Why Brian Terry Still Matters, Now More Than Ever

Memorial day weekend is in full swing - Mom, hot dogs, apple pie and baseball, the unofficial start of Summer, with hopefully, time for some small rememberances of those who died willingly for our precious way of life - Free, because these men and women were so brave,

In times past, it seems that Memorial Day focused on the sacrifices of the Nation's Greatest Generation - our World War II Veterans, who had died in that most horrific of conflagrations, defeating both the Nazi Axis and the Empire of Japan simultaneously.

Accordingly, today I wish to honor a fallen hero, from a different era of mortal combat, one in which the Nation's survival is in no less in jeopardy, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.  Brian is that most rare of America's dead War Heroes - ignored by his Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United States, and almost scorned by the Nation's top law enforcement officer, the Attorney General of the United States.  The reasons for this despicable mistreatment of Brian Terry are well known to few Americans, so let me briefly retell how he was gunned down defending our southern border from the ongoing tidal wave of invaders - drug smugglers, human slave traffickers and terrorists bent on our destruction.

In short, Brian Terry was murdered by a drug cartel soldier using an AK-47 freely given to his Drug Masters by the Department of Justice, in furtherance of a so-called sting operation, Fast & Furious.  With approval of top DOJ officials, the ATF Office in Arizona facilitated the "strawman" purchase of thousands of automatic weapons from legitimate gun shops near the Mexican border, knowing that these buyers were working for the Mexican Cartels and would immediately deliver these weapons to their criminal bosses across the border.

As a result of this federal government criminal conspiracy to engage in "gun walking", hundreds of Mexicans have been murdered by these walked weapons and Brian Terry's family lives every single day knowing that the US government is an accessory in his willful murder.  Attorney General Holder refuses to condemn Operation Fast & Furious, saying only that it had flawed tactics, but that the scourge of Mexican drug violence demands "out-of-the-box" thinking to curb this deadly onslaught.

What an insult to Brian Terry, his family and to us, the American people - with no tracking devices inplanted in these walked weapons, with no surveillance of their movement across the Mexican border and no notifications made to the Mexican government as to the US government allowing thousands of automatic weapons to flow umimpeded into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, F&F worked exactly as its was intended to - cause thousands of illegal American bought weapons to show up at mostly Mexican crime scenes.  Too bad, about Brian Terry being murdered with a F&F walked gun just north of the border.  Oh well, the President, the Attorney General and the Main Stream Media can all today celebrate Memorial Day by enjoying hot dogs, apple pie, baseball and calls home to Mom.

Of course, Mrs. Terry will not be doing any of those joyful things today, most especially not getting a loving holiday call from her fallen war hero son, Brian Terry.  Makes me want to cry.