Airport Kabuki Performance Interrupted

 The transportation security officer "advised the passenger not to touch the property, and as he opened the compartment containing the prohibited item, the passenger lunged into the bag and grabbed a firearm, at which point it discharged," TSA said. "The passenger then fled the area, running out of the airport exit." [More]

And he got away, running past countless potential helpless victims, with no instantly-alerted rapid response team able to stop him? Now imagine how effective the guys who grope you would have been had "the passenger" decided to take his gun and run to a gate that was boarding...

[Via Michael G]

Off the Wall Remarks

 Biden Should Finish the Wall

… Or the next Trump will. [More]

I'll take Option Two...

Because anything Bret  Stephens proposes advances an agenda we won't like, and Option One looks like Kabuki theater anyway...

[Via Mack H]

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]

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?

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Safest' Is

Kent State University was recently ranked the safest big college campus in Ohio and 25th safest in the country, according to the National Council for Home Safety and Security. [More]

That's because no evil maniac has chosen to exploit all the vulnerabilities, not to mention the security kabuki.

And good on the young lady, but point of order: "Banned" is appropriate for post-Hughes Amendment, otherwise you can still get one if you've got a spare year's tuition laying around (although I still don't think the "assault" designation is appropriate unless it's being used for same).

[Via bondmen]

Thank You for Choosing Kabuki Air

Police say a fight between three Worldwide Flight Services employees, who are contracted by Frontier Airlines to clean planes, led to the fatal stabbing. [More]

Funny-- for some reason they don't seem to want to release any identifying information.

But see, Mom? I told you the measures were for your own safety.

One More Thing to Get Hysterical Over

In Ohio, a convicted felon barred from owning a gun could still purchase one after passing a background check – all because dozens of courts have failed to upload some paperwork. [More]

Just goes to show it's all kabuki.

And who thinks that's the preferred method?

Or that any "law" but this can have any hope of making a difference?

[Via Jess]

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.

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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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]

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]

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 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]

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...?

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.

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]

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.

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.

fLYING Securely

Remember my Mom's forced participation in TSA Kabuki theater a while back?

Nice to know it was all worthwhile.

If the Shoe Fits

Oh, look, with Piers Morgan temporarily sidelined, another snotty metrosexual subject of the Queen has something catty to say about RKBA. [More]

So the bloody twit really believes these otherwise-unemployable mental defectives performing shoe kabuki in between molestations would actually stop a committed, coordinated assault?

[Via Jake S]