Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Rep. Joe Walsh becomes fourth Congressman to demand Eric Holder resign over 'Fast and Furious' Murder Weapons

David Axelrod hardest hit.

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) today became the fourth Congressman to explicitly call for Holder to take responsibility for the lethally reckless Operation Fast and Furious and to voluntarily leave his post because of his presumed authorization of the program...

...Walsh today sent a harshly-worded letter to Holder, in which he asked Holder to “resign immediately and issue an apology to the American people [he has] failed to serve.” Walsh also took Holder to task for his stonewalling of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Fast and Furious.

But the most memorable portion of the letter came ... when Walsh delved into the seemingly-obvious-but-not-yet-confirmed motivation for the program.

Your Department ... instructed federally-licensed firearms dealers to illegally sell at least 2,000 guns that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to be trafficked to drug cartels in Mexico. The results of this [operation] have implicated the United States in well over one hundred deadly crimes and the deaths of two federal agents.

This not only raises serious questions about your ability to serve as the head of the Justice Department, but also begs the question of why an anti-gun Administration would knowingly force licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to violent criminals. I raise this because Operation Fast and Furious — if the facts of this case had not come to light — would have been used by this Administration as another false argument to attack law-abiding American gun owners.

The American people deserve to know if your Department had any intent to link the legal purchase of firearms here in the U.S. to crimes committed near our southern border. Operation Fast and Furious funneled firearms legally purchased at gun shops in the U.S. to known criminal syndicates to prove these syndicates have access to legal purchased weapons. This is a deliberate attempt to vilify and attack the millions of gun owners in America who value our Second Amendment and have never broken the law.


Walsh’s posited explanation appears to be the only plausible one. Why else would the administration authorize the program — then fail to follow up to catch the criminals the program was purportedly designed to catch? Had ATF made any kind of legitimate attempt to track the weapons ... it might have been believable that the administration sought to use the program to disrupt the power of Mexican drug cartels.

Yet, Walsh’s explanation is not a fun one to believe. It’s sickening to think anyone in the administration would really be so rash and so ideologically driven as to risk the nearly inevitable results of this program — the deaths that did, in fact, result — just to prove the point that legally purchased weapons show up at violent crime scenes, just to suggest the government ought to make it harder to legally purchase guns in the first place. It’s even more terrifying to think someone as high up as Holder would be.

The Fail is strong with this one.

As is the stench of corruption, death and destruction.


5 comments:

Rorschach said...

Resign? Hell no! he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law (and then some). He, Obama, and others, are clearly guilty of two or more counts of conspiracy to commit murder of a law enforcement officer which in most states is a capitol offense.

Alex said...

Truly outstanding work, Doug. Keep it up! Rep. Walsh and the rest may yet catch on.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/09/fast-and-furious-smoking-gun-were-obama.html

Hope they all resign. Holder, Obama, Napolitano. Immediately. At least it will end their ability to do any more harm. Prosecutions to follow.

Anonymous said...

I'm afraid that our nation is plagued with more cronyism and corruption than it has perhaps ever experienced.

Consider also what just happened in a federal court in Texas. A Dallas business owner was involved in a civil dispute and paid millions of dollars to lawyers, and when he objected to additional fees after settling the case, they had a “friendly” judge seize all of his possessions, without any notice or hearing, and essentially ordered him under “house arrest” as an involuntary servant to the lawyers. The business owner has been under this "servant" order for 10 months and is prohibited from owning any possessions, prohibited from working, etc..

...and some quotes from the judge:

THE COURT: "I'm telling you don't scr-w with me. You are a fool, a fool, a fool, a fool to scr-w with a federal judge, and if you don't understand that, I can make you understand it. I have the force of the Navy, Army, Marines and Navy behind me."

THE COURT: "You realize that order is an order of the Court. So any failure to comply with that order is contempt, punishable by lots of dollars, punishable by possible jail, death"

http://www.lawinjustice.com has an explanation of this case.

Anonymous said...

"Truly outstanding work, Doug. Keep it up!"

Settle down. He's copy/pasted what someone else blogged. It's ctrl-c, ctrl-v if you want to try it yourself.

Robert said...

God bless Rep Joe Walsh

Wish he was my congressman.