Appearing bright-eyed in a gold tie and dark suit, the tall blond gun seller comfortably deflected Ferguson's suggestions that he might intentionally violate the law.Ryan acquits himself well in spite of badgering by a US Attorney doing her level best to destroy his reputation and his family business.
His attorney, Richard Gardiner of Fairfax, Va., would often mock Ferguson's attempt to probe Horsley's intentions, aiming to steal Ferguson's thunder.
"Were you doing that because you didn't care about what the law was?" Gardiner asked Horsley, who answered "no."
"Were you doing that because you were disregarding the law?" he asked again. Again Horsley answered in the negative.
Good grief, this entire fiasco is such an obviously overblown vendetta--let's just hope the judge sees through it--it's in his hands now.
I've talked to Ryan many times. This guy's a freakin' Norman Rockwell painting. He's like a boy scout, for cryin' out loud, the picture-perfect family man, responsible member of the community, just an all-around solid backbone-of-America citizen, and these...these power freaks are trying to paint him as some sort of shady slimeball intentionally loosing evil guns on the street. And because he didn't roll over and let them just crush him, they've pulled out all the stops.
I find it more than ironic that the operative word used in this story is "indifference." Especially when the people committing the offense of "deliberate indifference" are the ones who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and who continue to willfully ignore it.
Count on this: If Teddy Kennedy and his partner in advocacy, the "Vote Freedom First President" get their way, Maximum Mike will give America's gun dealers more of the same. And then some.
I wonder what the government in general and BATFU in particular has spent so far on this? Oh well, it's not like it's their money, and they can always get more.
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How disgusting. Not only is ~35% of my hard-earned money being stolen by the federal government, but they turn around and use it to pay these... things... who accuse a business owner with, what was it, 0.4% paperwork errors of "willful" violations and, IIRC, deserving of _prison_ time?? Where it has been established that the BATFE's own paperwork is a horrible shambles by anyone's measure??
I read the newspaper piece.
Good Grief! This is an example of slanted reporting that should be presented as a good example of "yellow journalism" in Journalism 101 classes across the nation.
The first sentence sets the tone: "BOISE - Ryan Horsley and his employees lost track of guns, neglected to warn police about potentially suspicious activity and ran a sloppy business - even after promising the federal government to institute greater caution."
Note that this sentence is not braced by quotes, nor is it attributed to a cited source. It is obviously the opinion of the writer ... whose job is notionally to report the news, not make the news.
One wonders what IS being taught in Journalism 101 on the nation's university campuses.
Oh, wait. I forgot; the faculty are mostly left-wing liberal fanatics.
Still, one could be forgiven for thinking that impartiality would have been mentioned sometime during the academic year; hopefully as a virtue.l
I understand the reporter is one of those Commiefornia to Heartland transplants.
Don't you just love the way they foul their own nests, move and then lather, rinse, repeat?
I suspect Judge Lodge has already been threatened by the ATF and will rule in their favor. I hate that, but we saw how quickly they turned Jimm Larry Hendren (coward and traitor) and that other pathetic bench sitting wretch whose name I keep forgetting due to an overload of disgust.
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