{"id":2529,"date":"2011-08-30T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2011-08-30T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T21:33:48","slug":"batf-head-fired-by-eric-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"BATF head fired by Eric Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/31\/us\/31guns.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/31\/us\/31guns.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t been following this, BATF came up with this great idea &#8211; to prove how easy it is to smuggle weapons into Mexico, and then use that &#8220;evidence&#8221; as a basis for increasing regulation of guns within the United States, the BATF began smuggling weapons into Mexico and selling them to Mexican drug gangs in order to &#8220;track&#8221; where they went.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/16\/us\/16guns.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=Top%20Agency%20Officials%20Knew%20of%20Disputed%20Gun%20Program&amp;st=cse\">Operation Fast and Furious<\/a> &#8211; your government at work.<\/p>\n<p>The guns escaped from the control of the BATF and have now been used in a killing spree in Mexico.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Controlling guns in the US because Mexico is out of control has been a consistent theme of the Obama Administration, especially Mr Holder.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe the wrong person was fired today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/31\/us\/31guns.html If you haven&#8217;t been following this, BATF came up with this great idea &#8211; to prove how easy it is to smuggle weapons into Mexico, and then use that &#8220;evidence&#8221; as a basis for increasing regulation of guns within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=2529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}