Carolyn Hileman
In Houston Texas today the Houston Chronicle is running an article about ATF agents going to peoples houses looking for guns, now to make it sound OK they are mentioning the Mexican gun smuggling problem as the reason for this, the article makes no mention however as to any search warrants obtained by the ATF, just that they are working at the behest of Mexico. The article also states that they sent over a hundred agents to gun shops to look through files to obtain the locations of said guns. Now herein lies the problems with this, first of all unless you can connect me with a crime it is my business why I buy a gun, and it does not matter if I live in a cardboard box if I bought the gun and did not use it in a crime, you have no right to assume I should not be able to afford that gun and show up at my house flashing a badge or talking to my neighbors, the article goes on to tell about a pastor who bought two handguns for target practice, and they act as though that would not be possible, they really do not want to talk to my priest since he owns a hand gun and a rifle and comes out to my house to target practice, hello, this is Texas stupid, the only thing strange about that is that they assume pastors don’t own guns.
Now I would like to know if those agents who were rifling through those records had a search warrant and if they limited their search to only those names on their list and by the way how did they come by the information about the price of their homes and such, I think there is an amendment that says they cannot do what they did, you know that one they call the privacy one, the one they rammed down our throats till we could no longer listen to the terrorists phone calls and the one the president says covers abortion, it is the one that says they cannot search and seize anything without just cause or as the democrats so aptly reminded us over and over again a search warrant. You see those records they were digging through have our names, phone numbers, driver’s license numbers information they do not need unless we have committed a crime. If you live in Houston and you bought a gun unless proven otherwise they now have your information. Now I have to wonder since nowhere in the article did it say they secured a search warrant what they were going to do, obviously they questioned people about their guns and where they were, and if they were not there they questioned neighbors, will they be at your door next?
This is not Iraq, they cannot just go door to door looking for our guns, without probable cause but since we now work for Mexico they can and once again our rights are being suspended You can now since we are all terrorists, be stopped for the bumper stickers on your car, you can be detained, you can now have your firearm confiscated, and now they can pour though records of individuals while supposedly looking for criminals, and they can come knocking on your door and demand to know where your firearm is. This is in Arkansas , Louisiana and Texas and other places I am sure that we have yet to hear about. They are not going to pull a full scale crack down because they know everyone of us rednecks with a gun will come out shooting so they are going out on a small scale and usurping rights everywhere on a smaller scale. Give it some thought for a second, we have been listed on the police watch list for simple things like having bumper stickers, going to rallies and going to war or preaching, the answer to the test question on the DOD test of what is low level terrorism is protestors and now they can if Mexico requests look through you financials and decide on their own that you cannot afford the firearm you bought and show up at your door and demand to see it. Is this just more intimidation aimed at tea partiers since it is happening just days before the tea parties? Is this just some over zealous ATF agents who forgot to obtain warrants, did the Houston Chronicle forget to mention that they obtained them? Or is this the beginning of the total suspension of our right to keep and bear arms? If it is not right to tap in on the conversations of terrorists is it right to ignore the right to privacy of the American people, it is happening now and they are not even being shy about it. The big question is what right will they openly ignore next?
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