Binge and Purge

Thousands of names purged from FBI background check system for gun buying [More]

It's all unconstitutional kabuki anyway.

Expect to see a resurgence of the term "fugitive loophole" in 3...2...1...

[Via Jess]

All Thanks to the Make-Work Kabuki Hires with the Latex Gloves

In the past 5½ years, 42 air travelers have been detected bringing various firearms into Richmond’s passenger terminal. A record nine weapons have been confiscated this year, or an average of one every month. [More]

Statistically, so we can get a feel for the real scope of the issue we're being scared with, how does that work out? How many have then gone on to initiate force or resist? And how does confiscation and other punishment help, especially if the claim is that the "problem" is "on the rise"?

And all said, yeah, I can't imagine being that oblivious.

[Via Mack H]

Much Ado about Nothing?

He would like to see the Oversight committee convene more hearings and see some of those involved testify under oath. [More]

I would. Particularly Kevin O'Reilly

We're still getting stonewalled. If they don't do that or follow up on arms export control violations, I'm going to consider this more kabuki where no one will be held truly accountable for all the deaths that are still accruing.

It's not like the new "leadership" hasn't given me reason to be pessimistic.

And as long as we're on the subject, look at how many times the name "Hope MacAllister" shows up in the OIG Report and ask yourself why we haven't seen her on camera testifying before Congress under oath.

Mike Vanderboegh and I started out asking such questions and dragging these bastards kicking and screaming into it. It looks like we've come full circle being alone in asking them. It feels like old times.

At least Wikipedia is still making sure our names and contributions are never mentioned, so I guess none of these concerns matter.

The Better to Grope You with, My Dear

On its website, the TSA says employees “use the back of the hands for pat-downs over sensitive areas of the body. In limited cases, additional screening involving a sensitive area pat-down with the front of the hand may be needed to determine that a threat does not exist.” [More]

More interactive kabuki...

Mom'll be glad to hear that!

So will Mad Maxie!

[Via Mean Betsy]

Less than Impressed

Herschel differentiates himself from all the prag gushers on yesterday's Kongressional Kabuki over guns. [More]

In re bump stocks, I heard them talking about that as an addition in yesterday's CSPAN coverage, but so far have come up empty searching for such language in what passed.  Anybody able to advise on that?

UPDATE-- It's in "Fix NICS":

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Mystery Machine

The Feds Have Come to Chicago—With a Van That Tracks Guns [More]

How much is that stupid thing costing? And here's all we really need to know:

Despite the tech upgrade, in the three weeks that the van has spent in the Windy City, it hasn’t helped police make any arrests, according to the department Superintendent Eddie Johnson.

Ruh-roh.

Of course not. It's all mobile kabuki theater.

And we'll get away with it too, in spite of you meddling kids!

[Via William T]

Wish I'd Said That

This piece is the most disingenuous beltway Kabuki smokescreen I’ve seen in years, maybe ever. The technique is to focus on one issue, bring the big name NRA board and beltway vampire endorsement guns to bear on it — effectively reverse ad hominem to divert attention from the most fundamental problems with Norquist’s activities and positions. [More]

Comment poster Russn8r tears apart the pro-Norquist puff piece and refocuses attention to deeper fatal dangers.

"Well, Let's Go Ahead and Be Honest Now"

He danced the complete Kabuki, right down to the mandatory move about considering John McCain for his VP slot. But at the end of the day, Mike Huckabee has admitted the obvious: he'll take the Veep nomination if John McCain offers it.

And there will be no shortage of self-deluded gun owners telling themselves that's good enough for them, putting a "conservative" (!!!) a heartbeat from the presidency.

Besides, McCain has promised to appoint "strict constructionist judges"--as long as we forget that such a judge would overturn his signature legislation, and as long as we disregard his enabling democrat and rino obstructionists as a Gang of 14 leader. But that isn't stopping those desperate in their denial from offering that up as a reason for hope, and joining forces with The New York Times and The Los Angles Times, not to forget Arnhole and Sly.

So by all means, let's go ahead and be honest now. Team McCain/Huckabee is transparently predictable, and would be an undisguised con job. Some no-line-in-the-sand gun owners may be able to lie to themselves about it. Don't let them lie to you.

Car Violence Points to Need for Licensing and Registration

CRITICAL INCIDENT: USCP is responding to the North Barricade vehicle access point along Independence Avenue for reports someone rammed a vehicle into two USCP officers. A suspect is in custody. Both officers are injured. All three have been transported to the hospital. pic.twitter.com/4TXIdulJc6

— U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) April 2, 2021

The Capitol is on lockdown and the National Guard is deployed. Just what Nancy needs to keep the Kapitol Kabuki going.

I wonder how soon we'll have a name and if it will bolster the narrative.

[Via several of you]

Why So Syrian?

Was the casus belli a false flag event? Was Putin a secret partner? Was the strike the result of neocon manipulation, or was it kabuki, meant to make China consider a new paradigm of consequences for its actions? Was it both? Will Trump's enemies use the fact that he proceeded without a declaration of war to draw up articles of impeachment? Or will they not dare touch that one because ... when was the last declared war again...?

And why is it so hard to believe anything we hear about this whole bloody mess we're being pushed and dragged into from our "leaders" and from our "free press"?

The New Inquisition

Burn, heretics!!! [More]

How that will factor into the carbon emissions equation is a matter for greater minds than ours. Hey, if anyone knows climate science, it's a political science professor.

I wonder if he could help me with this vibration rattle I hear when accelerating my car. That and give me expert advice on how to safely store my guns...

Here's the muscle the good poli-sci prof lacks. And WarOnGuns Correspondent Laocoön shows how it all ties back to something else some would rather we stopped harping on:

Good thing "Republicans" are in the majority in congress and will not aggravate this ... for now.  Bad enough without congress piling on.  With the NRA having passive-aggressively collaborated for the confirmation of Sotomayor & Kagan, Scalia gone, and wussy RINOs already ovulating for Comrade Hussein's nominee, if the AGs get verdicts they may be upheld.

That's the current situation.  Soon, within 20 years, thanks to the NRA's passive-aggressive collaboration with Norquist-Bloomberg crowd's takeover and cultural terraforming of the USA through overimmigration, invasion-occupation, and the related anchor-Democrat, anchor-Sharia breeding programs, the Ds will have permanent supermajority control of all branches of the federal government and of a supermajority of the states.

Given the unassimilable deluge, 3rd-world immigrants, invaders, and anchor babies will continue to lean overwhelmingly Democrat and anti-gun - as they have since Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act Trojan Horse and Reagan's amnesty - despite any NRA reacharound, appeasement, and preemptive surrender efforts.  All the NRA can do is try to mitigate and slow the destruction wrought by the subversion of its own Norquisling board and staff.  The "good" news is that the coming Kabuki battles will enable the beltway vampires who control the NRA to con more members out of vast sums of money, adding to the nearly $400 million a year already squandered in outrageous salaries, sweetheart contracts, and donations to anti-gun, squish, and "cheap labor" RINO candidates.

The "single issue" cannot exist in a vacuum.

Congressional Fast and Furious inquiry letter falls short, lacks teeth

And while the names of ATF personnel listed on the letter are appropriate ones for further investigation, there is another government employee who doesn't work for ATF, but who nonetheless had a documented involvement in Fast and Furious fallout that has never been satisfactorily explained. Curiously, at least for those of us interested in knowing more, all lines of inquiry on his involvement dead end directly into the White House: Kevin O’Reilly. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes the latest Congressional kabuki theater act needs to do a more convincing job of masquerading as a believable investigation.

Reality TV

A Texas reporter in the Rio Grande Valley took her camera to Rincon Village and witnessed approximately 300 migrants crossing the border and turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents. The crossings occurred Tuesday night between 6 p.m. and midnight. [More]

How do you say "Kabuki" in Spanish?

We're the Only Ones Unprofessional Enough

Four DeKalb County Sheriff's Office employees are facing punishment after they were found to have acted unprofessionally during an arrest. [More]

Oh, I don't know.

As professional stormtroopers, they were top notch. Except they got caught, necessitating administrative public penance kabuki:

"I will tell you I was very appalled by what I heard. It is not what I expect from my deputies," said Brown. 

Don't worry, Sheriff. I'm sure they were just a few bad app...uh... a "rogue subset"...

We all know DeKalb is de place for devoted deputies.

[Via Bluesgal]

'Shooting Death' Kabuki

A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths [More]

Say, here's an idea: Why not compare and publicize how gun-free Japan does to, say, the NRA, with a population of 4 million of the most heavily-armed citizens on the planet?

But then, that would effectively kill the argument that it's the guns, wouldn't it?

One Hurdle Cleared

Colorado Senate Approves Repeal Of Ammunition Magazine Law [More]

I wouldn't go dancing in the streets just yet.

I wonder how much of this is just political kabuki...

[Via cydl]

Baggage Claim

Austin police announced on Wednesday they have made two additional arrests in connection with an Austin airport baggage handler who was stealing handguns from baggage that he sometimes traded for marijuana, police and the Justice Department said.  [More]

Between these morons and TSA thugs, who thinks "airport security" is anything more than Kabuki theater...?

A Sacrificial Lamb

“Inaccuracies.” Is that how they spell “lies” these days at Eric Holder's Justice Department? [Read]

Now if they're just going to just accuse him of "screwing up," I suppose he can be induced to take it.

Only if he thinks there will be a severe price to pay will he have incentive to finger the bosses.

Otherwise, it's all kabuki. 

Laocoön Speaks

In re LaPierre at CPAC:

There's a reason Bloomberg and other anti-gun billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars for amnesty and over-immigration, and it isn't "cheap labor".

Over-immigration and government-sponsored invasion-occupation-amnesty pose a looming, ultimately fatal threat to gun rights by overwhelming the relatively conservative native born citizenry's voting control of our country. It's an indirect coup d'etat really, without a shot fired. Yet many gun rights supporters claim that the NRA can't oppose amnesty because it's a single-issue group. Fairly bizarre, if you think about it, that a gun rights group can't even acknowledge a massive indirect threat to gun rights that is near the point of no return thanks to that group's gross negligence and passive-aggressive complicity.

But the NRA has never been a single-issue group, certainly not in our lifetime. LaPierre champions all sorts of conservative issues, all except the one conservative issue that if lost will irreversibly defeat all the other conservative issues, the one threat that is soon to lock down the victory of the full Bloomberg gun control agenda, the one that will give the Dems permanent supermajority control of the USA and every institution within it. There is no such thing as a pro-gun Democrat. The D party is an anti-gun institution, led by gun grabbers. *All* Dems are anti-gun regardless of superficial positions and phony NRA grades. They all support anti-gun leadership, all support anti-gun candidates like Obama, all confirm extreme anti-gun nominations, etc. Don't worry though, there will still be RINOs around providing Kabuki hope for chumps.

Only GOA has had the courage, diligence and integrity to acknowledge amnesty as a gun rights issue and try to do anything about it. In fairness, the gun rights intelligentsia is very, very busy on higher priority items, like congratulating themselves on all the legal victories Bloomberg & Co will have ratcheting power to begin rolling back within a decade. There will be plenty of time for the gun rights intelligentsia to discuss this threat once it's too late to stop. Convenient thing about waiting until it's too late is that then they won't have to even try to stop it. And that's very convenient indeed for those "gun rights champions" who passive-aggressively support Bloomberg & Company's immigration coup d'etat.

An addendum to anti-illegal immigration activists:

Please read David Codrea's article and forward. He has other articles that need to be given some exposure. Why, for Heaven's sake, is the immigration control community neglecting or burying this unique angle on the immigration issue which -- if these groups were willing to lift a pinkie -- they could easily use to make allies with 110 million gun owners and probably compel the most powerful citizen group to stand with us? I haven't seen a single immigration group forward or discuss any of David Codrea's articles or Gun Owners of America's alerts, even as news. These groups wouldn't have to take a partisan or pro-gun stand, but there's nothing stopping them from reporting it as *news* for cripe's sake, to let their members discuss it and *study* it on blogs and so forth. Not only is nothing stopping them, it's their duty.

Then again, these groups have long behaved as if our side has the luxury of leaving huge amounts of potential power on the table. Mindlessly lobbying the enemy, no credible election organization, claiming that subversion and gross dereliction facilitating invasion and carnage are "discretionary" and not impeachable, etc. Which is why they need to get used to losing big, beginning soon.

That's pretty much what we're dealing with. Smart and principled activism is the key element missing between organized internet fleecing and people saying "Screw it, bring it on."

I would like to thank my friend and adviser for his wisdom and support.

Kabuki Air Theater Presents

TSA allows Kennedy Airport passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened [More]

I'd be proceeding from the assumptions that this may have been no mere act of incompetent negligence, and that something coould have been walked through and secreted for later use by an embedded asset. And I'd be looking for signs of payoffs.

That's OK. At least they got my Mom.