False Flags and Cheap Shots

I was having a good day. I was rocking out to Hilary Hahn’s phenomenal recording of Ives’ violin sonatas, until I got word that a profile had been established for me at this site.

That’s odd. I’ve never heard of that site, and I found that “claiming” my profile would require a paid membership. Well, that’s pretty dishonest and underhanded.

So, who are these people? They don’t seem too keen on making friends. In fact, they spend a great sum of pixels lambasting other established gun bloggers, and they’ve trolled more than a few gun forums. A whois query shows that the ownership and hosting details are obfuscated, and the only contact information is a phone number out of Denmark. I can tell from the grammar on the site that there are no Danes running it.

Then someone found a bit of a serendipitous wrinkle in their WordPress code.  Type in some garbage after the URL, and Smoke and Mirrors directs to the website of the Violence Policy Center.

We call those oopsies.

I was wondering where Josh Sugarmann was spending all that money he gets from the Joyce Foundation, since it’s not as if his little group is very active in politics these days. I guess he’s got to do something to keep busy, but this is just pathetic.

And frankly, it’s encouraging to see that the opposition has to stoop to things like this.