Okay, tinfoil-hat time here on The Porch™
(well, in my view from the iHammock, anyway).
Look, we all know that this Chicago-based Obamunist regime is more corrupt than any we have encountered before. It’s infected, bent, and rotten from top to bottom. That’s why I haven’t been able to shake the suspicion that “Fast and Furious” was not just a political ploy to slander the Second Amendment but possibly an aspect of gun-running involving the Mexican cartels and somebody in the US gov’t, probably through Chicago connections. No, I haven’t heard of any direct evidence of that. I’m just not eliminating that possibility, because this administration’s corruption is so endemic.
Why bring up that old bogeyman now? Well, recent revelations about the appalling amount of criminal activity and corruption in the Dept of Homeland Security (here and here) leaves DHS wide open for exploitation by criminals and enemies. This swamp has become a breeding ground.
I know, DHS isn’t BATFE. So, where’s the commonality? How do I make this outrageous leap to connect the two? (I mean, besides rank paranoia.) Answer: DOJ. Huh? Yeah, DOJ. Who manages the prosecution of Federal-employee crimes? Yeah, DOJ. Who has the means to allow rampant corruption to go unpunished if not plain uninvestigated? Yeah, DOJ. Who’s in charge of covering up BATFE’s Fast & Furious fiasco? Again, DOJ.
So, why would this paranoid delusion have any credibility in my otherwise engineer-rational mind? Answer: Chicago. It is run by one of the most corrupt local gov’ts in the country. It has long-running ties to organized crime, and it’s tentacles now reach deep within the Executive Branch of the US Gov’t. I’m not claiming that Obama and Holder are the henchmen. Nah, that’ would be … well, outrageous. Well, okay, maybe it’s just impossible to prove. Besides, those guys aren’t the crime-boss type. On the other hand, every one of their Chicagoland cadre is likely tainted, so who knows who’s giving or passing the orders.
Nah, don’t pay any attention to me. I’m just fighting off a deep, nagging suspicion that this administration has made the US into another Italy by not only infecting this gov’t to its core, but by tolerating and abetting that corruption. I hope I’m wrong. However, given the number of other puzzling administration outrages that also stink to high Heaven, I fear the worst.
I curse these people for making me consider what should rightly be dismissed out of hand.
Plus, there’s this DOJ tidbit, which kind of knocks the Progs’ “best and brightest” claim into a cocked hat.
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When I first heard about “Fast&Furious” (from Ann Barnhardt’s blog I think) it seemed too outrageous to be believe. Now Corzine returns from the political grave to rob and destroy with impunity, and the church is legally forced to provide the abortion entitlement. In this dark corner of Bizarroworld, anything is possible.
And yeah- while we were focused on mere treason and power lust as motives for F&F, we forgot good old fashioned greed.
They ran guns to Chicago, too.
We MUST vote to drain the swamp in November.
And then we must remain involved or the swamp will fill with critters of simply a different flavor.
Doug,
You are not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
I see black helicopters all the time. With NOAA & Social Security purchasing large amounts of hollow-point ammunition & Big Sis watching people who value the constitution, (When not running the gurls’ club) I keep thinking about the graffiti on the I-459 overpass near Birmingham:
“Will you go quietly to a FEMA camp?”
Know what I am going to enjoy?
For 4 fucking years I have listened to “Bush did it!” Come November (…and it is coming…) I will relish hearing for hopefully the next 8 years, “OBAMA DID IT!”
Except this fucking time he DID do it! I hope he is hounded to death by the phrase. Justice West of the Sandpiper OBoBo, you mfcs….
Does anybody here really think that Rahm Emanuel just ‘accidentally’ skittled off to the Chicago mayorship by accident? Nope, it was to nail down that end.
Of course, Chicago isn’t the only hub. Bloomberg (no term limits now) in New York is another one, and Villaspermosa in L.A. is another. Let’s not even get into Sacramento or San Franfreakshow.
Portland has an admitted gay child molester as mayor, and the Lesbian mayor before him was all in favor of ‘pack-’n-stack’ for the general population. Makes ‘em easier to control that way.
I’d move to Texas, but I’m afraid they wouldn’t let me leave!
OTOH, I guess there’s worse things. Canada? Oklahoma?
I think DougM’s conjectures and connections sound entirely plausible if not downright likely.
Roger that. I heard some talk show guy say Uhbama has an income of $72K/mon. How does he do that on $33K/mon as President?
I can’t believe book royalties still garner that much.
The core of the whole Uhbama/Dem thing is corruption. Geithner, Rangel, Goldman Sachs, Immelt, Solyndra … ad infinitum.
On second thought:
No, not “swamp.”
Oh, what’s the word?
Oh, yeah … petri dish.
Thanks, all, for not callin’ me a whack-job to my face.
I’ll get back to the jokes and fun stuff, soon, I promise.
Assuming the mob doesn’t … you know.
[dives under deck chair as golf ball whacks hard on tree by cart path]
Qwesshun: Ain`t putridity and corruption the same thing? Been a while since I got my PhD in Kentucky English at the Aurora Elementary School, where 1/3 of my classmates were 21 yrs old….. (…shoulda seen them tryin to fit in them 1st grader seats / I am not shitting you here!…)
^ Yeah, pretty much.
Oh, and ‘em first-grader seats have been considerably widened since you were there, ’cause so have the first graders.
I still use one’a ‘em big, thick, first-grader pencils out in the shop.
(What? Well, the kid wasn’t lookin’, and she wasn’t very big, so…)
HAAA, This child also uses same big, fat number 2 pencils at my puter office desk! Am down to just 3 inches on one of em, so will break out a new one from my packet of a dozen…..[...weapon-grade + good for increasing the tinder flames, afore the larger stuff....]
The biggest problem with “cleaning up” things is that the government is so fraught with corrupt amoral individuals that the only way to clean things out is a complete reset. Removal and replacement, top to bottom. 100%
Doesn’t mean the govt. has to be changed. Can still be the constitutionally based republic, but this is not a “vote out the bad guys” situation.
Members of the armed forces are taught to work together to attain their goal, even if their superior officers are taken out.
Just like the military, you could remove the traitors at the top, but the millions of traitors that follow them would push on through until a suitable replacement was found for the previous leader.
The only thing I’ve seen in history that can bring the kind of change that is required is war.
Hold up, read the links.
2,527 criminal convictions
of DHS employees AND OTHERS from DHSIG investigations.
over a SIX YEAR PERIOD.
Out of a population of 225,000.
1,644 (about 65 percent) stem from Federal Emergency Management Agency-related investigations;
358 (about 14 percent) from those linked to the Customs and Border Protection agency;
166 (7 percent) from Immigration and Customs Enforcement-related investigations;
and 133 (5 percent) from investigations linked to the Transportation Security Administration. The remaining 226 (about 9 percent) convictions are categorized as “other.”
Not really very many, especially when you strip out the Katrina FEMA fraud.
Caged Insanity,
Blankets infected with smallpox works purty good………………..Would also likely work on Ay-rab tribal scarves and rag head covers…. (…the Fwench wouldn`t hardly notice the difference, tho..after all they eat snails…)
staghounds (14)
Re: “Not really very many, especially when you strip out the Katrina FEMA fraud.”
Couldn’t disagree with you more.
It’s the tip of the iceberg.
Besides, I don’t give a fig about the numbers, it’s the culture (see: agar/petri) of corruption that says it’s rotten now, and it bodes ill for the future. I think there’s a critical mass where the mob is more able to control an organization than legitimate government can. Unions are a good example.
I agree . All I meant to say is that these numbers don’t really justify
“appalling amount of criminal activity and corruption “, and the real problem- the security state mind set- is neither reflected nor altered by a few hundred corrupt people out of a quarter of a million. The numbers, if accurate, show that the organisations are actually fairly non criminal.
Wanting to enslave us is different from taking our earrings.
Stag – I can’t even begin to enumerate the crimes of the current administration, which they’re pretty much got away with entirely, it would break the blog.
I don’t think actual prosecutions tell us very much about the level of corruption.
I’ve worked with local government, it’s epidemic. They don’t even have to hide it, they just euphemise it. Heck, a lot of it’s legal now, various forms of harassment of the unpopular, bribes and extrajudicial punishment.
Staghounds – more like 1.1%, which is appallingly high considering the crime is against the institution they work for, not crime in general.
I worked 28 years for a company with about 12,000 employees in our metropolitan area. I recall one guy who was fired for banging his secretary in his office, and two guys who were fired for taking kickbacks from contractors. One night, undercover narcs arrested 32 people on the night shift and one guy was arrested and convicted for pedophilia. Even if we count the crimes not involving the institution, that’s 0.3% over 28 years, not 6 years. Crimes against the institution were less than 0.02% over 28 years. The rate in the government is more than 50 times as high.