Sipsey Street Irregulars: My New Year's Wish

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

My New Year's Wish

Dear Folks,

May I sincerely wish you as bad a year in 2009 as we had in 2008. I say that, not because I wish you ill, but because I have a sneaking suspicion that 2009's going to make 2008 look like the good old days. In any case, may God's blessings be upon you this coming year. May He help you to stand.

Mike Vanderboegh
III

6 comments:

j said...: The sentiment is understood, appreciated and echoed; please God that it never gets bad enough that we remember the Clinton years as 'the good old days', lest we all be tempted to pull a semi-Masada by leaping off the nearest precipice! But there IS always hope, and there is a source for our hope.
I am not often given to deep introspection at year's end, since I fight depression all year anyway; but one of the things for which I AM thankful on this night, is the honor and privilege of meeting, so to speak, the warriors often called 'three per centers'. What higher privilege could a man seek in this earthly portion of life, than to have companions and brothers-in-arms who honestly understand the right priorities in life, and who know the meaning of the old-fashioned concept of honor?
I wish God's blessing and protection for each of you, and for all whom you hold dear.
- julian - ( aka j3maccabee ); December 31, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Anonymous said...: It saddens me to become this guy, but here's to hoping it's worse. We need to get this fight going before Americans lose their stomach to fight for freedom.; December 31, 2008 at 9:01 PM
GunRights4US said...: In Jesus and my M1A I trust. And Jesus doesn't need cleaning, lubing or ammo!; January 1, 2009 at 4:41 AM
Crustyrusty said...: And to you and our brothers and sisters in arms. Pray that the sheeple wake up soon.; January 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Anonymous said...: You've got that right. The socialaist and his minions are going to do their level best to break us. The mere fact that all the klintonistas are back should tell us somethings up. We can either be sheep and be led to the slaughter or we can be sheepdogs and defend ourselves. The government bears us no good will and they want payback for the way slick and his old lady got treated. I will honorably carry the title of 3 percenter with pride. It's great to know there others out there.

Falcon; January 1, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm afraid you 110% right. Alea iacta est!; January 2, 2009 at 2:05 AM

"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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