'Gunwalking' to forcible citizen disarmament tyranny--compelling new evidence

Kurt Hofmann

St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner

Some in the gun rights advocacy community don't buy the official story, that "Project Gunwalker" was intended, through some "underpants gnome"-like magical mechanism, to "bring down a drug cartel." We believe instead that the real motive was to pad statistics which would then be used to bolster the foundering "U.S. commercial gun market is arming Mexican drug cartels" myth. In taking that position, we have opened ourselves up to the ridicule of such journalistic luminaries as Media Matters and Jon Stewart, who apparently really do believe both that senior government officials are stupidly incompetent enough to take such a harebrained approach to combating drug war violence, and that such massive incompetence isn't a pretty dire indictment of the current government.

In light of some new evidence released by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Media Matters and Stewart would seem to have some serious new work to do in patching up the "underpants gnome" defense. That new evidence comes in the form of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) emails related to Operation Fast and Furious, that Congressmen Issa and Grassley have obtained in their "Gunwalker" investigation, and attached to a letter (thank you, Bob Owens) they sent to Attorney General Holder Tuesday.

We'll look at a couple of those emails, both from BATFE Assistant Director for Field Operations Mark Chait, to William "Gunwalker Bill" Newell (at that time Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix field division, where Operation Fast and Furious was implemented). First, this one, sent one year ago today:

Read here: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-st-louis/gunwalking-to-forcib...

Favorite

1 member favorited this

Comment

You need to be a member of 12160 Social Network to add comments!

Join 12160 Social Network

Comment by Sweettina2 on July 17, 2011 at 1:53am: It's complete corruption, the PTB working hand in hand with criminals.

Comment by windy windlan on July 16, 2011 at 9:36pm: I agree that it looks like some sort of sordid trick that Obama and his minions tried to pull. Thanks to a whistleblower it was made public. It is no secret that Obama's handlers do not feel that we should have guns in the people's hands and are doing all possible to create false evidence against guns. This is psyops in action.

Although I am a pacifist, I encourage people to not fork over their guns to a government that is becoming more like a dictatorship. The Bill of Rights is an impediment to the new world order lizards. I read that Obama is trying to do a treaty with the U.N. that will allow this body to control our ownership of guns. That is really a sneaky maneuver and is, of course, against our Constitution. I think it is Switzerland where each household is required to have a gun or two. In general, I like that concept. On the other hand, we do have a lot of hotheads (MK-Ultra Alumni?) here in the USA that should not go near a loaded gun.