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Editorial: Was Fast And Furious A Gun-Control Plot?
IBD Editorials ^ | June 22, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 06/22/2011 6:09:24 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
...the ATF program actually an attempt to advance gun-control efforts by an administration that has blamed Mexican violence on easy access to U.S. weapons?

Does anyone understand how this act is the opposite of everything a free society believes in? It's like a Church sponsoring bank robbers or rapists to fill their coffers. Something is seriously wrong. It's bigger than it appears. No one starts at this level... they work up to totalitarianism slowly.

61 posted on 06/23/2011 8:50:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. - - Orwell)
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To: Kaslin
Yes. Common sense and logic say so. The DOJ has said nothing to differentiate this opinion but try to attack the investigator Issa through a trashy liberal newspaper called the Washington Post.
62 posted on 06/23/2011 9:00:56 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: GOPJ

It has been slowly. Political Correctness and the media have blinded people to it. It is sadly here.


63 posted on 06/23/2011 9:02:46 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Kaslin

Sure it was. Hillary Clinton even said it was our guns (and gun laws) that were allowing the illegals to obtain weapons.

Keep digging Darrell, you’re on to something. I don’t care if those impeachment papers are filed the day before the election next year. Keep digging.


64 posted on 06/23/2011 9:22:50 AM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: Kaslin
When Ollie North was mired in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 80s, he believed he was acting in the best interests of the region and America.

If all this is true, the only interest served here is the anti-gun lobby.

65 posted on 06/23/2011 9:24:57 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

In the past when I’d run an ad in the paper - half the people responding would tell me they needed to work under the table because they were ‘disabled’... No wonder the country’s broke ...


66 posted on 06/23/2011 10:09:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (1 in 19 collect SS disability- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2650736/posts?page=131#131)
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To: Kaslin; All

For those not familiar with this story, Jon Stewart provides an amusing and reasonably complete summary. Share widely. Politicians acting like this can survive lots of things, but ridicule is not among them.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-21-2011/the-fast-and-the-furious-—mexico-grift


67 posted on 06/23/2011 10:25:30 AM PDT by publiusF27
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To: Kaslin

Absolutely


68 posted on 06/23/2011 10:28:07 AM PDT by wastedyears (SEAL SIX makes me proud to have been playing SOCOM since 2003.)
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To: Kaslin

it is always interesting how the MSM pick up on “assault weapon” crimes just before election days.


69 posted on 06/23/2011 10:29:47 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: publiusF27

I am sorry, but I can’t watch that idiot


70 posted on 06/23/2011 10:43:38 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Government abuses like THIS are yet another reason why all TRUE Americans must now put our 2nd Amendment FIRST!!


71 posted on 06/23/2011 10:53:12 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Kaslin

Is a pig’s a$$ pork? It’s time to clean house. This is number three for this bunch of buffoons. First Ruby Ridge. Then Waco. Now the circular firing squad-—Atteeeeennnnssshhhuuuun-——Port Pitchforks! On the Double! Hartch!


72 posted on 06/23/2011 1:46:07 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Kaslin
I am sorry, but I can’t watch that idiot

I agree with the sentiment, but you're really missing an enjoyable few minutes if you don't take a look because this is one of the rare moments that he's funny.

More important, this is one of the libs own absolutely ridiculing the regime which makes it twice as enjoyable. It's possible he didn't realize it was specifically the regime and just thought it was one more bureaucracy. That's a third reason to enjoy for me.

73 posted on 06/23/2011 3:08:33 PM PDT by Sal (Islamo Bamma is the star, writer, director and producer of AS THE WORLD BURNS.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

The Fast and Furious investigat­ion can not stop with the resignatio­n of Kenneth Melson, acting director of the ATF. We already know that other Federal agencies including DEA, ICE and Border Patrol were involved in Operation Fast and Furious. None of those agencies report to Kenneth Melson. Authorizat­ion for the involvemen­t of those other agencies had to come from higher up. Both BATFE and DEA report to Eric Holder and since the operation crossed his agencies, he was involved. Similarly, Border Patrol and ICE report to Janet Napolitano and since the operation crossed her agencies, she was involved. Since the operation crossed department­s (Homeland Security and Justice) and those department­s report to Obama, he too had to have been involved — it can really be NO other way.


74 posted on 06/23/2011 5:12:55 PM PDT by VeganDave
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To: Husker24

It is EXACTLY what he meant. That means that the president is as guilty as everyone else. The other day the acting director said that he is not resigning. To me that means he has evidence that the president was involved and he is holding out for a deal of some sort.


75 posted on 06/23/2011 5:41:51 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
It is sadly here.

Not totallly, yet. But the direction is clear...

76 posted on 06/23/2011 7:47:59 PM PDT by GOPJ (1 in 19 collect SS disability- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2650736/posts?page=131#131)
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To: VeganDave
My general thinking was along the same lines. In order to prevent this being defined as 'an act of war' by Mexico, I am pretty sure the State Department was involved at some level also.

That would put Hillary in the loop as well.

77 posted on 06/23/2011 9:08:50 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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