Sipsey Street Irregulars: An appreciation of "The Four Fingers of Death."

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

An appreciation of "The Four Fingers of Death."

The Trainer sends this:

This was sent to me by one of my guys....thought you'd want to see it.

"You've got to get that Mike Vanderboegh to come out with Absolved! I don't know if this chapter is going to be in it or if it was just something he wrote, but I just read the "Four Fingers of Death" chapter and almost laughed till I cried! I am a big fan of this guy! He brought back alot of memories! Anyways just thought I would send this your way. We should order a pallet full of charms to leave as a calling card when the SHTF! It would be a great psyop! Anyways looking forward to the next training."

All I can say is your waiting time is drawing to a end. Too slow, I know, but it is.

Mike
III

9 comments:

drjim said...: Patiently waiting, Mike!
Jim
III; September 9, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Crucis said...: My service time pre-dates MREs. But a c-rat meal of spiced beef put me in the base hospital once.; September 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Eric said...: Can't wait to see what I look like on the cover!! http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn270/freedomfighter1100/ddb20090426010-018.jpg http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn270/freedomfighter1100/batf_5160.jpg; September 9, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Happy D said...: Oh the pain of waiting is almost to much to bear! ;); September 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Anonymous said...: You're a worse tease than a high school.....you know. Marketing Genius!
Wayne B; September 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Anonymous said...: Too funny, Mike.
I wasn't in the infantry, but supported them in various Signal capacities throughout my Army career. So I've eaten my fair share of MRE's. We/I called 'em MRK's, or "Meals, Ready to Kill."

B Woodman
SSG (Ret) US Army
III-per; September 10, 2009 at 6:11 AM
Plastic Paddy said...: In the Voice of Father Jack (of Father ted fame):

"BOOK!!!!"; September 10, 2009 at 7:53 AM
Orygunner said...: I wasn't going to say anything, but since someone else brought it up...

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD, FINISH THE BOOK!

:)

Me and my friends are anxiously waiting to buy about 8 copies here...

...Orygunner...; September 10, 2009 at 8:37 AM
AvgJoe said...: I'm willing to wait knowing that good things take time. I would hate to have a MV second best because people rushed him.
In fact I have refused to read per-released chapters of the book so that I can read it from cover to cover once its ready. I'm perfectly happy waiting for the best MV has to offer.
Bottom line: taking your time is the correct thing to do to make this book as outstanding as I believe its going to be. Best!; September 10, 2009 at 9:25 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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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

An appreciation of "The Four Fingers of Death."

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