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Fear is always something that can make people act oddly. It causes them to be irrational and behave in strange ways that are almost self-destructive.

That’s the way the White House is acting with the Fast and Furious scandal, and in the same way that another troubled President – Richard Nixon—did. Both Presidents acted against their own self-interest in a public scandal in order to protect people close to them, and in the end, did more harm than good to America.

According to the way the Democrats tell it, Rep. Darell Issa is on a witch hunt and the investigation into the death of Brian Terry is strictly a politically motivated act designed to embarrass this administration and to get rid of Eric Holder. Yet, there is something that a lot of critics and pundits are forgetting.

Brian Terry is dead.

Let’s assume for moment that Issa IS on a witch hunt, and that the Republicans want someone to be held accountable for the death of the border agent, and the deaths of numerous Mexicans caught up in violence from the sudden increase in cheap weaponry in a drug war along the Mexican American border.

Brian Terry is dead.

There’s no denying that, and political or not, someone needs to be held accountable. Is America going to simply shrug its collective shoulders and say to the family, ‘Sorry about that, tough cookies, we screwed up.’? To this date, our government still has not apologized to the satisfaction of his family nor held anyone senior accountable.

That’s not good enough, not at all. America used to stand for something in this world, at least in my understanding of this nation’s history. We didn’t act like the communists or the Nazis; we didn’t allow a death to merely roll off as another statistic on the record books. If America has had one defining position it has been that it has stood up for the rights of a single individual over the rights of a collective society. It was Marx that said that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, not Thomas Jefferson.

Brian Terry is dead.

In fact, it is the single most reason that America is different than every other nation in the world. Its interest in the value and rights of the individual over the rest of society has been unique in world history. Every other country since the dawn of man first beginning to write laws to govern society has put limits on individual’s rights, and has defined in its charter or by its actions that the whole of society is more important than the individual. It is irrelevant that it is a drunk on the street or a slain hero in the heat of the Arizona sun, each person is of value equally to our nation.

This is also characteristic of the mentality of the White House in almost every legislative action to date—that the whole of society is more important than a single individual. And it is in this why Brian Terry’s death is such an atrocity and an affront to the American mindset and to his surviving family. The very idea that one of the people sworn to protect us was murdered by the careless disregard of how an investigation by the Justice department was handled is hateful to most Americans.

America is and should be, better than this. We do not let the heroes that defend our nation’s borders die forsaken in the desert, shot by weapons that we supplied to an enemy, without those responsible being held accountable for the misdeeds that allowed it happen. It does not matter if it was intentional or it was an accident by blunder. Even if the Fast and Furious project was not politically motivated as the Democrats contend, it does not mitigate the severity of the crime.

Brian Terry is dead.

Not a single individual or group of individuals has been held responsible for his death. While a few low level personnel have been shuffled around at the Justice Department, the ultimate responsibility has to fall upon the neck of Eric Holder, the Attorney General. Even if he did not know or condone the failures of Fast and Furious, even if it was not a politically motivated project as some in the GOP contend, he is in charge of the Justice Department and as department head he is responsible for the actions of his people.

Are we going to simply move on and forget the main reason why there is Congressional committee meeting s for weeks on end?

Brian Terry is dead!

Something needs to be done about it. Regardless of politics, it would be indecent not to do so.

Source: http://www.thomas-purcell.com/2012/06/brian-terry-is-dead.html

Obama Pushed Me

By: Mr. Curmudgeon

It was Monday August 20, 1973, and comedian Joey Bishop was guest hosting NBC’s The Tonight Show. As the introduction music played, Bishop stumbled through the stage curtains, righted himself and announced, “I didn’t want to come out here but Nixon pushed me.”

Earlier that day, Watergate-embattled President Richard Nixon was in New Orleans to speak at the Rivergate Convention Center before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. As Nixon and state dignitaries approached the hall’s entrance, the president and his party were elbowed aside by a throng of press in a hurry to get out of the heat and anxious to find good seats. A furious Nixon turned to his press secretary Ron Ziegler, “I don’t want any press with me,” the Associated Press reported Nixon as saying.

The AP further noted, “Then, spinning Ziegler around, Nixon gave him a forceful shove with the order: ‘Take care of it!’”

Needless to say, television cameras captured the incident for that evening’s newscasts.

I thought of Nixon as President Obama made his immigration amnesty announcement from the White House Rose Garden last Friday – only to be interrupted by an elbowing press.

“This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It’s not a permanent fix,” insisted Obama, “This is a temporary, stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people. It is the right thing to do.” With this, a member of the press began shouting questions.

Looking up from his prepared remarks, the president turned his attention to the gaggle of press before him, “Excuse me, sir … ah … er … it’s not time for questions, sir,” said a stunned Obama to the noisy journalist.When the president eventually finished his announcement, he did a quick about face and attempted a hasty escape to the relative safety of the West Wing.

However, the insistent reporter managed to shout one last question before the president could reach the door, “What about American workers who are unemployed while you import foreigners?”

Obama’s announced policy allows an estimated 1.4 million illegal aliens now attending U.S. colleges to apply for amnesty. “President Obama has just opened a floodgate of opportunity for young illegal immigrants in the United States, but could it squeeze the aspirations of legal Americans in the process?” asked the Washington Post.

“Half of our college graduates today can’t find jobs, and the unemployment rate for high-school-aged Americans is extremely high. This is unfair to U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who are out there struggling to get ahead,” Brad Bowin, president of Help Save Maryland, told the Post.

Meanwhile in Florida, Attorney General Eric Holder recently filed suit to stop the Sunshine State from attempting to purge its voter rolls of suspected illegal immigrants, which the state estimates to be around 180,000.

Holder is attempting to enforce a provision of the 1993 Motor Voter Act, which prohibits states from asking individuals to prove their immigration status during the voter registration process. In Holder’s view, voter ID initiatives like Florida’s “have a racially discriminatory effect.”

The two Obama administration schemes above are compelling circumstantial evidence that a desperate incumbent president – confronted by rising unemployment, a shrinking economy, and a public no longer confident in his leadership abilities – is attempting to buy the votes of those in America illegally.

The president adds a new twist to his pandering by calling college-attending illegal aliens “patriotic young people.” By this definition, patriotism does not express love of country (in this case the United States of America), but one’s love of Obama … and the taxes he “invests” in their future.

It’s a clear act of desperation by a failed president to salvage a failed economic plan that is a central component to his party’s failed Progressive ideology.

In a twist of supreme irony, the president and Holder are forced to appeal to illegal voters in whose home country they sell “Fast and Furious” weapons – enabling Mexican drug cartels to murder their suffering countrymen with impunity. Call it blood “stimulus.”

Meanwhile, back in the Rose Garden, the reporter who attempted to challenge the president’s assumptions, it turns out, works for the conservative website The Daily Caller. Neil Munro is a veteran Washington journalist who some may accuse of having an immigration ax to grind. You see, he’s a citizen of Ireland working in the United States legally. He has a valid green card. One can only wonder what will become of Munro’s immigration status in the days to follow – he, after all, does not vote.

At his deportation hearing, Munro can always claim in his defense, “I didn’t want to ask that question but Obama pushed me.”