Some may have seen infamous Face the Nation interview with ATF Director Steve Dettlebach in which one of the ATF's "top experts" couldn't disassemble a Glock pistol (snicker, snicker.) Or you may have seen a later recording of it on one of the gun blogs. For anyone who is familiar with guns, and the ATF should be, don't you think, it is all very funny. But D. Parker at the American Thinker noticed something more sinister in a post entitled When leftists love profiling.
New FBI special agents have an important moral and ethical component to their training, culminating in a tour of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. to see what happens when law enforcement loses sight of what is right. It was started more than two decades ago by then–FBI director Louis Freeh, and in 2005, Director Robert S. Mueller said the training has never been more relevant.
“At a time when law enforcement must be aggressive in stopping terror, these classes provide powerful lessons on why we must always protect civil rights and uphold the rule of law,” he said.
The same article had a relevant quote from a new FBI agent participant:
“They did an excellent job of showing how the law enforcement in Nazi society was complicit,” said Lucas, a new special agent, after the program’s conclusion. “It’s important to try to be aware of all the circumstances around you and make sure nothing’s crossing the lines, and remember why we’re really here.”
All of this has fallen on deaf ears. What we all suspected, but didn’t want to believe, has been confirmed in congressional testimony on a new violation of our constitutional civil rights, with the FBI following in the footsteps of the Gestapo. What’s even worse is that the far-left predilection for deception is causing some on the pro-freedom right to miss the point.
All joking aside, the point is right here:
Unfortunately, far too many in the firearm freedom community were distracted by the rookie mistakes made by people who purport to know about firearms technology. They missed a dangerous and authoritarian admonition from the director, where he said that firearms dealers shouldn’t sell a gun to someone paying cash.
Now why would the Director of the ATF do that? If you look on the front of a typical Federal Reserve Note you will see in small print "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE." So if a gun dealer refused to sell a gun to someone paying cash, he is recommending something illegal. But of course, there is more to it than that:
FBI whistleblower George Hill prompted the yearlong investigation by testifying that Bank of America, unprompted, gave the feds the names of customers who used their cards in the D.C. area Jan. 5–7, 2021, “overlaid with any firearm purchase at any time,” said Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
The feds told financial institutions to search transactions using Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), such as gun-related keywords and firearms retailers Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shop, and the interbank Zelle network for alleged Jan. 6-related keywords such as “MAGA” and purchases like “religious texts” to identify potential “homegrown violent extremism,” the report says.
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If you’re keeping score at home, note that the fascists of the fringe far left are first and foremost gun-grabbers — they love guns, but only in their hands — but aside from that, the Second Amendment is always in their sights. Beyond that, they are just trying to shred the Bill of Rights by the numbers, censoring free speech, arresting journalists, and attacking freedom of religion.
Their weaponization of government is just their workaround for the Fourth Amendment. Unconstitutional “red flag” laws are a combined attack vector for them against the Second and Fifth Amendments, with some others thrown in for good measure.
One way or another, they are going to find out who has the guns. If it is illegal, and it is, to build a database, they will access bank credit card records to surveille you. Never mind that that they are breaking the fourth and fifth amendments. That is just a bonus. But I would remind the deep state that if something is illegal for the government to do directly, it is illegal for them to coerce someone else to do it for them.
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