This and That...

[Warph]

Walmart: Fewer Than 20 Actual Employees Participated In Protests

(Yup, look at all the Walmart workers at protest in New Jersey... except I recognize they are New York Occupiers, like Yoni Miller, and Vietnam Veterans For Peace, a leftist vets organization.  These guys are professional protesters, available for the requisite leftist causes, in this case, pushing to get unions into Walmart.  This year there were fewer Walmart "associates" than even last year, where there were only about 100 involved, all across the country)

Via Washington Examiner:

A press conference call by the activist group OUR Walmart turned awkward when the group was repeatedly unable to say how many Walmart employees had joined in the group's long-planned Black Friday protests. Walmart itself put the figure at just 20.

"I don't have an actual count," said Our Walmart member Martha Sellers, a cashier at a Paramount, Calif., store, said in response to a reporter's question. "I know Walmart is saying that workers are not participating. That is wrong. They are."

Asked variations of the same question by two other reporters — one asked what percentage of protesters were Walmart employees — the activists again could not answer and grew noticeably frustrated. "It is awful that Walmart is spreading these kinds of lies," Sellers said.

Walmart spokeswoman Kory Lundberg told the Washington Examiner that most of the protesters were not employees and that those who were did not walk off the job.

"Fewer than 20 current associates have participated so far, and we've only seen six demonstrations with a current associate," Lundberg said. "Associate" is Walmart's term for an employee.

[Warph]

Saloon Owner Ordered To Remove Sign Honoring Vets

(Ahh yes... From the land of fruits & nuts, Huntington Beach, CA:
The sign has been there for six years, but now they want to pull it down?)

Via Breitbart:
http://www.hbindependent.com/news/tn-hbi-me-1128-johnnys-sign-20131126,0,4773713.story

A sign hovering above a Huntington Beach saloon for the last six years, thanking veterans for protecting our freedom, has been ordered to be removed. When he arrived at work on Monday, Johnny Kresimir, the owner of Johnny's Booze and Pool, discovered a citation had been placed on his door. A city spokeswoman for Huntington Beach said the establishment lacked the proper permits to display the sign that reads, "Thank a Veteran for your Freedom."

Kresimir posted on Facebook that the City was threatening him with a $1000 fine if he didn't produce the necessary permits to hang the sign. "If the sign goes down, it's not going to hurt our business. It's just going to hurt the community," Kresimir lamented. Veterans reacted to the incident by posting reasons for why the sign should remain perched above the bar. A campaign to keep the sign has been spearheaded by Mayor Pro Tem Matthew Harper. He pledges that he will fight to preserve the sign if it comes up before the City Council.

The metal structure that supports the sign was placed there before Kresimir purchased the saloon. Removing the sign is a big job because of the electrical wiring, and his commercial lease prohibits anyone to stand on the roof. Kresimir is dismayed that he has to take it down because he erected the sign to honor veterans and those currently serving in our military. However, the patriotic proprietor isn't giving up and plans to lobby the city to see if he can keep the sign in place. If he loses the battle, Kresimir vows to invite veterans from the area to come and say goodbye to the symbol that honors them.

[Warph]

Obuma On ObumaCrappyCare: This Is "Going To Be A Legacy
I Am Extraordinarily Proud of"

(In reality it will go down as his biggest failure)

Via CNN:

[T]he glitches aside, Obama remained confident the Affordable Care Act, passed along party lines in 2010, would form a large part of his presidential legacy.

"I continue to believe and I'm absolutely convinced that, at the end of the day, people are going to look back at the work we've done to make sure that in this country, you don't go bankrupt when you get sick, that families have that security," Obama told Walters. "That is going be a legacy I am extraordinarily proud of."

That legacy – and what can be done while he's still in office to bolster it – does weigh on the president's mind, he admitted.

"Every president in their second term is mindful that you've only got a limited amount of time left," Obama said. "You want to make sure that you are squeezing every last ounce of energy that you have to try to deliver on the commitments you made to the American people."
BUNK

[Warph]

Here's What Happened When Families Brought Up
ObumaCrappyCare Over Thanksgiving

(Oh yeah... I can hear it now... LOL)

Via Newsbusters:

Thanks, Obama! Here's what happened when Obamacare came up at Thanksgiving dinners.

... For some families, Obamacare at the holiday table was a recipe for disaster. New Thanksgiving tradition: Screaming arguments.

Thanks, Obama (six tweets this list and the one which follows were selected from longer compilations — Ed.):

- "My family is drunk and screaming at each other about Obamacare."

- "Family fighting over Obamacare. lol here we go."

- "Yay! Inevitable Obamacare extended family argument time!"

- "Arguing about Obamacare and social media at the dinner table.... I'm so done wow can I sleep now?"

- "Oh no. Someone brought up health insurance and obamacare and now theres lots of yelling."

- "Everybody's drunk and yelling at each other about obamacare and its not even 5 yet."

But Obamacare chatter at the dinner table didn't just lead to misery. For some, there was family unity... but not in the way Demo-Rats intended:

- "We held a family vote on Obama Care and we were unanimous in being "agin" it. First time we've all agreed on anything."

- "Followed obama's advice to discuss #obamacare during turkey dinner. Family consensus was obama is worst Pres in US history."

- "Well we sat down as a family and all talked about the failure of #obamacare today at dinner. Thats what we were supposed to do, right?"

- "We discussed #Obamacare at Thanksgiving dinner. We all still agree that it sucks."

- "The only remotely liberal family member at Thanksgiving dinner today didn't say a word in defense of Obamacare. Sorry, @OFA."

- "Here was our conversation about O'care at dinner; Obamacare sucks, now please pass the mashed potatoes" – "#Obamacare talk w family went better then expected. They all agreed ACA should be repealed!!"

- "We discussed obamacare over dinner as we were instructed. First time this family has been in total agreement about anything. Obamacare SUCKS"

[Warph]

Barbarians And Government 'Glitches'

(The great Thomas Sowell with some basic truths)

Via Thomas Sowell:

Many people take pride in defying the conventions of society. Those conventions of society are also known as civilization. Defying them wholesale means going back to barbarism. Barbarians with electronic devices are still barbarians.

After the government shutdown crisis, the one thing that congressional Democrats and Republicans finally agreed on was to kick the can down the road a few more months, so that we can go through all this again — and perhaps again after that.

One of the best peace speeches I ever read was one delivered back in the 1930s — by Adolf Hitler! He knew that peace speeches would keep the Western democracies from matching his military buildup with their own, or attacking him to prevent his buildup from continuing. Peace speeches by Iran today serve the same purpose of buying time — until they can create a nuclear bomb.

President Obama really has a way with words, such as calling the problems that millions of people have had trying to sign up for ObamaCare "glitches." When the Titanic sank, was that a "glitch"?

[Ross]

Quick tell the Muslims, tell the Muslims

Do you think this information will become part of the Common Core.

This is a highly edumacted man, a Doctor talking to you now. Pay close attention. LOL

Science

Top Scientist: Humans Emerged After Chimpanzee Had Sex With Pig
Nov. 30, 2013 1:15pm Oliver Darcy


One of the world's leading authorities on genetics says the human race was born into existence after a chimpanzee mated with a pig.

Dr. Eugene McCarthy's stunning claims were made in an online article, although it was not clear when the startling findings was initially published.

According to the University of Georgia scientist, while human beings share a number of characteristics with chimpanzees, there are others that don't correspond with the primates.

"What is this other animal that has all these traits? The answer is Sus scrofa – the ordinary pig," he wrote.


A leading scientist suggests human beings emerged after a primate mated with a pig. (Image source: Shutterstock)

"The tentative scenario that I picture is that human beings came into being via hybridization between a pig, whose best modern representative is Sus scrofa, and an ape, best represented today by the pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus," he added.

McCarthy's claims even initially stunned him.

"I must admit that I initially felt a certain amount of repugnance at the idea of being a hybrid," he stated. "The image of a pig mating with an ape is not a pretty one, nor is that of a horde of monstrous half-humans breeding in a hybrid swarm."


"The image of a pig mating with an ape is not a pretty one..."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/30/top-scientist-humans-emerged-after-chimpanzee-had-sex-with-pig/

[Warph]

Dem Sen. Bob Menendez: ObumaCrappyCare Puts Democrats In "Great Position" For 2014

(He's so full of sh*t I'm surprised we can't see it coming out of his ears)

Via HuffPo:
Despite the troubled rollout of Obamacare, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said Sunday that he believes the health care law will be an advantage rather than a liability to Democrats seeking reelection next year.

"I think that senators are going to be a in a great position to say, 'Look, we are doing dramatic changes that help you be able to meet the challenges for your family of health care and eliminate some of the greatest evils that existed under the previous system,'" Menendez, a former chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

The Obama administration has been scrambling to fix glitches with the HealthCare.gov website and to mollify widespread criticism over dropped insurance plans. Recent polling shows that the president's approval ratings have tanked sharplydue to the problems with the health care law's rollout.

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Obama Administration Gets Played By Hamid Karzai

(Meanwhile Karzai continues to get hundreds of thousands in cash
under the table from the US)

Via Daily Caller:
The Obama administration continues to get played in crucial national security negotiations by Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai.

The accidental killing last week of a 2-year old civilian in a U.S. airstrike, which Karzai condemned, has given the Afghan leader even more leverage in his negotiations over U.S. troop withdrawals.

The U.S. wants to be able to keep up to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after its withdrawal at the end of 2014, but Karzai is stalling on the negotiations. Though senior elders want Karzai to sign the security agreement, Karzai does not appear prepared to accept the U.S. terms, and the Obama administration is "losing confidence" in him. Susan Rice talked to him last Monday in Kabul, but Karzai didn't budge.

Without a deal, the Obama administration will withdraw completely at the end of 2014 the way it did previously in Iraq — a move that has been blamed for recent violence in the country.

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Report: Obuma's Secret Talks With Iran Led Him To Shelve
Strike On Syria[/color

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(Obuma is officially Ayatollah Khamenei's bitch)

Via Times of Israel:

President Barack Obama's last-minute decision not to carry out an intended punitive strike against Syria's President Bashar Assad this summer, after Assad killed almost 1,500 of his own people with chemical weapons, was influenced by secret US back-channel discussions with Iran, Israel's security and intelligence community reportedly believes.

The issue of Assad's chemical weapons use came up in the secret US-Iran contacts held in recent months in Oman, Israel's Channel 2 news reported Friday, and it quoted unnamed Israeli intelligence and security sources asserting Obama's change of heart was affected by those contacts.

The report underlines Israeli concerns, frequently stated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that Iran is fooling the US about its ostensibly moderate intentions, and that the US is being duped into unjustifiably warming relations with Iran, while Israel is gradually becoming isolated in its unbending opposition to Iran's nuclear program. The same TV news broadcast also quoted unnamed Israeli government officials denouncing Obama for mishandling the Geneva nuclear negotiations, with the result that Iran has been granted the "right" to enrich uranium and economic sanctions pressure on Iran is collapsing.

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North Carolina ObumaCrappyCare Navigator Group That Planned To
Sign Up 5,800 People:
"We've Yet To See An Application From Start To Finish"

(In other words, they missed their 5,800 goal by exactly 5,800 people)

Via WSJ:

Even when the Obama administration was under the impression that the launch of the Affordable Care Act was going to work splendidly, with a first-rate website, the plan still called for "navigators" to help people sign up. Now, with the ACA website Healthcare.gov hobbled, and even many of the president's supporters grumbling that the law may need a radical rethinking, the work of the tens of thousands of these helpers is more vital than ever.

How's it going? Not well, to judge from a visit with navigators in North Carolina, one of 34 states that decided not to open their own health-insurance exchanges.

Durham is a relatively low-income city—nearly 19% of the residents are below the poverty level—that is 41% African-American and 14% Hispanic. It is the type of place that the White House expects to benefit most from ObamaCare. Yet the navigators I spoke with there earlier this month say interest has been sparse. Organizations like the Alcohol and Drug Council of North Carolina and the Lincoln Community Health Center that received federal funds to hire navigators are contemplating how to reach out to potential enrollees, given that waiting for phone calls or walk-ins is not proving fruitful.

[...]

Mr. Myint is prohibited from steering her toward one plan or another, and Ms. Munier, saying it's all too confusing, wants more time to look over her options. For today, she doesn't enroll on the exchange.

It's a familiar experience for Mr. Myint. After starting Oct. 1, when the exchanges went live, his organization was aiming to sign up 5,800 people by the end of March 2014. It has a long way to go.

"We have yet to see an application from start to finish," he says.

The current HHS navigator grants last for one year, ending next fall. Surveying the battlefield, Mr. Myint says: "I think there will be plenty of navigation left to do after this year."

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Open Season On Tea Party

(IRS gearing up to suppress the vote in 2014)

Via US News:

In the 2010 midterm elections, the Tea Party delivered the president its famous "shellacking." Riding a wave of discontent over his health care law and out-of-control spending the movement took back control of the House of Representatives. In the 2012 presidential election, the movement's impact seemed more subdued, and President Obama won re-election.

One of the reasons why this may have happened became widely known only after the election: the IRS had singled out tea party and other conservative groups for special treatment when they applied for tax-exempt status, leading to costly delays and the elimination of part of the Republican Party's ground game. After initial claims that low-level employees in the IRS' Cincinnati office had been solely responsible for this targeting were shown to be false, two acting commissioners of the IRS, Steven Miller and Danny Werfel, and the head of its section on tax-exempt organizations, Lois Lerner, were forced to resign. In the aftermath of the revelations, President Obama referred to the IRS' activities as "outrageous," claimed that had been unaware, and called for accountability, "so that such conduct never happens again."

That was then. This Tuesday, the administration decided that instead of making sure the 2014 midterm elections will not be tainted by similar restrictions on the activities of 501(c)4 organizations, it was going to legalize and institutionalize the IRS' practices. I guess that's one way to do it. British comedian Harry Enfield first suggested this strategy in a skit about police officers in Amsterdam, a city well known for its lax attitude toward the consumption, possession and sale of soft drugs. In the skit, one of the Dutch policy officers explains that burglary used to be a major problem in Amsterdam, but then it was legalized, and the problem was solved.

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ABC News: White House On Track To Miss 7 Million
ObumaCrappyCare Sign Up Goal By 6 Million

(They'll be lucky to hit a million)

Via Free Beacon:

ABC Rebecca Jarvis reported on the Obama administration, recent report that the Obamacare website has improved substantial in the month of November.

Despite some improvement with website Jarvis states " at the current rate, the rate that we know this website is running at. If they want to get seven million peopled signed up it will fall short of that number. Were looking at million people, at the current rate signed up in the amount of time they were expecting."

[Warph]

Quick tell the Muslims, tell the Muslims

Do you think this information will become part of the Common Core.

This is a highly edumacted man, a Doctor talking to you now. Pay close attention. LOL

Science

Top Scientist: Humans Emerged After Chimpanzee Had Sex With Pig
Nov. 30, 2013 1:15pm Oliver Darcy


One of the world's leading authorities on genetics says the human race was born into existence after a chimpanzee mated with a pig.

Dr. Eugene McCarthy's stunning claims were made in an online article, although it was not clear when the startling findings was initially published.

According to the University of Georgia scientist, while human beings share a number of characteristics with chimpanzees, there are others that don't correspond with the primates.

"What is this other animal that has all these traits? The answer is Sus scrofa – the ordinary pig," he wrote.

Now you know how Barack Hussein Obuma came to be and why they are holding his birth certificate as not to embarass the united states because they elected a Chimpig... twice!  Now that this has come out and the MSM will have a field day reporting about it,
and the sad part is that the doctor will have to die in a funky car accident to cover this up.  BTW, Here's  a video on Obuma's last trip to Afghanistan, taking a crap like chimps do and banging a poor shetland pony on his way to see Karzai. 

[Warph]

ATF Agent: How Our Government Gave Guns To Mexican
Drug Cartels – Operation "Fast and Furious"

(This is an excerpt from the new book, "The Unarmed Truth" written by an agent with the ATF who outlines exactly how the guns were dealt to the cartels)

Via NY Post:

In September 2009, John Dodson, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was assigned to the ATF's Phoenix office. What he found there shocked him. The bureau was encouraging gun dealers to sell weapons in bulk to known straw buyers, who would funnel those guns to Mexican drug cartels. Known as Operation Fast and Furious, it ended with the death of at least one American law enforcement officer. Dodson became a congressional whistleblower, and the investigation into the operation is ongoing. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, "The Unarmed Truth," Dodson explains how tragically inept Fast and Furious was.

'It's like the underwear gnomes," my ATF colleague Lee Casa told me one time as we recounted the latest bizarre goings-on in Phoenix.
"What?" I asked.

"You ever watch 'South Park'? There's this episode where all the boys get their underwear stolen by these underwear gnomes. They track them down to get it back and one of them asks why they are stealing everyone's underwear. The gnomes break out this PowerPoint and reveal their master plan: Phase One: Collect underpants . . . Phase Two: ? . . . Phase Three: Profit."

"We're doing the same thing," he explained. "We know Phase One is 'Walk guns' and Phase Three is 'Take down a big cartel!' "

Both of us were laughing now; a more fitting and appropriate allegory could never be found. Casa concluded, "Just nobody can figure out what the f–k Phase Two is!"

What was happening did at times almost seem like a spoof. Letting guns "walk" was a tactic that I had never before seen or even contemplated. It simply wasn't done.
I couldn't understand how anyone could argue that allowing guns that ought to have been in law-enforcement custody to go to known or suspected criminals — people who shouldn't have been near a gun, people who almost certainly would be passing them on to Mexico's most brutal drug cartels — wasn't madness.

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George Will: "All Hell Is Going To Break Loose" When Employers Dump Plans Because Of ObumaCrappyCare

(Will's scenario is very real and nothing is being done to stop it)

Via NRO:
George Will urged supporters of Obamacare to take today's report of the HealthCare.gov fixes lightly as he read from the administration's status report that its functionality was still months away. Will also warned that the problems with the health-care law will not end with the website's ultimate repair, pointing out that structural elements of the law will lead to problems, such as employers dropping insurance plans.

"Watch the employers, because if they start dumping people into Medicare and into Medicaid, and the doctors then say, 'The burdens are too high, and the reimbursement is too low, we're not seeing Medicaid patients,' then all hell is going to break loose," he said on Fox News Sunday.

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OFA Becomes Amway Or "OFAmway" — Talk To Your Kids, Bug Them, Sell Them Insurance

BUY MY CRAPPY CRAP FROM MY GEOCITIES SITE OR ELSE SUCKER!)

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GoofBall Of The Day

Dem Rep. Keith "I'm a Muzzie" Ellison Gushes Over Obuma's
"Integrity" By Apologizing To Those Who "Misunderstood"
Him On ObumaCrappyCare

(Yeah, Keith, people "misunderstood" him because he LIED to them)

Via WFB:
Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn. Muzzie) did his best to spin President Obama's debunked promise about Americans keeping their health care plans if they liked them Sunday on This Week, saying Obama showed "integrity" in apologizing to Americans who "misunderstood" him about the Affordable Care Act.

Obama made some version of the promise publicly at least 36 times while campaigning for Obamacare and then after it was passed. With millions of cancellation policies being sent around the country and public support for the law crumbling, Obama apologized last month in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd.

"He owned it," Ellison said. "He said, look man, if you misunderstood what I was trying to say, I'm sorry about that. I think that shows integrity. He didn't do anything to self-promote." (Horsesh!t)

[Warph]

ATF Targets WhistleBlowers On Fast and Furious Scandal...

ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent's Fast and Furious book

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book, claiming his retelling of the Mexico "gun-walking" scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/6/atf-tries-block-whistleblowing-agents-fast-and-fur/

(Here is Sharyl Attkisson's interview with Dodson about the attempt to get back at him by the Justice Department)

Via Sharyl Attkisson - CBS:
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson

The ATF originally tried to block whistleblower John Dodson from publishing his book "The Unarmed Truth" about Fast and Furious. The ATF said the book would hurt morale and harm the agency's working relationship with the DEA and the FBI.

After the ACLU and Charles Grassley stepped in on Dodson's behalf, the ATF said publishing was okay.

But the Justice Department says, under ethics rules, Dodson cannot accept compensation for writing the book. According to the Justice Department:

"Title 5 is a government-wide rule barring active federal employees from profiting off their position in the government."That rule cannot be waived. For as long as he continues to work in government, Mr. Dodson remains free to speak out about his experiences and publish his book, just not for a profit."

Dodson responded: "Compensation has never been my motive to writing the book... The book will be released regardless. However, I do find it hard to reconcile how the very same agencies who thought of approved & employed the strategies used in Fast & Furious only to later attempt to cover it up by lying to Congress and the American people, ignoring the rule of law withholding documents, and smearing whistleblowers now asserts themselves to be the sole authorities who preside over this or any other 'ethical inquiry. The conflict is obvious."

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ATF tries to block Fast and Furious whistle-blower from publishing book Obamas plan Operation 'Fast & Furious'

October 7, 2013

The ATF agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious has been denied permission to write a book on the botched anti-gun trafficking sting "because it would have a negative impact on morale," according to the very agency responsible for the scandal.

After first trying to stop the operation internally, ATF Agent John Dodson went to Congress and eventually the media following the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were sold through the ATF operation.

Dodson's book, titled "The Unarmed Truth," provides the first inside account of how the federal government permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, despite evidence the guns killed innocent people.

Dodson, who is working with publisher Simon and Shuster, submitted his script to the department for review, per federal rules. However, it was denied.

Greg Serres, an ATF ethics official, told Dodson that any of his supervisors at any level could disapprove outside employment "for any reason."

Serres letter said: "This would have a negative impact on morale in the Phoenix Field Division and would have a detremental effect [sic] on our relationships with DEA and FBI."

The national office of the American Civil Liberties Association is representing Dodson as he fights the decision. ACLU attorney Lee Rowland says the agency's restriction is overly broad.

Rather than provide a specific objection with would allow for a line-by-line redaction, ATF used a policy that "grants supervisors the discretion to censor critical speech simply because it annoys or embarrasses the ATF," Rowland wrote in a letter delivered Monday.

"Given the national importance of both the Fast and Furious operation and ATF practices more broadly, ATF faces an extremely high burden in demonstrating that its interests outweigh Agent Dodson's right to speak-and the public's right to hear-his views about Operation Fast and Furious," she explained.

First Amendment rights are especially strong when the speech affected deals with public policy, Rowland said, requiring the government to meet a very high bar. Precisely because Dodson's views differ dramatically from those of his supervisors, his "thoughts and opinions" should not be censored, Rowland said.

Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl said the federal code prohibiting employees from outside compensation from speeches and writing could pose a significant problem for Dodson.

"He is still an agent with the ATF and the ATF has very strict restrictions," Wiehl said. "You can't receive compensation for outside employment, including writing a book, without permission."

On the other hand Wiehl said the ATF may have overplayed its hand by saying it can deny publication "for any reason."

"What kind of hubris is that when a whistle-blower wants to go on public record - the First Amendment says he should be able to go forward," she said. "The ATF created their own embarrassment, maybe its own negligence -- that agent Dodson had the courage to reveal. And now he is being punished for that."

The ACLU argues ATF rules are "constitutionally inadequate (and result) in impermissible censorship of the speech of a public employee."

Dodson says "The Unarmed Truth" will come out in January, with or without the ATF's permission.