When conservatives in NYC can get their fellow New yorkers to stop sending anti-gun bigots to DC, I’ll consider taking tactical political advice from a NYC conservative.

This latest involves a US Marshal telling Ryan H to specifically pass a warning along to me–along with that pesky word “arrest”–and I get continual DoJ hits relevant to the subject matter I’ve been reporting on–including the one you alluded to. As we’ve seen BATFU file papers in court to try and stifle exposure of their activities–in direct contravention of established law and administration policy–there is one other inference that’s not all that unreasonable to draw: Visits are not masked because they want it known they’re watching. There is such a thing as a chill factor.

Funny thing about their “openess”–when I approach them directly, they clam back up into closed mode again

This is not a .mill address
This is not my coffee break
I am not here

Smile and wave boys, smile and wave.

And I welcome those who read Second Amendment sites and thereby come to repudiate their role in eviscerating it.

How many do you really think that is?

The rest show up for work to do nothing but infringe the 2nd.

My cousin let the cat out of the bag at Christmas, and now my wife checks in every now and then to keep me honest on the new gun front.

crap.

At least DJMoore had the sense to restrict his opprobium to firearms officers – and I still think he’s wrong about it being a violation of oath to simply show up for work.

But, no honest ethical person could work for the ATFE.

A hit from ATFE is as frightening and as morally repugnant as a hit from a registered sex offender.

Thought my brother-in-law found the place. I’d have to start telling Mrs. G. about my new gun purchases…

Because I don’t care how much they personally like firearms, as long as they work for the folks who want to take ‘em away from the rest of us, they need to be shunned.

Even so, I don’t assume that a .GOV hit is unfriendly, and I adore getting .MILs. Not that I get many of either.

The black bird flies at midnight, I REPEAT, the black bird flies at midnight.

Of course, he had actual hostiles at PNNL, too, so they were fair game.

I thought so, too, for a long time, until Craig Livingstone popped into the Whitewater group.

Let me distill the thing this way: just because you can see them doesn’t mean they’re not looking at you.

That’s almost as good for the ego as imagining armies of Special Agents combing through my junk folder looking for incriminating bytes.

Pretty much what Matt said.

I have no illusions as to the relative importance of I or my inane scribblings in the grand scheme of things so if I can gain a little illusory self-importance from imagining J. Edgar and Eliot Ness wreathed in cigar smoke in a dank, private office in a secret government location poring over my “file”…what’s the harm?

I may not be an Important Person but I play one on the internet.

Besides, sometimes we all need a little post fodder.

Taking someone to a County Council meeting may have more emotional impact than taking them for an afternoon at the gun range. It did for me.

& “Control Your Shit juice”? In our house, we call it Pepto-Bismol.

I’ve got no doubt that at least some of them are surfing for OPSEC violations and whatnot, but if the big cheese was after anyone you wouldn’t be seeing anything to tip you off.

I was once contacted about some statistics on a weapons system that I had published. They asked (not told) me to remove them for security reasons and I told them I had found them in a story on the Arizona Republic newspaper website. They knew that I wasn’t the leaker but were trying to remove all references from the web. I removed them from my site and wished them good luck with their effort to unscramble the egg.

As to the Federal Courts, I follow the penguin policy from Madagascar and “Smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave.”. Doesn’t bother me. I already know they have a dossier on me anyway.

Didn’t know I was stirring the pot, Unc. I do it for fun, not out of any sense of being investigated for nefarious purposes. And I certainly don’t take the attitude of “It’s my tax dollars, they should be working!”. How hypocritical! I do the vast majority of my commenting and blog posting from work on quiet moments.

What about seeing myself whenever I turn to channel 89.1?

In all seriousness, some of my most loyal readers and commenters are from .gov addys.

When I told them it was just a job for me and I’m not going to quit because I’m just 2 years from retiring, they called me a leech and a drain on society.

Morons.

The only time I would find posting their info as appropriate is if they are at the ATF and they hit your site via a google search to the effect of “what is a gun violation I can make up to arrest SayUncle”.