Re: What If Walmart Sold 2500 Guns Illegally, Walked Them into Mexico, and Hid the Documentation from Congress?

Looks like a good case wasmade on this point.

On Jun 24, 6:54 am, lew <lewc...@aol.com> wrote:
> What If Walmart Sold 2500 Guns Illegally, Walked Them into Mexico, and
> Hid the Documentation from Congress?
>
> by AWR Hawkins
> 23 Jun 2012
> biggovernment.com
>
> Almost immediately after the House Oversight Committee voted to hold
> Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress, Democrats and
> mainstream media personalities flooded the airwaves with accusations
> of racism, election-year politics, and GOP attempts to get rid of
> Holder to protect state-level voter ID laws. Appearing on MSNBC, Rep.
> Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) even said: "They are holding Attorney General
> Holder in contempt for doing his job."
>
> These things got me to thinking—what would these same politicians and
> media personalities have said if a privately-owned business had done
> the things our DOJ, ATF, and other government agencies did via Fast
> and Furious?
>
> What if Walmart, the "largest seller of firearms and ammunition in
> America," had knowingly sold 2,500 firearms to straw purchasers with
> the intent of having those purchasers carry those guns across an
> international border and sell them to drug cartel members in Mexico?
>
> And,what if at least two (but possibly three or more) of the guns were
> used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent while an untold
> number of the weapons were used to kill hundreds—literally hundreds—of
> Mexican citizens?
>
> Moreover, what if one of the straw purchasers, who bought over 700
> guns, was on food stamps and Walmart knew it, yet they sold him guns
> in exchange for bags of cash anyway?
>
> What if some of the 2,500 hundred guns were recovered, but more than
> 1,000 were not, and what if an untold number of those unrecovered guns
> were believed to be in the hands of criminals in American cities on
> our Southwest border?
>
> And lastly, what if explanations given by Walmart board members
> regarding the authorization of this straw-purchasing, gun-walking
> program were in conflict with the testimony given by their executive?
> And what if both they and their executive snubbed their noses at
> Congressional requests for documentation that would explain who knew
> what and when?
>
> What would happen to Walmart if that company did these things?
>
> We all know what would happen. Both their C.E.O. and ranking board
> members would be handcuffed and frog-marched out to paddy wagons in
> broad daylight, then transported to prison cells that would house them
> for the rest of their lives.
>
> And Rep. Pelosi wouldn't even think about saying, "They are treating
> the C.E.O. of Walmart this way for doing his job."

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