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2011-06-27 Home Front: Politix

Project Gunwalker: From it's Beginnings to "Downfall"

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Posted by Sherry 2011-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Apparently the bloggers have become the reporters, at least on this issue.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-27 00:48|| 2011-06-27 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Where are the reporters?

Apparently mostly dead, a least in the LSM. They've been replaced by JournoLists, whose Democrat/Tranzi political allegiance trumps all other ambition.

Posted by PBMcL 2011-06-27 01:00|| 2011-06-27 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Where are the reporters?

Having coffee and donuts with locomotive firemen.
If you didn't get the memo, reporters, who once worked their way from apprentice to masters in a craft, have been long ago replaced by credentialed hacks graduated from institutions of 'advanced ~~education~~ political indoctrination'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-27 08:29|| 2011-06-27 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 this will hurt Obama, and with all hope, remove Holder. It therefore must not be covered.

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-27 10:51|| 2011-06-27 10:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm going to float an idea. I don't want any of you to start the black helicopter/tin hat brigade comments about it.

I believe the "Gunwalker" program was a highly contrived vehicle, not to track narcoterrorists in Mexico or follow the weapons to the gun smugglers, but to discredit the gun rights factions in the US. The end game on Gunwalker was not to capture terrorists and arms smugglers but to get air tight gun control legislation on the books under the guise of protecting the public from the outlaws in the gun lobby.

Why else would they come up with this crap. There was no way it could work. Put the program together with all of the phoney news stories about 90% of the weapons used by the Narcos in Mexico coming from the US and the sniveling of the Mexican government and it looks like a contrived opinion manipulation scheme to get gun control and take away the right to bear arms.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-06-27 10:53|| 2011-06-27 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 It has been very obvious this plot had two purposes:
1. Cause such violence at the border that severe anti-gun legislation could be passed which would have involved confiscation of many firearms.
2. The second part would be Obama's last defense. The extreme violence at the border would allow him to declare martial law.

When both were implimented he would have effectively nullified the Constitution.
Keep this in mind. The narco-war at the border is killing people faster than Viet Nam.

Posted by David169 2011-06-27 11:57|| 2011-06-27 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 - totally agree

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-27 12:01|| 2011-06-27 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, the socialists did this before using the Reichstag fire as an excuse to get the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State which basically nullified many of the key civil liberties of German citizens. Same game plan.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-06-27 13:57|| 2011-06-27 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 - what you said is so obvious few have mentioned it. I agree. From the start it was underhanded and illegal political manipulation to further erode the right to bear arms, typical Obama BS.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-27 16:25|| 2011-06-27 16:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Guys, as much as I appreciate #5's clear picture of this, it's not helicopter stuff. These premises has been mentioned daily for the last 6 months. Some, with laws that are being broken. Check some of the links above.... there's lots that has been written on this very matter of the "cause/reason."

From the build up, (while Gunwalker was occurring) Hillary was in Mexico preaching "Most of the guns in the violence comes from the US."

Obama claimed 90% of the guns involved came from the US. That was quickly proven wrong.

And Obama to Mrs. Brady, "On, we are working on gun control "under the radar."

The guy that is supposed to, by now, be the Director of AFT, can't get confirmed for two years now, because he is a stringent gun control freak!

All planned --- prolly would have worked, except some outstanding AFT agents put their jobs on the line by coming forward with the facts, including the premise of the program was designed to create more cry for more gun controls.

Obama, ect had a plan -- they just caught.

Posted by Sherry 2011-06-27 17:48|| 2011-06-27 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 The plot Sickens...

The Washington Post ran a hit-piece on Issa:

According to Bob Owens of Pajamas Media, his sources confirm this piece had been shopped around to other news outlets and blogs by the Obama administration since the House Oversight Committee hearings last week. Everyone except the Post took a pass.

And on a 2010 story the Post ran about 'lax gun laws contributing to arms in the hands of the drug cartels...

Connect the dots: a story that almost certainly required information leaked by the ATF, in a paper noted for its friendliness to the Administration, was used to build the case that lax American gun control laws are contributing to Mexican gun crimes, when the ATF was secretly running a program that deliberately pushed American guns into the hands of Mexican cartels, without any serious plan to track them, until they were used in the commission of crimes.

Now, take an educated guess what the true purpose of Operation Fast & Furious was.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-27 18:02|| 2011-06-27 18:02|| Front Page Top

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