The Murdoch network states Officer Brian Terry was murdered. I do believe he was killed in the line of duty. So, let's begin there. There is no record of others bringing light to a family very verbal about the Attorney General. I don't know why they expect him to bring justice to this more than has already been done. Officer Terry was killed as other have before and after him. Finding those that killed him is difficult. They have been difficult to find and I am sure the Mexican government is involved in trying to end this mystery.
In order to empower the Terry Family to have a clear message I think there needs to be an understanding as to what is possible in finding the criminals involved and what the Legislative Branch of the government can do to protect the Border Officers.
Officer Terry was involved with a very dangerous aspect to the Drug Cartel border issue. He knew he was heading into a no go zone and I question the mission he was on in the first place. Who ordered him and his colleagues into the area? That is where my questions start. There are definitely No Go Zones along the border of the USA because of the armed members of the drug cartel. These people are vicious, they kill each other as well as uniformed border officers. Officers heading into these areas need more than uniforms and guns, they need Humvees to say the least.
The drug cartels use armor, they use semi-subs, they are well equipped because their profits are incredible and enforced by all kinds of munitions. It is this that is at question, not the fact AG Holder may have signed off on funding for a program started in 2005. The entire dynamic of what occurred with Officer Terry is yet a mystery to most of us. Disarming the drug cartels is important, but, sending our Border Officers on unrealistic missions is just as important.
Also important is the understanding this problem existed long before gun walking was a method to obtaining information as to the mechanism of the cartels to obtain weapons. The gun walking dynamic did prove beyond a doubt there were weapons leaving the USA to be used by cartels in carrying out their crimes. The fact these guns were found at a firefight with Border Officers; a firefight causing the death of Officer Terry; is more than any country should tolerate in its' struggle to provide adequate Second Amendment rights to citizens while protecting their national security and the lives of citizens and officers.
These are the questions and resolves the USA needs to hear. It not only needs to hear them, the nation needs policies and laws that provide a margin of safety to their Border Officers. There have been deaths of Border Officers in a variety of way including gun deaths dating back to the 1990s. This has gone on too long and that may be the real problem. The longer the drug cartels have been effective the worse the wars have gotten both in Mexico and along our border and in our border towns.
Attorney General Holder has nothing to do with the problem, it existed a long time ago. The resolve to prove what was happening with weapons from our manufacturers in the USA started under the previous administration and to their credit or discredit depending on how it is viewed there is information used today to prove our case against the dynamics at our border with our manufacturers. The arms industry in the USA is on the side of the government in seeking solutions to end the arming of the drug cartels. We need to work with them to find solutions to end this horrible reality in the lives of the Mexican people.
To date, none of the investigations by the Issa committee has conducted effective work to end the nightmare. Instead, Issa has steered the focus away from the gun industry/manufacturers and the NRA and displaced the entire problem as a focus on Attorney General Holder. I trust my President. If he states there is nothing in any of the confidential record that will resolve this problem and there was no wrong doing, then there was none. The real enemy here, besides the drug cartels themselves, is the political rantings of the Right Wing and their willing displacement of their authority at the intimidation of the NRA.
The Political Right Wing has no backbone to stand up to the NRA and ask the tough questions so much as the political questions. This investigation has gone on for some time now with a crescendo designed for pre-elections of 2012. These investigation have yet to solve the problems of the field agents of the ATF and provide a real strategy to end the dangers to our Border Patrol Officers while disarming the drug cartels. The investigations are not valuable. Issa needs to resign his focus to someone actually willing to do the real work.
In order to empower the Terry Family to have a clear message I think there needs to be an understanding as to what is possible in finding the criminals involved and what the Legislative Branch of the government can do to protect the Border Officers.
Officer Terry was involved with a very dangerous aspect to the Drug Cartel border issue. He knew he was heading into a no go zone and I question the mission he was on in the first place. Who ordered him and his colleagues into the area? That is where my questions start. There are definitely No Go Zones along the border of the USA because of the armed members of the drug cartel. These people are vicious, they kill each other as well as uniformed border officers. Officers heading into these areas need more than uniforms and guns, they need Humvees to say the least.
The drug cartels use armor, they use semi-subs, they are well equipped because their profits are incredible and enforced by all kinds of munitions. It is this that is at question, not the fact AG Holder may have signed off on funding for a program started in 2005. The entire dynamic of what occurred with Officer Terry is yet a mystery to most of us. Disarming the drug cartels is important, but, sending our Border Officers on unrealistic missions is just as important.
Also important is the understanding this problem existed long before gun walking was a method to obtaining information as to the mechanism of the cartels to obtain weapons. The gun walking dynamic did prove beyond a doubt there were weapons leaving the USA to be used by cartels in carrying out their crimes. The fact these guns were found at a firefight with Border Officers; a firefight causing the death of Officer Terry; is more than any country should tolerate in its' struggle to provide adequate Second Amendment rights to citizens while protecting their national security and the lives of citizens and officers.
These are the questions and resolves the USA needs to hear. It not only needs to hear them, the nation needs policies and laws that provide a margin of safety to their Border Officers. There have been deaths of Border Officers in a variety of way including gun deaths dating back to the 1990s. This has gone on too long and that may be the real problem. The longer the drug cartels have been effective the worse the wars have gotten both in Mexico and along our border and in our border towns.
Attorney General Holder has nothing to do with the problem, it existed a long time ago. The resolve to prove what was happening with weapons from our manufacturers in the USA started under the previous administration and to their credit or discredit depending on how it is viewed there is information used today to prove our case against the dynamics at our border with our manufacturers. The arms industry in the USA is on the side of the government in seeking solutions to end the arming of the drug cartels. We need to work with them to find solutions to end this horrible reality in the lives of the Mexican people.
To date, none of the investigations by the Issa committee has conducted effective work to end the nightmare. Instead, Issa has steered the focus away from the gun industry/manufacturers and the NRA and displaced the entire problem as a focus on Attorney General Holder. I trust my President. If he states there is nothing in any of the confidential record that will resolve this problem and there was no wrong doing, then there was none. The real enemy here, besides the drug cartels themselves, is the political rantings of the Right Wing and their willing displacement of their authority at the intimidation of the NRA.
The Political Right Wing has no backbone to stand up to the NRA and ask the tough questions so much as the political questions. This investigation has gone on for some time now with a crescendo designed for pre-elections of 2012. These investigation have yet to solve the problems of the field agents of the ATF and provide a real strategy to end the dangers to our Border Patrol Officers while disarming the drug cartels. The investigations are not valuable. Issa needs to resign his focus to someone actually willing to do the real work.
...“The Terry family takes no pleasure in the contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder. Such a vote should not have been necessary," the statement reads. "The Justice Department should have released the documents related to Fast and Furious months ago. Eric Holder’s refusal to do so and President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege have stood in the way of justice and the answers we seek into the death of fallen Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
"Given the Obama administration’s steadfast refusal to level with the American people, Congress was left with no choice but to vote Mr. Holder in contempt."
Heyer and Terry's mother, Josephine Terry, appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" Thursday evening to further share their reactions to the vote.
When asked about the Democrats' walkout during the voting, Terry said she was "shocked."
"But I think it was a disgrace to them and not my son," Terry said....
