Rep. Greene Information Invoice to Remove ATF Then Assaults Biden Over Drug Cartels – Which ATF Targets and Investigates
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Thursday that it had submitted a bill that would eliminate the Federal Office for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). An hour later, at a selectively attended press conference, Greene furiously attacked President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who falsely accused them of leaving the US southern border “wide open” to allow drug trafficking.
“President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris do business with the cartels,” Greene told reporters. “You have business with the criminals. Because their border policy of ripping open our southern border allows the cartels to get rich beyond their wildest dreams while smuggling people and drugs across our border. “
. @ JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris are deserting the American people on our southern border, enriching cartels, allowing lawlessness and refusing to secure our land. pic.twitter.com/q9BmGLrO7H
– Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) June 17, 2021
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives works to attack, investigate, and prosecute cartels that illegally trade arms and drugs.
For example, earlier this month the Justice Department issued a press release referring to “Eight members of the armed drug trafficking organization on federal charges”.
“This case,” says the DOJ, “has been investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, and the Lake City Police Department . “
In the indictment, “eight people in Florida are charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to use MDMA, also known as’ Ecstasy ‘or’ Molly ‘, and α-pyrrolidinopentiophenone, also known as’ Alpha-PVP’ or ‘Flakka” to spread. ‘If convicted, everyone faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. The indictment also tells the defendants that the United States intends to confiscate property that was used to facilitate the crime or that was derived from the proceeds of the crime, including approximately $ 185,000 in cash, a 2015 BMW 550i, a 2015 Lexus IS 250, a 2013 Audi A8 L Quattro, a Ryker Rally Edition 2020 motorcycle, two Rolex watches, numerous pieces of jewelry and five firearms. “
It’s the decay of firearms that Greene has a problem with.
“I have just tabled the bill to abolish the ATF,” Greene said in her video taped Thursday, in which she mispronounced the word “introduced”.
“The war on gun owners’ rights has been going on long enough and it is time to end it.”
A few moments ago I introduced a law to ELIMINATE ATF (HR 3960).
The ATF’s unconstitutional war against gun owners and our Second Amendment rights must end. pic.twitter.com/dTOVkxuh2Q
– Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) June 17, 2021
These eight people arrested by federal agencies, including the ATF, are US citizens, gun owners who live and operate in Florida, and “were part of an armed drug trafficking organization that distributed illicit narcotics, mostly from a“ trap house ”on 14th Street in Jacksonville, from July 2018 to April 13, 2021, when six of the defendants were arrested, ”the DOJ said in a statement.
This investigation is far from the only one that makes Greene’s desire to get rid of ATF problematic when it is actually concerned about drug trafficking and cartels.
A couple of headlines:
“ATF targets arms dealers to curb sales to Mexican cartels.”
“Where do Mexican drug cartels get their weapons from? The USA.”
“More than 36 pounds of drugs, weapons confiscated in three months,” reveals:
It’s a collaborative effort – the Unified Narcotics Enforcement Team aims to stop the illicit drug trafficking in South Dakota agencies like DEA, ATF, and Homeland Security to fight top-down illicit drug distribution.
If Greene wants to get rid of illegal drugs, getting rid of the agency that gets rid of illegal weapons won’t help.
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