Posted on 07/07/2009 6:30:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Big lies die slowly. After a claim by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that 90% of Mexican drug dealers' military weapons (machine guns, hand grenades and missiles) come from American gun stores was exposed as a lie several months ago, it's back — this time with the imprimatur of the Government Accountability Office.
A June 21 CBS "60 Minutes" report by Anderson Cooper was clearly coordinated to coincide with release of the GAO report and a similar one by "activist" Josh Sugarmann.
You are likely to soon hear and read that the GAO report commissioned by Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., confirms what Mexico's attorney general, Eduardo Medina-Mora, told Cooper: "Two thousand two hundred grenades, missile and rocket launchers!"
Cue Cooper as a video of machine guns, hand grenades and other weaponry fill the screen: "It turns out 90% of them are purchased in the U.S."
That's not all. You will hear from Sugarmann that Mexican drug dealers are buying FN Herstal Five-seven pistols from licensed U.S. gun merchants because those pistols fire bullets that penetrate protective body armor.
What you are unlikely to hear and read is that all such military weapons are illegal in the U.S., that Mexican criminals are supplied through an international black market and that this black market prominently features weapons the U.S. sold to the Mexican military and that are resold to drug cartels by corrupt Mexican officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
Firearms go to Mexico with the drug trade. Cocaine/meth smugglers bring the drugs up and firearms back down. Mexican drug dealers have even bragged in the past that they could pay Mexican customs $20 to get the stuff in and out.
In sum President Obama is not doing his job. He only needs to shut down the drug trade from Mexico by getting rougher. ...ain’t going to happen, because lefties want drugs decriminalized and addicts coddled.
And no, there hasn’t been any “war on drugs”—ever. If there were a war on drugs, the growers, processors, dealers and addicts would be dead.
I guess the authors didn’t do their research and figure out that the only weapons sent back for tracing were weapons they thought they “actually” could trace.....
(I’m looking for the link!) sheeesh
Well, I think What Would Teddy Roosevelt Do?
True, in his time drug regulations were laxer. But Teddy would have sent the Marines to clean out the gun nest clear to the southern border of Mexico. Obama would mess his pants at the idea.
Wait a sec... we can buy grenade launchers from our local gunstore and Wal Mart?!?!?!?!
Hell Yeah, wheres my credit card?!?!?!
That’s an interesting consideration. If today’s favored constituents weren’t such libertine globalists, he probably would. “Bully!” ;-)
“But the guns going to Mexico are legal American firearms, not war materiel. The news media have knowingly or incompetently lied to Americans in service of a political cause. For this they should be deeply ashamed.”
Since the news media has been told, they are not incompetently doing anything, they are intentionally lying to the American people. As such, they should be fired, and their FCC licenses should be revoked.
Ping
I was gonna say, Why isn’t that stuff at Bi-Mart? I mean seriously, where’s mine?
Once again the Big Lie Technique rides - sounds better and fits the preconceptions of the MSM!
Woohoo!! Lets go!!! I wanna get a belt fed grenade launcher with a pistol grip, silencer, and laser site! ;^p
(Some idiot at CNN reading this would probably think you can get such a thing)
Oh, but Josh Sugarmann does. He is a consummate liar and propagandist who is with the Violence Policy Center, an organization that knowingly and deliberately constructs anti-gun campaigns out of pure falsehood. The VPC is the very apotheosis of bad faith on the issue, inventors or proliferators of such touchstone neologisms as "gun show loophole," "assault weapon," "cop-killer bullet," and the less successful "pocket rocket," a term intended to demonize concealable 9mm pistols. As the article details, they deliberately spread the lie that Glocks and other non-metallic-frame firearms could not be picked up by airline X-rays. They are now attempting to construct a fiction of large-scale purchases of military ordnance in U.S. gun stores that are reponsible for the violence in otherwise pacific Mexico. They are particularly adept at constructing the sort of sensationalism that the media find irresistible. They know they're lying and to be honest, they have been very successful at it.
My local newspaper repeated the “95%” lie again the other day. Amazingly, a few days later, they printed a response letter calling them on this lie.
Do you seriously believe mexican drug dealers are buying machine guns, grenades, and grenade launchers in US gun shops? Utter nonsense.
Sugarmann’s not a “journalist”. He’s a Sara Brady butt-boy.
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