{"id":10832,"date":"2012-07-23T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=10832"},"modified":"2012-07-27T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T20:49:21","slug":"payne-the-ignored-victims-of-fast-and-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/payne-the-ignored-victims-of-fast-and-furious","title":{"rendered":"Payne: The ignored victims of Fast and Furious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, the guns James Holmes used in his Batman spree weren&#8217;t acquired via Operation Fast and Furious. Then Aurora&#8217;s victims might never get answers to what really happened.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama&#8217;s visit to the Denver area Sunday was touching &#8211; in stark contrast to the back of the hand that his administration has given the Michigan family of slain border agent, 40-year old Brian Terry.<\/p>\n<p>Terry was killed 18 months ago by members of Mexican drug thugs armed with guns that had disappeared in the botched in the ATF&#8217;s botched gun sting. The Obama Administration has reacted to this tragedy by stonewalling a Congressional investigation &#8211; ultimately resulting in a Attorney General Eric Holder being held in contempt by Congress last month.<\/p>\n<p>Terry was a Flat Rock, Michigan native &#8211; and his family has never received a visit from President Obama for the loss of her son, though he did make a phone call at their son&#8217;s funeral. Terry&#8217;s mother &#8220;recalled receiving only one mailed letter from the attorney general&#8217;s office following her son&#8217;s death and a few other letters sent as email attachments once Fast and Furious was revealed on TV &#8212; no personal phone calls or visits,&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/06\/28\/terry-family-releases-statements-responding-to-dingell-holder-contempt-vote\/#ixzz21VK3Z9x5\">reports<\/a>\u00a0Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>TheMSM has also covered up for the administration, devoting little coverage to the story and not once interviewing the family &#8211; again in stark contrast to the dozens of reporters who have flown live to Aurora, Colorado to report and interview family victims of the Holmes&#8217; massacre. Only Fox News Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham have done interviews with the Terrys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re lying and hiding something,&#8221; Terry&#8217;s father, Ken, told Hannity.<\/p>\n<p>Snubbed by the Obama administration, the Terry family has been left to get information about their son&#8217;s death from media reports. &#8220;Is this arrogance or incompetence?&#8221; asks Robert Heyer, Terry&#8217;s cousin who appeared on the O&#8217;Reily program with Terry&#8217;s mother. &#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;m not sure what, but we&#8217;re very disappointed. It has been 18 months, and we still don&#8217;t have the answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the Terry&#8217;s own congressman, John Dingell? &#8220;He has never spoken to the Terry family,&#8221; they say.<\/p>\n<p>From Gabby Giffords shooting to the Aurora massacre, gun violence has offered a public forum for Democrats to demand gun control and accountability. Except when the violence was the direct result of the federal government&#8217;s own gun operation. Then is must be ignored at all costs lest it embarrass the untouchable Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, the guns James Holmes used in his Batman spree weren&#8217;t acquired via Operation Fast and Furious. Then Aurora&#8217;s victims might never get answers to what really happened. President Obama&#8217;s visit to the Denver area Sunday was touching &#8211; in stark contrast to the back of the hand that his administration has given the Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[2167,2206,2208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10833,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions\/10833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}