Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Lairds of Fairfax sell out liberty to no purpose. Like a little more ketchup with that turd, NRA "pragmatists"?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Lairds of Fairfax sell out liberty to no purpose. Like a little more ketchup with that turd, NRA "pragmatists"?

"Son, you can eat a turd if you have enough ketchup, but I don't recommend it." -- Grandpa Vanderboegh.

Senate gags on the plate of excrement that the NRA was happily eating. Of course, the NRA bargained for some ketchup to eat with their turd, so they were content. Now their sellout of liberty appears to have been all for naught, leaving NRA members with a bad aftertaste that even Listerine won't cure.

You know, shit-eating for a purpose is one thing. But gratuitous, incompetent shit-eating to no purpose? What's up with that, General Sebastian Snowflake?

NRA's premier Internet salesman of turds with ketchup.

4 comments:

Janet Incompetano said...: I think Mr. Sebastiard's explanation was quite concise and erudite - to wit, the NRA cares about one thing and one thing only, which is their own role and their own well-being in Second Amendment issues which can benefit them; and the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, other Constitutionalists and indeed, the rest of the world, can all go straight to Hell, as far as they are concerned.; July 28, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Anonymous said...: "...leaving NRA members with an aftertaste..."
Or in my case, EX-members; July 28, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Defender said...: Obama calls the DISCLOSE Act "common sense." Gee, most things that restrict individual liberty seem to be called "common sense," don't they? Will Gen. Snowflake and the other NRA coprophages urge themselves to obey existing common-sense political speech regulations if DISCLOSE does pass? Nope. Safely exempt. Got theirs, not so sorry about ours. Too bad they're the only gun rights organization most people ever hear of. If half the membership would get behind GOA and JPFO, we'd see a tsunami of change.; July 28, 2010 at 1:04 PM
Brian K Miller said...: I really don't understand what you folks are so upset about. The NRA did not "carve out" special protections, it was offered to them on a golden platter. I have worked to oppose DISCLOSE through personal correspondence, a half-dozen NGOs, and phone calls to interested parties. I am an NRA Endowment member and I, for one, want them to remain a single issue organization.

You know, if GOA, Buckeye Firearms, JPFO, or anyone else wanted to take advantage of the same exclusion, all they would have to do is recruit a million members. If they already have over a million, then they are already covered, so what's the fuss all about?; July 30, 2010 at 9:59 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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