by AWR Hawkins On December 14, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was doing his job along the US/Mexico border in Arizona. But while tracking suspected border bandits just north of Rio Rico, AZ, he was shot in the back with an AK-47 and died while being airlifted to a hospital.
He was only days away from going home to be with his parents and siblings for Christmas: his dad said Terry had already purchased plane tickets for the trip.
Terry gave his life in service to this country – period. And God bless him and his family for that.
And I while I do not in any way want to diminish that service, it must be stated that the tragedy of Terry’s death is multiplied many times over by the fact that the AK-47 used to kill him was one of the 2,500 weapons purchased by straw purchasers during “Fast and Furious.”
That right: the rifle used to kill Terry was purchased by 23-year old Jamie Avila. It was part of the larger effort ostensibly aimed at leading law enforcement closer to the Mexican drug cartel by allowing weapons, illegally purchased in Phoenix, AZ, to be smuggled into Mexico (with the approval of the ATF and the full knowledge of the DHS, DEA, ICE, IRS, and DOJ.)
Folks, this stinks to high heaven.
And now, to make matters worse, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona has rejected the Terry family’s request to qualify as crime victims in the case against Avila. In explaining why he rejected the Terry’s request, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke contended the victim from Avila’s gun purchases “is not any particular person, but society in general.”
Was Brian Terry not a person? And the people in this video (the Terry family), dazed and confused from the news of their son being gunned down on the border, are they not people either?
What is Burke talking about?
Facts being facts, Burke’s office was the very one that led “Fast and Furious” when the operation was being carried out. And one of Burke’s associates, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emory Hurley, actually managed “Fast and Furious” to some degree, according to Fox News.
Ironically, Hurley wrote the letter which denied crime victim status to the Terry family and Burke signed it. (Makes it look like someone could be trying to conceal the pervasiveness of the criminality associated with “Fast and Furious” doesn’t it?)
Like I said early, this stinks.
Big Government
