In response to the continually unfolding 'Project Gunwalker' scandal engulfing the Obama Administration, some progressives have tipped their hand as to how they plan to frame the 'defense' of what is perhaps the most corrupt Administration in U.S. history. They compare the scandal to 'Iran-Contra' during the waning years of the Reagan Administration, as if by doing so the main players, including Obama, will escape accountability for their actions.
But the Gunwalker scandal is infinitely worse than Iran-Contra. Why?
The motivation for Iran-Contra was admirable although the mechanism for its implementation was flawed and skirted the boundaries of the law. The motivation for the Gunwalker scandal, on the other hand, is subversive and evil--to deliberately place U.S. guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels in order to claim that since most of the guns used by the criminals in Mexico came from the U.S., then the only remedy is draconian, sweeping new firearms control legislation and gun bans.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s Ronald Reagan had made it one of his primary objectives to thwart the spread of Communism around the world, and then to crush it altogether. He was appalled by the common thinking of the day, affirmed by both Democrats and elitist, establishment Repubicans, that assumed the U.S. was forever doomed to a stand-off with the Soviet Union and its numerous satellites around the world due to what is known as 'mutually assured destruction.' 'Detente' is the name given to the policy, and Reagan viewed it as evil.
Two Republican Presidents, Nixon and Ford, and one Democratic President, Jimmy Carter, adhered to the policy, the result of which was a vastly weakend American defense arsenal and an abject refusal to gain American superiority over the Soviets in our nuclear weapons systems.
Reagan promised to change it, and that he did. Once elected in 1980, Reagan embarked on the most extensive military expansion and moderization program since World War II. And in time that very policy bankrupted the Soviet Union as they attempted to keep up with Reagan's program of strengthening the military and its weapons systems, including nukes. This would, in time, bring down the Soviet Union.
But right under our own doorstep in Central America, the Communists had gained significant footholds. One of those was the nation of Nicaragua. The Sandinista Government of Nicaragua was thoroughly Marxist and threatened to enhance the Communist axis of the Soviet Union and Cuba, even as the Soviets descended into economic decline.
A group of anti-Communist rebels formed a resistance movement in Nicaragua, which became known as 'the Contras.' Reagan had always supported the Contras in their attempt to throw off the Marxist boot to the throat of the country. But in 1982 Democrats in Congress spearheaded a law known as 'the Boland Amendment' which forbade U.S. aid to the Contras.
In the meantime the Shia Islamist terrorist group, 'Hezbollah,' had arranged with the 'Army of the Guardians of the Islamist Revolution' to take six Americans as hostages. Despite fervent efforts to secure their release, the terrorists held firm.
It was then that certain members of the Reagan Administration hatched a 2-pronged scheme that would, first, secure the release of the hostages, and second, fund the cause of the Nicaraguan anti-Communist resistance movement. According to the terms of the plan, the U.S. would sell certain weapons to Iran in exchange for their behind-the-scenes strategy to secure the release of the hostages. Part of the proceeds from the sale would be used to fund the Nicaraguan resistance movement.
While Reagan openly supported the cause of the Contras in Nicaragua, it was never proved that he authorized the money diverted to Nicaragua from the sale of weapons to Iran. And the American hostages were, indeed, released.
By stark contrast, the Project Gunwalker scheme was aimed at subverting the Constitutional rights of American citizens to keep and bear arms. There was no overriding admirable motivation. There was no noble attempt to set hostages free or to help advance the cause of freedom, as with the Nicaraguan anti-Communist Contras. Rather, the purpose was simple. Supply as many American weapons as possible to drug cartels, under the guise of 'tracing the guns which would lead to arrests,' so that Obama and the Democrats could make a strong case for approving vast new restrictions on citizens when it comes to exercising their Constitutional rights.
To date, there have been exactly ZERO arrests of drug cartel members resulting from the illegal operation. But Democrats in Congress have called for new restrictions on so-called 'long guns' and their sale at American gun stores. This does nothing but prove that the all along the goal was not to arrest drug cartel criminals but to place the government jackboot to the throat of the citizens.
Thus, the claim of progressives that the Gunwalker scandal is just another Iran-Contra is bogus and designed to minimize the impact of this tyrannical scheme to attack the rights of American citizens.
(The information provided in the article above comes from a variety of sources during the 70s and 80s which was amassed as a result of the writer's involvement with Young Americans for Freedom and its ties to the Reagan Administration).
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