Invincible Ignorance - Thomas Sowell

Always a voice of reason in the swirl of insanity....

The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

If gun control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago, because there have been too many factual studies over the years to leave any serious doubt about gun control laws being not merely futile but counterproductive.

‘Fast and Furious’ Gun Found At Site Where Mexican Beauty Queen Killed .....

A gun found at the scene of a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and soldiers where a beauty queen died was part of the botched “Fast and Furious” operation, CBS News reports.

Authorities had said that Maria Susana Flores Gamez was likely used as a human shield and that an automatic rifle had been found near her body after the Nov. 23 shootout.

Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans .....

Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.

Fast and Furious.....

Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today released the second installment of their final report on Operation Fast and Furious. This report chronicles the U.S. Department of Justice’s management failures, specifically finding fault with five senior Justice Department officials for failing to identify red flags indicating reckless tactics.

Operation Fast and Furious Part of DOJ 'Deliberate Strategy'.....

The latest congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious revealed that the highest levels of Eric Holder's Justice Department were involved in creating a "deliberate strategy" to take down leaders of Mexican drug cartels.

Investigate reporter Matthew Boyle writes that congressional investigators determined the Fast and Furious scandal resulted from a “deliberate strategy created at the highest levels of the Justice Department aimed at identifying the leaders of a major gun trafficking ring.”

Investigators believe this "deliberate strategy" began to develop after speeches Holder gave one month after taking office.

Fast & Furious Ignored During Foreign Policy Debate.....

A foreign policy debate without Operation Fast & Furious is an epic failure. A government gun walking operation allowed over 2,000 guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and are connected to the deaths of over 300 Mexican citizens and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Hundreds of guns are still missing. We know of at least one other operation out of Dallas, TX that is connected to the death of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata.

Blog: Univision Leaves Out Key Facts on Fast and Furious Cover-up.....

Univision's report was better than nothing and did validate evidence uncovered by online journalist/bloggers who have been working hard to get the story out. Will the network's graphic images of the bloody Fast and Furious corpses, many of them children, be enough to rouse the major networks out of their stupor enough to follow the evidence into the Oval Office where the gun walking operation most likely started?

Drug cartel leader was captured with Fast & Furious weapons.....

When Mexican authorities took Juarez drug cartel carnage king Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez — better known as “El Diego” — into custody, he had weapons from Operation Fast and Furious on his person, the English-language transcript of the Spanish-language television network Univision’s special investigation into the scandal shows.

As college student, Eric Holder participated in 'armed' takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office ....

Funny, cause' I truly believe, if given the opportunity - he'd take all OUR guns and gun ownership rights away...

As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’ Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.

Univision report connects Operation Fast and Furious scandal to murders of Mexican teenagers.....

The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to them across the Mexican border.

“On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.

Paul Ryan: Eric Holder must go over Fast and Furious....

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, or for President Barack Obama to fire him, over Operation Fast and Furious, a Ryan spokesman told The Daily Caller.

“The congressman agrees with the governor,” Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck told TheDC on Sunday, referring to Mitt Romney’s call for Holder’s resignation or termination over the gunwalking scandal last December.

Preview of Univision’s “bombshell” report on Fast & Furious.....

The Obama administration clearly hoped that the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report on Operation Fast and Furious would be the last word on the scandal. which has been tied to hundreds of deaths in Mexico and the murders of two American law-enforcement officials. However, a new report from Univision to be broadcast tomorrow, previewed here by ABC News, may put the issue back on the front pages. One source called Univision’s findings the “holy grail” that Congressional investigators have been seeking:

Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird?

 That the AG didn't know about this far reaching program before February 2011 is only believable if one concedes Holder is a bumbling novice unfamiliar with the rule of law. Holder is no rookie. He's been breaking the rules for a long time as chronicled by many writers here at American Thinker. See here.

In addition, congressional testimony by various ATF and DOJ officials over the last year and a half, including Holder himself, contradict the IG's report. See here.

Quayle: Holder 'lied to my face' during House testimony....

This group does know how to spike the football!

“I saw earlier that Holder is basically doing a victory dance and that he thinks this [inspector general] report exonerates him and there was no dishonesty with Congress — that’s just a blatant lie,” Quayle said in a phone interview. “I mean, he lied to me — to my face — during questioning, saying they had reviewed the wiretap applications after the fact and claiming that there was no reference to gunwalking, which is blatantly false.”

Holder Meets with Tucson Victims, Presses Stricter Gun Laws....

This from a man who let untold hundreds ( or more ) guns walk across our border....has he no shame?

There was a tragedy a month before -- December 14, 2010. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by smugglers using high-powered weapons supplied by the United States government in Operation Fast & Furious. On February 14, 2011, ICE Agent Jaime Zapata was murdered in Mexico by drug cartels using weapons supplied by our government in a gunwalking operation out of Texas.

ATF official also holding private-sector job, Congress members say .....

Fast & Furious just keeps getting better and better....I just keep thinking of what would be happening if this were the Bush Administration and HIS Attorney general...instead....we hear crickets chirping....
Why don't the "Rich" want to pay their "fair share"....( even though they already do )....because the government is hell bent on squandering every cent coming into DC!

In an unusual arrangement, a senior official of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives involved in the controversial gun operation Fast and Furious is receiving his government salary while working full time for the investment bank J.P. Morgan, according to two Republican lawmakers.

New Black Panthers to RNC: Our 'Feet Will Be On Your Motherf***ing Necks'...

Now imagine this was not someone of color? You know - WHITE. Can you imagine ( and rightfully so ) the OUTRAGE at these comments and posts? And what do we hear....?!....crickets chirping...

Michelle Williams, New Black Panthers chief of staff threatens the upcoming RNC convention in Tampa FL