Contemptible Holder

Attorney General Holder is contemptible and should be held in contempt by all Americans who espouse the rule of law. This is the message that I sent to my Congressperson today (please note that the body of the message was obtained from breitbart.com and used with one correction):

Dear Representative,
I gather that you will soon be voting on whether or not to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress. I wish it was a vote for his impeachment, but at this point any evidence that Congress has a backbone is welcome.

To put Holder's actions in perspective, what if Walmart, the “largest seller of firearms and ammunition in America,” had knowingly sold 2,500 firearms to straw purchasers with the intent of having those purchasers carry those guns across an international border and sell them to drug cartel members in Mexico?

And,what if at least two (but possibly three or more) of the guns were used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent while an untold number of the weapons were used to kill hundreds—literally hundreds—of Mexican citizens?

Moreover, what if one of the straw purchasers, who bought over 700 guns, was on food stamps and Walmart knew it, yet they sold him guns in exchange for bags of cash anyway?

What if some of the 2,500 guns were recovered, but more than 1,000 were not, and what if an untold number of those unrecovered guns were believed to be in the hands of criminals in American cities on our Southwest border?

And lastly, what if explanations given by Walmart board members regarding the authorization of this straw-purchasing, gun-walking program were in conflict with the testimony given by their executive? And what if both they and their executive snubbed their noses at Congressional requests for documentation that would explain who knew what and when?

What would happen to Walmart if that company did these things?

We all know what would happen. Both their C.E.O. and ranking board members would be handcuffed and frog-marched out to paddy wagons in broad daylight, then transported to prison cells that would house them for the rest of their lives.

And Rep. Pelosi wouldn’t even think about saying, “They are treating the C.E.O. of Walmart this way for doing his job.”

There is only one way a responsible representative of the people can vote on this issue. I voted for you because I thought you would be a responsible representative of me, my interests, and those of the United States of America. Please prove me right in my choice!