Progressives love to claim they care about the youth. As history has shown, they use the young and dispose of them when they’re no longer needed. In keeping with this tradition, the Obama Regime used young adults aged 18-25 as straw buyers. These young people would buy the guns for the ATF and get $100 per transaction. Afterwards they were arrested and charged, one was convicted.
When the Operation Fast and Furious indictment was announced back in January, it was depicted as a big bust. Twenty suspects were charged with numerous counts of conspiracy, money laundering, gun running and drug trafficking. The defendants faced 5 to 20 years on a single count.
[….]“A straw buyer is usually a kid who is 18-25, who needs a couple hundred extra bucks and knows somebody who knows somebody that has a way to make a couple extra bucks,” said Adrian Fontes, an attorney for the accused ringleader of this Operation. His client, Manuel Celis- Acosta is the only one still in jail.
“The government wants a dramatic indictment, they want the conspiracy to sound like it’s run out by highly sophisticated individuals who are involved with a particularly nefarious organization when the reality is it’s just a bunch of kids,” said Fontes.
Read the rest: Operation Fast and Furious: The Straw Buyers
Using kids to fuel a drug war in order to restrict gun rights is pathetic. But can you expect anything better out of the 3rd World Liberation Obama Regime?
(Hat Tip: Bumr50)
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