What is Going On?

The Internal Revenue Service raided a company in Arkansas called Mountain Pure Water Company. The employees were thrown up against the wall while the estimated 40 agents with guns went through everything in the office and the plant leaving with 80+ boxes of information. Eight months after the raid about 85% of their inventory and paper work has not been returned. The company owner, John Stacks, was not on the property at the time but returned while the raid was in process. With him was his son, an attorney who requested that he be allowed to enter the facility and they were denied access.

Gibson Guitar:

"Armed people came in our factory ... evacuated our employees, then seized half a million dollars of our goods without any charges having been filed..."
Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz

Government agents seized a total of over $1 million worth of rosewood, ebony and finished guitars from Gibson factories in Memphis and Nashville in raids in 2009 and August 2011, Juszkiewicz said.
NOTE: Juszkiewicz is a Republican donor.
NOTE: Martin Guitars which is a competitor of Gibson Guitars also uses the same wood but The C.E.O., Chris Martin IV, is a long-time Democratic supporter.

The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department’s interpretation of a law in India. (If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.) This action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India.

On August 24, 2011, around 8:45 a.m. CDT, agents for the federal government executed four search warrants on Gibson’s facilities in Nashville and Memphis and seized several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. Gibson had to cease its manufacturing operations and send workers home for the day, while armed agents executed the search warrants. Gibson has fully cooperated with the execution of the search warrants.

Is the DHS Obama's Civilian Security Force?:

The Department of Homeland Security purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in just the past 10-months. The military used approximately 70-million rounds in each year of the Iraq war. Could it be that DHS is looking to arm a new civilian national security force?

aired February 2013

54 Tanks per State on average?

DHS purchasing Drones, Tanks, Rifles and Ammo (3/6/2013)

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Sen. Grassley on Botched Fed Gun-Running Sting: Without a Doubt the Dept. of Justice Was Involved

In an interview with America's Newsroom co-host Bill Hemmer, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) answered questions regarding an evolving House hearing as best he could. After a drug-running sting went wrong, even resulting in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Sen. Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) are trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong and who's to blame.

When asked if somebody's lying when it comes to providing information on the program, Grassley answered, "One of the problems I and Congressman Darrell Issa have had is just getting answers to our questions and getting documents, and those questions being answered in those documents would give me the capability to answer your question."

The senator went on to say that at this point, it appears that what went wrong was the intentional selling of illegal guns meant to be tracked across the border in efforts to arrest those operating at senior levels within dangerous drug cartels.

"Everybody at the grassroots level of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division said it wouldn't work, but they were pushed by D.C. to do it. And consequently, the prophecy became accurate when border patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered, and two of these guns were found at the murder scene," Grassley said.

When it comes to where the buck stops in authorizing the program, the Iowa lawmaker asserted that he can be sure of one thing. "Without a doubt, the Department of Justice or the divisions within were involved. But it's difficult to know what's going on without getting the documents we requested."

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