger Gunwalker Plot is catching on. Russ Vaughan writes at American Thinker that the Gunwalker Scandal is "Much More than a Third Rate Burglary."

So, we have the purported targets of OF&F, financers and decision-makers, located in Mexico, and the professed method of identifying those targets being the tracking of the illegal weapons to them directly. But with the law enforcement resources responsible for that tracking having been kept ignorant of the entire operation, the alleged rationale for OF&F falls flat on its face.

And if government officials are willing to lie and obfuscate, as I believe Agent Newell and others most likely have, to a congressional investigating committee; and if the Justice Department is willing to stonewall document subpoenas and refuse to produce subpoenaed witnesses, this administration is in full Watergate mode. What conclusion is to be drawn from their behavior other than that there are much bigger fish to be caught in Issa's net than a few overeager field operatives?

Are the big fish of the Obama administration ignoring the basic lesson of Watergate -- that it's the cover-up, not the crime, that can bring down a president? But then, in the present situation, we have illegal arms-smuggling, apparently to further a domestic political gun control agenda, which may have resulted in the deaths of Mexican citizens and two United States federal officers. Now that is a crime, a real and true crime, and most certainly a much more serious crime than a third-rate burglary.

There is no underestimating the damage that the Gunwalker Scandal has already done to the political legitimacy of the Obama administration and the monstrous lie of the benevolent Federal Leviathan -- trading essential liberty for temporary safety -- that it represents. This is no small thing.

Thanks to the NRA, even the Fudds get it now. Of course the NRA had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this point and they'll have to be motivated further if we are to succeed in laying the entire plot bare, but the fact is that many if not most of American gun owners now GET IT: Gunwalker was, and is, about facilitating the murder of innocents to justify more restrictions on American firearm owners.

This is true in the absence of the greater and more damning revelations yet to come. And they certainly WILL come.

This loss of the last shred of political legitimacy, combined with the strategic military and political fact of the Internet, limits even the most deadly means of tyrannical manipulation and misdirection, such as another Reichstag Fire.

"A regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power." -- Colin Powell

Not that they couldn't do it, but it would not be believed by enough people to make it work. The political rehabilitation that Bill Clinton achieved in the aftermath of the OKC Bombing would not work now, today, for Obama. They might convince the credulous. They might even convince themselves. But they could not convince us, in part because people would instantly be asking "Qui Bono?"

If the struggle been liberty and tyranny in this country ultimately does go to guns, the Gunwalker Scandal will be listed in the history books as one of several delegitimizing factors for the conflict.

The Federal Leviathan has already been hung upon their own legitimacy petard. How much damage they do to themselves will be determined by how much longer they seek to avoid justice. In any case, there is no way the Gunwalker genie is going to be put back in the bottle.

Fear Of A Black Rifle

Folks,

I received this in email this morning, forwarded from a friend. I liked it enough to ask the author for permission to post it, which he graciously granted.

Mike
III

Fear Of A Black Rifle
By John John Johnson

Over the years, Americans have been slowly conditioned by their media, news outlets and politicians to fear firearms. While there is an obvious reason that so much money and psychological spin is used and expended to demonize them, most fail to consider why they are afraid of guns. The very sight of a gun can cause an unwarranted panic for some. Chief amongst these icons of fear and dread is America’s own 'little black rifle’; the AR-15.

No other common rifle produces such a strong reaction in people; you either like or you don’t like an AR-15. There isn’t much space for lukewarm aficionados. However, much of the American public’s fear of the Black Rifle is due to cultural conditioning and the end result of a near half century of anti-gun propaganda. Eyes go wide and whispers get uttered under cupped hands when the the 'Evil Black Rifle’ (EBR) - sometimes mistakenly called an 'assault rifle’ by it’s detractors - is produced for the uninitiated to see.

While it’s use in actual U.S. crime has rarely been reported, the Black Rifle remains a token of freedom to some and the ultimate expression of American oppression to others.

The truth though, it’s just a black rifle. It is a tool like any other that man has created, but we simply don’t see it as such since it is used for protection, hunting and military action. I’ll not mince words here, a rifle is designed to kill and eliminate threats, two legged or four legged, for food or to sustain life - that’s it’s function.

Now that the backdrop has been outlined, I’d like to share with you my own story about the Black Rifle;

Nearly a week ago, it was with great trepidation (and a little shaking) that I placed the last piece onto my new Black Rifle. I had just joined the upper receiver to the lower - completing the final phase in a month’s long process. My AR-15 journey had also included me building my own lower receiver. For the first time in my life, I assembled the rifle’s trigger assembly - something I wasn’t allowed to do when I was in the Infantry. Messing with the trigger was specifically reserved for the unit’s armorer - so it was a mystery for me. Now, 20 years later, I was about to hold again, albeit a variant, the weapon that demarcated the passage from my youth to manhood.

To an Infantryman, the M16 (now in it’s incarnation as the M4) is the main tool of his trade.

At the military university that I attended, we were also issued an M-14 - so I was extremely familiar with both rifles. While I know the value of a M-14 as a long distance shooter, I still can’t shake the feeling I got the first time when I was issued my own M-16. It meant something to me. That particular rifle, specifically, I know backwards and forwards. Even after twenty years, my hands instinctively knew how to break the down it’s bolt assembly without even having to look at a manual or go online for instructions. There is a reason. By the time that a combat soldier earns the coveted blue Infantry chord, he can literally break that rifle down blindfolded.

Stated, when my AR-15 project was complete - needless to say - I was extremely happy. I took a picture of the finished rifle and mailed it to my good buddies. Surely, they’d know this was a big deal for me.

What surprised me the most, was that hardly anyone called or contacted me back. Obviously, they knew this was important to me, right? A day or so later, my normally talkative friends had barely said a word - only one of them responded by phone.

A little muddled, I posted the image to the social networking site that I use. Most of my friends are family members or people I’ve known since high school. These are the same folks who I shot with as a kid during hunter education classes and on the weekends at our family farm. Ironically, no one said a word at first. Matter of fact, the only person that said anything positive was the guy who instructed me on it’s initial build. The one comment I received on the photo that was from a friend or family member, happened to be a high school buddy who had joined the Army years after I left the service. He remarked; ‘I didn’t know you were that into guns, guess it shows you don’t know someone after twenty years.’

The impact of his tour in Iraq had led him to radically change religions and then join the Democratic Party. On the photo’s comment, he went on to talk about how they had bigger guns than the M4 in his unit (specifically calling it a 'small gun') and how those ‘foot soldiers’ didn’t know what hit ‘em when the cluster bombs struck. His statement was a bit of guilt trip and meant to put down on me for posting the photo. I knew he intended it as an underhanded comment, but the guy had been through allot and I didn’t want to call him out on it. I just said ‘Thank you for posting what you think’, and with that, my previous excitement about my black rifle build dampened further still.

It was then that it dawned on me something was wrong. Despite the fact that many people I know are aware that I’m a shooter and a re-loader (subjects that they happily discuss this with me), they had turned cold for some reason. I had ventured into some unknown dark and bleak territory when I had posted my project picture online. My happiness couldn’t overcome the public rejection. The cool reception told me that I was not immune, nor were the people I knew, to the con-job that the anti-firearms establishment has pulled on America. This once great citizenry had held down the British army using guerilla warfare and literally fought to escape the slavery of Europe. They didn’t do that by being peace-corp activists, they fought to be free.

Yet today, you’d hardly know it ... and the feelings that the Black Rifle elicits when some American’s see it, proves my suspicions. I don’t fault them and I understand why they are this way, but still, really? Come on ...

That’s a false perception and it's based on a lie - point blank.

One should consider that only a free and sovereign individual has ever born arms throughout all of history. There was a time in this country when each household had to have it’s own rifle and each man of able body drilled on the weekends, atleast once a month, to know how shot and fight. Sadly, people have forgotten this, just like they have forgotten what it truly means to be a free person. This is not the pseudo freedom to chose cars, hair color or pick out a movie, but the freedom to do what you want because your society respects your individual rights and knows that you are a person who is responsible with his own actions.

Which brings me back to the Black Rifle. If our forefathers and mothers could have seen an M4 or AR-15, I doubt they would have been as fearful as their predecessors seem to be. The very fact that I can build, make and possess my own Black Rifle, is due to the very sacrifices that they made. It hurts me that other Americans can’t see that or have little appreciation towards them. In truth, most Americans don't even know what it means to even be American. Our nation appears to be at a precipice, teetering into a cultural cognitive dissonance. This is mainly due to the fact that our society has eroded into a fearful, nearly childlike, immature populace - and regrettably; a citizenry unfree. They are not the people our forefathers had intended them to be.

This being said, I’ll be happy and proud - at least inwardly, that I hold the rifle that marked my own transition from childhood to manhood. Though few others can share or see what that exactly means to me, it still matters none-the-less. My hope is that people will get over their fear of the Black Rifle and will embrace, again, the responsibility that it’s ownership demands and entails.

Maybe then, and only then, will people learn what it truly means to be American again.

Cheers,
JJ

(John Johnson may be contacted at johnATHellerfoundation.com )

Forwarded to me by email from Sean with the caption, "We Are Doomed."

Best Buy evidently doesn't think that this insults the intelligence of their customers, their customers presumably being too stupid to notice that they're being insulted. If they felt it necessary to put up this sign, they may be right.

(LATER: Sorry, this was represented in the email as a "WalMart sign." Diligent readers and the WalMart Anti-Defamation League let me know immediately that it certainly was not.)

"Punishing" the arsonists by giving them more matches and gasoline.

Editorial Cartoon from the Ogden Utah Standard Examiner. It accompanied this really stupid editorial.

My response:

I see. This is the logical equivalent of paying the firefighters to put out fires, only you then discover that they are really arsonists. Your solution? Why to reward their criminal behavior by giving them more matches and gasoline.

The Gunwalker Scandal was not "a sting gone bad." If you paid any attention whatsoever to the testimony of the whistleblowing ATF agents at the last two hearings, you would understand that there was no "sting" to begin with. The ATF was tasked by their superiors at the Justice Department with two things: Document the sale of civilian market firearms to straw buyers (often by coercing reluctant gun shop owners into doing so) and then documenting the statistics of where those weapons ended up by means of the Mexican police use of the E-Trace system.

Indeed, FOX News has reported that, unknown to the ATF, these weapons were actually being transferred to paid informants of the DEA and FBI, who took them south across the border. The testimony of the agents was clear: they were ordered by their superiors NOT to follow the weapons, even when they observed the straw buyers transferring them to other people.

FOX also has reported that the FBI rigged the NICS "instant background checks" in favor of convicted felon straw buyers who otherwise were not allowed to purchase firearms in the first place.

So there was no "sting," only a premeditated federally directed and subsidized operation to pump civilian market firearms south of the border with depraved indifference to how many Mexican citizens were killed with them. Indeed, the testimony of the agents and some emails which have surfaced indicated that ATF supervisors were pleased with the rising body count from "our guns." When Special agent John Dodson objected, he was told by his supervisor that "you have to break some eggs if you want to make an omelet." Depraved indifference to murder is actually the least charge you can make given what happened. Arming criminal gangs within the national borders of another country without the knowledge of that country is an act of war, in case you hadn't noticed.

And you want to reward the arsonists by giving them more gasoline and matches? That is what you propose.

Your agenda is getting ahead of the available evidence. You are either too absorbed with furthering the gun control agenda that the Gunwalker Scandal was designed to advance, too deliberately ignorant of the facts as presented by testimony under oath before the Congress of the United States, or both.

Mike Vanderboegh
The alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com

Praxis Miscellany from Global Guerrillas: Cities As Technology of War; Israeli Battle Dressing; DIY Anti-IED RC Truck & Culvert Denial System, etc.

When the City Itself Becomes a Technology of War.

Israeli Battle Dressing

Hobbyists' Toy Truck Saves 6 Soldiers' Lives

Improvised Culvert Denial System

Brazilian Student Creates Solar-powered Water Treatment System

Bringing light to the poor, one liter at a time

A bottled liter of water with a few teaspoons of bleach is proving to be a successful recipe for dwellers in the light-deprived slums of the Philippines. The simple technology is spreading sunlight in places where it has never been, and saving residents money at the same time.

Melson acting like an Acting Director. But is it all an act?

Allan Lengel at Tickle the Wire reports ATF Dir. Ken Melson Getting Out and Talking to the Troops.

Ken Melson, the acting director of ATF, who seemed like a goner last month, is now acting as if he might be around for a while.

In fact, Melson is making an effort to show more leadership by communicating more with the troops. Last week, he conducted a town hall meeting at headquarters to discuss the state of ATF with employees, according to several law enforcement people familiar with the situation.

And since then, he’s been conducting meetings with groups of special agents in charge, who head up ATF offices around the country.

One person familiar with the meetings said the townhall meeting at headquarters dealt primarily with ATF’s budget and other agency matters. But at least one person asked Melson about Operation Fast and Furious, the controversial operation that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell weapons to straw purchasers, all with the hopes of tracing the weapons to the Mexican cartels.

ATF lost track of a lot of those weapons, some of which surfaced at crime scenes. That triggered a major controversy for ATF, perhaps the biggest since Waco.

In meeting with SACs in recent days, Melson has tried to assure the officials that Fast and Furious was a Phoenix Division issue and was not a systemic problem within ATF, according to one person.

However, the ATF officials in the field told Melson that the Fast and Furious issue went far beyond the Phoenix Division — at least when it came to harming morale inside the agency.

Many SACs were also angry about the recent Congressional testimony of William Newell, who headed the Phoenix office during the Fast and Furious Operation. They felt his testimony was less than forthright.

Melson indicated that no punitive action would be taken against anyone at ATF until the Office of Inspector General issues a report on the matter.

No punitive action?!? I guess not, when you send a message like making the perjurer McMahon in charge of ATF internal affairs.

Human Events: The Washington Post has a Partner's Share in Terry's Death.

Yes, I'll sign that.

"Delusion and psychosis." "Childish" Tea Partiers are pronounced mentally ill. "It could become a very angry movement . . . a violent movement."

From MSNBC, of course.

“If they made mistakes, we will punish those implicated.” Events at the child porn presser that the US media ignored. Holder to turn himself in?

ICE Director John Morton at the big press conference yesterday thinks to himself: "Damn! We bust this huge child porn ring and all they can ask Holder about is gun control and the Gunwalker Plot."

So, Eric Holder wanted to brag taking down a world-wide child porn ring and the LA Times dutifully reported it.

You have to read the Mexican papers like Excelsior or El Universal to find out the questions he was asked after the canned statement. Here is the translated story by J. Jaime Hernández of El Universal (Spanish original below):

Holder – We will do all we can to control the sale of arms.

The U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, stated that he will act vigorously and with all at his disposal to stop the NRA from new regulation requires registering the sale of multiple assault rifles that go to Mexico from gun stores in the four border states of Texas, NM, AZ and CA.

“We will vigorously oppose the NRA complaint. We will do it because we believe that our actions are consistent with the laws and the means that we have proposed are the most appropriate for stopping the flow of arms into Mexico,” said Holder in response to the law suit filed today by the powerful NRA.

On July 11 the Department of Justice announced new regulations for controlling the sale of assault rifles frequently bought in the border states.

According to the DoJ announcement, the regulations will apply to semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines and calibers larger than .22. It is believed that the regulations will effect nearly 8500 gun stores located along the length of the border with Mexico in which almost 30% of the assault rifle sales involve frequent buyers or strawmen who act on behalf of the Mexican drug cartels.

The NRA complaint was filed in the DC District Court on behalf of Arizona gun stores.

The NRA has seen this as a blatant effort by the Obama administration to control guns by means of duplicitous reasons. “Therefore, the NRA will fight this to the end,” said EVP Wayne LaPierre in a statement.

Holder’s announcement, against the complaint filed by the NRA, portends the beginning of a new struggle to stop the NRA from spoiling efforts to control the multiple sale of assault weapons that have become a violent and painful epidemic along the border.

In a press conference held to address charges against an international pedophile ring, Holder could not avoid journalists’ questions about the slain agent by Fast & Furious.

Regarding this case, Holder said that “appropriate actions will be taken” and those responsible for the death of the agent in Operation Fast and Furious which let illegal heavy caliber guns go into Mexico in 2009 and 2010 “will be punished.”

Moreover, he indicated that the accusations made by key witnesses during the hearings held in Congress are taken very seriously.

“We don’t want this kind of conduct here. I believe that, as I have said, this is very serious. The charges that have been leveled are a great concern to me, and I take them very, very seriously,” Holder said.

“If they made mistakes, we will punish those implicated,” insisted Holder, who faces growing pressure from the implacable Republican congressman, Darrel Issa, chairman of the Oversight Committee.

Issa has accused Holder of trying to impede the Congressional investigation to protect political appointees of the DoJ, while career employees have begun to break ranks to try to show their innocence.

“I have been personally concerned about this problem. I was the one who ordered the DoJ Inspector General to begin an investigation” to throw light on those responsible for an operation that has made the ATF into a key figure in one of the worst scandals in its history.

So, if ole Eric is so concerned about getting to the bottom of the Gunwalker Plot, does this mean he's going to turn himself in? Order his own arrest?

Not bloody likely. Just more lies from a congenital liar.

The original in Spanish:

Holder: usaremos todo para normar venta de armas

El Fiscal General de Estados Unidos, Eric Holder, aseguró que actuará con todos los medios para evitar que la Asociación Nacional del Rifle eche por tierra las nuevas normas para regular la venta múltiple de rifles de asalto que van a parar a México

WASHINGTON | Miércoles 03 de agosto de 2011 J. Jaime Hernández | El Universal16:05

El Fiscal General de Estados Unidos, Eric Holder, advirtió hoy que actuará de forma "vigorosa" y con todos los medios a su alcance para evitar que la Asociación Nacional del Rifle (NRA por sus siglas en inglés) se salga con la suya y eche por tierra las nuevas normas para regular la venta múltiple de rifles de asalto que van a parar a México desde las armerías ubicadas en los estados fronterizos de Texas, California, Arizona y Nuevo México.

"Nos opondremos vigorosamente a esa demanda (de la NRA). Y lo haremos porque creemos que la acción que hemos tomado es consistente con las leyes y que las medidas que estamos proponiendo son las más apropiadas para detener el flujo de armas de Estados Unidos a México", aseguró Holder al responder al anuncio de la demanda interpuesta hoy mismo por la poderosa Asociación Nacional del Rifle contra ésta normativa.
Apenas el pasado 11 de julio, el Departamento de Justicia anunció nuevas normas para regular la venta de rifles de asalto a compradores frecuentes en los estados fronterizos.

Según anunció el Departamento de Justicia, esta nueva normativa será aplicable en el caso de compras de rifles semiautomáticos que tengan cargadores desmontables y un calibre superior a .22. Se calcula que, el requerimiento, afectará a casi 8 mil 500 armerías distribuidas a lo largo de la frontera con México en donde, según datos de ATF, casi un 30% de las ventas de armas de asalto son realizadas por compradores frecuentes o testaferros que actúan por encargo de los carteles de la droga.
Según confirmó hoy la NRA, la demanda interpuesta hoy ante una corte del Distrito de Columbia se ha presentado en nombre de dos armerías de Arizona, para bloquear la normativa:

"La NRA ha visto esto como un descarado intento de la administración Obama para proseguir con su agenda de control de armas a través de reglas diseñadas tras bambalinas. Por eso la NRA peleará contra esto hasta el final", aseguró el vicepresidente ejecutivo de la NRA, Wayne LaPierre, mediante un comunicado.

El anuncio de Holder, contra la demanda interpuesta por la NRA, augura así el inicio de una nueva batalla para evitar que el poderoso lobby de las armas vuelva a malograr los intentos por controlar la venta múltiple de armas de asalto que se han convertido en una epidemia dolorosa y violenta al sur de la frontera.

En una rueda de prensa, en la que se dieron a conocer los cargos presentados contra una red internacional de pederastía infantil, Holder no pudo evitar las preguntas de los periodistas por el fallido operativo de "Rápido y Furioso".

Sobre éste caso, Holder aseguró que "se tomarán acciones apropiadas" y "se castigará" a los responsables del fallido operativo de "Rápido y Furioso" que permitió trasiego ilegal de armas de grueso calibre a México entre el 2009 y 2010.
Además, señaló que las acusaciones vertidas por testigos clave, durante las audiencias celebradas en el Congreso, "nos las tomamos muy en serio".

"Este no es el tipo de conducta que queremos aquí. Creo que, como ya he dicho, esto es muy serio. Y los cargos que han sido sugeridos son de gran preocupación para mí y me los tomo muy, muy en serio", dijo Holder.


"Si se cometieron errores, vamos a castigar a las personas implicadas", insistió Holder quien enfrenta la creciente presión ejercida desde el comité de supervisión gubernamental que preside el implacable congresista republicano, Darrel Issa.
Precisamente, Darrel Issa ha acusado directamente a Eric Holder de obstaculizar la investigación que se realiza desde el Congreso para proteger a funcionarios políticos del Departamento de Justicia, mientras personal de carrera ha comenzado a desfilar para tratar de demostrar su inocencia:

"Yo me he preocupado personalmente de este problema. Yo fui el que ordenó al inspector general (en el Departamento de Justicia) iniciar la investigación" para esclarecer las responsabilidades de un operativo que ha convertido a la Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco y Armas (ATF) en protagonista de uno de los peores escándalos en su historia.

David Codrea: Anti-concealed carry statistics don’t match up to real world.

More proof that Buckeyes are simply useless nuts.

Praxis: The world's first PRINTED UAV

Amazing.

Link courtesy of Global Guerrillas.

Hitlerian Hyperbole Hits Heights of Hysteria. Tea Partiers "Cannibal vampire zombie aliens"?

A legend in her own mind.

Remember by piece yesterday on Joe Biden's use of the language of the Third Reich? Well, Maureen Dowd has done him two or three better.

Tea Party budget-slashers didn’t sport the black capes with blood-red lining beloved by the campy Vincent Price or wield the tinglers deployed by William Castle. But in their feral attack on Washington, in their talent for raising goose bumps from Wall Street to Westminster, this strange, compelling and uncompromising new force epitomized “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and evoked comparisons to our most mythic creatures of the night.

They were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved victims, Boehner and President Obama. They were like the metallic beasts in “Alien” flashing mouths of teeth inside other mouths of teeth, bursting out of Boehner’s stomach every time he came to a bouquet of microphones. (Conjuring that last image on Monday, Vladimir Putin described America as “a parasite.”)

NSSF & NRA both file suits against ATF on long gun reporting requirement.

Firearms Industry Files Suit Against ATF.