Sipsey Street Irregulars: The $1.1 Billion Dollar Question We Asked the Committee to Ask. "Do you know who Kevin O'Reilly is?"

Thursday, July 28, 2011

The $1.1 Billion Dollar Question We Asked the Committee to Ask. "Do you know who Kevin O'Reilly is?"

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Longbow said...: Wow! Newell and McMahon came across as complete slime buckets.

I keep asking myself a several of questions. They are based on a face value presumption.

The presumption is that your average ATF agent is a "really good guy who just wants to do the right thing", you know, catch real genuine bad guys, career criminals, and put them away and make the world a safer place.

Question one, given that ATF leadership is full of slime buckets like Newell and McMahon, who have a political agenda to further restrict the God-given natural rights of the American People, why would "really good guys" work for such an agency?

Question two, given that ATF enforces, as its primary mission, unconstitutional laws, such as the National Firearms Act, how does a "really good guy" square that with his oath to support and defend the constitution?

Question three, when an ATF agent sees members of his agency, committing acts of barbarism, such as the attack on the Branch Davidians (there was no warrant service attempted, it was a para-military attack), and dirty deeds like the railroading of David Olofson, and the attempted ruining of a business like Red's Trading Post, to name recent examples, how can a "really good guy" turn his head and pretend not to notice?

Why would a "really good guy" work for such an agency in the first place?

It just don't make no sense... really good guys and all that.; July 28, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Mark Matis said...: Longbow, you might want to broaden that to include ALL of "Law Enforcement". Why would any "good" cop be worried about being able to get backup if he turned in a corrupt cop, unless the VAST MAJORITY of "Law Enforcement" was totally corrupt?

What would this country be like if even HALF of its "Law Enforcement" actually honored their oath of office? The stench is overwhelming.; July 28, 2011 at 2:15 PM
pdxr13 said...: At about 29 minutes into the video Mr. Cummings is trying to wrap his mind about what the purpose of all this is/grand plan. He ALMOST wants to speculate about the really-big-political-objective of an enhanced number of killings and much more aggressive cartel actions on the Mexican-USA border, especially when Cartel hit men start operating boldly on the US side and leaving hundreds of dead Americans in their wake.

The conversion of a "regular" ATF operation into a criminal cartel supply mission makes no sense at all unless it is part of a plan to restrict/disarm American citizens by international treaty.

Letting guns "walk" makes real-American good-guy ATF Agents (there are a few!) crazy/mad as they move into cognitive dissonance against one of the Prime Directives of a ground level BATFE Agent: "Guns Shall Not Walk". It's this contradiction that makes whistleblowers of formerly-trusted-to-obey-&-comply Agents.

Gunwalker is the scandal that might save the USA from the current batch of Domestic Enemies and their FSA zombie minions. It's already taken so much time from Administration projects to do cover-up that everything is on hold except the Continuous Campaign.

Thanks.; July 28, 2011 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Bein' as how I'm jist a rube from flyover country, I got real confused by something in Billy Newell's testimony. He got to thinking that this gunrunning investigation was such a Really Big Thing that he called for the assistance of an OCDETF strike force.

Yet when pressed for details of the operation, he seemed unable to recall any real specifics about who did what and when.

Now why do you suppose that is? ;^)

WV: reptic-a reptile who has been made antiseptic through copious use of the document shredder.

MALTHUS; July 28, 2011 at 4:36 PM

"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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