1. POTUS needs to placate his looney liberal gun banning friends, thus hatches illegal scheme - ultimately aimed at disarming law-abiding Americans
2. POTUS instructs minion AG to secretly order bone-headed ATF supervisors to allow guns to be supplied to Mexican drug cartels via illegal buyers and forced FFL cooperation
3. POTUS enlists help of the Mexican President (who should have known the stupid scheme would backfire) to decry all the "illegal" guns entering Mexico from the US
4. Guns flow to Mexico under the watchful eyes (?) of the ATF
5. POTUS cries "foul" at all the unscrupulous Americans who would smuggle illegal weapons and dirty FFL's for selling them to straw buyers - ergo we should "restrict" sales of assault weapons at gunshops along the southern border
6. POTUS plan gains some traction for a time until a US ICE agent is killed and the guns involved are traced to an ATF "sting" operation
7. The lid blows off as it is revealed this was NOT the work of dastardly American citizens, but the work of an even more dastardly AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
8. Lid blows to smithereens when it is discovered that US taxpayer money was given to the illegal purchasers to buy guns illegally and transport them to Mexico illegally, thereby (in a clever twist of plan) ultimately attempting to use American's own money (because no self-respecting liberal would use their own funds) and agencies to strip Americans of their Constutitional right to keep and bear arms
Two observations:
1) Everyone involved (and I mean everyone - right up to the buck-stops-here desk) needs to be prosecuted. Not by our goofy legal system, but by a REAL justice system - Mexican style! Hand them over to the Mexicans and let the perpetrators enjoy the hospitality of a Mexican prison.
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2) We all owe an apology to the British and Richard Nixon. Their schemes were positively amateurish compared to this.
Sorry for the rant, but I still feel no relief.
I think they are going to get away with it, there is absolutely no one to hold them accountable and bring them to justice (all the Federal law enforcement works for Holder)...but hopefully this will at least lose them a few more votes at the poles next year.