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Congressmen outraged over Holder anti-gun ‘brainwash’ video

by Admin on March 21, 2012 in 2nd Amendment, Brian Terry, Fast and Furious, Gun Control, Justice Department - Eric Holder, Project Gunwalker with No comments

Attorney General Eric Holder, center, talks to a group of law students before delivering an address at the Northwestern University law school, Monday, March 5, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)

Several House Republicans are even more furious with Attorney General Eric Holder after new video surfaced in which he planned to “brainwash” the American people to oppose gun ownership. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, who’s leading the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious with Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, told The Daily Caller that he’s not surprised, as Holder and many of his deputies come from an extremist anti-gun background.

“[Assistant Attorney General] Lanny Breuer, Eric Holder come from a wing — certainly Lanny Breuer led the charge on the assault weapons ban,” Issa said during an interview on Capitol Hill. “Many of the people in the chain of Fast and Furious have a disregard for Second Amendment rights and a belief that they have to limit beyond what the courts have upheld — people’s rights to keep and bear arms. So, it’s no surprise that insensitive statements like that would be made by now-Attorney General Holder.” (RELATED: Rep. Peter King: Holder’s ‘brainwash’ comment was ‘wrong choice of words’)

Over the weekend, Breitbart.com discovered a 1995 CSPAN video in which Holder — then the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — advocated using anti-smoking campaigns as a model for an anti-gun campaign.

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Obama apologizes for Afghan slayings, still ignores Mexican ‘Fast and Furious’ murders

by Admin on March 12, 2012 in 2nd Amendment, ATF, Border Patrol, Brian Terry, Homeland Security, ICE, Illegal Immigration, Justice Department - Eric Holder, Mexican Cartel War, Project Gunwalker with 1 Comment

Fast and Furious: Attorney General Eric Holder is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled, “Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice”. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Via: Daily Caller

Attorney General Eric Holder is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled, “Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice”. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Barack Obama has never apologized to Mexican President Felipe Calderon for the 300 civilians murdered with weapons the United States provided to Mexico’s drug cartels, but on Sunday he found time to place a call to Afghan president Hamid Karzai apologizing for deaths caused by an American soldier this weekend in Afghanistan.

The Daily Caller asked the White House why Obama hasn’t similarly apologized to Calderon for the murders that resulted from the U.S. policy of providing weapons to the Mexican cartels. Obama spokesman Eric Schultz did not answer.

The Obama administration’s “Fast and Furious” program — organized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and overseen by the Department of Justice — sent thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers, or people who legally purchase guns in the United States with the intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else. This tactic is known as “gunwalking.”

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MP3 Report – Archive for February 28th, 2012

by Admin on February 28, 2012 in Crime and Border Security, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Mexican Cartel War with 1 Comment

Mexico Death Toll from AH1N1 Flu Virus Up 23% in 1 Week; US to Step Up Repatriation of Undocumented Mexicans by Air

February 28, 2012

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Juareznoticias.com 2/28/2012

Bones of 15 Women from Juarez Valley Found

State investigators have located the skeletons of 15 women southwest of the town of El Porvenir. Three of the women have been identified as two 15 year olds and one 17 year old. They were reported missing in 2009 and 2010. (At least now the families will have some closure.)

http://juareznoticias.com/not_detalle.php?id_n=42194

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Mexico Death Toll from AH1N1 Flu Virus Up 23% in 1 Week
http://tinyurl.com/7b9x4t6
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Central America drug gang violence at ‘alarming levels’
http://tinyurl.com/79ubx8y
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MS-13 Recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel
(Have been for years.)
http://tinyurl.com/6srh3a7
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Mexico ‘Critically Important’ to U.S. Economy
http://tinyurl.com/83mjen9
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Sikorsky Opens Business Office in Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/7gwbz4a
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Increasing numbers of Mexican citizens being granted asylum in United States
http://tinyurl.com/7m92ae2
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Mexican cartel activity has already affected five continents
http://tinyurl.com/8yx383bg
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Mexico finds cult-like drug cartel’s helmets
http://tinyurl.com/7btbap5
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Gunmen Kill 5 in Northern Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/88m9298
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Napolitano: Mexican drug war ‘not a failure’
http://tinyurl.com/7x6fh7e
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Lessons from Colombia for Mexico? Caveat Emptor
http://tinyurl.com/778chgv
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Biggest Roundup of Drug Traffickers for Extradition in Colombia’s History
http://tinyurl.com/7dmt7yj
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Guatemala Seizes Large Haul of Drug Precursor Chemicals
http://tinyurl.com/83nahen
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Colombia’s FARC to Release 10 Prisoners, Abandon Kidnapping
http://tinyurl.com/7nw7a3g
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30 Tourists Robbed While Hiking in National Park in Brazil
http://tinyurl.com/6qc89ne
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Anglican Bishop, Wife Murdered in Brazil
http://tinyurl.com/6tzauv6
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60 Undocumented Migrants Detained in Northern Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/7omhr5s
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Two British cruise ships turned away from Argentina after visiting the Falklands
http://tinyurl.com/6t4xysu
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Guatemala-Bats harbour influenza virus
http://tinyurl.com/7l32ngq
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Chile Forest Fire Rips Through Homes In Viña Del Mar
http://tinyurl.com/7h4xyjz
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US to Step Up Repatriation of Undocumented Mexicans by Air
http://tinyurl.com/7g679ba
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Threats Follow Asylum Seeker Across Texas Border
http://tinyurl.com/7s3xyxr
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Issa, Grassley push Holder for answers in Zapata slaying

http://tinyurl.com/72o48g5
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Congressional investigators fault ATF’s “irresponsible tactic” in ICE agent murder
http://tinyurl.com/7vqrt64
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Terrorist Fears Will Force Obama to Send Troops to the Border
http://tinyurl.com/73n968a
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Saving ‘287(g)’
http://tinyurl.com/89jvloz
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Between 2 worlds: Former undercover agent infiltrated smuggling rings
http://tinyurl.com/6wbg33r
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Report: Homeland Security lied to Congress about spying on citizens
http://tinyurl.com/7xrr8zb
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Are the cartels taking over North Carolina?
http://tinyurl.com/6nzowfc
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The Trap Door: Yet another Advantage For Terrorists and Criminal Aliens
http://tinyurl.com/77ojede
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TX
Baytown police arrest 3 linked to Mexican cartel for 2004 murder
http://tinyurl.com/73gpxxf
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Feds: Mexican found in Pa. despite 5 deportations
http://tinyurl.com/7utzn6h
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FL
Members of Eastern European prostitution ring sentenced in federal court
http://tinyurl.com/7j8vxp8
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DEA arrests County Commissioner Willie Gandara Jr. on drug trafficking charges
http://tinyurl.com/82gglle
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Mississippi House committee passes immigration crackdown bill
http://tinyurl.com/7rblzwe
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TX
Army helicopters based in Harlingen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5Q2MLwyVc
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One hour and $260 can get you phony green card, soc. security and license
http://tinyurl.com/7h9ec52
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Tried and true: Mounted patrols used to track smugglers
http://tinyurl.com/7nrzzra
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CA
El Centro Sector Border Patrol Seizes Stolen Truck and $846,000 in Marijuana
http://tinyurl.com/77gz3ye
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MN
City man charged $5K at border for ‘port running
http://tinyurl.com/88vhbcb
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Kingpin’s cash seen as just reward for lawmen’s risks
http://tinyurl.com/7g3k7pk
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Immigrants, city fear divide over status checks
http://tinyurl.com/769gzax
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Communities will become more dangerous after Obama ends 287(g) program
http://tinyurl.com/84d8nbv
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TX
Agents Seize More than 4.5 tons of Marijuana; Save Man’s Life
http://tinyurl.com/7gjwjzj
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NE
State Patrol Uses New Techniques to stop Drug Trafficking
http://tinyurl.com/8xdkkne
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Illegal immigration fueling rise in cockfighting rings
http://tinyurl.com/83xrgft
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PA
Illegal immigrant arrested following Wilkes-Barre crash
http://tinyurl.com/6tloffk
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U.S. Schools Find New Ways to Teach Spanish
http://tinyurl.com/7xm6be6
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How To Not Get Deported
http://tinyurl.com/7n3qnhv
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Mexican drug cartel invasion in Texas

by Admin on February 22, 2012 in Crime and Border Security, Homeland Security, Mexican Cartel War, Obama Foreign Policy with 1 Comment

Agriculture commissioner details letter he sent to White House over growing danger of cartels

Agriculture Commissioner, Todd Staples, “America is under attack and it’s happening on Texas soil. Meanwhile our pleas for help are being met with denial and lame jokes”. See press conference video below: House, Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management.

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BOEHNER SABOTAGING FAST AND FURIOUS PROBE?

by Tom Tancredo on February 10, 2012 in 2nd Amendment, ATF, Border Patrol, Bryan Terry, Fast and Furious, John Boehner, Justice Department - Eric Holder, Project Gunwalker with 4 Comments

Exclusive: Tom Tancredo declares House speaker needs a backbone transplant

Speaker of the House, John Boehner

Rumors abound this week of secret negotiations, backdoor meetings and veiled threats aimed at halting Rep. Issa’s investigation of the Fast and Furious scandal. Regretfully, such rumors are all too credible given Speaker Boehner’s history of always seeking a compromise even when victory is in sight.

This is what passes for pragmatism in Republican leadership circles: They settle for crumbs from the table instead of the “half a loaf” of successful compromise.

The investigation by Rep. Darrel Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been uncovering lies and contradictions in the attorney general’s past testimony on the illegal Fast and Furious program that sent about 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels. Whether Holder masterminded and directed the illegal program is not clear, but what has become clear is that he knew about it practically from its inception and did nothing to curtail it. Then he lied about it to a committee of Congress.

Murdered Border Patrol OfficerBrian Terry

This is not a question of some minor bureaucratic misjudgment that can now be corrected. People died as a result of this insane and wholly illegal project. Two of the dead are Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata. Zapata was ambushed by cartel assassins deep inside Mexico while working with Mexican authorities. Both were killed with guns brought into Mexico by the Fast and Furious program.

Murdered Border Agent Jamie Zapata

Maybe the White House needs to be reminded, but some us remember that President Nixon was not impeached and removed for instigating the Watergate break-in of June 1972. He was impeached for his part in the cover up that followed the break-in. In essence, he made the mistake of lying about it, which is what Holder has done.

The interesting question is why Speaker Boehner and other Republicans in leadership positions in the House are trying to hamper and curtail the Issa investigation. If Holder is innocent of the allegations, won’t that become evident when all the evidence is made public? If he is innocent, why does the White House fear the investigation?

What’s going on here? Every time Issa’s committee holds a public hearing, new evidence comes to light. Why should the investigation be aborted? Why would Republicans want the investigation halted? What possible “deal” could the White House offer to Boehner to persuade him to end the investigation? The only compromise Republicans in Congress should accept in the case of Attorney General Holder is his early resignation instead of impeachment and removal.

Over 100 members of Congress – I think it is 112 at the latest count – have called for Holder’s resignation. That’s more than a quarter of all congressmen. And while it’s not just his role in the Fast and Furious scandal that has led them to that conclusion, it’s hard to imagine any of them calling for an end to the investigation.

The reported “deal” Boehner and Holder are discussing would let higher ups in the Department of Justice off the hook if they prosecute one or two individual ATF supervisors. Holder would then claim he “cleaned up the mess” and be free from any moral or political culpability. How does that sound, folks?

Rep. Issa must persevere in his investigation and seek the truth no matter where it leads. As for Speaker Boehner, if he has a problem with this, he should go into the hospital for a backbone transplant.

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‘Why isn’t this headline news?’

by Admin on January 17, 2012 in Border Patrol, Bryan Terry, Crime and Border Security, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Sinaloa cartel, Zetas with 2 Comments

Via: Tea Party Nation

Mexican Drug cartel violence is spreading to the United States.  This kind of thing should be headline news.  Instead, it is at best relegated to local news casts.

From KRGV.Com

Three beheadings in two different states and they happened here in the United States, not Mexico.

Former DEA supervisor Phil Jordan says all three beheadings have cartel written all over them. They happened in Arizona and Oklahoma in the past year.

A murder mystery is now unraveling on a stretch of North Reservation Road in Tucson, Ariz. County workers found a headless man lying on the side of the road Jan. 6. The man’s hands and feet were reportedly missing, too. 

”It would lead me to believe the message wanted to be sent. This is one of the ways they do it in Mexico, Colombia and other places,” says Jordan.

Jordan says the cartels are getting bolder in carrying out their beheadings across the border. He says we only used to see these crimes in Mexico.

“They don’t have any borders,” says Jordan.

More than 600 miles from the border, a 19-year-old human trafficking victim was found beheaded in Oklahoma. Carina Saunders was stuffed into a bag and left in a grocery store parking lot.

”People know if they get on the wrong side of the fence, they’ll be dealt with,” says Jordan.

The police chief in the area says two men running the trafficking ring killed Saunders to send a message to the other victims. Jordan says the cartels’ calling card is all over this case. Trafficking and smuggling are their top moneymakers. Revenge is the price of doing business.

”Definitely a cartel hit,” says Jordan.

Investigators in Chandler, Ariz., say cartel operatives came from Mexico to kill 38-year-old Martin Alejandro Cota Monroy. His beheaded body was found in his apartment.

“One is too many; two is too many. Three should send an alarm,” says Jordan.

Sent an alarm?  We should be sending the United States Army to our border areas and seal our border.

Mexican cartels have been afraid to export their violence to America, until now.  They are slowly realizing that they have nothing to be afraid of and are now starting to bring their violence from the streets of Mexico to the streets of America.

Right now, no one cares.  Who really cares if the cartel kills another cartel member who happens to be an illegal alien?  We will care when civilians start getting caught in the crossfire.  We will care when they get so bold that they start threatening or even killing police like they do in Mexico.

There are parts of the Southwestern United States that are effectively controlled by a foreign power.   We are losing our sovereignty over parts of this country and the Obama Regime, along with the Republicans and Democrats do not seem to care.

Perhaps they will care when Americans start dying.   But by then, it may be too late.

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Mexico releases drug war death toll estimate: One killing every half hour

by Admin on January 14, 2012 in Mexcan Extortion, Mexican Cartel War, Mexican Nationals, Sinaloa cartel, Terrorism, Zetas with 1 Comment

Felipe Calderon administration resisted publishing the new figure

BY ROQUE PLANAS / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Forensic experts work at the site where at least 18 bodies were found near a ... abcnews.go.com

Drug war violence in Mexico took a life an average of every half hour last year in Mexico, the government estimates.
Felipe Calderón, President, talked at the Worl...

The administration of Felipe Calderon had resisted pressure to publish the death figures for months, but the Attorney General’s Office finally posted the statistics on its website Wednesday.

The toll linked to the anti-cartel campaign launched by Calderon in 2006 continued to climb; there were 12,903 killings between January and September of 2011.

Total deaths stand at over 47,515, according to the government tally.

Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, had the highest number of violent deaths at 1,206, followed by the beach resort town of Acapulco, with 795.

The Attorney General’s Office posted the figures after months of prodding from human rights groups, the press and a disgruntled state agency.

The Calderon administration decided to classify the statistics sometime last year, citing reasons of national security, according toMexican news portal Animal Politico.

The Attorney General’s office released the numbers after the national statistics agency threatened legal action last week.

The Attorney General’s Office pointed out that while the death toll mounted, it did so at a slower rate than in previous years.

From September 2010 to September 2011, the number of drug war-related deaths rose 11% compared to increases of 70% and 63% in previous years.

The Calderon administration also highlights its success taking down cartel kingpins. Mexican authorities have captured 22 of the 37 most important cartel leaders, Mexican security spokesman Alejandro Poire said Thursday, according to Notimex.

Most drug war killings took place in just eight of Mexico’s 31 states, five of which share a border with the United States, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

Violence is concentrated along the border where drug cartels fight each other and Mexican security forces to push their way into the United States to reach American users.

Chris Sabatini, policy director for the Americas Society, told the Daily News he doesn’t expect the violence to spill into the U.S. Southwest.

“That’s sort of the bottleneck,” Sabatini said. “Once it’s across the border, the drugs are being distributed.”

And while the United States heads into a presidential election in which immigration will play a key role, Sabatini did not view Mexico’s drug war as a major political issue for most Americans.

“As long as it stays south of the border, I think most people won’t care,” Sabatini said. “The vast majority of U.S. citizens are not going to reconsider U.S. domestic drug policies or gun policies, tragically, on the basis of Mexican deaths.”

 

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President Barack Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]

by Admin on January 4, 2012 in Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Propaganda, Obama's Economy, Tyrrany with 2 Comments

Yes, he’s historic, alright.

• First President to issue an unlawful “recess-appointment” while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).

• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

• First President to Defy a Federal Judge’s Court Order to Cease Implementing the ‘Health Care Reform’ Law

• First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to “The DREAM Act”, which could not pass Congress

• First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party

• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on ‘Shovel-Ready’ Jobs — and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs

• First President to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air

• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters

• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat

• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases

• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler

• First President to “Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions”

• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees

• First President to Terminate America’s Ability to Put a Man into Space.

• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places

• First President to Have a Law Signed By an ‘Auto-pen’ Without Being “Present”

• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It

• First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory

• First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.

• First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)

• First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago

• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case

• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts

• First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil

• First President to Golf 90 or More Times in His First Three Years in Office

But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.

Linked by: Don Surber and Parkway Rest Stop. Thanks!

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Terry family wants criminal charges against officials responsible for Fast and Furious

by Admin on December 18, 2011 in 2nd Amendment, ATF, Border Patrol, Bryan Terry, Fast and Furious, Homeland Security, Justice Department - Eric Holder, Project Gunwalker with No comments

Murdered Border Patrol Agent Bryan Terry

On the anniversary of his death, the family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry released a strong statement calling for criminal charges to be pursued against those ultimately responsible for Operation Fast and Furious — the gun-walking program that led to Terry’s murder.

Terry was shot on Dec. 14, 2010, in Peck Canyon in Arizona. He died early the next morning. He was killed with weapons the Obama administration allowed to be sold to Mexican drug cartels via Operation Fast and Furious.

Terry’s family wants Obama administration officials held accountable with criminal charges.

“Our priority continues to be the successful arrest and prosecution of all the individuals involved in Brian’s murder,” the family said in a statement. “However, we will continue to press for answers and accountability from our government. Those responsible for such a misguided and fundamentally flawed operation must be held fully responsible for their decisions which allowed so many weapons to flow to the criminal element on both sides of the border. We now believe that if it can be shown that laws were broken, then all those responsible for Fast and Furious should be held criminally liable.”

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 08: U.S. Attorney G...

Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by Holder’s Department of Justice. It cleared the way for thousands of weapons to get to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers — people who legally purchased guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else.

At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was Terry. The identities of the Mexican victims are unknown.

In an interview with The Daily Caller on Thursday, Terry family attorney Pat McGroder said the slain agent’s relatives don’t think it’s their place to pick out who should be charged, but they do think justice must be done.

“The family believes in the rule of law,” McGroder told TheDC. “Brian Terry upheld the rule of law and all they want is to ensure that whoever may have criminal culpability as measured by the investigation’s results and the discretion of the U.S. Attorney’s office that whomever may have criminal culpability is brought to answer for those criminal charges. That’s all they’re saying. They’re not pointing the finger, they’re not trying to do the job of the FBI, they’re not trying to do the job of the U.S. Attorney’s office — they’re simply ensuring that that which Brian stood for, and that is upholding the rule of law, in fact does apply to their family.”

McGroder added that another track the family is considering is civil litigation. There aren’t currently any active cases against the administration on that front, but McGroder said he’s looking into whether the family can move down that road. “There are two tracks: the criminal justice system, and we’ve talked about that,” he said. “The other is the civil justice system and currently we’re investigating whether it would be under the umbrella of the federal tort claim act or whether it be against any other people or entities that may be responsible in and under our civil justice system.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/16/terry-family-wants-criminal-charges-against-officials-responsible-for-fast-and-furious/#ixzz1grM2Xd2j

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Terry family wants criminal charges against officials responsible for Fast and Furious

by Admin on December 16, 2011 in 2nd Amendment, ATF, Bryan Terry, Fast and Furious, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Justice Department - Eric Holder, Project Gunwalker with No comments
On the anniversary of his death, the family of slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry released a strong statement calling for criminal charges to be pursued against those ultimately responsible for Operation Fast and Furious — the gun-walking program that led to Terry’s murder.

Terry was shot on Dec. 14, 2010, in Peck Canyon in Arizona. He died early the next morning. He was killed with weapons the Obama administration allowed to be sold to Mexican drug cartels via Operation Fast and Furious.

Terry’s family wants Obama administration officials held accountable with criminal charges.

“Our priority continues to be the successful arrest and prosecution of all the individuals involved in Brian’s murder,” the family said in a statement. “However, we will continue to press for answers and accountability from our government. Those responsible for such a misguided and fundamentally flawed operation must be held fully responsible for their decisions which allowed so many weapons to flow to the criminal element on both sides of the border. We now believe that if it can be shown that laws were broken, then all those responsible for Fast and Furious should be held criminally liable.”

Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by Holder’s Department of Justice. It cleared the way for thousands of weapons to get to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers — people who legally purchased guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else.

At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was Terry. The identities of the Mexican victims are unknown.

In an interview with The Daily Caller on Thursday, Terry family attorney Pat McGroder said the slain agent’s relatives don’t think it’s their place to pick out who should be charged, but they do think justice must be done.

“The family believes in the rule of law,” McGroder told TheDC. “Brian Terry upheld the rule of law and all they want is to ensure that whoever may have criminal culpability as measured by the investigation’s results and the discretion of the U.S. Attorney’s office that whomever may have criminal culpability is brought to answer for those criminal charges. That’s all they’re saying. They’re not pointing the finger, they’re not trying to do the job of the FBI, they’re not trying to do the job of the U.S. Attorney’s office — they’re simply ensuring that that which Brian stood for, and that is upholding the rule of law, in fact does apply to their family.”

McGroder added that another track the family is considering is civil litigation. There aren’t currently any active cases against the administration on that front, but McGroder said he’s looking into whether the family can move down that road. “There are two tracks: the criminal justice system, and we’ve talked about that,” he said. “The other is the civil justice system and currently we’re investigating whether it would be under the umbrella of the federal tort claim act or whether it be against any other people or entities that may be responsible in and under our civil justice system.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/16/terry-family-wants-criminal-charges-against-officials-responsible-for-fast-and-furious/#ixzz1gj2fu7Ma

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