Imagine if you will that you worked for a large company and were issued both a company car and company-provided credit card. Then imagine what would happen if you decided to use that company car to drive to a casino, to use that company-provided credit card to get a cash advance to buy chips, and you did it all on company time.You would likely be fired and perhaps even prosecuted for stealing from your employer. Or, at least, that is how it should work in the real world.
However, if you were a BATFE Special Agent and you did this, then you just might get promoted to Special Agent in Charge of a Field Division and move into the Senior Executive Service. According to the summary report from the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General posted to CleanUpATF.org, that is exactly what happened.
ATF needs to be disbanded, the building demolished and whatever ground remains, covered in salt. Since I’ve been following their deeds in the 90s, I have not seen another agency get away with so much without any consequences.
Earlier this year, there was the big scandal of the FBI’s forensic hair analysis and thousands of cases are now up for review for basically making stuff up. They are babes compared to the crap that ATF has been pulling through the years and allowed to get away. And don’t get me started on loss weapons, ammunition and laptops.
Like the Volstead Act, ATF needs to go the way of the Prohibition-Era gangsters: To the history books.
“When my mom said, ‘Heather, was that a gunshot? I looked at her and I almost started chuckling. I’m like ‘This is not going to happen right now, there is no way this is going to happen.’ And it did. Thank goodness it wasn’t a mass murder, but it very well could have been. It was someone armed with a gun near Citrus Park Mall,” said Barber.
Barber was forced to hide inside of a coat rack after a man fired a single shot at an employee after lifting a piece of jewelry from a mall kiosk on Monday night.“If that were to happen again, which hopefully it does not, I need to be prepared and be ready for it. If that person came in with a gun, I need to be prepared to shoot them,” said Barber.
The bad news is that the moment she gets her gun and permit, she will be officially considered a “degenerate white man” by Ladd Everitt and the Cult Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence.
Some assault rifles used by the Islamic militants in the Nov 13 Paris attacks and later seized in police raids were produced in the former Yugoslavia’s state arsenal, the company’s director said on Saturday.
Milojko Brzakovic, director of the Zastava (Banner) Arms factory in the city of Kragujevac in central Serbia, said that they were part of a batch of M70 assault rifles, a improved Yugoslav copy of the Soviet-designed AK47, produced in 1987 and 1988.
Wait! That cannot be! The Liberal Think Tanks were chomping at the bits and waiting for the news that they guns were obtained at a gun shown in the US via the loophole!
Wait, it gets better:
In the 1970s and 1990s the company was also a major arms exporter to the then-Yugoslavia’s allies in Africa, Asia and the Middle Eastand it is still a exports to a number of markets including the United States.
They were literally giving those away at discount prices and by the boxcar back then. In some cases, they were just “donated for the cause.” As for the imports to the US, they were never than many back then and that stopped dry when Elder Bush slammed the door down on their importation back in 1989 and paid for it by losing the re-election
Most of the Western Balkans is awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons that remained in private hands and organised crime gangs following wars and unrest in the 1990s and weapons smuggling persists.
Nobody is sure how many AK-pattern rifles were built under the old Soviet regime but most agree that it is way past the seven figures. They are so cheap (anywhere but here in the US) that during the filming of the movie Lord of War, produces rented a warehouse full of the real things because it was cheaper than using prop guns.
3000 SA Vz. 58 rifles standing for its AK equivalents.
You can now imagine the tons of soiled undies that populate the European Governments as you read this. No amount of gun tracing will help figure out where the “displaced” AKs went, they can only wait for them to make their appearance at some undisclosed public place in the hands of Jihadists.
This image came attached to a hate & bullshit piece written by Matt Terzi in firebrandleft.com. I think a little exploration is necessary to expose the ignorance and the accompanying prejudice, so shall we?
Wendell Pierce is a fantastic actor and anybody who watched the five seasons of The Wire will agree with me. The problem is that most Hollywood actors think themselves as experts on an issue because they played pretend in front of a camera. Mr. Pierce’s ignorance shows at the outset of his tweet when he does not know that you are required to be 21 and older to get a permit to carry a firearm.
And Wendell, we in the NRA embrace people of every color. In fact we wish that every black male and female (You kinda forgot the women there, bunk. Shades of misogyny? Or maybe the idea of a black woman empowered to defend herself is a scary thought? ) joined and learned not only about guns, but the history of the Second Amendment and the racist roots of gun control.
And you know what would happen? Crime in black neighborhoods would drop just like it has happened in other neighborhoods and across the Nation. It will not be just the gang members and the drug dealers doing whatever is they want because they fear no consequence, but they would thread careful and more likely go Hamsterdam to ply their trade than try to take a corner where mom and pop and the neighbors would rain lead on their asses. A lot of the so-called Black Leaders would have to explain why did they treat the people they were supposed to serve as second-class citizens, they would have to explain why they allowed a culture of victimization and lack of responsibility be the guiding principles of the Black community. And worse of all, the old black political structure would crumble because it is hard to fool people once their eyes have been opened.
Now Mr. Pierce, I do urge you to join the NRA and subscribe to the First Freedom magazine. Read it, learn what we are about. Come shoot with us, it is fun! And then make a rational decision about the NRA and its members of every color and religion and sexual orientation, not one based on lies and misconceptions by those who see you as less than able to be an intelligent and responsible human being.
I think I mentioned here that I was not able to post comments in most of the blogs working under Blogger and today I finally found out that Blogger seems to be blocking when I choose to make a comment under my WordPress ident. On a whim, I chose my still active Google Plus and it went through without a hitch. I went ahead and changed the nick to Miguel GFZ and the armed angel should appear as avatar.
Not gonna go into the shooter and his sick mind since it is too early and frankly the news are so full of crap with the “experts”. Instead I want to talk about what I heard live coming from the police thanks to the new technologies we have available for peanuts.
By the time I heard about the incident, the suspect was already barricaded inside the clinic and the police had the place surrounded. In my Windows Phone, I have one app called Police Scanner 5.0 by M768 and allowed me to connect to the Colorado Springs police radio and listen in what was really happening instead of whatever idiotic pabulum was being told on TV. What in years past required a particular piece of over-sized equipment was now a small set of code lines that you can get for under five bucks.
Police Scanner 5.0 by M768
First, when you hear the word “standoff” it gives you the impression of nobody doing squat and waiting for the other party to act first. What was coming out of the scanner was just the opposite: Police were very much acting and planning and watching the place. If anything, you can call it calculated & choreographed chaos with the unified drive to save lives. Requests for equipment to be brought and strategically placed where it could be the most use to the best people were obvious to the listener. One not so obvious and one I admit it took me longer to figure out was how many times the “forward observers” were asked the location of hostages in relationship to the shooter who was barricaded in a room by himself. It dawned on me that everybody was being not only very carefully and making sure they had the right info, but also that everybody else had that info at hand from the sources. And there were no “short” versions of the same info but always a concise explanation without taking too much time.
Police had eyes on the shooter. My guess is the room where the idiot (Robert Lewis Dear AKA The Asshole) was barricaded had a surveillance camera inside and CSPD had tapped to it. Police were also in contact with a room where 5 hostages were hiding, keeping them calm and prepping them for extraction. Some other officers were going from office to office, very “Ninja-style” (very slowly and carefully) making sure they were empty or if some hostage was inside, taking care and time to pull them to safety. And all this time, information kept flowing back and forth between the door kickers and the planners who at one point were thinking of popping Robert Lewis Dear (AKA The Asshole) through the door since he was standing right behind it. The risks of hitting the hostages at a next door office killed that idea, hostage safety was supreme.
There was a moment of panic when outside information came that there were 5 more hostages unaccounted for and the LEOs were crazy trying to figure out where they could be. After a while, the wondering was over which I imagine meant that it was crossed wires and somebody did not get the updated list.
And in a funny moment, after Robert Lewis Dear (AKA The Asshole) surrendered and was in custody, the cops needed a bullhorn to address the hostages inside, still ensconced in their locations and waiting for instructions. After all the hostage movies we have seen where a bullhorn is always present even before the negotiator, it was kind of fun to hear “Hey! Anybody’s got a bullhorn?” “I think I may have one in my car” which was parked on the other side of hell, probably. Reality wins again and the “need” bullhorn is another Hollywood myth.
After the event was over, I went to the TV to see what was being said, and there were the “experts” vomiting what passes for knowledge, so I switched channels and git some infomercial about electronic pressure cookers which had more depth.
So, to all LEOs involved in this case, a big round of applause and my condolences for the death of Officer Garrett Swasey. If anything, your professionalism today serves as tribute to his service and sacrifice.
A UCCS police officer, Garrett Swasey, 44, responded in support of Colorado Springs Police to the active shooter situation at about 11:50 a.m. Friday. He was killed in the line of duty.
