Wednesday, August 08, 2007

The BATFU Time Machine

Funny thing about BATFU claiming in legal documents they called off the audit of Red's Trading Post because they felt "harassed and intimidated."

Here's the time line of events leading to Area Supervisor Linda Young throwing in the (wet?) towel:



8:30am- The ATF Inspectors and Supervisor arrive.


8:37am- The first blog is written.


11:15am- The ATF calls off the audit without warning or letting Ryan know what was going on.


3:08pm- After waiting several hours Ryan writes a recap.


7:59pm- Anonymous post appears on Red's blog--after everyone had gone home and shut down the store.

So here is essentially what this was about: A citizen came in and took pictures, so they fled in fury because they couldn't legally stop him. They even admit as much in their complaint.

All this business about the car and the hotel and the hostile comment are just smoke and mirrors--designed to persuade the judge that a threatening situation existed. If it had, why is there no record of a call to the local police? After all, interference with their "lawful duties" is a "crime". In order for any of these factors to have affected their decision to terminate the audit, they would literally have had to been able to travel back in time. Yet they present them to the judge as if they were all elements that led to that decision.

In other words, they are manipulating and lying. Surprise, surprise.

Let's hope Judge Lodge doesn't fall for it. Let's hope he sees this transparent attempt to deceive his court for what it is--and then takes appropriate action against them. That is, unless they can demonstrate an ability to navigate through the Fourth Dimension...

2 comments:

AlanDP said...

Red should install a stat tracker on his blog that allows him to track visitor "paths" through his blog. This way, even if an anonymous comment is left, he can look back at his stats and follow the path of the visitor who left the comment and see where they came from, their domain, etc. It works unless they're smart enough to use some kind of anonymizer.

AlanDP said...

Okay, I just visited Ryan's blog and saw that he's using StatCounter. I use that. He should be able to track anonymous commenters by following visitor paths and checking the comment posting time.