Operation Fast & Furious: Funded With Stimulus Money

In yet another damaging relevation in the now unraveling of Operation Gunwalker, Operation Fast & Furious, it appears that "Stimulus Package" money was used to fund these two rogue operations.  In other words, our debt funded the murders of hundreds including 2 US Federal Agents.  Reports are surfacing that neary $50 milliond dollars was spent on the programs that have killed more than 1,500 Mexican nationals, including dozens upon dozens of government officials, judges, prosecutors and police officers as well as several US Federal Agents.



To make matters worse, it now appears that more than 1,000 firearms were smuggled to Honduras via MS-13, the ruthless gang based in that country. 

Leaders of the transnational organized criminal gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) even ordered a hit on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in New York.


There are now reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious. 1,000 of those guns were sold to MS13 buyers.

It's time that a special prosecutor be named to finish unravelling this mess...especially since the Mexican government is now pressing for extradition of those who are responsible to face trial in Mexico on conspiracy to commit-aid and abet-murder.  More here.  A Leftist's take here.



It won't happen...because it's a Democratic administration and the MSM is so far in the tank they don't-refuse to report anything negative...but, the ATF-FBI-Justice Dept scam has directly caused the deaths of hundreds of people, and those who came up this the insanity must be held accountable, either at the bar of law here...or in Mexico.

Via The Gateway Pundit

UPDATE:  Brit Hume has charecterized this scandal perfectly:



Here's a link to the full video.

Via Ed Driscoll

A Thought

The following is by Brian Kusmar of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea.

A thougtht

The Billions of dollars in cost to Americans in a no win war, a war itself raged on Americans.
The parallels between the failed Booze Wars (prohibition of the 20's and 30's) to the failed Drug Wars today is nearly identical in the fact that a war was raged against Americans for a non-violent offense of getting high does not work and is doomed to creating more problems and failure.

Both wars drove products (Alcohol & Drugs) underground driving street prices up 10 fold or more and made them so costly addicts could only steal to support their habits.

Both wars have created gangs, cartels and evil men from the Al Capones to the Pablo Escobars of the world.

Americans were smart enough to end the Booze Wars and legalize alcohol and I think we are on the dawn of realizing we need to take the same path with drugs. If people want to use them and possibly ruin their lives, let them. This is the land of freedom and freedom also means the right to do something stupid to yourself if you wish.

What's really ironic is that we had a speaker of the house and a senator that were known alcoholics attending senate and house meeting sloshed, making laws! Meanwhile at the same time some person somewhere in the US was spending a night in jail for smoking a joint. Not only spending a night in jail, they will probably lose their job, cost thousands in defense, get a record and cause much grief within their family. Make sense?

Fact is
-Our drug laws only create more havoc and grief in families.
-Our drug laws create criminals and vicious evil men.
-Our drug Laws cost us billions of dollars and fill our justice system with mostly non violent Americans
-Our current drug laws do nothing to stop drug use and do more to promote it and promote the growth of violence.
-Our drug laws have turned our police into military units armed to the teeth.

Wake up America. Our drug laws are a farce.

A costly farce in money and most importantly lives. Legalize and we will remove the money, gangs and most of the violence. We will also free up our police to catch thieves, rapist and murderers which will truly make us safer instead of busting someone ingesting poison on their own free will.

The fact is the only way a war like this could ever be won is at home. Teach your children the dangers of drugs as this is the only prevention one has, talking with your kids and loving them, loved people generally don't need drugs our alcohol to make them feel better.

Then - tell politicians you want to see this destructive, endless, worthless war on Americans end.

Also, I think the right is starting to understand the folly of the drug war, watch this...

Fox News Freedom Watch's Judge Napolitano Shreds Columbia, MO SWAT Raid

The "War on Drugs" has been an utter failure...all we've done is fill our prisons with drug users and dealers.  It's been estimated that over 70% of those who are in prison have been convicted of drug related offenses...either possession, dealing/trafficing or those who committed crimes in order to finance a drug habit.  The time has  come to end this sillyness and get some sanity...legalize most of the, treat them like alcohol, and tax the shit out of them...some, like opiates/heroins must remain on the proscribed lists, but other should be decriminalized/legalized and (for once) regulated along the lines of alcohol laws.

No Knock Raids...

The Police in the "War On Drugs"...have gone too far.  Our Government has become part of the problem...watch the video.



Here's some background from Radley Balko posting in Commentary Magazine who has long opposed the increased use of no-knock raids in drug enforcement. 

First, some background on the raid depicted in the video: On February 11, the Columbia, Missouri, police department's SWAT team served a drug warrant at the home of Jonathan Whitworth and Brittany Montgomery. Police say that eight days earlier they had received a tip from a confidential informant that Whitworth had a large supply of marijuana in his home. They say they first conducted a trash pull, and found marijuana residue in the family's garbage. During the raid, police shot and killed the family's pit bull. At least one bullet ricocheted, injuring the family's pet corgi. Whitworth, Montgomery, and their 7-year-old son were at home at the time. The incident was written up in the Columbia Daily Tribune, noted on a few blogs that cover drug policy (including a post I put up here at Reason), and then largely forgotten for several weeks.


On April 28, I received an email from Montgomery. She had seen my post at Reason and read an account of some of my reporting on SWAT teams published in Reader's Digest. She said she was reading to her son in his bedroom at the time of the raid. Her husband had just returned home from work. Police fired on their pets within seconds of entering the home.

"I've never felt so violated or more victimized in my life," Montgomery wrote. "It's absolutely the most helpless and hopeless feeling I could ever imagine. I can't sleep right ... and I am constantly paranoid. It's a horrible feeling ... to lose the safety and security I thought I was entitled to in my own home. Nobody protected us that night, my son and I were locked in the back of a police car for nearly four hours on a school night while they destroyed my home."

According to Montgomery, when the couple's neighbors inquired about the raid, they were told that the SWAT team had merely conducted a drill, and no shots were fired. When neighbors learned from the family that this was a lie, they began writing to the department and the Daily Tribune to demand answers. When the couple discovered the police had videotaped the raid, they requested a copy of the video. Montgomery said in her email that the copy they were initially given had no audio, and the incriminating (to the police) portions of the video had been removed.

On February 23, the Daily Tribune published its first story on the raid. The paper made its own request for the SWAT video, which the police department initially denied. On April 20, Jonathan Whitworth pleaded guilty to a single charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. He wasn't even charged for the minor amount of marijuana in his home (marijuana for personal use has been decriminalized in Columbia). He was issued a $300 fine. On April 27, the Daily Tribune made a formal request for the video, which it received on April 30, with full audio and with no visuals removed. The paper posted the video with an accompanying article on May 3. On May 5, I posted it here at Reason, and the video went viral.

The police department has since conceded it was unaware that there were pets or a child in the home at the time of the raid. A spokesman for the Columbia Police Department initially said police had to conduct the raid immediately before the drug supply could be moved, a statement later shown to be false when police revealed the raid was conducted more than a week after the initial tip.

So, the police in this instance, first lied about the circumstances of the raid, then obfuscated about it, then have clammed up...This isn't a isolated instance, this sort of thing is occuring on a regular basis. A few years ago, a grandmother in Atlanta, GA was legally murdered by police during a no-knock raid.  In Montgomery County, MD, several people were shot by police.  In Mississippi a man is on death row, for defending himself from police in a no-knock raid (they had the wrong address)...it's time to us to end the use of this police state, gestapo tactic.