I understand that many regular readers will not exactly be sympathetic to the plight of a federal agent caught up in laws he himself enforced during his career. I can't sit here and tell you I'm taking up cheerleading for the guy—but I do believe his side of the story needs to be heard, and I don't see too many outside his family interested in acknowledging that. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner revisits what may not be a done deal. Curious, how the only person presenting an FBI sniper's side of things is an "anti-government extremist"...
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"JOHN SHIPLEY DID NOTHING WRONG!"
ReplyDeleteProve it, Sweetheart. Release all his case histories, all his testimony, and a list of all the cases he refused to be involved with because the "law" the FBI was enforcing was unconstitutional.
I'm not feeling the love for John Shipley whether he was railroaded by the ATF or not. He can rot in the federal penitentiary with the countless others he helped put there.
Looking into the mouth of the federal beast is a pleasant experience, isn't it? With Shipley convicted the beast has one fewer tooth.
Y'know, I'd be lying if I said that sentiment hadn't crossed my mind. And I'm no doubt tilting at windmills (again) for the stance I'm taking here. I dunno, anon. I just feel like somebody's gotta do it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'm going to stay on the Shipley thing as it develops. But I do understand where you're coming from.
Sad and outrageous damn bizarro world where this can happen to anyone for selling his own property.
I believe strongly in equality under the law. If that means John Shipley is sprung out from under these bogus charges, so be it. He and his cohorts will still be vulnerable for punishment under (among other things), ironically enough, existing federal law 18 USC 241.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000241----000-.html
I am not very concerned with maintaining the moral high ground.
ReplyDeleteWe did that for more that 70 years, now we can be imprisoned for opinions. I am far more interested in winning the war and I will not cede effective measures to the opposition because I find them repugnant. After we win, I'll feel guilty, until then,I'll just feel unfinished.
If I were a better man or if Shipley were a better man I could gin up some sympathy for him. However, my dealings and observations of his kind have coarsened me. Therefore, I am not that better man. Shipley isn't either, I tend to applaud poetic justice.
Equality under the law is fine and good, but really doesn't matter here on the other side of the looking glass.
ReplyDeleteThe system is completely and irretrievably broken.
It need to be relegated to the ash-heap of failed socialist regimes. The Constitution needs to be burned (destroying the federalgovernment it created) and free people renegotiate the best means of protecting their regained liberties.