A Tea Party post today revealed that yet another of the guns illegally trafficked to Mexico by our BATFE turned up after a shoot-out between Mexican agents and cartel scum. A reader asked why AG Holder was still in office. Consider that Holder is privy to a mountain of (clandestine) information - as are all AG's. This info contains facts about practically anyone in Congress, federal offices, commerce and (as we have learned thanks to our whistle blower friend) practically all of us. The trick in politics is to maintain a strong and enduring case of catch-22. Most members of Congress are hot. They have "connections" - many of which are flat-out illegal at worst or corrupt at best. They can rend their hair and scream to the heavens all they want - but dare not actually take any punitive action without dire fear of recrimination. Barry, for example, was shepherded into the presidency by powerful forces - to include portions of our government. (Could it be only ironic that Jack Kennedy was murdered during the time of revolution in Kenya when his family's foundation was involved in bringing Kenyans to Hawaii to be 'educated' for the perpetuation of capitalist domination in [their] country?) The Soviets were contending for control of Kenyan government.
For any in Congress to reveal who and what were responsible would bring complete culpability upon our entire government. Congress men and women spend fortunes of their own and others - selling their souls for the shot at a lifetime of grandeur for themselves and favors for their handlers. Why is it that persons will shut-up, lie, cheat, steal, commit perjury and more to avoid the loss of employment? A working stiff has his future on the line. So do politicians - plus times ten - or twenty - or more. Some are legitimately suspected of direct complicity in murder - just to protect their sorry a**es from loss of glory - let alone employment. They owe! Think of Vince Foster; the Chicago chaps who had inside knowledge of members of the 'Down Low' club who just happened to die. Any charges of corruption or illegal actions by other countries and governments by our bunch is abject hypocrisy.
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Puerto Peñasco / AKA. Rocky Point Mexico
This area of Mexico sets right of the shores of the Sea Of Cortez.
I have visited there many, many times throughout the years.
It is an excellent fishery & just down right affordable.
It is but a few hours drive south of Phoenix.
Rocky Point has become a true want to be resort, with some very nice digs of varying price range.
It is also a regular party destination for those of a party nature. Allot of younger partiers.
It however through the years has attracted a plethora of gangs as many places in Mexico.
I stopped going, as has many I know, have stopped going there, just because of the brash boldness of large gangs, But more recently, the very open presence of the Drug Cartel with their White Shirts unbuttoned, Their hand made Alligator Boots, Layers of Gold Chains & Their Ornate Semi-Auto Pistol shoved in their belt.
I was in La Paz some years ago for a fishing trip & ended being caught in shoot out between the Mexican Police, Mexican Army & a group attempting to rob a Bank/Silver Brokerage.
There is no such thing as line of fire, no your back stop, citizens or innocent by standers.
When they cut loose, it is to shoot cars down to the rims & make ground meat out of anyone in that immediate area & they have the ordinance & boots to do just that. ( And that goes for both sides of these deadly shoot outs )
Washington (CNN) -- A dramatic shootout between authorities and suspected cartel gunmen at a Mexican seaside resort this month has ties to a botched U.S. gun operation.
A U.S. official said Tuesday that investigators have traced at least one firearm recovered at a December 18 gunfight in Puerto Peñasco, across from the Arizona border, to Operation Fast and Furious.
That's the disastrous operation run by agents in the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Agents allowed suspected gun smugglers to buy about 2,000 firearms with the goal of trying to find and prosecute high-level traffickers. They couldn't track the firearms and most are believed to have ended up with cartels and gangsters in Mexico.
Many have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico and the United States, including at a shooting that killed a U.S. border agent in 2010.
The shootout in Puerto Peñasco, also called Rocky Point by Arizona tourists, two weeks ago left at least five suspected cartel gunmen dead, including possibly a high level Sinaloa cartel chief, according to Mexican authorities.
Witnesses reported hours of shooting and grenade explosions, with Mexican authorities using helicopters to attack fleeing suspected cartel gunmen on the ground.
Guns recovered at such scenes are routinely checked with the ATF's tracing lab to try to determine their origin. At least one AK-47 style firearm was found, and U.S. investigators identified it as one that was allowed to be sold to suspected traffickers as part of Fast and Furious, according to the U.S. official.
The ATF, in a statement, said: "ATF has accepted responsibility for the mistakes made in the Fast and Furious investigation and at the attorney general's direction we have taken appropriate and decisive action to ensure that these errors will not be repeated. And we acknowledge that, regrettably, firearms related to the Fast and Furious investigation will likely continue to be recovered at future crime scenes."
Guns from Fast and Furious have turned up at other high-profile killings in Mexico, including those of the brother of a Mexican state prosecutor and of a beauty queen.
The Fast and Furious operation gave rise to more than a year of political controversy for the Justice Department.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, led a congressional probe to determine how it came to be approved.
Eventually, House Republicans sanctioned Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress in a legal dispute over the White House's refusal to turn over documents.
Holder has said tactics used in Fast and Furious never should have been allowed. A Justice Department inspector general report cleared Holder of wrongdoing and placed most blame on officials at the ATF and the Phoenix U.S. attorney's office for failing to properly oversee the agents running the operation.
Grassley, in a statement Tuesday, said: "In Operation Fast and Furious, the Mexican drug cartels found an easy way to supplement their own illegal ways. Worse yet, the Obama administration has yet to publicly hold anyone accountable for this disastrous policy. Unfortunately, guns from Fast and Furious will be found in operations like this for years to come."