Posted: 5/22/2006 6:15:42 PM EDT
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I hope they stick it up the Mayors Ass side ways..He should be thrown in jail for doing this...Going to another sate to run a Sting without the Knowledge of the ATF-FBI-Police of the state or even Mayor and Gov of the state is a kick in their ass. How would he feel if they did this in NYC with out his permission or Knowledge....F-em LAW ENFORCEMENT: BLOOMBERG'S STUNT COMPROMISED CASES . . . A source says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's hiring of private investigators to make illegal straw purchases at out-of-state gun stores has compromised four criminal investigations and potentially jeopardized 14 others, reports the New York Daily News. The source said several suspects being watched by authorities had been frequenting some of the gun shops, but now are lying low because of the publicity. "A bunch of private eyes straight out of 'Barnaby Jones' run their own sting operation and all the real enforcement agencies find out about it on the day they are having a press conference? Not good," said the source, an unnamed law enforcement professional in Washington D.C. None of the ongoing cases was linked to New York, the source said. Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel, worried from the beginning that Bloomberg's stunt would compromise ongoing investigations, and now, "Today's news seems to confirm that the mayor's headline grab may have come at a real cost to public safety." Appearing Sunday on WNBC-affiliated Channel 4, New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly acknowledged that the city's police department was not consulted before the stings. ATF has acknowledged that it also was not consulted about the stings and has yet to receive any accumulated evidence, but says it's willing to investigate whether laws were broken either by the gun dealers or the private investigators. NSSF is calling for ATF's involvement. <Title Edit. --tbk1> |
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www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/0518edequal.html N.Y. gun suit all about headlines By ALAN GOTTLIEB Published on: 05/18/06 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's lawsuit against 15 alleged "rogue" firearms dealers in five states is political grandstanding run amok. The press and prosecutors in those five states ought to be asking Bloomberg why, if his investigators had positively identified these retailers and caught them in an illegal act, was the information not turned over to the proper authorities, including the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives? Instead, the headline-hunting Bloomberg launched a civil lawsuit in what should be, if he is to be believed, a criminal action. There's a reason for that. The private investigators New York hired to conduct this sting must have made deliberately false statements on federal firearms purchase forms. That's a felony. They should be prosecuted. If Bloomberg sent them to do this, he's an accessory, if not a conspirator. Given Bloomberg's anti-gun history, and that of New York's previous unsuccessful efforts to sue firearms manufacturers, he is turning his attention to retailers. Yet, his ultimate goal remains the same, and it has nothing to do with stopping criminals. His intent, and that of his cheerleaders, is to demonize gun owners and ultimately drive gun manufacturers out of business while destroying the individual right to keep and bear arms in the process. Behind this pathetic charade is Bloomberg's hope of stopping federal legislation that would prevent cities from gaining access to firearms tracing data. He and other anti-gun mayors want to conduct legal fishing expeditions to bolster junk lawsuits against gun makers, which Congress outlawed last year. Those data are available to law enforcement agencies conducting bona fide criminal investigations, and he knows it. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has a superb program called "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," aimed at stopping illegal gun purchases. Bloomberg prefers not to cooperate with the gun industry to catch criminals, but to grab headlines in what can only be described as a campaign that is hideously bloated with flash, but deplorably lacking in substance. • Alan Gottlieb is founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. |
This just in:
You can be damn certain of one thing: he'll never do "any time" or suffer any consequences because of it. The king is ordained by GOD and therefor exempt and above the laws of the commonors. Good guys shooting bad guys:  Good guys equating politicians to bad guys: |
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I was just going to put the article in here also... Your right not a thing will happen..Unless some big wigs from the other states make a complaint against him. You didn't hear a thing about this on the news or read about it in a NY newspaper...I hope they do burn the A-hole somehow...Maybe going after the PI's and throwing them in jail will start the shit rolling up hill instead of down hill. Those PI's should lose their gun permits for making false statements... |
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www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/0524ebarr.html Bloomberg misfires with guns lawsuit By BOB BARR Published on: 05/24/06 Many New Yorkers can be mighty thankful that the Big Apple does not lie in the hurricane belt as does their sister city of New Orleans. If it did, and if the Gotham City was hit by a massive storm such as Katrina, millions of law-abiding New Yorkers would be totally at the mercy of lawless thugs such as those seen on cable TV by tens of millions of viewers watching coverage of the aftermath of Katrina. Why? Because thanks to a succession of mayors and legislators of both political parties, law-abiding New Yorkers have already been disarmed just like those in New Orleans who were shocked that their city arbitrarily ordered them to surrender to law enforcement officers going door-to-door any and all firearms in their possession, even antique guns. Those who did not, or who failed to do so with sufficient deference or dispatch, were forced to do so with brutal force. Sometimes, the New Orleans police were so arrogant in their mission that they physically assaulted senior citizens in full view of TV crews to seize handguns that clearly posed no threat to them. Just as the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution — which heretofore afforded us at least some degree of protection against invasion of our privacy by the government — seems to have been rendered "quaint and outdated" by the current administration in Washington, so was the Second Amendment deemed disposable by administrators in New Orleans when faced not with a man-made crisis but one of Mother Nature's making. Even though a subsequent federal lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association and other civil liberties organizations stopped the New Orleans officials from proceeding with their gun grab, citizens there had a very real taste of government power at its rawest and most frightening. Disarmed when they most needed not to be rendered defenseless, many of those citizens still have not been able to recover their firearms. Even though the federal courts ordered the city to return the illegally seized firearms, because the local authorities are demanding an impossible burden of proving ownership from the citizens, the majority have still not been able to get their guns back. Why is this relevant to those of us in Atlanta — or in New York? In a broad sense, it ought to concern us because if a government can illegally and forcibly disarm law-abiding citizens in one city simply because it proclaims a "crisis," we are all subject to having our constitutional liberties trampled. Even if civil liberties organizations such as the NRA are successful in having those rights restored, much damage already will have ensued. In another, very real, practical sense, all this is hitting home to Atlantans because New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who apparently has never met a firearm he likes — except those possessed by his own bodyguards — is bringing his anti-gun paranoia to our city's suburbs. Not content to simply take care of his own city, Bloomberg has filed a federal lawsuit against more than a dozen businesses that lawfully sell firearms in Georgia and four other states. Hizzoner's actions are based on the oft-cited, though never proved theory that virtually all guns used by criminals in the northeastern United States originate in other states, mostly in the South. As seen through the jaded lenses of big-city mayors in New York, Connecticut and elsewhere — the South is populated by hayseed gun dealers who hand out firearms with abandon without ever bothering to determine if the purchasers are alive, much less whether they are qualified under federal law to purchase these heavily-regulated products. The Big Apple's mayor proudly issued a hyperbole-laced news release last week, explaining that under his direction and that of his equally constitutionally-challenged police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, they had ordered teams of undercover private investigators to fan out across the five "offending" states, in an effort to induce what they described as "immoral" dealers to sell them firearms in violation of federal laws. Even though the lawsuit is laughable in terms of legal basis and theory, each dealer sued will incur not-insubstantial expense defending themselves. Interestingly, however, is the possibility that Bloomberg may wind up not as a smug plaintiff in the lawsuit, but as a defendant himself. Already, knowledgeable observers are raising questions about the tactics employed by the mayor and his cohorts, which may constitute violations of federal and possibly state laws. Bloomberg might prudently familiarize himself with the phrase, known to generations of Southerners: "hoisted on your own petard." • Former congressman and U.S. Atttorney Bob Barr practices law in Atlanta. He is an NRA board member. |
| I hope that elitist, smug, egomaniacal, overbearing waste of flesh gets what's coming to him. I hope he gets it good too. He stepped way over the line with this one. I hope he gets a nice fat criminal record so the NYPD takes away all of his guns (if he has any) just like what has been done to people of less status. |
| I sent e-mails to CNN-Fox and MSNBC asking why they have not interviewed him about it. He was on Fox news today talking about Immigration and I was hoping someone was going to ask him about the BS sting...I am also writing to the Papers to ask the same question... |