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    Sometimes it’s the subject that’s off the radar is the one getting the most action, the behind the scene and under the table type action.  Both President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder have a history of wanting stringent gun control laws, the type of laws that would restrict private legal ownership but do little to curb illegal possession by the criminal element.  In fact between 2009 to 2011 the Obama Justice Department intentionally facilitated the transfer of 2,500 firearms to Mexican drug smuggling cartels.  This transfer of weapons to extremely violent criminals was done under the cover of a poorly thought-out scheme called “Operation Fast & Furious”.   The supposed purpose was to track the illegally purchased guns to the drug cartels in Mexico then prosecute the cartel members for having illegal guns.  There were three problems with their scheme.

   1.) The Justice Department never bothered tracking the guns (until someone died and

        then did little about it).

   2.) Even if they had, being on Mexican soil the cartel members were out of the Justice    

        Departments jurisdiction (drug cartels already had illegal guns, why didn’t the

        Justice Department arrests them for the guns they already had?)

  

   3.) As the Mexican death toll began to rise the Mexican government was never

        informed of the operation so there was no cross border law enforcement follow-up

        or interdiction (not that there was any “this side” of the border follow-up).

    So what was the purpose of Operation Fast & Furious?  That question takes us back a few years, to a comment made by then U.S. attorney Holder.  During a 1995 C-SPAN interview Mr. Holder stated:

“…brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

    Wow, his choice of words were pretty revealing as to his thought process.  Not that we need to educate the public or crack down on criminal violence.   No, he considered manipulation and “brainwashing” of the American public as the appropriate course to follow. 

    The next paragraph is pure speculation!    I’m just drawing lines from dot to dot, to see what picture it makes.  But the events are factual.  Fill free to connect the dots and see what picture you come up with…  

    This brings us back to the 2009 Obama administration.  With the absence of an appetite for most senators or congressmen to get into a Second Amendment squabble (again),   the administration looked to manipulate the emotions of the American public by creating an emergency that would spark public outcry for action (and of course they would be ready to act).  In the early days of Ops. F&F few if any knew what was happening but the mainstream media began reporting on increasing gun violence occurring along the Mexican boarder and there were murmurs of the need for action and control of weapons.  The foundation had been laid, the crisis was unfolding, the compliant media was reporting the stories of tragedy in Mexico almost nightly and public opinion was being molded.  All was falling into place as scripted, the calls for action were beginning to take shape and gain momentum.  All as scripted, that is until 14 December 2010.   On that day Border Agent Brian Terry was shot to death by one of the guns that had been allowed to “walk” during Ops. F&F.  The violence had begun to spillover the boarder.  By February of 2011 an agent involved in the operation began to speak out and the scheme began to crumble.  Questions were being asked, questions that could prove detrimental to Mr. Obama so he invoked executive privilege.  The always compliant press halted reports on the continuing violence along the Mexican border (not wanting to give credence to the calls for answers).  The American public was again shuttled off with the “Nothing to see here, move along” reporting of the mainstream media news.   So today here we stand almost two years after Agent Terry’s’ death,  almost two years after operation Fast & Furious was exposed and what do we have to show for it?  No criminals arrested on gun charges, 300+ deaths (Mexican and American) attributed to the mismanaged operation, 2,000+ weapons still in the hands of violent criminals and NO Answers.  And people wonder why I think Mr. Obama is evil, while I wonder why a Mexican-American would vote for Obama after the blood that has been spilled. 

     After reading this you may think I’m just bringing up old news, rehashing the past.   Actually the story was just a prelude for a little test, a self exam if you will.  Look at these two guns and see what comes to mind.

    The top gun looks like your everyday rifle, something a youth may get for their 15^th birthday to go squirrel hunting with Grandpa.  But the lower one looks dangerous, something no ordinary person would need.  You may be surprised they are both the same, a basic Mossberg 702 Plinkster .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle.  The only difference is the bits of plastic screwed to them.  Neither shoots further, faster, harder or more than the other.  If you ban one you ban both.  A rifle is nothing more than a tool not unlike a hammer, a screwdriver or a car.  Any of them used improperly or placed in the wrong hands can be used to hurt someone.  Now go back to your original thought when you looked at the picture, gun owner or not, like them, dislike them or indifferent.  Did you see one as more dangerous than the other? Have you been manipulated, conditioned, “BRAINWASHED”?

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