Wonky Pundit
USMB's Silent Snowden
I won't claim to call it illegal (or treason) only because I don't have the legal background to do so. BUT, if there were strong legal reasons for F&F to be classified this way (and if there were evidence to support those reasons), I'm pretty sure the Teapublicans in the House would not be fixated on the debt ceiling right now....The whole F&F plan was stupid. However, it doesn't have anything to do with disarming Americans who are sane, law-abiding, and responsible enough to have firearms.
Knowingly supplying arms to Mexican drug cartels through previously-identified straw buyers was not just stupid but also most certainly illegal. I believe that it does fit the definition of "treason", as well.
I don't doubt you: I've seen the news reports, too.And make no mistake, those criminal cartels have invaded American soil. Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California have all reported the widespread encroachment of the criminal drug cartels into their states.
Arizona has posted signs warning travelers on their highways that the southern part of their state is not safe.
Texans report that Los Zetas are committing mass murders in their state, burying headless corpses in mass graves.
I sound like a tin-foil-hat, ultra-right conservative, don't I?
In fact, I'm a liberal Democrat. I've voted a straight Democratic ticket all of my adult life, because I've always viewed the Democratic party as the one that upholds our freedoms. Democrats have traditionally protected our civil and Constitutional rights to be treated equally regardless of race, gender, or religion; to be free of governmental intrusion into our privacy and health decisions; to be free of government-sponsored religion.
I voted TWICE for the current Administration.
I'm not posting on this thread out of some brainwashed ideology. I'm posting because this is the evidence I've found, and this seems to be the only logical way it fits together.
The reason the southern border area is such a mess right now is, quite simply, that America is a nation of coke-heads. Arming every citizen near the border will not solve that particular problem.
The only things that WILL solve the problem are (1) closing and sealing the land border, as Panama did with Colombia, or (2) legalizing cocaine.
I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with either of those, by the way.