The False Flag

"All warfare Is based on deception." Sun Tzu

When a progressive realizes that their arguments are weak, they fall back on coercion. A recurring tactic of the left is the false flag operation. The name derives from a recognized naval tactic, in which a vessel which flies a friendly color in order to lure an adversary to lower their guard and come into combat range.

The false flag is exclusively a tactic of the cultural left. This is because the primary leftist agenda is the will to power. The false flag enables a person of a protected class to cry victim! in order to rally the champions of the oppressed to their side.

A perfect example of the false flag operation occurred here in San Diego a few years ago. Musical artist Jiggaboo Jones held a "Compton Cookout" DVD release party near the campus of U.C. San Diego. The party gently mocked the sensibilities of those celebrating "Black History Month." The invitation included helpful instructions for those, including white people, who wanted to be 'ghetto.' One tip for the ladies read, "ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes."

Once the promotional materials were obtained by the media, they were released without explaining the context, and the outrage machine went into high gear. Black students and their champions conducted protests. But apparently there wasn't enough indignation generated, so an enterprising student conducted a false flag operation, placing a noose inside the U.C.S.D. library. There were calls to declare the noose placement and the Compton Cookout hate crimes.

The only problem with this narrative? The student who placed the noose was later determined to be a minority. In today's world, the more you claim to be oppressed, the higher your status in the hierarchy of victimhood and martyrdom. Therefore there is a real incentive to this behavior; it is always reinforced by the champions of the oppressed.

In the hierarchy of the oppressed, there is probably no higher status than transgender. This is a class of people who willingly mutilate themselves in the belief that they were born the wrong gender. People like Brianna Wu. Encyclopedia Dramatica has a brilliant summary of Wu. There is enough abnormal psychology in a person like Wu that one must come to the conclusion that any serious harassment of her is false flag.

Trust Women?

Sabrina Rubin Erdely's fable about an alleged gang rape at University of Virginia has been exposed for the lie that it has always been. Feminist activists' main concern about this fraud, is that it may make it harder for the accounts of real victims to be believed, and thus fewer rape victims will come forward. And for this reason, we should exclude this gigantic counterfeit from the discussion about a 'rape culture?'

Should we also exclude the account of the Fallbrook woman who falsely claimed that she was raped at knifepoint while pushing a stroller? She should have been charged with filing a false police report.

Should we exclude the story of Brian Banks, who spent more than five years in prison, for a rape he didn't commit? His accuser, Wanetta Gibson, won a $750,000 settlement from the Long Beach Unified School District, claiming the school was unsafe. When Banks was released, Gibson was never charged criminally, but was ordered to pay $2.6 million.

Radfem site jezebel is among those hand-wringing about the blow-back of Erdley's scam. Blogger Tracie Egan Morrissey wondered "why would someone lie about being sexually assaulted? What could be gained from that?" Nothing, really.

Perhaps elevated status in the progressive stack, if nothing else. There is literally noone who has the moral authority to argue with a rape victim.

We demand credible rape victims because rape is unique among crimes. It is comparable to murder, in that something central to a woman's identity is taken away, her honor and security. When there has been a murder, there is usually a dead body that offers forensic evidence of the crime. In the case of rape, the veracity of the woman, her word, might be the foundation of the complaint.

The definition of rape has been expanded to include all sorts of unwanted sexual contact. If a woman is intoxicated, she cannot consent to sex; this is now considered rape. If the intoxicant is alcohol, it is impossible to determine a level of intoxication, after the fact. In this scenario, a victims's fidelity to the truth is critical to building a case.

There is also a category of rape now called, 'spousal rape.' I cannot imagine another scenario where the integrity of the victim's account is more important. The reason we must demand rape victims be completely truthful is because they alone bear the burden of rape, and the burden of proof.

All Lives Matter

Smith College President Kathleen McCartney caused great offense when she sent out an email stating, "All Lives Matter." Students were outraged because they inferred in that statement her indifference to the "anti-blackness of this current situation."

Kathleen McCartney, welcome to the progressive stack. The progressive stack is a "technique designed to ensure that people from marginalized groups get a chance to speak," according to Wikipedia.

The stack has been on display during the widespread rioting that followed the No True Bill decision in Ferguson, Missouri. A demonstration held in Toronto, by "Black Lives Matter, produced a helpful pamphlet aimed at non-black participants. Among their suggestions were that whites should "refrain from speaking to the media," and to "stand behind black folks or between us and the police."

McCartney was compelled to apologize for not using the phrase, "Black Lives Matter," in her email, which supported current protests. Her primary failure was not recognizing that the right to speak is in descending order of marginalization. Had she been black and transgender, this wouldn't even have been a story.

I think that the slogan "Black Lives Matter" would be an excellent appropriation for the Pro-Life Movement.

PETA Pats Itself On The Back

Sea World announced today that they were going to lay off more than three hundred people. Yesterday, C.E.O. Jim Atchison resigned. It must be terrible to get a pink slip at Christmastime.

But Daryl Hannah could give a fuck about a poor Sea World employee. She tweeted today, "awesome!!! -the power of information & cinema - after @blackfishmovie sea world spirals down." What a selfish, spiteful person.

For the record, I don't like that Orcas are kept in captivity, and offered a dismal habitat. We are stewards of nature, and the Orca is a noble creature that deserves better. But there are better ways to do things. You can work behind the scenes, quietly, and still effect change.

Someone with a net worth of a quarter of a billion dollars has more money than anyone could ever spend. There must be some emptiness in her soul if she needs to peddle vodka and derives glee from the destruction of a publicly-held corporation that spends millions on research.

Fuck Off, PETA. And fuck off Kathy Najimy, Steve Roggenbuck, Jordyne Runkel, and all the others morally preening on the #Emptythetanks hashtag. I live in San Diego. I like Sea World, and I support them with my dollars. For three hundred and eleven Sea World employees, all they got for Christmas is coal in their stocking, from people like Daryl Hannah, that have only coal in their hearts for them.

Dianne Feinstein Commemorates The Holocaust

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is one of the most powerful women in the world. She is the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. This committee has oversight and budgetary control over our country's security apparatus, including the CIA, NSA, FBI, Department of State and Department of Energy. In one month, she will no longer be Chair, and her influence will be on the wane.

She has decided to give comfort to our enemies on her way out the door. The interests of the Democratic Party, the Blame America First crowd, have come before our national security interests. Yesterday, she released a report entitled, "Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program." Only nobody calls it that. Those in the legacy media have only and will only refer to this document as the "Torture Report."

To accept that definition, one has to believe that waterboarding is torture, and sleep deprivation is torture. This is a point which is debatable. I'm of the belief that torture involves physical pain and /or mutilation, and that simulating drowning would be in the category of frightening and extremely unpleasant. Our nation employs waterboarding in SERE training, so there is doubt about whether it is even excessively traumatizing.

The dinosaurs of old media are credulous of the report's central theme, that these techniques yielded no actionable intelligence. This interpretation is strongly challenged by, among others, former CIA Directors George J. Tenet, Porter J. Goss and Michael V. Hayden.

A major argument against enhanced interrogation has been that it is a corruption of our "values." A nation that has been destroyed may have had noble ideals, but it abdicated its primary moral obligation: survival. The original adherents of the Geneva Conventions for nations at war could not conceive that one day, a single individual might possess information that would threaten millions of lives.

Senator Feinstein, who should know better, deserves special scorn for comparing the Shoah or Holocaust to CIA's interrogation procedures. "History will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say, never again," she said.

Never again should the Honorable Senator be in a position to slander our intelligence community.

What Would It Take To Get You Into This Clown Car, Today?

Women keep coming forward to allege that Bill Cosby raped them. It's like the tiny clown car that improbably keeps disgorging clowns. I have empathy for them, but I don't understand why they are coming forward now, decades after the criminal statute of limitations has expired.

Even the statute of limitations for most civil litigation has passed. Nevertheless, champion of wounded women Gloria Allred has been retained to clang on her cowbell for justice. A few days ago she made Cosby an offer. He could voluntarily waive the statute of limitations, or set aside $100 million in a fund for his accusers. The money would be disbursed by judges who would determine the veracity of the womens' claims.

Allred realizes that Cosby could instead do absolutely nothing.

The LAPD Chief is apparently very sympathetic and is open to investigating Cosby. He told a press conference, "We don't turn people away because things are out of statute. You come to us, especially with a sexual allegation, we will work with you."

"We will work with you?" That is something that a car salesman says to get you into a new Buick. No Credit? No Problem! It kind of reminds me of that "Saturday Night Live" sketch featuring First CityWide Change Bank. How could the department possibly justify allocating scarce resources to investigating forty-year-old rape claims?

If feminism is all about declaring female agency, it would behoove women to come forward immediately when they believe they have been violated. Because sometimes even Gloria Allred can't fix it.

Radical Environmentalists Strike Again

One of the major stories yesterday was the huge fire in Los Angeles. This fire destroyed an apartment building under construction. The conflagration was the size of a city block, and closed several major freeways downtown. Fire crews were staging equipment on the Harbor Freeway. The heat was intense enough to melt freeway signs.

This morning the story was updated, to include the fact that the fire is now being investigated as a possible criminal act. My first impression on seeing the report yesterday morning was, 'looks like E.L.F. is up to their same old bullshit.'

It was eleven years ago that the radical environmental whackos known as Earth Liberation Front torched a condominium project under construction in San Diego. They were so proud of their destructive act, they took responsibility, using banners saying, "If you build it, we will burn it." Terrorist groups really like to advertise their prowess, don't they? Just like Jihadi John televising his beheadings, they all want you to remember their name.

I predict this criminal act will be tied to E.L.F. or whatever its current iteration or inspiration calls itself. Perhaps we should also offer a citation to famous film director James Cameron, for his incitement of this behavior. The director of "Avatar," endorses violence as a legitimate way to reduce the imprint of people on the planet.

When "Avatar," was released, a reviewer asked Cameron what he thought of the idea that "Avatar is the perfect eco-terrorism recruiting tool."

Cameron replied, “Good, good. I like that one. I consider that a positive review. I believe in eco-terrorism."

No Rape To See Here

Censorship represents one version of intolerance of free speech. There is another, far more pernicious version, one that seeks to suppress thoughts themselves. For want of a better term, let's think of this as the embargo of information.

This embargo is selectively practiced by legacy media. Consider the intemperate remarks made by Elizabeth Lauten, who remarked that the First Family's daughters should, "Dress like [they] deserve respect, not a spot at a bar." Lauten was forced to resign from her position as communications director for U.S. Representative Stephen Fincher, a Republican back-bencher.

The outrage machine went into high gear, with detailed segments on the network newscasts, twitter shitstorms, news vans parked in front of Lauten's parents' house, even a cadre of investigators dispatched to scour her personal history. Yes, Virginia, there is a War On Women, and it is being waged by the progressives, always at the ready to dehumanize a member of the other tribe.

Elizabeth Lauten is guilty of the cardinal sin of hypocrisy. At least she isn't a rapist, right?

The rapist nobody ever heard of is Donny Ray Williams. As of today, a Google search of his name turns up fewer than 700,000 results, one-fifth as many as Lauten's. Legacy media does not want you to know his name as much as it wants you to know Lauten's. Lauten's transgression is used to taint the G.O.P. If the media were not suppressing Williams' heinous crimes, his behavior might taint the Democratic Party.

All Williams did, under color of authority (Staff Director, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee), was spike a woman's drink with Ambien, and rape her while she slept. He has pled guilty to, among other things, third-degree sexual assault.

Where is the manufactured outrage about 'toxic masculinity?' Have the forty-year old allegations about Bill Cosby sucked all the oxygen out of the discussion regarding rape committed by powerful men? The truth is that the media wants to protect Democrats, even if it means suppressing stories like that of Donny Ray Williams and his victims.

Censorship

Jonathon McIntosh, @radicalbytes, tweeted today: "A helpful list of things that are not censorship: criticism, boycotts, petitions, activist campaigns, civil disobedience, demanding change."

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would beg to differ. The ACLU defines censorship as "the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are 'offensive,' [which] happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups."

McIntosh's indifference to the truth is reminiscent of the acclaim from the gay mafia after forcing Brendan Eich's resignation from Mozilla for donating in favor of California's Proposition 8. Censorship, we were told, was only when the government illegally infringed on a person's freedom of speech. Mozilla, acting as a corporation, was free to censor, censure or fire Eich as it saw fit.

In the United States, this right of expression is protected by the First Amendment to the Consitution. Other countries may not have this explicit protection, but they acknowledge that this is a natural right. For example, New Zealand retailer The Warehouse Group has announced that they will stop selling all R18 games and DVD's. This will effectively remove Grand Theft Auto 5 from store shelves.

Target Australia has followed suit and banned just the one game. In the opinion of ThinkProgress, this was because the game promotes violence against women. This is factually untrue. The game portrays violence against women. Nevertheless, these corporations have the right to sell what they please. Indeed, it may be said that both Target Australia and Mozilla are exercising their right to political speech with their said actions. Mozilla's actions are analogous to the actions of the New York Times when they write an editorial, endorsing a political outcome. And both are protected speech just like that which is produced by Citizens United.

The corporations mentioned above also have the moral obligation to maximize shareholder value. Their ability to maximize shareholder value is impaired by the imposition on them of the morality of the social justice warriors. Forcing a retailer to submit to one's particular ideology is on much shakier moral ground. We have been advised by the sages to "let those who are without Sin cast the first stone."

Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Memebot

The Queen Bee of The #Gamergate Overwatch is arguably Anita Sarkeesian. She is the only member of The Overwatch to make an appearance on "The Colbert Report." The way that I process Anita is to marvel at her as a triumph of operant conditioning. This is a type of learning in which an individual's behavior is modified by its antecedents and consequences. Anyone who has a dog knows how to teach and reinforce a desired behavior: reward it.

In Sarkeesian's case, when she runs her feminist programming, she receives gratification. This happens often enough to reinforce her behavior. At this point, her feminist memes are core beliefs. To take the memebot analogy a step further, feminist grievances are part of her firmware.

Sarkeesian's behavioral reinforcement takes two distinct forms: Rising status in the feminist hierarchy, and antagonism from white cissexual males in general and gamers specifically. For Anita, expressions of hostility toward her are a feature, not a bug. A BASIC diagram of her meme program looks something like this:

10 Document the most trivial female objectification in video games, declare it misogyny.
20 Document ensuing harassment from gamers, declare it proof of this misogyny.
30 GOTO 10

It is indeed ironic that her major media debut occurred on Colbert's program. Colbert is a faux conservative, a caricature of a patriotic, cissexual white male. By exaggerating conservative beliefs, he invites ridicule. In a way, Sarkeesian invites ridicule by becoming a caricature of a feminist. The main difference between them is Anita's absolute sincerity. By the way, it should be considered a tactical mistake to go on a television program that skews younger and male, and then insult them.

On Colbert's program, Anita is asked, what is #Gamergate. Is it about ethics in journalism? Apparently no one told Colbert that video game "journalism," is practiced exclusively by social justice warriors who despise gamers.

Anita said, with a straight face, "Ethics in journalism is not what's happening, in any way!" This was the truthiest thing she said during the interview.

Calrissian's Father

A loyal member of the Overwatch has got my attention. Sarah Jones, posting under the Twitter handle @onesarahjones, has had a tweet favorited almost six hundred times. It has been retweeted four hundred and twenty four times.

On November 30, she tweeted, "pretty sure a Venn diagram of Gamergate and the men upset over a black stormtrooper in Star Wars would just be one circle." It's a cute comment, but is anybody upset over a "black stormtrooper in Star Wars?" I would chalk this up to simple psychological projection and move on, but I thought the idea deserved some deconstruction.

I would be willing to bet cash money that the black stormtrooper is a red herring. The new Star Wars movie won't be released for another year. Until then, all us fanbois can do is speculate. What can we infer from the trailer? We observe a black man in a storm trooper uniform, without his helmet. He is apparently on Tatooine, because we see undulating desert sand in the background. There is a voiceover who intones about an "awakening," just as the man appears from the bottom of the screen, perhaps aroused from a sweaty, nightmarish slumber.

The expression on his face is fear.

The only time anyone in a stormtrooper uniform ever appeared without his helmet, was when Luke took his off to introduce himself to Leia at the threshold of her prison cell. Even when stormtroopers get raked with blaster fire, killing them, their uniforms stay intact. Real stormtroopers are never seen out of uniform.

Considering that Lando Calrissian and Mace Windu are the only black males to appear in the franchise, and both played valiants, there is little chance that this black man is a villain. That wouldn't comport with the social justice template at work in cinema today. The main villain in any movie must be a white cissexual male, and so it will be in Episode 7. Watch this space.