The Wandering Minstrel

When questioned by Rep. Darrell Issa, Attorney General Eric Holder claims that the whole thing is a political plot to discredit the administration. Really? I can see his nose growing from here . . .

From Ramirez . . .

Breaking: The family of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry has filed a $25 million wrongful death suit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claiming Terry was killed with AK-47s that were knowingly sold under the Fast and Furious gunrunning probe to a straw purchaser for drug cartels.

Image: Agent Brian Terry

Unfortunately, the family is also suing Lone Wolf Trading, the source of the weapon used to kill Agent Terry. The suit alleges that the company employees should have not cooperated with ATF knowing that the so-called sting operation was illegal. In my humble opinion, Lone Wolf should also sue the ATF and name all the ATF agents, the head of BATFE and Atty. General Eric Holder (a.k.a Eric the withHolder) as co-defendants.

It looks as if the Obamination’s so-called “under the radar” targets are going to start appearing on a radar screen near you. Fox News has the story at this link.

I can’t believe that it has been almost a year since I acquired my “Carolyn Clip” high-capacity 9mm magazine. I plan to take “Little Boy” to the range on Friday and empty thirty-three rounds using this magazine.

I bought the magazine last January after Rep. Carolyn McCarthy introduced H.R. 308, the “Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act.” McCarthy, (D-NY), introduced this idiotic knee-jerk legislation after the tragic Tucson shooting where a mentally-ill individual used one of these to kill several people and seriously wound Rep. Gabby Giffords.

At the time, I said I didn’t need one of these until that bitch told me I couldn’t have one. I’ll post a range report on Friday.

I am currently reading “America Disarmed: Inside the U.N. and Obama’s Scheme to Destroy the Second Amendment” written by Wayne LaPierre. I downloaded a PDF file (~1.6Mb) containing the electronic copy of the book. Click on the following link to download your copy:

The foreword, written by Chris Cox, summarizes the intent of the United Nation’s so-called “Arms Treaty” to subvert our American Constitution, specifically, the Second Amendment.

In 2009, the United States joined 152 other countries in endorsing the United Nations Small Arms Treaty, a resolution designed to disarm America and others across the globe.

Specifically, the resolution establishes an international conference to be held in 2012, where leaders from various countries—many of which have deplorable human rights records—will craft an international scheme to severely restrict our right to own a firearm.

As Professor Larry Bell detailed in a popular column for Forbes magazine in early 2011, this global agreement will surely pave the way for gun bans, mandatory gun registration, and eventually, the confiscation of civilian-owned firearms. President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the U.N. all claim that the only purpose of the treaty is to fight terrorism and international crime syndicates. Americans should not be fooled.

According to Professor Bell, should the U.S. Senate ratify the treaty it will almost certainly force America to:

• enact firearms licensing requirements, creating additional bureaucratic red tape for legal firearms ownership;
• confiscate and destroy all “unauthorized” civilian firearms;
• ban the trade, sale, and private ownership of all semiautomatic firearms; and
• create an international gun registry.

Bell also notes that the treaty will override our national sovereignty and, in the process, give license to the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment. You can see why gun control activists in the United States have been lobbying for this treaty for a long time.

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, the preeminent expert on the inner workings of the global body, recently told me there is no doubt that the U.N.’s real agenda here is domestic firearms control:

“After the treaty is approved and it comes into force, you will find out that it has this implication or that implication and it requires the Congress to adopt some measure that restricts ownership of firearms,” Bolton warns. “The [Obama] administration knows it cannot obtain this kind of legislation purely in a domestic context…They will use an international agreement as an excuse to get domestically what they couldn’t otherwise.”

Emphasis added. There is another page of Cox’s foreword that I did not include. The Smashwords license for the .PDF copy states:

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Quoting Darrell Issa (R-Calif.):

“The Department of Justice’s conduct in the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious has been nothing short of shameful. From its initial denials that nothing improper occurred, to efforts to silence whistleblowers who wanted to tell Congress what really happened, to its continuing refusal to discuss or share documents related to this cover-up, the Justice Department has fought tooth and nail to hide the full truth about what occurred and what senior officials knew. Attorney General Holder must explain or reverse course on decisions that appear to put the careers of political appointees ahead of the need for accountability and the Department’s integrity.”

Animation made with tools available at the Flaming Text website.

Two-hundred and twenty years ago on this date, the founders ratified the Bill of Rights. Take a moment to reflect on how the antis and others see this document as nothing more than old toilet paper. It, and the rest of the constitution, stands in their way as they pursue the quest to make us subjects as opposed to free men.

Note: We will be posting at a rate of less than one per day for a few weeks.

Here’s more damning history about the habitually-lying Holder . . .

From Andrew McCarthy in a 2009 National Review article:

Eric Holder’s intercession on behalf of fugitive Marc Rich is so inexplicable that he has always viewed ignorance as his best defense. It’s as though Holder believes that a deputy attorney general looks better for having remained studiously unaware of critical facts in a criminal case before throwing his weight around. But that’s Holder’s story, and he’s sticking to it: even if it turns out not to be true.

Holder is President Obama’s choice [for] attorney general. That means the Rich case is a big problem for him today–just as it was in 2001, when an outraged Congress demanded an explanation of the controversial affair. President Clinton had pardoned the fugitive financier on the recommendation of Holder, who was then deputy attorney general. The only feeble response Holder could muster was that he didn’t really know much about Rich’s case and that, as Justice’s number two official, he was simply too busy to learn about it.

I added Page Nine to the blogroll after I read Alan Korwin’s “Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide.” Yesterday, I found a bit of humor buried inside of a post about BATFE and the gun smuggling scheme. Excerpt from “BATFE Gun-Smuggling Promo Resurfaces” . . .

“ATF” is an abbreviation of BATFE, which the bureau prefers, since five-letter acronyms are seen as less manly. Since the group now claims jurisdiction over really awesome wild fires, it’s acronym perhaps should be BATFERAWF. If you add “And Gun Smuggling” you get BATFERAWFAGS.