A new monthly series that will run on every last tuesday of the month dealing with the erosion and securing of our rights in our nation. This series will cover everything, and stray from nothing, even taking approaches some of you may disagree with.
Today we cover the ATF Assasination Bust Fiasco.
Has the ATF overstepped their boundaries, and why should you care?
The ATF has had a long and turmultous history of overstepping their bounds and invading upon the rights of american citizens. The events at Waco and Ruby Ridge are almost iron stamped in the mind of americans in connection to the ATF.
The ATF serves several purposes, but the main purpose connected to this issue is its power to regulate gun commerce. And specifically gun commerce.
Recently we have news of two very disturbed young men who decided they were going to attack and kill people based on racial motivation. They also planned to murder our great and beloved presidential candidate.
Now putting aside the fact that these ideas in and of themselves are heinous, and disgusting. It was later revealed that these individuals had a long history of mental illness and were undoubtedly disturbed. It was also revealed that these things were in the planning stages. At this point they had violated no laws that the ATF had oversight of.
Now simply put, why was the ATF the whistleblower on this issue?
Where was the CIA, the Secret Service and the FBI?
We know now that these operations were not involved until after the two were arrested.
The ATF is a organization of approximately 5,000 employees and has a budget of about 1 billion dollars. Evenly distributed that would be about 100 officials per state.
Why, when most of these previously mentioned agencies have something like six to twenty times that personnel to the state, was the ATF so involved in this issue.
I'm extremely glad that these sick minded individuals were captured before their nefarious dealings came to fruition. The question I have is why is the ATF involved today, and does this mark a resurgence of the ATF of the 90s?
Why aren't these other agencies doing their jobs? Why did take a open myspace post to actually figure out what was going on here?
Hopefully in the next few days we see a response to some of these questions. And hopefully these other agencies start doing their job. Because with the untrained whackos over at ATF on the case we should feel less and less safe every single day.