Sipsey Street Irregulars: The latest from KGB Mike Lawlor? Nothing new in the collectivist propaganda universe. Seems like I've seen that logo somewhere before.

Saturday, September 6, 2014

The latest from KGB Mike Lawlor? Nothing new in the collectivist propaganda universe. Seems like I've seen that logo somewhere before.

CT citizen disarmament weenies are all aflutter over the latest effort at collectivist propaganda: Connecticut Governor Applauds Anti-Gun Sculpture Made From Shredded Firearms

But you know what? As an ex-communist, that shaking hands logo looked pretty familiar to me. Here's the one made famous by the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, which Wikipedia tells us:

The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) was the governing Marxist–Leninist political party of the German Democratic Republic from its formation in 1946 until it was dissolved after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989.

So, there's apparently nothing new in the collectivist propaganda universe. I wonder if Malloy's anti-gun czar KGB Mike Lawlor had any input on the design?

The irony of this is delicious. Using the logo of the communist party that made the name Stasi feared throughout Europe. It really was the communist equivalent of the Gestapo. Oh, yeah. Delicious and oh so fitting.

LATER: And a reader prompts me to recall this Newsweek cover --

10 comments:

Anonymous said...: Time Magazine's "we are all socialists now" issue used it too.

thx. Mike. God Bless.; September 6, 2014 at 3:51 PM
Anonymous said...: No question that your communist days helped to uniquely qualify you to recognize and reveal the devices of today's enemy.

God chose the Pharisee Saul for a reason, too. The Apostle Paul had firsthand knowledge of the enemy within. Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he exposed their hypocrisy for all the world to see.

Keep up the good fight,

III N TN; September 6, 2014 at 5:09 PM
rumcrook™ said...: As the old saying goes, there are no coincidences.; September 6, 2014 at 6:35 PM
Anonymous said...: There is nothing new under the sun. Even a wolf in sheep's clothing.

B Woodman
III-PER; September 6, 2014 at 10:59 PM
Anonymous said...: The lack of understanding embodied in these fools who desecrate things held dear is monumental and their downfall.

"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."

III; September 7, 2014 at 2:35 AM
Anonymous said...: It gets ever more embarrassing to live in Connecticut...

Let's hope we can turn the tide come November; September 7, 2014 at 8:08 AM
Anonymous said...: Nothing new under the sun, and nothing that cant be remedied by the proper application of explosives (provided of course that noncombatants are kept clear).; September 8, 2014 at 3:53 PM
Anonymous said...: It looks like you hit the nail on the head Mike. :-)

Cuba Trolls America’s Left For Spies
Posted on September 7, 2014 by TMH

http://noisyroom.net/blog/2014/09/07/cuba-trolls-americas-left-for-spies/; September 8, 2014 at 7:28 PM
Paul X said...: Can heroic soviet statuary be far behind?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/R%C3%A9alisme_socialiste_%28Vilnius%29_%287622118328%29.jpg; September 8, 2014 at 9:43 PM
Anonymous said...: I believe the phrase is "Schadenfreudelicious" when this is made public to a wider audience and backfires.; September 9, 2014 at 3:27 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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The latest from KGB Mike Lawlor? Nothing new in the collectivist propaganda universe. Seems like I've seen that logo somewhere before.

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