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In my June 20th post regarding the ATF providing automatic weapons to the Mexican drug cartels, I suggested that acting ATF director Melson would probably just accept all the blame in the matter and either retire with a "golden parachute" pension or be offered a cushy job elsewhere. It now appears that Melson has chosen a third option. Instead of resigning, or being fired as a scapegoat, he has turned against his Department Of Justice (DOJ) bosses, saying in a July 4 secret deposition to Congress that they were trying to stymie an investigation into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
According to Representative Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley, who are heading Congressional investigations into the scandal, Melson "said that Justice Department officials directed them not to respond and took full control of replying to briefing and document requests from Congress. The result is that Congress only got the parts of the story that the Department wanted us to hear. If his account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand. Issa and Grassley also said that Melson claimed that the Justice Department falsely leaked stories to the press that he was about to resign over Fast and Furious. They warned Holder against firing him now. It would be inappropriate for the Justice Department to take action against him that could have the effect of intimidating others who might want to provide additional information to the Committees. Knowing what we know so far, we believe it would be inappropriate to make Mr. Melson the fall guy in an attempt to prevent further congressional oversight, they concluded.
Of course US Attorney General Eric Holder is responding by claiming that the DOJ had no knowledge of allowing the automatic weapons to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartel buyers. While I seriously doubt Holder's claim is true, I also doubt that any congressional investigation is going to implicate him, despite the media reported calls made by congressional leadership for Holder to resign. I see all these events as nothing much more than circus acts. An ATF whistleblower made the gunrunner story public, and that's the only reason we are hearing anything about it at all. Once the story went public, the lamestream media was quick to put all the blame on Melson. At the same time, the Congressional investigation determined that it wasn't really Melson's fault, and that the gunrunner plan was hatched in higher offices that led to the DOJ. The DOJ then denied any knowledge of the plan. So, what you now have is a situation where all those responsible are simply "passing the buck," and claiming someone else is to blame. The public will tend to forget all about this as soon as the "next big thing" comes along, and in the end it is doubtful that anyone will be held accountable.
Probably the most damning information of all comes from a statement made in March of 2009 by the Deputy Attorney General who revealed that Project Gunrunner was known and approved by the DOJ and the Obama administration, and funded by a $10 million clause written into the Reinvestment and Recovery Act, otherwise known as the "Stimulous Bill."
I may see this differently than some, but it would appear to me that this whole scenario of putting high powered automatic weapons into the hands of ruthless drug cartel killers, while obviously knowing they would be used for that purpose, was premeditated on the idea that the many killings which resulted would cause the Mexican government, and the American public, to demand a ban on guns in general, and assault weapons in particular. In fact, one of the first things that Eric Holder did in 2009, after being appointed Attorney General by Obama, was to call for re-instituting a ban on semi automatic rifles as an answer to Mexico's concerns. Therefore, anything that was done to aggravate the situation in Mexico, where gun killings are commonplace, would generate exactly the kind of responses from the Mexican government, and anti-gun US public, that Obama and Holder would hope for. It's just one more instance of the Ruling Class employing the old problem-reaction-solution construct that I talked about in this post.
Problem - The Ruling Class creates the problem of US made guns falling into the hands of Mexican killers.
Reaction - The Mexican government complains about the American guns being used to slaughter Mexican police and countless unarmed civilians, the use of these guns then results in the death of US agents, the media promotes the idea that we need a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and the US public blindly reacts to all of this by demanding that Congress pass a law banning all guns.
Solution - The Congress then "hears" the public's demand for a gun ban and is ready to provide the "solution," which is what the Ruling Class wanted all along. You see, for Congress to simply impose an outright ban on gun ownership rights would never fly, but by getting large numbers of the public to demand it, it is easy to accomplish the Ruling Class agenda of disarming Americans.
According to Representative Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley, who are heading Congressional investigations into the scandal, Melson "said that Justice Department officials directed them not to respond and took full control of replying to briefing and document requests from Congress. The result is that Congress only got the parts of the story that the Department wanted us to hear. If his account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand. Issa and Grassley also said that Melson claimed that the Justice Department falsely leaked stories to the press that he was about to resign over Fast and Furious. They warned Holder against firing him now. It would be inappropriate for the Justice Department to take action against him that could have the effect of intimidating others who might want to provide additional information to the Committees. Knowing what we know so far, we believe it would be inappropriate to make Mr. Melson the fall guy in an attempt to prevent further congressional oversight, they concluded.
Of course US Attorney General Eric Holder is responding by claiming that the DOJ had no knowledge of allowing the automatic weapons to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartel buyers. While I seriously doubt Holder's claim is true, I also doubt that any congressional investigation is going to implicate him, despite the media reported calls made by congressional leadership for Holder to resign. I see all these events as nothing much more than circus acts. An ATF whistleblower made the gunrunner story public, and that's the only reason we are hearing anything about it at all. Once the story went public, the lamestream media was quick to put all the blame on Melson. At the same time, the Congressional investigation determined that it wasn't really Melson's fault, and that the gunrunner plan was hatched in higher offices that led to the DOJ. The DOJ then denied any knowledge of the plan. So, what you now have is a situation where all those responsible are simply "passing the buck," and claiming someone else is to blame. The public will tend to forget all about this as soon as the "next big thing" comes along, and in the end it is doubtful that anyone will be held accountable.
Probably the most damning information of all comes from a statement made in March of 2009 by the Deputy Attorney General who revealed that Project Gunrunner was known and approved by the DOJ and the Obama administration, and funded by a $10 million clause written into the Reinvestment and Recovery Act, otherwise known as the "Stimulous Bill."
I may see this differently than some, but it would appear to me that this whole scenario of putting high powered automatic weapons into the hands of ruthless drug cartel killers, while obviously knowing they would be used for that purpose, was premeditated on the idea that the many killings which resulted would cause the Mexican government, and the American public, to demand a ban on guns in general, and assault weapons in particular. In fact, one of the first things that Eric Holder did in 2009, after being appointed Attorney General by Obama, was to call for re-instituting a ban on semi automatic rifles as an answer to Mexico's concerns. Therefore, anything that was done to aggravate the situation in Mexico, where gun killings are commonplace, would generate exactly the kind of responses from the Mexican government, and anti-gun US public, that Obama and Holder would hope for. It's just one more instance of the Ruling Class employing the old problem-reaction-solution construct that I talked about in this post.
Problem - The Ruling Class creates the problem of US made guns falling into the hands of Mexican killers.
Reaction - The Mexican government complains about the American guns being used to slaughter Mexican police and countless unarmed civilians, the use of these guns then results in the death of US agents, the media promotes the idea that we need a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and the US public blindly reacts to all of this by demanding that Congress pass a law banning all guns.
Solution - The Congress then "hears" the public's demand for a gun ban and is ready to provide the "solution," which is what the Ruling Class wanted all along. You see, for Congress to simply impose an outright ban on gun ownership rights would never fly, but by getting large numbers of the public to demand it, it is easy to accomplish the Ruling Class agenda of disarming Americans.
I didn't even end up being able to work out what the speaker was trying to say. 
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