Amy Swearer: ATF Rewrote Federal Law...UNCONSTITUTIONALLY!!
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Nice, but will they listen.
At this point what difference does it make? 1st just took a double tap to the back of the head, 2nd is on life support. 4th doesn't even exist anymore.
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With friends like these...
She opens her monologue making statements about ATF that basically amount to upholding the legitimacy of the department.
First of all, there's a well known but mostly ignored small amendment to the US Constitution that goes something like: something, something, "Shall not be Infringed." I can't remember all of it, but I think that is mentioned somewhere? Sorry pretty rusty on all of this natural rights and law stuff.
There's little mention of the history of this department, how it was illegitimately "spawned" (to use her language), and no mention of its illegal abuses and jackbooted actions in the century since its inception beyond a few points made about the latest tyranny to come out of it.
Born out of the Prohibition era, a government-created problem in search of a solution (crisis too good to waste"), this department has been part and parcel of the ever encroaching Infringement that is mentioned somewhere in the Constitution (I'm pretty sure that's in there, correct me if I'm wrong). Given how it came to be, the reason for its existence has long been exhausted. Booze and smokes are heavily regulated industries, though perhaps today not quite as much as firearms.
The history of this department is one of Infringement, corruption, extra-legal and illegal actions, and general incompetence.
Funny how a department that is hip deep in failures to actually interdict and stop gun crime and the criminals that commit them, is almost entirely focused on harassing people who are lawfully exercising their Second Amendment, and those who make it their business and livelihood to manufacture and trade in the Arms industry: both constituencies mostly in compliance with not only Federal and State law, but with the retarded and extra-Congressional authority ATF wield that Congress nor the Courts never does seem to reign in. A constituency that is almost schizophrenic in its compliance, and perhaps of the most law-abiding segment of the People in the United States.
Low hanging fruit indeed.
We could mention ATFs recent and prime roles in atrocities like Ruby Ridge and Waco, Project Gunrunner and Fast & Furious, and other highly illegal and immoral recent actions taken by this "agency." However, if we were to actually trace back to the "mistakes" these highly trained "law enforcers" have been making since the Prohibition era, the American public as a whole might have heard some testimony worth listening to.
The current illegal usurpations, ex post facto changes in policy and regulations (which carry the authority and penalties of law, and hence criminal penalties), and other chicanery by these eunuchs is nothing more than the perpetuation of the rotten history of this despicable "executive" agency that has run amok now for a century; a built up "authority" and "legitimacy" that rests upon past crimes, past Infringements, past stupidity and cupidity, that gives us the latest Infringements and out of bounds actions by a rogue agency that has always been so.
I am not of the opinion that the Federal government has NO authority when it comes to dealing in the trafficking and use of Arms, nor do I believe the Feds have no law enforcement authority at all on this matter or other matters.
However, as a matter of Constitutional authority and legitimate law enforcement, the history, actions, and skullduggery of this agency are infamous, not within the bounds set by those who wrote our foundational legal documents, and proof positive that this agency ought never to have been birthed, never been allowed to "grow up," and certainly should not be allowed to continue to run amok as it enters into its twilight years, tottering about in its old age and dotage, showing itself to be incontinent as well as (still) incompetent and malign. All so it can keep some kind of relevance and excuse for its own existence.
ATF is part and parcel of the gangster era of the roaring 20's, has never stemmed the tide of crime in our nation since that terrible era, has been as useless in stopping "gun crime" as the DEA has been in stopping illegal drug smuggling, and routinely shows that it goes beyond its own mandate simply because Congress refuses to stop it from doing so. Its almost like our "representatives" might have a reason to turn a blind eye...
If we shifted gears and talked about the A and the T in this alphabet soup agency's mandate, we would find that they are about as competent in their "law enforcement" efforts as they are in the matter of interdicting crimes involving firearms. ATF is no better with regards to booze and smokes than it is with anything else.
This is a large part of the problem with the people who argue our side of things. The focus is always on the immediate problem, rather than the root causes and historical governmental overreach that brought us the immediate problems in the first place.
Trimming a few branches off the tree of tyranny here and there does not put a stop to the poisoned fruit it bears. Indeed, small efforts to prune it have done nothing but allow it to bear more poison fruit.
We need to take an axe to that tree, burn it, and bring in the excavators to dig up the stump.
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