{"id":73117,"date":"2020-01-17T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73117"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T17:09:51","slug":"gleiwitz-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73117","title":{"rendered":"Gleiwitz, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On August 31 1939, a team of SS propaganda operators dressed as Polish soldiers “captured” a German radio station near the town of Gleiwitz (today the Polish town of Gliwice), close by the Polish border. They did a quick broadcast in Polish, and then fled – dumping the body of a local, loaded with sabotage paraphernalia, as well as those of a group of Dachau inmates that’d been dressed in Polish army uniforms and then shot to make it look like the Germans had repelled a Polish assault. It was one of many false-flag “attacks” along the German\/Polish border that morning used by the Nazi regime as a potemkin casus belli<\/em> for the invasion that started pretty much before the bodies were cold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t help think about that when I heard that Virginia Governor Blackface McMinstrel was banning legal civilian carry at the Virginia State Capitol during this weekend’s gun right lobbying rally, because of “threats of violence” on the part of (naturally) law-abiding gun owners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I figured this was more or less like Ilhan Omar’s “death threats” last summer at the State Fair – a few of the usual loonies who make threats from the comfort of their mom’s basement, a steady drizzle of which accompanies most public life, but whose timing, in some cases, is just perfect for diverting attention from an inconvenient reality. In Omar’s case, I have little doubt there was <\/em>a threat, somewhere, from someone. Credible? No – but enough to throw out there to divert the media’s attention from the gathering storm of allegations against her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in the case of Governor McMinstrel, something to cast him, his Democrat legislative majority, and the thin little film of Bloomberg-funded victim disarmament activists standing between him and defeat in the next elections, as the victims – after spending their first term trashing the rights of law-abiding Virginians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notwithstanding the fact that law-abiding gun owners, as an absolute rule, are better behaved, singly and collectively, than the general public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, there <\/a>has <\/a><\/em>been arrest<\/a> of some people ostensibly headed to Virginia for something<\/em>. Maybe. That’s what we’re told, anyway. Which, given the electoral fury that McBlackface’s coup <\/em>on liberty has stirred up (and he may not have seen anything yet), and which may have not yet crested, may may have made the three saps that got arrested the most perfectly-timed patsies since the “North Vietnamese Torpedo Boats” in Tonkin Gulf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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