Putting the Cartel Before the Hearse
By now you’ve heard the story of the Mormon family who had three women and six children massacred by drug cartel members while traveling through Mexico to attend a wedding. The story is heartbreaking…and a legitimate source for righteous anger.
To that end, President Trump has made the offer to Mexico to basically go to war with the cartels, using American troops to wipe this scourge from the Earth. Which is a very refreshing change from the way Barack Obama dealt with the problem by sending automatic weapons to the cartels.
We discussed this a lot at Hope n’ Change way back in 2011, but will serve up a refresher for those who have forgotten details…or never heard them.
“Fast and Furious” was a program administered by the ATF under attorney general Eric Holder’s direction and almost surely Barack Obama’s endorsement. The program helped smuggle more than 1700 weapons to Mexican criminals and drug cartels just “to see where they’d surface.”
Theoretically, this would provide valuable information which would allow the ATF to shut down the gunrunners. But unsurprisingly, “theory” went out the window, the program flew out of control, and the AK-47s and armor-piercing shells were used to murder dozens (if not hundreds) of people including a U.S. Border Patrol agent and a Customs Enforcement agent.
Speculation, which we personally find entirely believable, is that the primary purpose of the program wasn’t really to track gang members at all, but rather for the Obama administration to pretend to be shocked that guns sold in America had been used to slaughter people in Mexico – which would have given Obama and Holder an excuse to attack the second amendment rights of Americans. And had “Fast and Furious” not been exposed, their bloodsoaked plan might actually have worked.
The contrast between the administrations of Trump and Obama could not be more marked. Trump wants to kill the bad guys who kill Americans…Obama wanted the bad guys to kill others, and equipped them to do so, in order to make his own covert attack on Americans.
And this is why, despite his many rough spots, we strongly support Donald Trump. And why we’re still sickened by the memory of Barack Obama and everyone who surrounded him.
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