#1738345 - 01/21/10 11:21 AM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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Good to hear, corruption at high levels needs to be addressed even more IMO. Smith & Wesson will get a black eye along with several others on this deal!
I wonder if these guys tried to get in without a pass or wasted somebody's time?? lol
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#1738409 - 01/21/10 11:54 AM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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#1738426 - 01/21/10 12:06 PM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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Wes Parrish
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Glad the FBI is enforcing the laws, but too bad the federal government doesn't pursue congressional corruption with the same vigor they're pursuing private industry & private citizens.
They could find a lot more "bribery & corruption" within the halls of congress than will ever be at the Shot Show, and worse, congressmen use our tax dollars to pay their bribes. Heck, the unions were just offered a 40% bribe, with our tax dollars, in exchange for union support of the health-care bill.
It's wrong in both cases, but someone tell me how what happens daily in congress is any different than what happened at the Shot Show?
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#1738450 - 01/21/10 12:16 PM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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Glad the FBI is enforcing the laws, but too bad the federal government doesn't pursue congressional corruption with the same vigor they're pursuing private industry & private citizens.
They could find a lot more "bribery & corruption" within the halls of congress than will ever be at the Shot Show, and worse, congressmen use our tax dollars to pay their bribes. Heck, the unions were just offered a 40% bribe, with our tax dollars, in exchange for union support of the health-care bill.
It's wrong in both cases, but someone tell me how what happens daily in congress is any different than what happened at the Shot Show?
Its a sad state of affairs Wes, here is the whole problem!
POLITICIAN = CROOK!!!!!!!
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#1738455 - 01/21/10 12:19 PM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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Its a sad state of affairs Wes, here is the whole problem!
POLITICIAN = CROOK!!!!!!!
AND . . . . . . .
DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS = The Worst of the Worst CROOKS!!!!!!!
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#1738465 - 01/21/10 12:25 PM
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Its a sad state of affairs Wes, here is the whole problem!
POLITICIAN = CROOK!!!!!!! POLITICIANS = The Worst of the Worst CROOKS!!!!!!!
I will agree, but they are all crooks, Republicans and Indepenents, and every other brown nosing shank that is a politician!! 
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#1738530 - 01/21/10 01:24 PM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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So where was the bribery? They were trying to get a contract? Seems like a political stunt.
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#1738549 - 01/21/10 01:41 PM
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Its a sad state of affairs Wes, here is the whole problem!
POLITICIAN = CROOK!!!!!!! POLITICIANS = The Worst of the Worst CROOKS!!!!!!!
Wes, I normally consider you an intelligent person but that comment is just crazy. Any person that is worth millions and takes a job that only pays them $160,000 is a crook. Doesn't matter if they have a D or R behind their name.
If you run the numbers, you will find that corruption in DC has pretty much run evenly through party lines.
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#1738572 - 01/21/10 02:04 PM
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Any person that is worth millions and takes a job that only pays them $160,000 is a crook. Doesn't matter if they have a D or R behind their name.
I think you meant to say "only pays them $160,000 is NOT a crook."???
Either way, someone who is worth millions and takes a job paying "only $160,000" has nothing to do with being a crook, or not. Some of the biggest crooks in the world don't even have a paying job, while others have mult-million-dollar salaries. By the way, most members of congress have $ coming in from their business interests, and this $160,000 salary is just more like "icing on their cake".
More and more, the real "pay" for being in congress has been coming from the power and backroom deals, often millions.
Doesn't matter if they have a D or R behind their name.
If you run the numbers, you will find that corruption in DC has pretty much run evenly through party lines.
I'll agree that both parties have been bad --- how many times have you heard me say I claim neither party and try to view politics as my own indepenant thinker?
More often, we see politicians going to Washington, where they use that position of power as a springboard into all kinds of scams ---- look what Al Gore has done in scamming the world by cooking the books on global warming.
Both the republicans and the democrats have performed their jobs horribly over the past 15 years. But more recently, it has been the democrats who have been far worse than the republicans, and apparently the people in Massachusetts agree.
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#1738578 - 01/21/10 02:12 PM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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If you run the numbers, you will find that corruption in DC has pretty much run evenly through party lines.
Regardless of which party is worse (you have your opinion, I have mine), I think we can both agree that this high level of political corruption, of all places, in our national capital is unacceptable?
Yes, a year ago we needed a change, but not a change for worse, which is what we got. This past year has just been "politics as usual" in Washington, same old same old, only worse than ever. And now, a year later, the citizens are REALLY demanding change --- not "yes we can", but "yes we are".
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#1738679 - 01/21/10 03:30 PM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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"Political corruption" has been in Washington for ages. People say they are fed up and their solution is to head to the polls and elect someone just like the person they are fed up with.
Also, as far as if the "change is worst or better", you are right....... (you have your opinion, I have mine).
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#1739932 - 01/22/10 07:05 AM
Re: FBI bust at SHOT Show.
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"were charged for offering to pay a 20% commission.."
Hmmm Since when are you not allowed to pay commission to a sales broker?
Wonder if I can get an indictment against every real estate agent who ever worked a deal?
Something sounds fishy. Either it was a poorly written article leaving out key details or this is a political witch hunt.
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#1739974 - 01/22/10 07:26 AM
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Don't think offering the 20% commission was the big deal, it was the "fact" that they thogught they were offering this deal to the defense minister for an African country.
Either way the whacked out media will turn this against hunters in the end.
Sad.
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#1741810 - 01/23/10 08:41 AM
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#1742035 - 01/23/10 11:19 AM
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ya this is going to be a bad deal all the way around!
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#1742661 - 01/23/10 08:22 PM
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#1742942 - 01/24/10 02:47 AM
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I wonder if these guys tried to get in without a pass or wasted somebody's time?? lol
Bwahahahahha
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