Are The U.S. Government & The Pentagon Protecting A Bosnian Air Carrier Responsible For The Disappearance Of 200,000 AK-47s?

I don’t have the answer, but I’m eager to find out… especially ‘why’… because my basic sentiment is reflected by this excerpt:

Could these folks have been involved with running Osama bin-Laden’s KLA buddies around Central Asia at the CIA’s behest just a decade or so ago?

Questions Questions Questions…

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STAN: They are in effect so long as they remain unchallenged. This is the key. Congress has never challenged the “national emergency,” even though the law requires it be revisited and reauthorized every six months. Call your chickenshit Congresspeople.

STAN: Nothing personal. Sorry if I’ve been piqued lately. Many personal issues leaking into the blog-mood.

Unrelated…. on the Tillman thing. Can’t you take an M4 and a set of targets and do some experiments firing the weapon on “burst” and determine what type of shot-groups the 3-round burst would produce over varying distances? Fire it at 10 meters, 30, 50, 100 etc? It would seem to make sense that the greater the distance, the greater the size of the shot group, given variables such as drop / wind etcetera. If you can reproduce a 3-round shot group from one burst over 50 meters, the Rangers’ story holds up. But if you consistently produce shot groups of 5-10 inches or more… well… then the army doctors have an interesting point don’t they?

Keep up the great work Stan!

STAN: The army doctors woulld have a point IF (1) the M-4 3-round shot group corresponds to your hypothesis, and (2) there weren’t multiple witnesses to the contrary. In fact, the reason the SAW can fire these groups on full auto and the M-4 cannot is related to the size, stability, and method of fire. An M-4 is a souped up CAR-15, which is a cut-down AR-15/M-16. Very short, very light. The M-249 SAW is a bipod or pintle mounted machinegun — heavier and longer, with a better buffer system. When “free-gunning,” the shooter generally fires low and “walks” the impact signature into the target. The large stone in front of Pat was shot up, then Pat took bullet hits to his body armor (his legs were partly covered by the rock), then the head. As the gunner “walks the fire in,” he also begins to “feel” the gun, that is, stabilize and concentrate the fires by tightening up on the gun. These fires come in ever-more-concentrated bursts of 6, 9, 12, et al rounds. The M-4, on the other hand, has a 3-round-burst, which ends arbitrarily at three rounds, and which cannot be controlled like the heavier, longer gun. No one who was in the Platoon, including Pat’s brother, has ever suggested that Pat was intentionally targeted because he was Pat. This attention to minutiae is very unfortunate; because it is a huge red herring. Read O’Neal’s statement to Congress. Pat died within a foot of O’Neal… who was crazy about Pat, and is still very close to the family. People watch waaay too many movies.

We’re discussing it here: http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=71159 in a thread called “Regarding the Executive Order Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement”. Come around if you can, we’re nearing 1300 members and not playing ball.

This is frightening. If people don’t get out in the streets now, this nation is doomed.

Peace,

Tinoire