Sipsey Street Irregulars: "AirBATFU" -- David Codrea points out that original ATF ruling has now been pulled down. Whose career is being flushed down the toilet?

Thursday, November 11, 2010

"AirBATFU" -- David Codrea points out that original ATF ruling has now been pulled down. Whose career is being flushed down the toilet?

Flushing your own career down the toilet. Is that Ken Melson's hand or Teresa Ficaretta's hand on the lever? My bet is one or the other.

"Question: Why can't the original page be found? What's with a cached version only? Perhaps it's just an innocuous glitch, but where BATFU is concerned, I make no assumptions."

Here are some questions I have: Did Kenneth "The Grinch" Melson sign something that the Chief Counsel's Office Cabal stuck in front of him without understanding its significance? If so, did Ficaretta, Rubenstein & Little Jimmy Vann, et. al. do this deliberately to sandbag him? If so, it wouldn't be the first time. Alone in the agency, Melson has the opportunity to put an end to the CCO's machinations. From what we hear, he's the only honest guy in the whore house. Or was it perhaps Main Justice who ordered it pulled down, tired as they are of CCO screw-ups?

More grist for the oversight hearings of 2011.

Yee haw!

And remember one thing. Even if Melson throws up his hands at cleaning out the ATF's Augean Stables, he can still be subpoenaed by the appropriate committees to testify later.

Yee haw indeed.

ATF CAREER OPPORTUNITIES.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: The ATF is not as valuable as what goes down the toilet and into the sewer!
I would not insult feces by calling it ATF.; November 11, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Defender said...: Interesting.
I saw too that the EPA decided the petition to ban lead in fishing weights did not have merit and rejected it.
Being a keyboard commando isn't such a bad thing after all. Silence is consent.; November 12, 2010 at 2:10 AM
Anonymous said...: OT - but....

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Virginia-Bill-Asks-For-Tea-Party-License-Plate-107289168.html; November 12, 2010 at 6:04 AM
Anonymous said...: A little off the subject but I guess when you're talking about silliness and the government, it counts. In any case, they aren't going to stop being who they are and doing anything they please. It's as if freedom was a vampire and our government is chasing it with a stake.

I posted there:

It's too bad you can't make these things or anything.... I mean gee whiz, a little scrap metal and a drill, maybe a file and you got yourself a fine little NFA weapon.

Incidentally, I just happen to have seen one of these once. Produced in a "correctional facility" by someone in desperate need of additional correction, a fully functional (1200rpm) copy of the S&W mod76 9mm smg, with ammo found elsewhere within.

It's not like it's a secret but they sure make certain not to report anything about it, or similar instances.

Wonder why.; November 12, 2010 at 9:28 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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