Stir The Pot

Gleaned from several news reports this weekend, including the Washington Times, the UK Daily Mail, Examiner, Wordpress.com, and others:

"The truth is, right now, our border with Mexico is more secure than it’s been in years.  We’ve put more boots on that border than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000.” – President Obama speaking in Mexico, Saturday, May 4, 2013.

Mr. President, you wouldn’t recognize the truth if it crossed the border right in front of you – just like the illegal Mexican woman who climbed the 18-foot fence right in front of Senators McCain, Schumer, Flake and Bennet during their visit to the border a week earlier on March 27th.

President Obama used a speech at Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Antropología (maybe he thought that word translated into "apology') – the National Anthropology Museum – to claim that ‘most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States.’

How can this be?  Didn’t you just say the border is more secure than it’s been in years?

Changes in the Mexican army, including a slow-down in Central American armed conflicts, have brought record numbers of military desertions, dumping countless guns into the private market. According to some news reports, at least 150,000 desertions were recorded between 2003 and 2009.

Well, that’s one way.  Most of the guns the deserters are taking with them were supplied to the Mexican Armed Forces by the US government!

Obama also did not mention the more than 2,000 firearms that his Department of Justice ‘walked’ across the Mexican border as part of Operation Fast and Furious, a federal law enforcement project that aimed to track weapons to drug traffickers.

And, of course, that’s the other way!

Those guns have been connected to the deaths of at least 300 Mexican citizens. And U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry died in December 2010 when a so-called ‘Fast and Furious gun’ was recovered at the scene of his murder during a routine patrol in Arizona.

An ensuing Congressional investigation led to the first-ever citation of a sitting cabinet member – Attorney General Eric Holder – for contempt of Congress. Holder declined to provide most of the more than 140,000 documents subpoenaed by a House committee, although the Department of Justice did selectively turn over thousands of others.

And those were “selectively” redacted to the point of incomprehensibility by “the most open Administration in history!”

“This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.”

Haven’t we heard all this before?  In 2009, Obama – and Holder – and Napolitano – and Clinton – and ATF deputy assistant McMahon – and Kerry – and their allies in the agitprop press always ready to unquestioningly parrot their masters’ every word as gospel – were claiming that “90% of the ‘assault’ weapons recovered at Mexican crime scenes could be traced to the US.”

But the evidence indicated that about 17% of the traceable (those whose serial numbers hadn’t been eliminated) guns could be tracked to US sources.  And they knew it, because others in DoJ and DHS had told them so. So they came up with “Fast and Furious” to back up their phony figures.

If they lied to you then, what makes them more believable now?

[Mexican President] Nieto urged the U.S. to consider a gun registry and a prohibition on bulk sales of firearms.  

I suggest that Mexican President Nieto solve the issues of his government’s corruption, cartel violence against his people, and his government’s documented human rights violations against Mexico’s Indian minorities, and documented inhumane treatment and human rights violations against illegal immigrants – especially women - crossing his southern border, before suggesting which of our Constitutional rights we should forego.

Señor Presidente, if you don’t want us Americans to have guns – Come and Take Them!

It worked so well for your country last time it was tried, didn’t it?