One of the biggest grotesqueries perpetrated by our Federal government is the use of the word War to focus attention on a bureaucratic effort. The misappropriation of government's most deadly function is supposed to make us take these efforts seriously. So we get a War on Poverty and a War on Drugs and our minders in Washington then use the full force and power of of the leviathan to prosecute them, usually to little effect. Near as I can tell there are still poor people, athough many of the folks who make up those numbers in America live a life that few truly poor folks elsewhere would recognize. I fought in the War on Drugs and can state categorically that the drugs and the junkies won. Today's Wall Street Journal has a piece headlined "A Drug War Plan Goes Awry". This references the outrageous operation by the ATF to allow purchases of guns in the US to migrate across the border to Mexico. Their cunning plan was to allow criminals to purchase thousands of weapons and then instead of arresting them, to wait until the guns were used in a crime and then swoop in. If that strikes you as mind-numbingly, blisteringly stupid, then your cognitive functions are intact. The purported plan was to trace these guns to the drug cartels and then use the evidence to prosecute them. The problem is the brainiacs who run ATF and the Justice Department failed to consider that when drug criminals use guns, people tend to get dead. This program killed at least one US federal agent and who knows how many civilians while leading to zero takedowns of the drug lords. Bravo you mindless clowns! The proper refernce for this should be "War on Guns Plan goes as expected". This was an attempt to attack the sale and use of guns disguised, not too cleverly, as a Drug War tactic. If they could prove that straw man purchases led to civilain deaths, they would have grounds to do some jackboot-stomping on the resurgent 2nd Amendment. But instead they proved that when federal agents, with the full permission of the US Justice Department, flagrantly violate our own laws for political purposes bad things happen. I'm sure the family of Agent Terry is comforted by the fact that he was slaughtered to further the radical leftist, anti-gun agenda. So who do we metaphorically send to the firing squad for this disgrace? I have a prime candidate in the incompetent, political tool currently called our Attorney General. He has had many idiotic endeavors since he took office including the moronic attempt to try KSM in NYC and to close Gitmo. Not to mention his complete inability to state the bleedingly freaking obvious fact that people like MAJ Hasan and others are "Islamist" terrorists. Holder in the Crosshairs. So it is far beyond time for this loser to pack his bags and join the multitude of other embarrassments Obama has foisted on us under the almighty bus. Hit the bricks buddy!
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Jun 20 2011, 12:09 AM
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