Sipsey Street Irregulars: For ATF, the policy is: Punish the truth tellers & reward the guilty liars. "In actuality it's the department of anything but justice."

Thursday, October 27, 2011

For ATF, the policy is: Punish the truth tellers & reward the guilty liars. "In actuality it's the department of anything but justice."

A couple of days ago, I received this from one of the folks close to the whistleblowers, reacting to my story: "If they can't kill you. . . they'll make you crazy."

Good story Mike.

Many people have no idea about the isolation that occurs after you report misconduct committed by people in high places.

John Dodson was singled out by George Gillett for discipline, and blackballed to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Larry Alt was transferred, and then an Internal Affairs complaint initiated against him, charging him with downloading an application to his government cell phone. An application that according to the cellular service carrier is not compatible with his cell phone.

Jay Dobbins had his house burned down with his family in it, and not only wasn't it investigated by ATF, but he was named as a suspect even though he was out of town.

(REDACTED) was subjected to false accusations made by the U.S. Attorney's Office that could have gotten (REDACTED) fired, had they not been so poorly fabricated, and clumsily executed. (REDACTED) now no longer supervises agents, and has been re-assigned to a headquarters administrative position.

Meanwhile, Bill Newell is still a member of the government's Senior Executive Service. David Voth is now a Branch Chief, with nationwide responsibilities, Hope MacAllister and her partner are still conducting investigations in Phoenix, and George Gillett, the slimiest of the bunch is making GS-15 pay, to perform a job traditionally done by a GS-14. Then consider the U.S. Attorney's Office. Dennis Burke, who was an absentee landlord, fled like a coward to avoid further scrutiny, and Emory Hurley, Michael Morrissey and Patrick Cunningham are still sitting in their desks at the U.S. Attorney's Office collecting their bi-weekly pay checks. They never missed a beat.

They call it the United States Department of Justice. In actuality it's the department of anything but justice.

I'll have more on this subject later.

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rdf67 said...: I guess they have never heard of "suspended without pay pending investigation" in the Holder DOJ.
Every dollar paid to them goes directly to the growing deficit to be paid by my grandchildren. After watching Napolitano's performance yesterday, it looks like CHU, HOLDER and NAPOLITANO should be looking for new jobs before the election.; October 27, 2011 at 6:39 AM
Longbow said...: ...and yet, the agents who work for ATF still say it is a "great agency with an important mission".

I have no doubt that hundreds of those "really good guys" we keep hearing about will begin to resign very soon. We will see a mass exodus. Hundreds of them! Good men and women will leave this agency because just now, they are beginning to see the truth. The very truth they haven't been able to see for their whole careers. ATF, is an unconstitutional agency with an unconstitutional mission. Its leadership is full of opportunists, crooks, and leftist political hacks.

Being principled men and women, they'll resign in disgust. I'm just sure it is going to happen. Any minute now...

Right...?; October 27, 2011 at 9:34 AM
Anonymous said...: The problem here is that we have two different visions about who is in charge.
The government says it is, and does everything it can to seize everything we have and then there's us, and our constitution and bill of rights, which they ignore at best, when they aren't wiping their butt with it.; October 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Anonymous said...: "Being principled men and women, they'll resign in disgust. I'm just sure it is going to happen. Any minute now..."

Any ATF agent with any principles would have left before the ashes of Waco cooled.

Principled ATF Agent is an oxymoron on a par with Jumbo Shrimp, Moderate Islamist, Tactical Nuclear Weapon, and (my personal favorite), Cherry Tart.; October 27, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Anonymous said...: "Only a warrior people, armed and ready to defend their liberties, can expect to live free. As a Comanche, I know that he who takes my bow is my enemy." -- David A. Yeagley; October 27, 2011 at 1:54 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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Thursday, October 27, 2011

For ATF, the policy is: Punish the truth tellers & reward the guilty liars. "In actuality it's the department of anything but justice."

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