Retribution should be Fast and Furious
Published: Sunday, August 21, 2011
Updated: Sunday, August 21, 2011 16:08
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The revelations concerning Fast and Furious even sparked congressional inquiry into a Florida ATF division's "Operation Castaway" that may have similarly resulted in guns being trafficked to Central America, according to FOX News.
Whatever the truth is surrounding these gunrunning operations and the resulting violence both north and south of the border, it must be brought to light. Thorough investigations and prosecutions are necessary to find justice for the American and Mexican public, as well as for the families of the many victims killed by guns that U.S. law enforcement let walk.
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Fallon
Austin- You wrote a very strong piece... better than the usual reporting on the issue. That lie is ubiquitous; but, it must be stopped lest the appropriate outrage be squelched, stunted at the outset.
Fallon
"Operation Fast and Furious began in 2009 with a plan ... to purposefully allow guns to be sold to known criminals so the weapons could be tracked as they reached high-level cartel members." The evidence does not support that contention.Not in the least.The evidence DOES support the truth of this:
"The DOJ admits 1,048 guns are still on the loose with no way to track them .... "The plan for Fast and Furious was simple, and it was faithfully adhered to [with maybe one weak exception which became moot with the loss of battery power 40 hours later]:The initial purchase was documented and often filmed, the guns were loosed to the criminals - even over prolonged objections by sellers and agents, then the managers showed their delight when guns recovered at violent crime scenes in Mexico were then traced back to the initial Point of Sale ( not to be confused with pos as it is popularly understood). If the initial premise were true, the operation would have been shuttered in shame soon after the first, second, or third gun had slipped surveillance. There never was surveillance sufficient to "track" the route of any of those guns. Furthermore, the bosses were already known, and beyond that, we had no means to prosecute after the guns were turned loose.The propaganda put out to the media, specifically the specious "intended to" propaganda is a lie. An outright lie.Nobody associated with the implementation and loosing of that lie onto the simpleton media mavens, and by extension, the world... none of those perps have any business on this side of the bars, let alone positions of influence in the government!
"The DOJ admits 1,048 guns are still on the loose with no way to track them .... "The plan for Fast and Furious was simple, and it was faithfully adhered to [with maybe one weak exception which became moot with the loss of battery power 40 hours later]:The initial purchase was documented and often filmed, the guns were loosed to the criminals - even over prolonged objections by sellers and agents, then the managers showed their delight when guns recovered at violent crime scenes in Mexico were then traced back to the initial Point of Sale ( not to be confused with pos as it is popularly understood). If the initial premise were true, the operation would have been shuttered in shame soon after the first, second, or third gun had slipped surveillance. There never was surveillance sufficient to "track" the route of any of those guns. Furthermore, the bosses were already known, and beyond that, we had no means to prosecute after the guns were turned loose.The propaganda put out to the media, specifically the specious "intended to" propaganda is a lie. An outright lie.Nobody associated with the implementation and loosing of that lie onto the simpleton media mavens, and by extension, the world... none of those perps have any business on this side of the bars, let alone positions of influence in the government!
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