Sipsey Street Irregulars: Well, there went that theory out the window. . . not that facts mean a damn thing to anti-liberty extremists.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Well, there went that theory out the window. . . not that facts mean a damn thing to anti-liberty extremists.

"Jared Loughner’s friend says suspect ‘Did not watch TV … disliked the news’"

He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right.

14 comments:

Mickey Collins said...: His close friend...who hasn't seen him, talked to him, or known a damn thing about him for more than two years.; January 12, 2011 at 4:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Mickey, care to actually READ the article?!

"...a high school friend..."; January 12, 2011 at 4:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Of course, liberals don't give a shit what his motivations were. They have a perfect story that they can exploit to gain. I guess I should have known better, but when I think about that little 9 year old girl, I can't fathom how these miserable exuses for men can use even that to their political advantage. Cold as ice.; January 12, 2011 at 8:24 PM
Defender said...: http://addictinginfo.org/new/?page_id=492#comment-499

We conservatives and Republicans just aren't grateful for the blessings of the Omnipotent State. Choosing freedom over that? We must be crazy.; January 12, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Anonymous said...: He went somewhere down that rabbit hole!

And is a boon to the Goons.

-JRM III; January 12, 2011 at 9:36 PM
rustynail said...: I wonder if Jared Loughner was on antidepressant medication. Some of the behavior described is typical of the way some people react to SSRI's.

Also, I haven't seen any mention of Loughner having an interest in firearms. A large capacity magazine for a Glock strikes me as unusual for a typical person who isn't into firearms in a big way (no pun intended); January 12, 2011 at 9:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Then why did he make death threats to bloggers and talk show radio hosts?; January 12, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Defender said...: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/tucson-tea-party-chair-warned-to-stay-away-from-public-places/; January 12, 2011 at 11:32 PM
Anonymous said...: Actually: never read a book, never watched tv, never listened to the radio. Unhinged.

Completely uninformed and loony.

Therefore: liberal.

that's how they stay liberal.; January 13, 2011 at 9:57 AM
sofa said...: never let facts get in the way of a theory!; January 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Carl said...: @ rustynail - No but he was using a hallucinogenic drug (salvia).

And remember, the truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.

That pretty well covers the reaction of the left.

Carl
III; January 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: And the Lame Stream Media are saying nothing about the death threats the local Tea Party chairman has been getting. Imagine that.

Bad Cyborg X; January 13, 2011 at 3:31 PM
Jensko said...: Carl said " The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth."

Hey Carl, That should be on a bumper sticker.; January 14, 2011 at 12:32 AM
CowboyDan said...: I just posted this on my Facebook status: "Carl said " The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth." Somebody else said that should be on a bumper sticker.

Sounds good to me, man. I didn't see a copyright notice, so feel free."

Carl, Jensko, if you DO object to people making up such bumper stickers, please let me know and I'll edit the status.

I don't believe there will be MANY who will want to print them. I think you ought to be proud to have come up with an idea for a sticker that MAY be all over the country someday.

Here's hoping that you'll start to see them around. I'm going to go check my stock of sticker papers.; January 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM

"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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Well, there went that theory out the window. . . not that facts mean a damn thing to anti-liberty extremists.

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