The actual LAWS broken by E. Holder & the DOJ-ATF

The reason many people are just fed up with the way everyone from Bankers to Congress, the Senate and higher is that there is NEVER any consequences for their actions. Anyone of us in the private sector would be in jail for breaking the laws these very same politicians write, yet seem to be immune from themselves. They are LITERALLY above the very laws they use to keep US in order. From insider trading to Tax evasion and everything in between.

I am going to show you a letter from a retired congressman [James R Lightfoot Member of Congress, ret. (1984 – 1996)] to Presidential Candidate Hon. Thaddeus McCotter that explains some of what has and is going wrong and the LAWS that have been broken. You can then come to your OWN conclusions on whether some of them should go to jail over this so called "Fast & Furious" gun running debacle that has directly cost the lives of at least 2 dedicated Americans doing their job in protecting this country! 

My Blog is titled the things your Government DOESN'T want you to know and this is the epitome of what I am talking about as you will NOT see this in ANY media, including FOX News. With that being said, please read the following in its unabridged entirety, and let me know what YOUR thoughts on it are:

Hon. Thaddeus McCotter                                  
2243 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515


Congressman McCotter:
I am writing to you as a private citizen and a resident of Texas. My background includes being a police office, broadcaster, business owner and Member of Congress.


Three times I have raised my right hand and taken an oath to protect and uphold our Constitution and country; once in the Army, once at the Tulsa Police Academy and once on the floor of the US House of Representatives. Today, I am standing up once again, however, I need your help.


You have called for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder. I applaud you for your stand, however, I would like to see you take it one step further.
Please find attached (below) some of the laws that have been broken by Fast and Furious.


Please encourage Congressman Issa and Senator Grassley to not give up when they find a few of the culpable, rather they must push forward with the power of the committee and the US Congress to uncover all that is amiss in this entire operation.
I had the privilege to serve as ranking member and then Chairman of the old Treasury, Postal and General Government (TPS) sub-committee on Appropriations. Rebuilding ATF after Waco came under my watch. I have continued to be associated with law enforcement and ATF since leaving Congress and I can assure you that agency is badly broken.


The level of retaliation and harassment that is fostered upon good agents in the field is a disgrace and in many cases unlawful. However, a good-old-boy system that includes the lawyers at ATF continue the mistreatment, the law suits and general harassment of agents that want to do their jobs by the book, be honest and put bad guys in jail.
Many good agents have already left ATF and others are ready to go.


Recently, I had the honor to attend a memorial for murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. It was a humbling experience, but offered an opportunity to talk at length with Border Patrol Agents, ATF Agents and local law enforcement. They are living in a war zone and I came away with the determination to try and do something to make things better for them. They certainly are not getting the support and help they need from our DOJ. They cannot speak up for fear of retaliation.
I can.


Congressman, you are in a position to right the wrongs that the whistleblowers and other goods agents have had to suffer. I urge you to please work for a Special Counsel or whatever it takes to get the evidence dug out of ATF, DOJ, DEA, FBI and any other bad player involved with the disgrace and travesty we are now witnessing.


Tuesday Roll Call is scheduled to print an op-ed I wrote asking for the indictment of Eric Holder, William Newell, William McMahon and anyone else that has played a role in the execution of Fast and Furious.
As a former soldier, police officer, Member of Congress and now a private citizen I urge you to continue your interest in bringing justice to those adversely effected by Fast and Furious and would support your efforts to seek indictment in any way I can.
Respectfully,












Member of Congress (ret)
James R Lightfoot
Member of Congress, ret.
(1984 – 1996)

Potential unlawful acts by ATF Agents related to Operation Fast and Furious

Keep in mind, NONE of this relates to potential STATE violations, such as negligent homicide, or some other reckless conduct statutes. Even if the Feds stepped in and snatched the state prosecutions into federal court as the law allows, they would still have to prosecute or answer why not.
Items in blue are referenced to the observation in red at the end of each paragraph.

18 U.S.C. § 922 : US Code - Section 922: Unlawful acts

(a) It shall be unlawful -
(1) for any person -
(A) except a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or
licensed dealer, to engage in the business of importing,
manufacturing, or dealing in firearms, or in the course of such
business to ship, transport, or receive any firearm in
interstate or foreign commerce; or


ATF and DOJ Attorneys clearly were engaged or conspiring to engage in the business
(B) except a licensed importer or licensed manufacturer, to
engage in the business of importing or manufacturing
ammunition, or in the course of such business, to ship,
transport, or receive any ammunition in interstate or foreign
commerce;


ATF and DOJ Attorneys ordered and directed this as well
(6) for any person in connection with the acquisition or
attempted acquisition of any firearm or ammunition from a
licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or
licensed collector, knowingly to make any false or fictitious
oral or written statement or to furnish or exhibit any false,
fictitious, or misrepresented identification, intended or likely
to deceive such importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector with
respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or
other disposition of such firearm or ammunition under the
provisions of this chapter;


ATF Bosses, Agents and DOJ Attorneys did exactly this on multiple occasions. In order for some cop exemption to apply, They had to reasonably intend to disrupt and stop criminal activity. IE give some sample drugs to a kingpin to set him up for a large reverse. You cannot constantly provide an unending supply of drugs and just say “hey, we are working toward an arrest someday.”
(2) any firearm to any person in any State where the purchase
or possession by such person of such firearm would be in
violation of any State law or any published ordinance applicable
at the place of sale, delivery or other disposition, unless the
licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the
purchase or possession would not be in violation of such State
law or such published ordinance;

Mexico is a state and this WAS in violation of published Mexican law or ordinance. ATF and DOJ Attorneys directed and conspired this to happen.
(h) It shall be unlawful for any individual,  who to that individual’s knowledge and while being employed for any person described in any paragraph of subsection (g) of this section, in the course of such employment -
(1) to receive, possess, or transport any firearm or ammunition
in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce; or
(2) to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.


Illegal aliens, illegal users of narcotics and felons were employing these straw purchasers and ATF and DOJ attorneys DID conspire to violate this “the bodyguard” statute to be violated.
(m) It shall be unlawful for any licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector knowingly to make any false entry in, to fail to make appropriate entry in, orto fail to properly maintain, any record which he is required to keep pursuant to section 923 of this chapter or regulations promulgated thereunder.


Occurred with each and every straw purchase, directed, facilitated or allowed by ATF and DOJ Attorneys. There are emails telling the FFL it is ok to break the law.
18 U.S.C. 371, CONSPIRACY
outlaws conspiracy to commit any other federal crime. The others outlaw conspiracy to commit some specific form of misconduct, ranging from civil rights violations to drug trafficking.7 Conspiracy is a separate offense under most of these statutes,8 regardless of whether conspiracy accomplishes its objective.9 every conspiracy has at least two elements: (1) an agreement (2)  between two or more persons. Members of the conspiracy are also liable for the foreseeable crimes of their fellows committed in furtherance of the common plot.
There are no one-man conspiracies.31
Conviction under 18 U.S.C. 371 for conspiracy to commit a substantive offense requires proof
that one of the conspirators committed an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.


You can commit a conspiracy with an unindicted co-conspirator. It appears this is the one that will kill them in relation to very act the cartel/straw purchasers committed, including murder. In order to avoid this, they have to admit they are acting under color of law for ANY Law Enforcement protections. SEE ABOVE, the problem with that is that acting under color of law requires you are within the scope of your duties and advancing legitimate law enforcement actions.
The elements of conspiracy to defraud the United States under 18 U.S.C. 371 are (1) an agreement of two or more persons; (2) to defraud the United States; and (3) an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy committed by one of the conspirators.65 The “fraud covered by the statute reaches any conspiracy for the purpose of impairing, obstructing or defeating the lawful functions of any department of the Government” by ” deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest.“67 The plot must be directed against the United States or some federal entity; a scheme to defraud the recipient of federal funds is not sufficient. The scheme may be designed to deprive the United States of money or property, but it need not be so; a plot calculated to frustrate the functions of an entity of the United States will suffice.


Based on overt direction by ATF and DOJ Attorneys the above should be a slam dunk. You’ll notice this is a willful NOT a knowing act. In other words, they meant to do it. They didn’t need to know all the ins and outs.


Mail and wire fraud is a federal crime in the United States. Together, 18 U.S.C. §§1341, 1343, and 1346 reach any fraudulent scheme or artifice to intentionally deprive another of property or honest services with a nexus to mail or wire communication.
18 U.S.C.§ 1341provides:


Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obligation, security, or other article, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious article, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, places in any post office or authorized depository for mail matter, any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or deposits or causes to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or takes or receives therefrom, any such matter or thing, or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. 


If the violation occurs in relation to, or involving any benefit authorized, transported, transmitted, transferred, disbursed, or paid in connection with, a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency (as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122)), or affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.^[2]


All Federal funding used in any case has been reported, transferred, accounted for through the U S Mail at some point. Clearly whatever was stated by the agents, bosses or U S Attorney justifying the expenditures was fraudulent.

Wire

18 U.S.C. §1343 provides:
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.^[3]


Huge wire fraud implications resulting from EVERY email, fax, Teletype that occurred with the intent to mislead the true actions of Fast and Furious.
42 U.S.C.§ 1983 now reads:^[3]
Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, Suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.


To be clear, Brian Terry, Jaime Zapata and every other cop and civilian harmed by a Fast and Furious gun has been deprived of their constitutional civil rights at the hands of ATF and DOJ Attorneys under the color of law. Example: An agent walks high-grade heroin with no safe guards, and no specific greater law enforcement future good that he/she can articulate, and someone’s kid overdoses because of it, BINGO, same deal as Fast and Furious.


The Supreme Court has interpreted the United States Constitution to construct laws regulating the actions of the law enforcement community. Under “color of law”, it is a crime for one or more persons using power given to him or her by a governmental agency (local, state or federal), to willfully deprive or conspire to deprive another person of any right protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Enforcement of “color of law” does not require that any racial, religious, or other discriminatory motive existed. Criminal acts under color of law include acts within and beyond the bounds or limits of lawful authority.

Jim Ross Lightfoot  Bio Jim Ross Lightfoot Most recent columns James R. Lightfoot, (Lightfoot Strategies served in Congress six terms, starting in 1985 and retiring in 1997. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal and General Government (TPS) of Appropriations, he had jurisdiction over 40% of Federal Law Enforcement (Customs, Secret Service, ATF, FLETC, and IRS enforcement).

Who Controls the Price of Oil?

Most people do not understand what drives the price of oil but readily accept the explanation pushed by this administration that it is the unbounded greed of oil companies and their “fat cat owners.” Oil companies are publicly traded and many Americans and other foreign nationals or entities can own stock or bonds in these firms.

Most economists agree that the oil industry is an oligopoly, a market dominated by a few sellers, synonymous in developed countries with “big business.” An insidious form of oligopoly, which dominates the oil industry, is the cartel. The cartel’s firms join forces to control production, sale, and the price of oil.OPEC, the most notable and successful cartel, controls 44 percent of the world’s crude oil production and 79 percent of world’s crude oil reserves. By restricting output, its members, Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela, quadrupled the price of oil between 1973-1974 and 1979-1980.

OPEC should not be able to burden consumers to the same extent now because large oil reserves were discovered in Alaska, North Sea, Canada, and the Gulf of Mexico. However our business-killing EPA regulations and Obama’s seven-year moratorium on drilling in the Gulf do.
When oligopolists organize themselves in a successful cartel such as OPEC, prices will be higher and outputs lower. Cartels are illegal in the U.S. even though some companies such as railroad and gas pipeline transportation behave like cartels under regulations that prevent firms from undercutting prices. According to the Wall Street Journal, Exxon’s margin of profit for both oil and gas ranks #60. There are 59 more profitable industries than the oil industry. Oil and gas firms profit 8 cents per dollar of sales.Pharmaceuticals profit 20 cents and banks profit 18 cents per dollar of sales  According to the Report to Congress made in April 2008 called “Oil Industry and Profit Review,” the factors contributing to high gas prices were:

• world unrest
• increases in the price of crude oil that pushed the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (a key oil price in determining market prices)
• tight market conditions
• demand growth in China, India and other parts of the developing world
• political unrest in Nigeria, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran and other parts of the world
• the decline of the value of the U.S. dollar on world currency markets
• investment strategies of financial firms on the oil futures markets
• volatility of the world oil and financial markets

The refining segment of the market performed relatively poorly during the same period. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, there are 148 operable refineries in the U.S., down from 150 in 2009.  Only 137 refineries are actually operating, down from 141 in 2009. Eleven refineries are idle for various reasons. The atmospheric crude oil distilling capacity is 16,937,024 barrels per calendar day of actually operating refineries.


We have not built new refineries in the U.S. in the past 25 years. The last refinery built was in Garyville, Louisiana and it started in 1976. In the mid 1970s, a refinery construction was proposed in Portsmouth, Virginia. The company canceled the project in 1984 after a nine-year court battle with environmentalists. Even if we drilled more, we could not refine the excess supply of crude.
There are three reasons why oil refineries are not built:

• refineries are not particularly profitable
• environmentalists fight planning and construction every step of the way
• government red tape makes the task almost impossible

According to Investor’s Business Daily, the cost of building a new refinery is $2-$4 billion. Twenty billion dollars have to be dedicated over a ten-year period to reducing the sulphur content in gasoline.  Additionally, 800 different permits have to be collected. The long-term rate of return on capital is just 5 percent.


“I’m sure that at some point in the last 20 years someone has considered building a new refinery,” says James Halloran, an energy analyst with National City Corp. “But they quickly came to their senses.”


The current administration keeps pushing the euphemism “green energy” although there are no plans in the foreseeable future for such affordable energy. Any hybrid or electric car uses electricity generated with fossil fuels, including the maligned coal, which the president promised to put out of business. The electric Volt is only popular with the die-hard leftists since less than 500 were sold so far.


Today’s oil prices are twice as high as they were in 2008 and nine times as high as they were in 1998.  The price of oil also hinges on the perceived replacement cost of the next barrel of oil and nobody is quite sure what that price will be. 


 In Canada, it costs $40-$60 per barrel to extract the oil from the sands. It costs Chevron $15 per barrel to deep drill crude from the Gulf of Mexico. It is even cheaper in the Middle East. The political and physical risk of extracting the oil in war zones is even higher.


The volatility factor depends on the volatility of our economy. None of Obama’s economic stimulus has worked. In March, during intense fighting in Libya, he said that there was no supply shortage and rising oil prices was not a good reason to tap reserves. He changed his mind on June 23, when he released oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserves under the excuse of turmoil in Libya. Again, it was a failed economic stimulus.


Christina Romer, former White House chief economic advisor, told a crowd recently that we are in a “growth-less recovery.” Only in a liberal fantasy world is a recovery without growth. The patient is flat-lined but somehow still alive.
Republicans and big business blame Obama’s drilling moratorium as a culprit in the oil price problem. Democrats blame “speculators” on the Chicago Board of Trade for soaring gas prices, particularly Goldman Sachs whose influential analysts move all markets.


The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating manipulation when the price of natural gas dropped 8 percent in 14 seconds in after-hour trading on June 8. The commission charged two traders with swindling $50 million in profits by manipulating oil markets in 2008.
“They bought physical cargoes they did not need to artificially inflate prices while also buying derivatives so they would profit as the prices rose. They bought other derivatives that would pay off later when the prices fell – which they did after they sold the physical barrels, catching other traders off guard.”
Attempting to corner a piece of the market is illegal but can warp prices for a short period, resulting in higher prices for consumers.


Current world supply can also be an expression of consumption growth in China and India by more than half a million barrels of oil per day. There is a world spare capacity of 3-4 million of barrels of oil per day, which can shrink, with more consumption growth, thus resulting in higher prices.
Liberals believe that supplies should be rationed through deliberate higher prices in order to protect the planet from unnecessary pollution. They are not concerned that it would stifle economic growth. Their main concern is how it would affect the re-election of Obama. To prevent a re-election loss, Democrats want to release more strategic reserves into the market in order to keep the gas price lower at the pump and thus please the voters.

Deportations-3 Presidents

3 Presidents have done it before. Can we do it again?
  
 

What did Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower  have in common?   This is something that should be of great interest for you to pass  around.  I didn't know of this until it was pointed out to me.        Back during the great depression, Herbert Hoover ordered the  deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to   American citizens that desperately needed work.   Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after WWII  to create jobs for returning veterans.  In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexicans.  The  program was called Operation Wetback.  It was done so WWII  and Korean veterans would have a better chance at jobs.  It took two years, but they deported them!  Now if they could deport the illegal aliens back then, they could  sure do it today.  If you have doubts about the veracity of this  information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search  engine and confirm it for yourself.  Why you might ask can't they do this today?  Actually the answer  is quite simple.  Hoover , Truman, and Eisenhower were  men of honor, not untrustworthy politicians looking for votes!