Sipsey Street Irregulars: And in the "Well, duh!" Category of Perfectly Predictable. . .

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

And in the "Well, duh!" Category of Perfectly Predictable. . .

One of my readers points out that General Sebastian Snowflake, commander of the NRA's On-Line Prag Army, has yet to notice the scandal of Operation Gunwalker. Waiting for it to just go away, Sebastian?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: The NRA has their heads buried so far up the backside of the politicians they can't see straight.; January 19, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Defender said...: I haven't seen ANYTHING anywhere on NRA.com. LOTS of coverage of the SHOT Show, though.
It's really hard to email them. Maybe some members could get their attention, by threatening not to send money, maybe?; January 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Anonymous said...: Not likely to see them say anything about it until someone else does the work, them they will take credit for "fighting for your rights".; January 19, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Fighting the ATF doesn't make money. It also requires courage.

Those two facts alone guarantee NRA will not become involved.

Defender, they don't care if a few members drop out. When I did, and explained why, I received an email response that basically said, "We're sorry, but we're going to continue to be a cowardly political organization more interested in survival and self-advancement than actually protecting our members' interests."

At least that's how I took it.

AP; January 19, 2011 at 1:27 PM
DC Wright said...: Just posted this for Sebastian:

"D.C. Wright, USMC Retired Said,
January 19th, 2011 at 3:48 pm

Sebastian… I notice that there’s no coverage at all of “Operation Gunwalker” and how the ATF may well have furnished some Mexican drug gang with the weapon used to KILL a Border Patrol Agent. I’d think that you and NRA would be ALL OVER a story like that, ESPECIALLY with ATF trying to issue “emergency” regs (totally unlawfully) regarding the purchase of long arms in border States. Or am I wrong and it’s not really all that important?

DC Wright
USMC Retired"; January 19, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Dennis308 said...: Artic Patriot makes the point, what more can be added.

Dennis
III
Texas; January 20, 2011 at 1:37 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.

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"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 in the "Well, duh!" Category of Perfectly Predictable. . .

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