Obama, Holder Called Out for Not Enforcing Existing Gun Laws

Friday, 22 Feb 2013 07:06 PM

By Cyrus Afzali

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Guns confiscated recently in crime-torn Chicago. (AP Photo)

A group of 23 Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee Friday sent letters to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder demanding existing gun laws be enforced before additional limitations are passed.

The committee, which has held hearings in recent weeks on ways to prevent gun violence, again called into focus statistics that show a dramatic drop in federal weapons prosecutions over the past decade.

The letters cite a Syracuse University study that show firearms prosecutions under President George W. Bush peaked at 11,015 in 2004 while the Obama administration has prosecuted about 7,774 firearms cases in 2012.

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"A prosecution rate this low is not indicative of a Department of Justice that takes the act of illegally attempting to acquire a firearm seriously," Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said in a statement accompanying the letters.

"We must all be looking for ways to prevent senseless acts of violence and the taking of innocent life but the best place to start would be enforcing the laws that Congress has already enacted."

Highlighting the crime rise in Chicago, the president's hometown, the lawmakers pointed out that the Northern District of Illinois, which includes Chicago, is ranked the lowest of all federal court districts in firearms prosecutions despite a surge in gun-related violence.

"In a city like Chicago, which saw 506 murders last year, it is appalling that the U.S. attorney's office in that jurisdiction only prosecuted 25 federal firearms cases during 2011," the group wrote.

The letter also points out that of the 76,142 gun permit requests that were denied following background checks by federally-licensed firearms dealers, only 4,732 were referred for prosecution. Of that total, only 62 prosecutions resulted.

In addition to Goodlatte, the letters were signed by Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (Wis.), Trent Franks (Ariz.), Howard Coble (N.C.), Lamar Smith (Texas), Steve Chabot (Ohio), Spencer Bachus (Ala.), Darrell Issa (Calif.), Randy Forbes (Va.), Steve King (Iowa), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Jim Jordan (Ohio), Ted Poe (Texas), Jason Chaffetz (Utah), Steve Marino (Pa.), Trey Gowdy (S.C.), Mark Amodei (Nev.), Raul Labrador (Idaho), Blake Farenthold (Texas), George Holding (N.C.), Doug Collins (Ga.), Ron DeSantis (Fla.) and Keith Rothfus (Pa.).

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Re: Why D.C. RINO's Won't Impeach Eric Holder.... By Ben Johnson..

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Da'Buck <BS.Ranch@yahoo.com> wrote:

Why D.C. RINOs Won't Impeach Eric Holder

DECEMBER 13, 2011 BY BEN JOHNSON

One of the activists in the Clinton impeachment trial says not to believe some Republicans threatening to impeach Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious. It's just a smokescreen used by Washington pols, he writes.

Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch USA, writes the fact "that House Republicans threatened only to impeach Holder if he does not come totally clean on Operation Fast and Furious" is an "empty threat" and "meaningless in the world of Washington, D.C., politics."

"When was the last time anyone was impeached?" he asked.

Klayman knows the territory. He doggedly pursued Bill Clinton's serial crimes in the 1990s on everything from Filegate to Chinese campaign fundraising to misuse of the Commerce Department. Then-Congressman Bob Barr brought Klayman in to brief congressmen who were pursuing impeachment, and Klayman introduced the panel to Dolly Kyle Browning, a former victim of Clinton's sleazy ways. (When she planned to expose their affair, Clinton's staffers responded, "We will destroy you.")

Klayman writes in WND.com that he has seen RINOs promise impeachment before as a slick political tactic:

You see, lying in the nation's capital may make for good theatre, but it's really no "big deal," whether it's Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton during her scandalous reign of terror in the White House, or anyone else, including Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush, who lied about various issues involving the lead up to the Iraq war. Threats of impeachment of Holder are just part of the overall dog-and-pony show to position Republicans for the next election – just as the impeachment of Bill Clinton was intended only to weaken Democrats for the 2000 presidential election. There never was any Republican intention to convict and remove the criminal from office, lest Al Gore assume the presidency and run as an incumbent in 2000.

Congressman James Sensenbrenner, a conservative patriot, publicly raised the specter of impeachment during Eric Holder's testimony last week. However, RINOs quickly backed away. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said he does not even want to see Holder's subordinate, Lanny Breuer, fired — insisting it "would be a loss if Lanny were to leave."

Former Bush-43 speechwriter David Frum advised Republicans to cave on the debt ceiling toavoid impeaching Obama. He's currently warning the GOP not to nominate Newt Gingrich, because it means "volunteering to spend 2012 re-arguing the Clinton impeachment."

If anyone knows impeachment's inside baseball, it is Klayman. As this author has noted, the two parties simply agree to disagree over major issues, swap seats every so often, and coalesce to hurt the average American. At the leadership level, Washington is a one-party town with two names, both dedicated to big government.

The good news is, Klayman has a solution:

It again falls to "We the People" to take action. If Holder is not indicted for perjury, should we not empanel a citizens' grand jury and charge him ourselves – a legal right under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution? And, let's not single out Sir Eric! The mainstay of the Washington, D.C., political establishment, with few exceptions, should also be indicted for destroying our country and lying to us in the process!

In fact, citizen grand juries have indicted Barack Obama. This may be the most effective way to go.

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