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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: ericire12 on April 02, 2009, 12:18:42 PM
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Read all the way to the bottom (or atleast skip to the end) This is great!
http://www.newspapertree.com/opinion/3614-open-letter-to-sen-john-kerry
Re: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Meeting in El Paso
Dear Senator Kerry,
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule of alpine skiing, wind surfing and doing whatever else your job as Senator requires you to do to have a special meeting of your committee here in El Paso. We don’t get many visitors of your caliber here very often. Excuse us if we drool a little bit while we stare.
I’m glad you noticed that various criminal elements of the drug trafficking world south of the border are slaughtering each other at a rate that is quite alarming. We’re a little confused why you didn’t notice last year when the first 1,600 people met Jesus in the war over the right to be “America’s Next Top Drug Dealer.” (a far more interesting show idea than that one about models – more cut throat, if you ask me)
It seems as if you and your committee members are about a year too late. They’re now running out of people to kill and you’re just now taking notice. I wonder why?
Forgive me if I find your sudden interest in the border is a little coincidental. It wasn’t until your buddy, and my President, Barrack Obama’s poll numbers started dropping did you all of sudden become interested in the plight of the Mexican people and their cartel problem. It’s a good diversionary tactic.
God knows Middle America was already scared that all the Mexicans were going to come take their jobs and make them start speaking Spanish. Take that scenario and arm the Mexicans with machine guns and you just might get us so scared that we to totally forget that our 401(k)s are worth less than a peso and our government is now the CEO of every corporation in the nation.
Excuse me if I’m not buying it.
I didn’t have time to make it down to the meeting today. You see, I have to work. So does my wife. Luckily you’re not in that position and you can run around telling us working stiffs how to live and by what rules.
On a side note: I truly hope you fall to your knees every night and thank the lord for what you have and you truly mean it. There are far too many Americans on their knees each night who have lost everything and they’re just thankful they are free.
I did have time to read your opening statement (you can find it here if you don’t remember what you said LINK). I’ll try to be concise in my review of your opening statements.
You propose stripping Americans of their Second Amendment right in order to curtail the behavior of foreign citizens in a foreign country. Please correct me if I’m wrong on that point.
You want to guilt a certain part of the American population into handing over their constitutionally given rights. You will blame American first and seek to turn us into a guilty party when we are clearly not. You will also achieve that guilt by manipulating numbers, such as the ones you gave in your opening statements.
You said, “Ninety percent of the weapons seized from the cartels and traced by ATF originated in the United States.” Exactly how many guns does that amount to? Or is that number so small it would blow your claim that American gun shops are funding a cartel war that could involve more than 100,000 weapons. Ninety percent could easily be nine of ten guns found in the last year. Something tells me “ninety percent” sounds a lot worse than the actual number of weapons.
If your lack of detailed numbers on the amount of guns being illegally taken to Mexico for the drug war wasn’t bad enough, you call for committing an entire U.S. law enforcement agency to take its precious time and apply it to tracking weapons in a foreign country. Americans should be appalled at this statement from your remarks:
“What is less common, however, is the cooperation that occurred in this case. Only about one out of every four weapons seized by Mexican authorities last year was submitted to the ATF so they could be traced back to purchasers and sellers in the United States. The Mexican government should provide the ATF with fuller access to these weapons.”
The idea that our ATF agents would be shouldered with the responsibility of investigating crimes in another sovereign country is ridiculous. They have a hard enough time tracking whackos making fertilizer bombs, hillbillies brewing moonshine and wise guys smuggling cigarettes. I expect that if our ATF agents are going to be sent to Mexico to track American weapons, we’d at least expect Mexican officials to come to America to track their undocumented Mexican immigrants.
I bet I’m not alone when I find your premise that the expiration of the “Assault Weapons Ban” in 2004 led to a “flood of cheap assault rifles,” where “many of them find their way to Mexico.”
First of all, “assault weapons” aren’t cheap and they sure as hell aren’t any cheaper in America than they are on the global black market where the majority of weapons are bought by your local terrorist groups.
I’ve got a hunch that these cartel guys who manage to bring tons of cocaine out of Columbia every day via 747, might be able to figure out a way to get a few thousand AK-47s out of Russia and put them safely into the hands of their goons. Remember, we’ve got everybody but Chuck Norris down in Columbia trying to stop the cocaine trade and yet they keep us supplied with plenty of dope. You’ll know when our efforts in Columbia start working, your Hollywood friends will be the first to complain.
The fact is, you can ban guns here and they’ll still be killing each other over there.
By all accounts you’ve caught a few rednecks with less sense than a gaggle of potheads selling guns in Mexico. Hardly the catastrophe you are making it out to be and an extremely weak case to build your prosecution of law abiding gun owners on.
I can’t help but believe the administration when it says they are pledging money for Mexico’s cartel problem, again. The fact that you plan on making the same mistakes with American tax dollars that President Bush did shows that you do not learn from watching. Giving the Mexican government, who you admit is rife with corruption, hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars for the war on terror, is like handing weapons directly to the cartels.
It does not take a genius to figure out what happens to the weapons purchased by the Mexican government with American taxpayer dollars. They are quickly sold out the back of local armories to the cartels for pennies on the dollar. You can assume that the literally tens of thousands of firearms bought with American taxpayer’s money in Mexico will be traced right back to the United States if they are taken back from cartel members. No need to call Sherlock Holmes, I think we can handle that investigation on our own.
I get the distinct feeling that our tax dollars are leading to your call to strip us of our Second Amendment rights. How cute. We are paying to have our freedoms stripped from us. Aren’t we lucky we have guys like you helping us out.
In your entire opening remarks you dedicate the majority of your finger pointing to the Second Amendment. However, you did not speak long at all on America’s drug problem.
Maybe if you were as adamant about stopping the millions of Americans from breaking the law each day by using drugs and as you are stopping millions of Americans from legally owning firearms, you’d see some results in Mexico. If the problem is consumption, why aren’t you talking about that? Is it harder to ask someone to give up crack than it is to ask someone to give up their rights?
Then again, drug users aren’t the problem, gun owners are, right.
Well, thanks for coming to town. We’re sure glad you’re not staying.
PS. Next time you’re in town bring your medals. We’ve got a federal courthouse and a military base you can chunk them at.
Love,
David Karlsruher
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