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Friday, July 22, 2011

Eric Holder's Curious and Unlikely Defender at Reason Magazine.

The law-breaking left-collectivist minion of the Federal Leviathan and the libertarian: Mike Riggs writes Eric Holder's only defense of the ATF's "Fast and Furious" program is that he didn't know it existed. Be sure and also read There's Still No Evidence That Eric Holder Knew About Operation Fast and Furious.

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rdf67 said...: There are videos of Holder boasting about the program GunRunner and its $10,000,000 stimulus grant - turned into GunWalker - with Hillary boasting about it, Napolitano boasting about it, DepAG referring to Holder. Issa has the evidence or he would not call Holder out publicly on it. Certainly Jarrett and Emanuel part of it, too.; July 22, 2011 at 6:14 AM
Remy said...: Heck, it's a two edged sword for him anyway. If he knew, he's implicated and on the hook for the operation. If he didn't know he's completely incompetent and out of touch with what his branch of the government is doing, fire him and replace him with someone that will actually do the job.

Personally I find it very unlikely he didn't know EXACTLY what was being done, since he's the type to have his fingers in everything so he can take credit when something goes right and knows who to blame if it goes wrong.; July 22, 2011 at 9:22 AM
Anonymous said...: I can't speak to the motivation for defending Holder, not at this point because the evidence leads nowhere but up the chain. If I were a betting man and I am, I would bet that if we were inside the circle, we'd find Obama directly involved. 100 Marxists will involuntarily jump on their swords before that would happen,

But treason, is treason and traitors can be and are both democrat and republican, it's just that the democrats seem to have the market completely saturated. The republicans sad to say, must have some of their people "owned" by the democrats.

Marxists have been using that one for quite a while and with an excellent record of success. Money and babes and plenty of recording equipment.; July 22, 2011 at 9:37 AM
Kevin Wilmeth said...: "There's Still No Evidence That Eric Holder Knew About Operation Fast and Furious"

Hey, brainiac, that's why the phrasing of the accusation is "knew, or should have known". If all you can "prove" is that he didn't know, all this means is that you need to pursue the incompetence angle.

In my experience, most coverup artists are more offended at the accusation of incompetence, than malfeasance.

If anyone wants to see Holder suddenly acquire a pulse, I suggest going with "should have known" for a while.; July 22, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Ashrak said...: You know it is bad for the Soetoro administration when their media lackeys are touting "oblivious" and "incompetent" as a defense.

My my, how the accurate definitions of "hope" and "change" finally start to make it into mainstream media.

As an aside - FOX news just ran a Canton Ohio video clip.; July 22, 2011 at 12:14 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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Eric Holder's Curious and Unlikely Defender at Reason Magazine.

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