Cowboy Confessional

Representative Gerry Connolly is odder than your average orb, though his increasing girth and gravitational pull might be adversely affecting the space-time continuum and thus distorting reality.

In recent hearings on governmental criminality, Connolly conned the conference by using several types of lies documented in Shooting The Bull to either protect his party’s leader or assist in an on-going cover-up.  The criminal action in question was how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (which sounds like the name for a punk rock band, and not just a band of punks) facilitated and encouraged trafficking of 2,500 firearms to drug cartels in Mexico. Connolly co-opted congressional hearings on the matter not to further investigate government aiding and abetting criminals, but to distract from that investigation and simultaneously pimp for more malfeasance.

Lie of Moving Sources: Changing the claimed source or cause of a perceived problem when facts make it necessary.

“The NRA has opposed regulations which would require tracking of multiple gun sales,” Connolly crowed in prepared statements that ignored a basic aspect of the story (while inappropriately associating the NRA with government facilitated criminal acts).  It has been disclosed by whistleblowers that the BATFE told gun stores where smugglers bought firearms to allow the sales to go through.  Stated more briefly, the BATFE could not care less about multiple gun sales to smugglers because they pre-approved the transactions.

The Lie of Magic: Redirecting the attention of the public away from the core of the topic to complicated irrelevancies.

But this bit misdirection was not enough for the cylindrical Connolly.  He continued with:

The Lie of Non Sequiturs: Combining vaguely related, or completely unrelated, information to create a false impression or conclusion.

“The gun lobby and its advocates in Congress are even trying to pass legislation to eviscerate the ATF’s authority to stop criminals,” Connolly concocted.  As documented, the BATFE was aiding and abetting criminals, with the intent of them in turn aiding and abetting the worst criminals in the western hemisphere, Mexican drug cartels.  Ignoring his hyperbolic language, an out-of-control BATFE involved in international gun smuggling has too much budget and not enough oversight, so budgetary evisceration may be in order.

The BATFE’s budget should be reduced, with the surplus turned over to an independent prosecutor.

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