The Newsweek Challenge

The hatred of ATF, of course, is nothing new. [More]

More of the conflationist nonsense-with-a-purpose we've come to expect from Newsweek. How about instead of making their entire focus those who "hate" ATF, they use those journalist credentials and resources to look at just why that might be the case.

My comment:

Here's what's really "under the radar," and a typical example of how agenda-driven media statists have shed the time-honored role of journalist watchdogs over government to become its guard dogs instead: You Isikoff, and you Hosenball--why not investigate CleanUpATF.org, a website run by bureau whistleblowers detailing corruption and incompetence? Why the media blackout on insiders who are documenting abuses?

Why not look into their charges that "Managers, Counsel, Internal Affairs and staff of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (BATFE or 'ATF') have repeatedly given false testimony, concealed substantial waste, fraud and abuse, abused their lawful authority, and waged systematic campaigns of reprisal against their own employees that dare to speak out." ?

Or do you expect us to believe this is the first you six-figure (plus?) professionals with a huge news organization and research staff have heard of this?

While you're at it, tell us about the Good O' Boy Roundup. Then tell us why one of the foremost statisticians, Dr. Fritz Scheuren testified to a House committee that the NFRTR (firearms transfer record) "is insufficient for criminal proceedings" and then square that with former ATF NFA branch chief Thomas Busey claiming (on video) "Let me say that when we testify in court, we testify that the data base is 100 percent accurate. That's what we testify to, and we will always testify to that. As you probably well know, that may not be 100 percent true."

In short, how about some journalism from you highly-paid hacks instead of the shallow propaganda attacks conflating Americans who believe in the right to keep and bear arms with domestic terrorists that has become your trademark?

When they don't look into any of this, what will that tell us?

The entire fascist media alliance is pounding on that "patriots = haters" meme for all they're worth, like they want to use it to prime the American public for...what, exactly?

Our best defense against that is to go on the offense with the truth.