Of all the gun-grabbing leaders of the victim disarmament movement, few have the history of loathsome hypocrisy of Diane Feinstein.
When she was mayor of San Francisco, she issued an executive order revoking all civilian carry permits…
…but had herself issued a police permit first. Fearful over an incident that had happened on the campaign trail when her life was threatened, Feinstein figured her life was worth defending, and unlike all the sheeple she ruled, she was competent to do it.
She’s baaaaack; she wanted some “assault weapons” for one of her potemkin news conferences, and she exerted influence on DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier, who – according to emails acquired by a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, got her subordinates to not only make it happen, but make it happen quietly:
Cmdr. Williams emailed Mr. Mentzer to put a “bug” in his ear that the police would “prefer that no mention of the fact that the weapons came from D.C. or were recovered by MPDC in the official language or speeches.” Mr. Mentzer replied, “By not mentioning where the weapons came from, we open ourselves up to the same charge against David Gregory.”
He was referring to the anchor of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” who knowingly procured an illegal 30-round magazine in the District as a stunt for his TV show, but was not charged.
The office of Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance W. Gainer coordinated bringing the illegal weapons onto Capitol Hill for Mrs. Feinstein’s dramatic Jan. 24 news conference introducing her new “assault weapons” ban.
This shutdown is showing a lot of regular Americans that laws are for peasants. If you’re a Second Amendment advocate, you’ve known this for decades.
This is the Chief of Police breaking the law, and breaking it with malice of forethought then actively participating in covering it up.
It’s not a murder, it’s not grand larceny, but it demostrates a lack of ethics that would bar her from working at most major companies much less the top dog LEO.
Shitcan the hag is what I’m saying.
It also demonstrates a remarkable collusion for political gain. Who does she think she is, Daley?
I read this article on a previous SITD posting. I was particularly angered by this quote:
“Chief Lanier wrote to Philadelphia Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, ‘I am really disappointed in Terry [Gainer]. This is exactly why I didn’t want to participate.’ ”
Gainer is the sergeant-at-arms who apparently chose not to participate in the cover up and complied with FOIA requirements. He must not have known that he, like they, were above the law and should have stonewalled for his betters.
Additionally, why did the law enforcement agencies have these guns in the first place? I assume that they are not duty guns. If these guns are evidence of a serious crime (and most gun-related crimes are serious), It would be hard to maintain the integrity of the evidentiary chain of custody when dragging them around town for entertainment purposes.
Perhaps the commonplace shootings of DC residents (pick your racial demographic) take second place to Feinstein’s dog and pony show; why else would potentential evidence be paraded about? This, combined with the absolute hypocrisy of her needing a gun but not you or I, should arouse anger in even the most entrenched soccer mom. I’d find a credible lie more acceptable than her expectation that we should see her logic.
Swiftee … while I completely agree with your last statement, Lanier will probably gain points with her supporters for her actions. If it saves just one life …