Tales From Your Police State: Honest Folks Going to Jail Edition

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Luna County, New Mexico couple Rick and Terri Reese, and their two sons were arrested by Homeland Security Investigators, BATFE, and other law enforcement officials for warning the police they thought one of their customers might be a “straw buyer.” Not being official BATFE criminals that are empowered through Fast and Furious to illegally buy weapons, the Reeses immediately made themselves a target when the customer in question was arrested, but cut a deal with the HSI by implicating the Reese, suggesting they knew the guns were headed for Mexico. HSI set up a sting with a man that barely spoke English, and who could not express that the guns were headed for Mexico — as the HSI alleged he had told the Reeses — outside of Spanish. Problem: the Reeses don’t speak Spanish.

“Additionally, the prosecution admitted that all of the Reese’ gun sales had been properly logged and all transactions appeared to have been legal.  They also admitted that the Reeses has paid all of their taxes and that there was no evidence of any under the table transactions and that all banking and financial evidence indicated that all members of the family never received any money other than their normal paychecks.”

Now keep in mind, there’s less evidence here than against the BAFTE and FBI agents still unindicted for Fast and Furious — but the feds are still walking around free while these folks languish in jail.

Fast & Furious Scandal Just Keeps Getting Worse

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Just in case you thought this was just half-witted bureaucrats stumbling about with good intentions, guess again:

Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa cartel — the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals and then watched as the guns disappeared.

That’s right, the Federal government is the chief purveyor of illegal guns to the northern Mexican drug gangs, right now. All this nonsense about how they wanted to “track the guns back to the cartel leaders” is so much smoke; this was done to increase violence on the Mexican border, then use the involvement of American-sold weapons to bolster gun control efforts. They got caught before they could bring the plan to fruition, and now all those involved, from the special agents in charge in Arizona and the El Paso corridor, to Eric Holder, to the White House was scrambling like roaches under the nearest heavy object now that the spotlight in on them. (And this doesn’t even touch Operation Castaway — a similar “sting” that never came off — in Florida, where the BATFE sold weapons to the Honduran gangs.)

This is infinitely worse that Iran-Contra of the Reagan era, where a triangle trade was established to support the Contras fighting the communists in Nicaragua; this isn’t supporting (however ill-advised) political insurgents…this is knowingly arming criminal gangs and suppressing any dissension by agents opposed to, well, breaking the law. This would be the same as J Edgar Hoover selling Thompsons and BARs to Al Capone and John Dillinger.

Here’s the man who had the stones to out the BAFTE over Fast and Furious (or Operation Gunrunner):

Have no doubt this isn’t going away, nor should it.