“always think rope”
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On a site where government agencies advertise bids for private contractors, the ATF advertises for a Leatherman Micra engraved with the words “always think forfeiture.” You know, in case any of its agents forget what’s really important.
I stand by my statement that every BATF employee, right down to the secretaries and janitors, should be hauled out of their offices and either gut shot and left to die, or dropped with a short rope.
By the way, the subject line of this post would make a nice T-shirt, I think…
March 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
On a site where government agencies advertise bids for private contractors, the ATF advertises
Interesting that the government uses the Sun Micro ’4S’ as the favicon.
March 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Even among other Federal Law Enforcement, they have a bad reputation for being “the bottom of the barrel” of fed cops.
Keep in mind, 97% of all BATFE investigations, invariably are about technical violations like the wrong color ink or common abreviations on the 4473(Remember that the next time you hear about “bad dealers who sold guns illegally”, more often than not, each time it involved something like this).
March 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Ah, the Waco legion. Brave boys.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
[quote comment="133143"]Ah, the Waco legion. Brave boys.[/quote]
Yeah, only the bravest of the brave have the guts to machine gun a nursing mother dog and her pups in a fenced in area.
Real tough guys.
Let them dance at the end of a short rope.
Every one.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:22 pm
There is a shortage of good secretaries and janitors! It should be like michael vick’s dogs, where they take them out of the bad environment, try to retrain them, and find them good homes.
And euthanize the ones that are too far gone…
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 am
If you’ve read John Ross’s novel Unintended Consequences, you might recall that, in that story, other federal law-enforcement officials referred to the BATF as “F Troop.” I wonder if Ross made that up as a grace note, or borrowed it from reality?
And as an aside, we don’t punish cruelty to animals nearly harshly enough. I favor keelhauling, myself.
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
[quote comment="133218"]If you’ve read John Ross’s novel Unintended Consequences, [/quote]
Oh my, yes.
Great book.
Great ideas.
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
[quote comment="133096"]
Interesting that the government uses the Sun Micro ’4S’ as the favicon.[/quote]
That’s just the default for a Solaris web server unless you change it. I’ve seen it on lots of sites.
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Great short story.
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
That’s just the default for a Solaris web server unless you change it.
I just learned something – neato!