Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:41:21 -0500
Reply-To: [ferris c c] at [Mainstream.net]
From: Chris Ferris <[ferris c c] at [Mainstream.net]>
Subject: Boys will Be Boys, According to Bob Rubin's Boys

Heads up, folks! The Treasury Department IG's Report on the "Good Ol' 
Boys Roundup" is hitting the street this week! Take a gander at this 
quote from this first preview from the Washington Post ...

TREASURY DEPARTMENT PROPOSES GUIDELINES FOR OFF-DUTY AGENTS

By Pierre Thomas 
The Washington Post 04/03/96 (from the Manchester NH Union Leader


"... Treasury's Inspector General found that about 120 current Treasury 
agents, about half from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, had 
attended the annual picnic held on the banks of the Ocoee River. The IG 
did not recommend that any officers be criminally charged and found no 
evidence that Treasury agents engaged in overt acts of racism, but a 
small number could face disciplinary review (WINK, WINK), sources 
familiar with the probe said ..."

One hundred and twenty current agents, 1-2-0, not four, not a car 
load, not a bus load, one hundred and twenty *current* Treasury agents 
attended a picnic where there was a prominent "n----r checkpoint" which 
could be seen by every attendee. Racism? Bigotry? You betcha. A violation 
of a federal civil rights statute? Probably!

But Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin, a big fan of Aesop's Fables when he was 
a kid, has pronounced "OPERATION FOX LOOKS INTO MIRROR" a great success. 
Rubin was quoted as saying, "Please tell the American people that the fox 
has inspected all of his brothers stalking around the public hen house, 
that all is well, thank you very much, and that all hens are perfectly 
safe." 

All nobanners should make an effort to obtain copies of both the Justice 
Department's and Treasury Department's reports on the "Round Up". If 120 
*current* Treasury agents were present at the "Round Up", yucking it up 
in the vicinity of a "n----r checkpoint" sign, there's a bigger problem 
under Rubin's roof than even Waco revealed. And the appearance of another 
"whitewash" seems to lead one to conclude that the cancer remains! Has 
BATF, in fact, changed at all? I really wonder. I really do. Rubin and Magaw 
have some serious explaining to do to the American people. They must be 
held accountable for inexcusable conduct on the part of over 100 of their 
badge-toting, gun-toting "not so special any more" agents. No, not so 
special at all. When will "integrity" again be the watchword for federal 
agents? I remember when, as a kid, I looked upon all federal agents as men 
who commanded respect and admiration. How times change. In the land of 
Queek Draw Magaw and Bob-A-Louie Freeh. Leadership starts right at the top.
(Enough said.)

Christopher C. Ferris
Litchfield NH
[ferris c c] at [mainstream.net]

P.S. I wonder if Magaw's Yee-Hawers had checkpoints at the "Round Up" for 
their black fully automatic SMGs which I am sure they left unattended in 
their M/Vs while they were tossing down cans of brew? Yeah, booze and 
guns, what a "great" mix! Tanya, the NRA should offer free Eddie Eagle 
courses for all "Round Up" attendees who are still serving, and they 
should make this offer in a public way, letting the American public know 
that drunk federal agents had immediate access to guns. If Reno and Rubin 
are horribly embarrassed, so what? I say, "Just do it!" Or at least 
consider doing it.