While the internet is ablaze with news of the unfortunate
death of actor Paul Walker, best known for his role in the Fast and Furious series
of movies, it brings to my mind another story of Fast and Furious.
In 2010 Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered, that
in of itself isn’t much of a breaking news story, what makes this story any more interesting and
why it should be on the forefront of people’s minds is that his murder was
committed with weapons sold to Mexican drug cartels by the United States
Department of Justice. The department, headed by Attorney General Eric Holder
has not been held in question of this practice and its result. Though one of
the men who was convicted of his murder received a sentence of 57 years.
This is just one of the many scandals the
current Presidential administration is facing.
In Operation Fast and Furious, the idea was to sell weapons
to drug cartels in Mexico and then trace them back to crimes in the US in hopes
of taking down these across the border crimes, and by its stated intentions it
worked. Though I’m sure Brian Terry’s loved ones wouldn’t be comforted by this
fact. It begs a question of why this is a practice of our government in the
first place. To sell weapons to foreign parties in hopes of linking these
weapons being used in crimes across our borders seems highly illogical.
So why is Paul Walker and Fast and Furious more of a news story than Agent Brian Terry and Operation Fast and Furious? Why do the masses care more of a dead movie actor who died because of decisions he made rather than a man who died in a brutal murder assisted by our Government?
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