The Kwamessar Vanishes

In a courtroom this morning, Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstructing justice by committing perjury.

"Felony...?"

Does that now make him a prohibited person against guns?

I guess not--they took his picture down. Geez that's cold--he doesn't even officially resign until 7:00...



The Commissar Vanishes! Kwam...uh...Commies do it all the time.

The Commissar Vanishes

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How unsurprising. Erasing history is one of the oldest tricks in the collectivist playbook...

What lying cowards, these "adults" behaving like children who got caught doing something bad.  How typically "progressive."

Now scoot.  But put a damn towel on the seat if you're going to wear your mankinis.

Jeez, that's one commissar I'd like to see vanish...

Vanishing Act

Yesterday, I linked to a post at Armed and Safe discussing the Snuffy Pfleger/commie nexus, and gave you the lyrics to a couple Songs of the Revolution pledging to murder the middle class with knives and guns.

No wonder these wretched, demonic creatures want us helpless.

I also said I'd post a tangentially-related piece that I wrote about 10 years ago. Here it is.
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VANISHING ACT
Stalinist Propaganda Tactics of the Gun-Banners

Art historian David King's The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia provides graphic evidence of a key disinformation technique used by the infamous tyrant, the erasure of disfavored individuals from the memory of the collective.

Quite simply, photographs were retouched to eliminate any evidence that a purge victim ever existed, the same picture being revised again and again as new unfortunates fell into official disapproval. In a macabre real-life version of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, the cover of King's book shows four versions of the same photograph, the number of people in it dwindling with progressive edits down to a solo portrait of Comrade Stalin.

The methodology for creating (or rather, obliterating) what Orwell called "unpersons" in his nightmare vision of totalitarian domination, 1984, reached new levels of bald-faced outrageousness under the Soviet despot's brutal rule. That is, until the advent of the latter-day gun grabbers.

It's not surprising that gun control advocates have adopted deception to cover their tracks and remove evidence of affiliations that could expose their hypocrisies. After all, these are the people who, as proven by Aaron Zelman and Jay Simkin in Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny, translated Nazi gun laws into the 1968 Gun Control Act–and do you really think that anyone who embraces Nazi laws would blanch from using Stalinist methods to get what they want? These are the liars who would corrupt the intent of the Constitution and disarm their countrymen. And these subversives deserve our contempt and resistance as surely as if they openly advocated the rest of the dictatorial agenda they are enabling.

Strong words? Aren't I being a little rough on people who simply hold a different political view than I? Let's walk through this and do a little experiment by examining an elementary question: How do you know if someone is lying?

Obviously, you look at what they say, and then you compare it to what they do. If there's a disconnect between the two, Bingo! Simple, right? So when Orrin Hatch or Trent Lott make noises about supporting the Second Amendment, and then turn around and endorse anti-gun legislation, you have every right to assume that you have just been betrayed. When they rationalize it as necessary to forestall even more draconian legislation, what they're really saying is they want to see how stupid you are, and how much you'll let them get away with. And when they tell you that a vote against them is a vote for someone who will really hurt you, they have committed the political equivalent of date rape, counting on your being too bewildered and powerless to do anything about it. Historically, they've been right 999 out of a thousand times, and by the way, you'd better put some ice on that.

The guy who is the master at this is Bill Clinton, possibly the most accomplished liar in a tradition dating back to the first shaman who ever duped his way into power. So when he tells you that it's paranoid to worry about the camel's nose under the tent, and that he only wants "to save kids' lives," you would do well to look at what his Justice Department argued in the current Emerson case, i.e., "it is well settled" that the Second Amendment is not an individual right. In other words, if you compare what he says to what he does, there's no other conclusion but the guy is lying to you and rejecting your claim to an unalienable right–by denying it was ever a right in the first place. Could any but an idiot or a lying apparatchik zealot characterize the motives of someone who would do this as benign?

If you're going to consistently deceive the masses, it helps to have the media on your side. If nothing else it's what they don't report that gives aid and comfort to the anti-defense lobby as much the outright falsehoods and naked socialist advocacy that they foist on the public as news.

Case in point: suppose (hypothetically, now!) that someone prominent in the "gun culture," say, Tom Selleck, murderously assaulted Charlton Heston and then threatened to return and finish him off. If I could document such an attack, do you think that anti-defense media outlets like The Los Angeles Times would restrain themselves from pointing out the "gun extremist" tie-in? Do you doubt that the association with "the culture of violence" would be exploited with fervor and glee?

So if the same thing happened on the other side, you'd at least hear about the connection, right? No? You never heard that WHEN HE'S NOT MAKING DEATH THREATS, LATRELL SPREWELL IS A LEADING SPOKESMAN FOR GUN CONTROL?

Contemplate the following that I wrote back in December, 1997, at the height of Sprewell's notoriety–which certainly made it timely and newsworthy. My writing limitations notwithstanding, all of the information was documented with referenced sources, and then made available to the aforementioned LA Times, which wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. It's original title was "Catch a Falling STAR," but I now like to think of this as "The Story That Never Was" :

The Converse STAR Team Program, according to Handgun Control, Inc., "is the nation's PREMIER gun violence prevention program…designed to help youth…manage problems, such as conflict…non-violently without guns." Described as a "joint effort of Converse, Inc. and Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (CPHV)," STAR program materials are being taught in grades Pre-K through 12 "in over 70 municipalities nationwide, including…New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dade County (FL)."

Leading the list of "prominent athletes [who] serve as spokespersons for the program" is none other than Latrell Sprewell! Spree (which my dictionary defines as "an unrestrained indulgence") demonstrated his ability to "engage in creative expression and leadership" by throttling Golden State Warriors coach P.J. Carlesimo, and, after being pulled off, returned to attack his boss again, this time threatening to kill him.

Describing himself as "a good person" who "never had a situation like this come up before," Spree insists that he is being treated unfairly. He complains we never see him smile. He doesn't think his punishment is warranted. Jumping to his defense is anti-gun San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who suggests that, "Maybe the coach deserved choking."

If this is true, might Mr. Sprewell still be an effective voice to teach our youth "gun violence prevention messages and strategies"? Actually, if you look at his past behavior, he seems to provide an excellent illustration of the need to carry a gun, if for no other reason than as a defense against himself.

Case in point– two years ago, he went after teammate Jerome Kersey with a 2-by-4. His reaction after being restrained? He threatened to return with a gun! Sounds like the perfect "prominent voice [to] highlight solutions to America's escalating crisis of handgun violence," doesn't he?

And in 1995, the same year he joined the Converse STAR Team, Oakland police officer Scott Fakuda reported that Sprewell threatened him over a traffic incident, telling him, "You can be shot real easy and people get shot out here." Charges were dropped only because the Alameda County D.A. believed the comments lacked "credibility and immediacy as a righteous threat." What is not known is if Willie Brown thinks maybe the cop deserved shooting.

Something else that's not known is why Spree's HCI connection has not been covered by anyone in the media. I compiled the information needed to write this piece in under two hours. Where were the major players? Could anyone credibly argue that, in light of recent events, Sprewell's endorsement of gun control is not newsworthy?

This is the astounding hypocrisy which the gun banners and their corporate, political, education and media accessories apply to everything they do. How dare CPHV and Converse hold this violent misfit up to our children as someone to be heeded and emulated? A group truly interested in the welfare of kids would have recalled the program materials after the incident in 1995. But apparently, the money this would cost takes precedence over doing the right thing.

Latrell Sprewell can teach my kids nothing– as a matter of fact, I don't want them subjected to his influence in any manner. It's time he and his promoters got sidelined from our schools for good.

Now here's the kicker–what ties this in with Stalinist propaganda of the first order: shortly after making this story available to the media, Sprewell's name was deleted from the list of STAR celebrities. I don't know if this reflects a tip-off or not, but the coincidence of timing is certainly curious. Also, were this simply a reflection of his being booted off the STAR team, as Converse publicly did when they removed him as a product spokesman, such a deletion would be legitimate. But the erasure did not occur until 1998, and the list they modified purported to be the roster from 1995 to 1997!

In other words, HCI went into their promotional materials and REWROTE HISTORY, removing someone who could turn out to be a public embarrassment from the record. The Commissar, I mean, the Converse STAR vanishes.

But then, deception has ever been the stock in trade of those who would take away our rights. And to mistake their core motives as anything but evil would be a grave mistake.

Consider the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the domestic arm of Socialist International (Stalin, you'll recall, led the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whereas Hitler headed up the National Socialist Party). Basically, these are the folks who want to supplant freedom with a plague that has produced tyranny, misery and genocide since it first broke out. In another time, we would have called them "Nazis" or "Commies." Now, more often than most people realize, we call them "Congressman."

For affiliated with the DSA is an entity known as "The Progressive Caucus," 58 of the most rabidly left-wing politicians to ever menace the future of the Republic. These are people like David Bonior and Maxine Waters, Charles Rangel, Barney Frank and Henry Waxman. And importantly, one of the things they share with our former president is a contempt for the Second Amendment. Because they know that every tyranny that ever beat its subjects into dehumanized submission had first to disarm them, rendering them subservient and helpless.

And lest you think I'm overly alarmist, I'd like to offer a final bit of cheer from the good folks over at the DSA and their Progressive Caucus executors.

Do you like songs? So does the DSA, so much that they have devoted a page on their website to hymns glorifying their "struggle" (i.e., what Hitler called Mein Kampf ). The following in particular should be of special interest, since the people they're talking about, the "bourgeoisie," are you and me! And they really explain (better than anything I could say) why the socialists need to take away our guns. Ready? All together now:

Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie
Traditional American song, sung in rounds to the tune of "Frere Jacques".

Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
And when the revolution comes,
We'll kill you all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie

Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie, See How They Run
Usually sung in rounds after "Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie". Sung to the tune of "Three Blind Mice".

Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
See how they run,
See how they run
And when the revolution comes,
We'll kill them all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie

Nice bunch, huh? Kinda makes you want to be a good citizen and register, better yet, turn in those guns?

EPILOG:

The Democratic Socialists of America have removed "Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie" and "Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie, See How They Run" from their website. No evidence that the songs were ever posted remains. They have vanished without a trace, as if they never existed at all.

The Commissar Vanishes

Yesterday:

And today:

We know why. They sure didn't waste any time covering their tracks.

Small wonder.

It's an old Stalinist trick, purging not just inconvenient former allies, but also the public memory of them.

There's even a Newspeak term for this.

Wisconsin Virtual Learning shows virtual insanity on guns

I've observed before, this is nothing short of child abuse under color of authority. It’s also an insidious form of cultural brainwashing, where references to that which the founders deemed “necessary to the security of a free State” are erased from the collective memory. It’s mass purging, not all that dissimilar to a practice perfected by the murderous tyrant Stalin, as illustrated in “The Commissar Vanishes,” and which Orwell chillingly elaborated on with his description of “unpersons.”  [More]

My latest JPFO Alert notes if "progressive educators" have their way, the Second Amendment will become an “unright,” vanished from the history books.

Light Work in Durham

Satanic Ritual Sex Crime Leads to Arrest of North Carolina Democratic Leader

There site is undergoing a little "Commissar Vanishes" maintenance, but naturally, the cache shows the Indigo Dawn casts it's "magick" illumination on The Lightworker--and, of course, on citizen disarmament, because their followers won't need guns where they're going.

God Save America

After word got out that the New York Yankees were investigating Smith's earlier lyrics on Thursday — which include offensive references to African Americans — the Flyers followed suit. By Friday, the statue was covered with a black tarp and the organization said it was removing her rendition of "God Bless America" from its library. [More]

Send it to the Confederate Monument/Commissar Vanishes graveyard because the Yankees, who "held to the color line longer than all but three teams" and the Flyers, who can only seem to find one-half of a player of color in a lineup of 24, need to desperately virtue signal in true rope-selling capitalist fashion.

[Via Mack H]

When "Authorized Journalists" and DOJ and then Obama Collide

OKEECHOBEE COUNTY ILLEGAL ALIEN PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF FIREARM [More]

Uh-oh... somebody used the "I" word.

So with its new narrative-controlling "standards" forbidding that term, how is AP able to accurately report a quote from an official federal agency?  Fortunately for them, when a story involving their administration heroes gets too conflicting for them in terms of whether they want the public to know, they just revert to their "Shhh ... don't tell anybody" default.

Any bets someone, U.S. Attorney Wilfredo A. Ferrer, for instance, gets his ass chewed and it gets passed down the chain in no uncertain terms that such "offensive" references are now verboten, and a kinder, gentler deception must be used?

Just in case anyone wants to pull a "Commissar Vanishes" revision on this, here's a screenshot of how the announcement appears at this writing:

"Real reporters" and "legitimate media": Is it any wonder we trust them  so?

UPDATE: Now that I've put them in a round room and told them to pee in the corner, let's see if they opt to just hold it:

The Correction that Wasn't

Except you go to that link and it doesn't--meaning Darlene Superville's/AP's ignorance was pointed out to them and instead of issuing a correction, they decided the best course was a mini-Commissar Vanishes erasure.  Naturally with no notice, because that would defeat the whole point of covering their tracks.

Drudge's observation is corroborated by comments on the same AP story as it appeared on Tulsa World, again with no correction notice issued:

Basic journalistic ethics: You mess up, you man up and admit it, and point out the correction.  You don't just hide it and hope no one notices. That's something a sneaky kid would do. And don't believe for a moment that just one person was in on this decision.

These are the people feeding gun information to the masses. No wonder when those masses are polled, the results reflect the ignorance and manipulation they've been subjected to by our Fourth Estate/Fifth Columnist "Authorized Journalist" Corps.

UPDATE: Doug Rink took a screenshot, and advises by email that the NYT made the same ignorant error but at least issued a correction.

#BelieveIndoctrinatedRacistLiars

Fake Hate: Virginia Girl Admits She Made Up 'Hair Cut' Assault at School Where Karen Pence Teaches [More]

And the ideological lynch mob was egged on by the usual rabble-rousers, including the newsraper of record.

Telling, how many progtwits go into "Commissar Vanishes" mode to hide how wrong they are when exposed:

[Via Michael G]

A Blast from the Past

I was finished with the NRA when the California assault weapons ban video came out. In it the NRA narrator said, not verbatim, "So like any law abiding citizen Mr. Schmuck turned in his SKS-D." [More]

Mr. Doss, actually. That would be this incident, now only available via an Internet Archive/Wayback Machine link.

I see the video has been removed and appears irretrievable, in the finest "Commissar Vanishes" tradition.

Looking for it, I did come across ugly hit piece comments from Fairfax "apologists" who can't refute reality, so instead resort to lying character attacks against the messenger, as has been their consistent MO.

And as we see from the quote link for this post, the hatred of all who point out the lack of clothes on the emperor, rather than face the truth and work toward freedom, is still all-consuming for some.

Put a Fork in it Barr, it's Done

Ian Branson finally gets Bob Barr to address the question we've been asking, and the tap-dancing and obfuscation begins. Telling the audience how he improved a bad bill hardly addressed his assertion that Lautenberg "is strong protection for women and children," or his claim that his amending language kept it from being "declared unconstitutional." He then goes on to support the concept of "prohibited persons" (how libertarian!). Incidentally, Ian has the entire event recorded--it's a monster file, 56 minutes of 720p video with a total file size of 2.46 Gb, but if you have time to download it and want to see the whole thing, right-click here and save it to your computer.

So the answer is, no, he won't repudiate his past support and spearhead the effort to repeal. Instead, he'd prefer you be caught in the trap and then go through a Catch-22 appeals process that has no funding to change anything--and won't for the foreseeable future.

It's not just me who's had enough of this guy.

David Nolan has pronounced the Barr campaign dead. Other LP activists are trying to oust him as the nominee. Meanwhile, Barr is employing the authoritarian tactic of appealing to the state to knock out his competition in New Hampshire.

I also note the post about Barr inviting Ron Paul (or more specifically, Ron Paul's money) to join his ticket is no longer featured on the main page of the Barr Blog (although entries appearing before and after it was posted do). A little "Commissar Vanishes"?

That last move was bugging me. I was trying to figure out what simultaneous wooing and insulting reminded me of, and then it hit me.


I'm going to start calling Barr Otis B. Driftwood.

Meanwhile, Over at the Malcolm X Lounge

As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office  [More]

Be great if this pans out...

In true "Commissar Vanishes" tradition, the website that could tell us has been scrubbed.

Looking around at the Columbia culture, the thought strikes that for a place that incubates socialists, these indignant children are either pretty well off or pretty well taken care of.

[Via Kris L]

Gun-Grabber Endorsed!

 Surprise! Not Really: Democrat Megadonor Nailed on Child Porn Charges [More]

I wonder if Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence will go all "Commissar Vanishes" now...

[Via Michael G]

The Commissar Vanishes

Pelosi Orders Four Portraits of Former Democratic Speakers Removed From U.S. Capitol [More]

How very "progressive."

[Via Michael G]

Unarmed Emergency Preparedness Planning

The rumored shooting was allegedly associated with Cinco de Mayo, a regional holiday in Mexico that is celebrated on the fifth of May.

...“We just asked the faculty to be visible and available and to keep all of the students at the back of the school during the lunch period on Friday and Monday,” he said.

I've said it before--what a way to get out of a test or a due homework assignment.

I've also broached the subject of armed adults on school grounds, but Wayne's voice carries farther.

Well bless me! I had to use The Wayback Machine! My old links to the LaPierre "no guns in schools except for 'only ones'" speech don't work any more--they now get routed to a speech archive page and guess which one is missing?

Little bit of "Commissar Vanishes" historical revisionism going on here, or was removal of that particular record just a coincidence? Funny--Heston's 1999 remarks are still posted...

Oh well--screen shots have been duly recorded.

[Via AvgJoe]

The Commissar Vanishes

A "champion of change." [More]

Hey, where'd she go?

And where have we see this before...?

The Commissar Vanishes

Right out of Uncle Joe's playbook...remove all traces of historical evidence.

They probably got a panicked call from their legal department worried about liability. If someone sues, I hope they subpoena not just the removed signs, but also any and all memos, emails, etc., ordering and discussing the removal, as well as obtain depositions from the decisions makers and those who carried out the removals.

Meanwhile, those of you who live in Omaha, get on your local papers and TV stations and ask them why the investigative reporting on this all seems to be getting done by lowly bloggers as opposed to highly paid, professional "Authorized Journalists." See if they'll look into why the signs were taken down, and note the names of who you spoke with.

I wonder if this was done before the "crime scene" had been cleared, and if this could possibly be construed as removing evidence, or alternatively, if "The Only Ones" greenlighted the removals?

And by the way: Kudos to Joe's Crabby Shack for the outstanding job in bringing us this information. Keep checking in on that site--it has become the "go to" place for breaking news on this story.

UPDATE: Feel free to add your voice if so inclined.