Why Brian Terry Still Matters

Regrettably, U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry is dead, while his murderers, and those in the Department of Justice who provided the gun to his killers, are still at large, indeed living large.  To hit the Reset Button, I asked in a Post, dated June 15, 2011: "When a Good Man Dies Needlessly, Who Cares?" After the White House Correspondent's Dinner this past weekend, the unequivocal answer is obvious - No one in Washington, D.C.   As stated on June 15th, Brian Terry is an American Hero, who died defending our country from foreign invaders, seeking to do us all great harm - drug smugglers bringing in crack cocaine guaranteed to spread crime, poverty and despair throughout our population's most vulnerable poor communities, and risking death to those in the entertainment industry who chose to indulge their habitual weaknesses.  Operation Fast & Furious - DOJ allowing illegal guns to "walk" into Mexico to arm the drug cartels - is the most bloody scandal in US Presidential history - over 200 dead Mexicans and two US law enforcement officers.  Still, no Presidential apology to the Nation of Mexico.

Instead, we get this "Joke" from Jimmy Kimmel speaking directly to the President at the Correspondent's Dinner: "Even some of your fellow democrats think you're a pushover, Mr. President.  They think you should stick to your guns.  And if you don't have any guns, they would like you to ask Eric Holder to get you some."  So hilarious, Mr. Obama laughed out loud.  Can you envision Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Harry Truman or even Lyndon Johnson giggling about such a preventable tragedy, particularly one for which Mr. Obama's Attorney General is directly responsible.  I can't; as stated on June 15th, they would have had those in their Administration responsible fired the same day they were informed of Brian Terry's death.  Instead, we get that Mr. Obama is willing to apologize only for the perceived misdeeds of President Bush, while his own are the subject of probably the worst joke in Correspondent's Dinner History.  Not a good showing by the Fourth Estate, who faked laughs along with him.