Sipsey Street Irregulars: And we always thought it would be firearm confiscation . . .

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

And we always thought it would be firearm confiscation . . .

"This is the moment, the dividing line between acquiescence and rebellion. To pay the fine is to agree to subjugation."

I will have more on my thoughts about the election later. For now, consider Washington Reb's analysis in the context of the portion of my Horse Pens 40 speech dealing with the potential power of our refusal.

4 comments:

Defender said...: They may have managed to finally cross EVERYBODY's line in the sand at once.
I predict that the new Congress will finally find a way to prevent the pressure cooker from blowing up by opening the safety valve just a LITTLE, before anyone's actually fined for opting out. The klepto -- I mean DEMO -- crat Congress realized late they better drop the PRISON SENTENCE for not signing up, because then re-election would have been the least of their worries.
Back to low boil.
Or maybe not. Lot of RINO incumbents remain.; November 3, 2010 at 9:39 AM
Anonymous said...: I told my congresscritter and both my senators that if the personal mandate passed into law, I would not comply.

I suspect those fools assume that means I'm going to pay the fine.; November 3, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Anonymous said...: So what's the equivalent of $1000 in 7.62x51?

Installments, or all at once?; November 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Dennis308 said...: I am now looking for work in Louisiana now that the elections are over and I have compleated my self appointed mission, and I will refuse any Government Approved Insurance offered to me, I utterly refuse to be subjugated by ANY Tyranny and if need-be my day in court will be in the streets of this country.
Texas has just had a bloodbath at the election polls and the Demoncrats LOST big time. Even Salmon Ortiz of the 27th. Dist.lost after 32 years as a Congresscritter along with Chet Edwards and Ciro Rodriguez, leaving only 5 Democreap Texas Reps in D.C.

Dennis
III
Texas; November 4, 2010 at 5:51 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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And we always thought it would be firearm confiscation . . .

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