IS THE GOVERNMENT ARMING AGAINST US ?

Jon Terbush   

Jon Terbush is a staff writer for TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.

In February, The Associated Press reported that DHS (Department of Homeland Security) wanted to buy some 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next few years. While the department contends the purchase and other similar buys are standard procedure, the timing of that report, coming amid a then-raging gun debate in Washington, led some to fret that the government was stockpiling ammo for possibly nefarious purposes.

Conspiracy theorists questioned why the government would ever need so much ammo. Were the feds simply wasting taxpayer funds? Or, perhaps, amassing a secret army? Alex Jones' InfoWars led the charge on this front.  "This ammunition is purchased for the sole purpose of being used in active fighting.  At the same time, it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to use hollow point ammunition on the battle field.

"This is crucial to understand. It means the occupying federal government is acquiring this ammunition to be used against the American people."

Yet what began as a fringe conspiracy theory has gained momentum over the past two months, finally making it all the way to Congress.

Last week, two Republican lawmakers, Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Jason Chaffetz (Utah), lent the conspiracies more credibility, holding a joint hearing to demand answers. And though he stopped short of fully embracing the "secret army" theory, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) said in a separate hearing that the rampant theorizing had reached a point where "the numbers cease to become internet rumors and they start having some credibility."

Other lawmakers posited a slightly different theory: The government, uncertain whether new gun laws would prevail in Congress, had authorized the purchases to remove ammo from shelves. If the government couldn't take away guns, it would just take away ammo instead, the theory went.

In response, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) introduced legislation in both chambers of Congress last week that would place limits on DHS' ammo-buying capacity.

"President Obama has been adamant about curbing law-abiding Americans' access and opportunities to exercise their Second Amendment rights," said Inhofe. "One way the Obama administration is able to do this is by limiting what's available in the market with federal agencies purchasing unnecessary stockpiles of ammunition."

Homeland Security has more or less laughed off the suggestions. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said the department "found it so inherently unbelievable that those statements would be made it was hard to ascribe credibility to them."

The government has been purchasing ammo for years, and this falls in line with its past expenditures. When the ammo inquiries first began, a Homeland Security spokesperson noted in a statement that "DHS routinely establishes strategic sourcing contracts" for things like ammo and computer equipment, because the agency can secure much lower prices by buying in bulk.

According to the DHS, 80 percent of the ammunition it purchases goes to training.

Even the NRA has distanced itself from such conspiracy claims, saying last August that such rumors were no more than "an effort to stir up fear about recent acquisitions of ammunition."

"As most gun owners will agree, skepticism of government is healthy," the group concluded. "But today, there are more than enough actual threats to the Second Amendment to keep gun owners busy."

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Who REALLY used CHEMICAL WEAPONS ?

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Evidence: Syrian Rebels used Chemical Weapons (not Assad)  !     

Walid Shoebat is a Former Member Of  The Muslim Brotherhood .

 by the Shoebat Foundation on August 27, 2013, in Blog, General

By Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack

Recent news of a chemical weapons attack in Syria smacks of desperation. The question comes down to who is most desperate right now, the Assad regime or the Muslim Brotherhood rebels? Consider that since June, Assad’s forces have been winning. According to a CBS News report from last month, victories for the rebels had become “increasingly rare” and that the Muslim Brotherhood-backed opposition fighters were sustaining “some of their heaviest losses” near Damascus.

The New York Times echoed this sentiment, even saying that before gaining the upper hand, concerns were that Assad would use chemical weapons; he did not.

In fact, even before Assad’s forces gained the momentum, a UN official reportedly found evidence of rebels using chemical weapons but no evidence Assad’s regime did. This, from a Washington Times article by Shaun Waterman dated May 6, 2013:    

" Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.

Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.

But she said her panel had not yet seen any evidence of Syrian government forces using chemical weapons, according to the BBC, but she added that more investigation was needed. {emphasis ours}"

Today, while the rebels are more desperate than they were at the time of that article, evidence of rebels using chemical weapons is available; evidence Assad’s regime has used them is not.

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