Sipsey Street Irregulars: A collectivist fart in a hurricane: Firearm prohibitionists want more power for the ATF. Bad timing, pukes. The wreck of all prohibitionist hopes.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

A collectivist fart in a hurricane: Firearm prohibitionists want more power for the ATF. Bad timing, pukes. The wreck of all prohibitionist hopes.

Paulie and me in happier times (for him).

Amid ATF flap, Dems pressure Obama to OK gun trafficking rules.

More than 40 House Democrats are calling on President Obama to approve new rules granting federal regulators more authority to crack down on gun trafficking to Mexico.

The request comes at an unfortunate time for the lawmakers, however, as the Department of Justice (DOJ) has just launched a probe into reports that hundreds of guns were lost amid a federal sting designed to track firearms by letting known smugglers buy them with impunity.

And then there is this priceless quote from my old buddy Paul Helmke:

"We are contributing to the disintegrating of the country to the south of our border," Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said last month on Capitol Hill. "We've got a serious problem [and] the ATF doesn't have the authority to solve it."

Hoo boy, buddy. Ride that broken down meme, cowboy. We are certainly "contributing to the disintegrating of the country to the south of our border" AND IT IS THE ATF'S PROJECT GUNRUNNER THAT IS DOING IT, YOU SCHMUCK.

Bad timing, indeed.

This amounts to a collectivist fart in a windstorm.

Poor Paulie. The Project Gunwalker scandal is the wreck of all of his prohibitionist hopes.

The Wreck of His Majesty Barack's Ship Gun Control. You'll have to look close to spot Paul Helmke, but he's there.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Don't kid yourself. The gun-grabbers have been down before, but they will keep coming back.; March 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Frederick H Watkins said...: I don't know if ATF needs more of what they have demonstrated a penchant for abusing.; March 5, 2011 at 10:33 AM
W W Woodward said...: “Just one more tool to fight gun trafficking”

A pink slip along with a federal prison uniform for each of the idiots who dreamed up “Project Fast and Furious” (Gunwalker) and for those ATF managers who stupidly implemented and coerced the “boots on the ground” agents into participating in the program would be ideal tools to be used in the fight to keep guns out of Mexico.

Mike, Why didn't you sprinkle some salt on that slug while you had him at arms length?

[W3]; March 5, 2011 at 5:05 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Saturday, March 5, 2011

A collectivist fart in a hurricane: Firearm prohibitionists want more power for the ATF. Bad timing, pukes. The wreck of all prohibitionist hopes.

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