tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post7254858974638968536..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Was Fast and Furious Not About Gun Control?SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-83294099539010272982012-08-10T18:59:01.538-04:002012-08-10T18:59:01.538-04:00When I worked for San Diego PD, I was the "un...When I worked for San Diego PD, I was the "uniform" on three drug busts involving DEA. None of them went to trial. Not one. And, before someone says that DEA simply didn't need my testimony, allow me to inform you that I was the one to find the cash and cocaine in one of the busts. To this day I don't know whether or not they intentionally "missed" finding it or not.<br /><br />Based on what I heard from some other guys in the department, that was a very common thing, at least in San Diego.<br /><br />Money. Control. IOUs (favors done for favors received). Anyone who thinks it is about stopping drugs is too naive to breathe without assistance.RegTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-55998947249794951632012-08-10T18:41:09.096-04:002012-08-10T18:41:09.096-04:00I spent a little time down this rabbit hole. Inte...I spent a little time down this rabbit hole. Interesting speculations for sure. <br /><br />When the story first broke, I said something like the second paragraph ("<i>seems odd to me that a kid who was smart enough to have gotten all the way into a Ph.D program but with no military experience would go nuts, think he was the Joker, amass on a student Ramen budget</i>"). There's a piece of the story I haven't got: did he buy all this on a credit card he planned on defaulting on, or did he use real money?SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-78592916522876784052012-08-10T18:38:18.739-04:002012-08-10T18:38:18.739-04:00Ray - Anon 0715 - has an excellent point: the fed....Ray - Anon 0715 - has an excellent point: the fed.gov has been using illegal drug dealing as a way to fund black projects for a long time. It's one of the reasons drug prohibition is still in place. <br /><br />It just adds more reason to think this little slime ball could be telling the truth (slime ball = Zambada-Niebla - the cartel guy in the story).SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-19601970215967974322012-08-10T07:15:28.501-04:002012-08-10T07:15:28.501-04:00Another onre down the memory hole in 6 mo.In 1970 ...Another onre down the memory hole in 6 mo.In 1970 SHOCK! The CIA uses the vietnam war as cover to smuggle heroin out of the golden triangle.SHOCK! 1982 the US uses the war in El Salvidor to smuggle heroin AND cocain IN and GUNS out of the US. SHOCK guns to IRAN(1983). This has gone on with every president from AT least WW2( Yer old egnough and smart egnough to know this, so why the big GASP!) RayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-6959473595059919592012-08-10T06:47:17.481-04:002012-08-10T06:47:17.481-04:00It's probably about both gun control and the d...It's probably about both gun control and the drug trade. That way the Gooberment had a diversion. If it was discovered they could scream look over there, which the LSM has done so well for this administration.RJIIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03200753641660620810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-9655645037027338982012-08-10T05:56:06.317-04:002012-08-10T05:56:06.317-04:00Here's another twofer: The Colorado shooter...Here's another twofer: The Colorado shooter's father Robert Holmes developed bank fraud detection software for FICO as his job. If Robert Holmes had developed some program that could blow the lid off the LIBOR scandal, it's possible someone could have poisoned his son with some kind of goofer dust, and either framed him up or pushed him somehow to do that shooting, as either a warning or a punishment to the father. <br /><br />We'll probably never know, but it seems odd to me that a kid who was smart enough to have gotten all the way into a Ph.D program but with no military experience would go nuts, think he was the Joker, amass on a student Ramen budget (I assume that based on he was living in a crappy apartment in a a slum) an arsenal costing probably well over $10K, booby trap his own apartment like someone might in a war zone in the Middle East, put on a mask, and shoot all those people; and then just tell police about the booby traps. He also looked drugged at his arraignment hearing. <br /><br />The other question nobody is asking is, where did he get the flash grenades or the explosives to wire his apartment? You can't just buy that on the street or at the local gun shop.Penny Pincherhttp://pennypincherpersonalfinance.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-23904523187963072652012-08-10T00:07:27.810-04:002012-08-10T00:07:27.810-04:00yet another modified limited hang out - but tertia...yet another modified limited hang out - but tertiary at most - and again, <i>limited</i>.<br /><br />itorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-36280492987549906372012-08-09T21:29:39.354-04:002012-08-09T21:29:39.354-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com