An ATF agent gets arrested for murder and apparently the DOJ starts burning the midnight oil over it. Local time for this Google search by them was nearly 12:30 AM:
| Domain Name | usdoj.gov ? (U.S. Government) | |||||||||||||||||||
| IP Address | 149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice) | |||||||||||||||||||
| ISP | US Dept of Justice | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Language | English (U.S.) en-us | |||||||||||||||||||
| Operating System | Microsoft WinXP | |||||||||||||||||||
| Browser | Internet Explorer 6.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; DOJ3jx7bf; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Javascript | version 1.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Time of Visit | Jan 8 2009 9:27:55 pm | |||||||||||||||||||
| Last Page View | Jan 8 2009 9:29:10 pm | |||||||||||||||||||
| Visit Length | 1 minute 15 seconds | |||||||||||||||||||
| Page Views | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Referring URL | http://www.google.co…rk january 7%2C 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Search Engine | google.com | |||||||||||||||||||
| Search Words | atf agent arrested william clark january 7, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Visit Entry Page | http://blog.joehuffm…astItIsAnArrest.aspx | |||||||||||||||||||
| Visit Exit Page | http://blog.joehuffman.org/ | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Time Zone | UTC-5:00 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Visitor’s Time | Jan 9 2009 12:27:55 am | |||||||||||||||||||
| Visit Number | 416,532 |
I also received a similar search hit this morning.
It’s nice to know they care about what I think. But what I really wish is they would just go get legimate jobs instead of spending taxpayer money to infringe our rights.
“…what I really wish is they would just go get [legitimate] jobs…”
But they’d need to have marketable skills, and the benefits might be smaller, and they might have less job security. Where’s their incentive? Right now their best bet, from their point of view, is to try growing the size and scope of the bureau. That means pushing for more infringements (to give them something to do) and hiring more agents.
Just like people running a private business, a government entity tries to grow (they’re human, too). Unlike a private business they don’t produce anything, and they don’t serve anyone other than fellow bureaucrats.
That’s a long-winded way of calling them parasites, of course.
The only way the bureau is going to fold, and all its employees finally get jobs, is if they’re left with no alternatives. I’ve been in favor of buying them out, so as to shut them up when the time comes to close them down. That appears to be a long way off though. Like Reagan said; The closest thing we have to eternal life on Earth is a government program.
Next we’ll need a Bureau of Speech and Religion, no doubt.