A Story about the System

U.S. Special Forces at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, initially trained members of the Los Zeta’s Cartel - before they separated from the Mexican Army.

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(SAN DIEGO) - Normal functioning humans, working for any government bureaucracy, often undergo a mystical transformation upon entering their workplace.  They change into dysfunctional beings.  “The system” makes this occur randomly or all the time.   

Almost everything has been said and written about “Operation Gun Walker” or “Fast and Furious”; the latest government ‘snafu’ where government agents became creative in a way to “catch” cartel folks. Each day the story seems to grow and branch in a different direction. 

Credit to this becoming public information is largely due The Salem-News and one of its investigative reporters, Tim King  (Salem-News.com; July 14, 2011 – Report on Eric Holder & U.S. Weapons smuggling program to Mexico Making Rounds. A break in secrecy also belongs to a few brave ATF&E (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) employees, knowing that their jobs are in jeopardy and/or their lives. Many of these men and women are dedicated law enforcement personnel who had to leave their personal beliefs at home because “the system” demands it. 

Fast and Furious may have inadvertently caused the deaths of thousands of human beings – not just Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Special Agent Jaime Zapata. One of the guns found at the scene of Agent Brian Terry’s body was a first indicator. A clue something had gone wrong in the system. Several high-ranking government folks claim no knowledge of the plan, but acknowledge that Cartels kill people; often with a gun. Notably, the origin of guns for all cartel killings is unknown, only that ATF&E-supplied-guns are in cartel hands. 

The loss of U.S. agents in this program was apparently not considered up front even though allowing guns into the hands of cartels would almost surely result in the death of a human being; perhaps centered around other warring cartel members.  Some ATF&E agents had already considered that Cartels and Border Patrol agents operate simultaneously along the same border and feared for fallout from “the program ”. “The system’s” guns were not manufactured in America, but sold in America. “The story” developed after federal agents were killed, not before that while picking up body parts on the streets of Nuevo Laredo or Juarez.  

As information grows we learn that ATF&E agents would follow locally purchased guns to the buyers home.  The guns would then be moved from that house to a car. Paid US informants or cartel personnel would move the guns to Mexico. But agents were advised to “stand down and surveil”.  For more information read the report released through the Associated Press by Pauline Arrillaga’s “What led to Project Gunrunner?”  

The degree of responsibility varies, but, to be expected, lower-level federal agents are being “thrown under the bus”.  Those higher up the chain of events run fast and furious proving that amnesia can come and go at will, and others are expendable, just as those innocents who may have been killed with fast and furious guns. As the story grows, the multiplicity of fault grows with it. 

According to news reports, for years the Mexican government has pleaded with the U.S. government to restrict the flow of guns into Mexico. It appeared the Mexican government blamed the American people. Certainly the American anti-gun lobby took that position. Some American gun shop owners, certainly in the Phoenix, Arizona and likely El Paso Texas area, sold multiple assault weapons to legitimate buyers at 20-40 assault weapons at a time. Now ATF&E has sent demand letters to firearms retailers in border states ordering they must begin reporting multiple sales of any semi-automatic rifle larger than .22 caliber and capable of accepting a detachable magazine.  In response, the Firearms Industry has filed suit against ATF&E. 

U.S. Special Forces at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, initially trained members of the Los Zeta’s Cartel, suspected of firing the shots at our agents. Although they were not cartel members at that time, this previous military training is a part of “the story”. 

Guns used in Mexico’s cartel wars come from a variety of sources around the world – a part of our global economy that involves many players with a variety of agendas.  Most certainly not all guns used in the killing of innocents belong to Fast and Furious. The gist of “the story” involves plans to actually place guns in the hand of cartels, and now no one knows for sure where all the unconfiscated guns are. 

“The story” expands.  According to KSAT.com (El Paso Texas) DPS authorities are gearing up for Cartel wars along the U.S. border. There is growing fear that cartel wars may disrupt Mexico’s election cycle in 2012. Drug Cartels now operating inside Texas and other states in North America are suspected of hoarding high-powered weapons that could become a factor in any coming revolution that – according to Texas authorities - will likely spread into U.S border states…and possibly beyond. 

Meanwhile another case appears, in defense of a Sinaloa Cartel member. According to Diana Washington Valdez of The El Paso Times: Documents: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine into U.S. for information. CIA agents purportedly allowed cocaine to be smuggled into the U.S by the Sinaloa cartel for information on other cartels 

The general American public can’t do anything about “the system”. The system works in mysterious ways. Making deals for information goes back a very long time. But now, one allows for guns to be walked out of the United States.  Then it likely allows drugs to be walked into the United States. “The system” convolutes where the blame truly lies…but is a fact of life. And that’s the story. For now anyway.

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