Posted on 01/13/2017 11:50:26 AM PST by PROCON
It’s about time..
Based on personal experience dealing with DEA cowboys and incompetent ATF agents - both ATF and DEA need to be eliminated.
The Secret Service should also turn over all non protective detail functions to the FBI.
It’s just more efficient to let one organization handle national policing. And the FBI (at least until recently) is more professional that ATF and DEA.
Having a power split between the U.S. Marshalls and the FBI is probably good enough. Or perhaps the IG for the FBI needs to be a completely separate organization.
Valid observations, and doubly so if you look at some of Sensenbrenner's more statist moments.
Mr. niteowl77
Why not kill off the DEA at the same time? The DEA was created in 1973. The FBI handled that stuff before then.
1970=EPA, 1972=ATF, 1973=DEA: Why were so many unneeded agencies created in such a short period of time? While they’re at it the Education department was created in 1979 and a more useless organization has never existed. Kill it too.
Golden Retrievers everywhere breath a sigh of relief!
That should be the name on the bill when Trump signs it:)
Affimative
Exactly...Rearranging the deck chairs saves nothing, and the abuses of our 2nd A rights persist, by another alphabet agency...
Clear the deck...
But not Obama or Holder who gave the orders to ATF. <<
Not Yet!...Depends on plea bargains of the underlings that
acted on those orders....
I’m coining 2 new words for that though.... “Bama-cide” and “Holder-cide”....Between the 2 there may not be many left at ATF to abolish...
Trouble is no other agency wants FTroops people they are so bad.
I second...
...by now it’s probably more like 27,538,429th...
The ATF was born out of prohibition. The revenues had to do something after it was eliminated.
There’s always a need for burger flippers and “fries with that?” question askers.
It also goes along with the "Hearing Protection Act". In fact, it would go along well with the really proper course of action:
1) Repeal the Gun Control Act.
2) Repeal the National Firearms Act.
3) Repeal the Hughes Amendment.
Then let the IRS collect excise taxes on booze and butts.
“Who would the FBI have to set up as patsies?”
I scanned that too fast and read it as something about the FBI and pasties...”
J. Edgar Hoover, please pick up the pink courtesy phone...
A good start but I would have started with the EPA and Department of Education!!!
I thinking back into the 50s/60s here in PA, and I can’t remember any. Probably were, but I just can’t recollect them.
> The ATF was born out of prohibition.
No it wasn’t. Nixon created the ATF in 1972.
The treasury department handled that stuff before then.
the bigger issue isn’t what agency does what, we need Congress to ABOLISH the entire idea of the federal government restricting alcohol (aside from history, the fed govt has NO business regulating this), tobacco (why is the fed govt involved in this to begin with? its simply silly), and firearms (OUR CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT! which SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED, dammmmnit!).
end the programs! don’t just Tranfer them to other bureaucraps to carry out. END the worthless or unconstitutional programs! THAT is Draining the Swamp....
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