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Despite the Obama administration’s best efforts to characterize Operation Fast and Furious, a recently revealed ATF program that sought to put U.S.-based firearms into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers, as little more than a ‘screw up’, the most damning evidence strongly indicates that the whole operation was in fact an attempt to launch a false flag assault on the second amendment rights of the American people.
Originally posted by kyred
reply to post by vlady95
I wonder when it will hit the MSM and really allow the public to know what's happening? :
the most damning evidence strongly indicates that the whole operation was in fact an attempt to launch a false flag assault on the second amendment rights of the American people.
Originally posted by NightGypsy
reply to post by vlady95
the most damning evidence strongly indicates that the whole operation was in fact an attempt to launch a false flag assault on the second amendment rights of the American people.
I agree that Operation Fast and Furious should be viewed as a criminal act by many government officials who should be prosecuted. Overall, it seems to be downplayed in the media.
I'm just not understanding how it is a "false flag assault on the second amendment rights." Sorry if I'm slow this evening, I just don't get that part of this discussion. Can someone explain for my feeble brain, please?
Kenneth E. Melson, who has run the bureau for two years, is reportedly eager to testify to Congress about the extent of his and other officials' involvement in the operation, code-named Fast and Furious.
Melson does not want to be "the fall guy" for the program, under which ATF agents allowed straw purchasers to acquire more than 1,700 AK-47s and other high-powered rifles from Arizona gun dealers, the sources said. The idea was to track the guns to drug cartel leaders. But that goal proved elusive, and the guns turned up at shootings in Mexico, as well as at the slaying in Arizona of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in December.
Melson has an open invitation to appear on Capitol Hill. So far, he has not been given Justice Department approval to appear before Congress.
Originally posted by jibeho
Wonder how many heads could roll if this investigation breaks wide open.
Originally posted by NightGypsy
reply to post by vlady95
I'm just not understanding how it is a "false flag assault on the second amendment rights." Sorry if I'm slow this evening, I just don't get that part of this discussion. Can someone explain for my feeble brain, please?
It's simple. The current administration has been blaming Drug War violence on the availability of American guns in an attempt to justify restricting our citizens' gun ownership rights. What they conveniently fail to mention is that it was THEY who ran the guns into Mexico, Their secret of whodunit got exposed when the Border Patrol Agent in question got killed.
What they also fail to do is end the War on Drugs which directly causes the Drug War.
edit on 25-6-2011 by Masinger because: (no reason given)