Sipsey Street Irregulars: Have Pragmatism, Will Travel: Sebastian at Valley Forge

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Have Pragmatism, Will Travel: Sebastian at Valley Forge

Later, Sebastian at his keyboard, safe and warm:

"As a member, I expect the National Rifle Association to fight gun control in the 111th Congress. If they have to get down on their hands and knees and kiss Harry Reid’s rosey red ass as part of a deal to stop a gun control bill, I’ll buy them the lip balm."

The whole thing is here.

Must have been an inspiring visit.

Washington at Valley Forge

3 comments:

jon said...: funny thing -- something beck posted today on boaz and keynes reminded me of the terrible trivium. then i found there was a list of all the other demons of ignorance on wikipedia, including:

The Triple Demons of Compromise, a demonic team of three negotiators; one is short and fat, one is tall and thin, and the third looks "exactly like the other two". They can never truly go anywhere because, rather than reach agreements, they constantly compromise.; January 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM
John said...: Valley Forge, one of my favorite visits in PA, second only to Gettysburg. Looking forward to moving back to PA sometime in the next two years. Thanks for the interesting posts.; January 14, 2009 at 1:33 AM
tom said...: What does sebastian charge for BJs?

He could move beyond blogging and maybe make more money, especially with the gun controller anti-Christian sects.

He's buying lip gloss and lube and I'm buying primers and firearms...funny world (if you're 'funny')

I stopped reading his loudmouth shit a long time ago because it was so vomit inducing I realizes that negative people were a vexation to my soul and I shan't read what they write.

I'll read brady bunch shit for tactical and strategic reasons, but I won't arm wrestle a zero armed man. Waste of time. People like him are already licking the hands that feed them.

FUCK THEM (pardon my frog). Got no use for them. The prags have been DISMISSED.

Wouldn't hire him to peel taters or clean toilets with a toothbrush, much less be at all affiliated with myself in any way shape or form, political or social.

I'm sure he feels the same about us threepers.; January 14, 2009 at 3:51 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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