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DanTex Donating Member (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-11 09:51 AM
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A sane person’s guide to ‘Fast and Furious’
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Edited on Fri Oct-14-11 09:54 AM by DanTex
A good, sober overview of F&F, as well as a discussion of the conspiratorial lunacy that has spread throughout the right-wing gun blogs, and, sad to say, even found its way into this forum on occasion.

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/10/13/a-sane-persons-guide-to-fast-and-furious/

One Republican congressman has suggested that Attorney General Eric Holder ought to be arrested and face criminal charges of being an accessory to murder, and that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and even President Obama might be implicated.

Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association calls it “the biggest cover-up since Watergate” and describes Operation Fast and Furious as “just one part of Barack Obama’s agenda to attack gun owners and our Second Amendment rights.” Conservative bloggers are even arguing that the “Fast and Furious” case constitutes grounds for impeachment, with claims that it’s “the Reichstag fire of the Second Amendment.”

An excitable little bunch, aren’t they?

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The truth is, the right has fixated on “Fast and Furious” not because it wants the federal government to become more effective in its efforts to stop gunrunning across the Mexican border. Quite the contrary. It wants to raise such a stink about “Fast and Furious” that the government is forced to stop undercover gun-trafficking investigations altogether. They see this as an opportunity to discredit and handcuff ATF, an agency that the NRA and others view as a hated enemy.

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