Sipsey Street Irregulars: If I may be permitted a personal comment at the end of this eventful day:

Friday, April 8, 2011

If I may be permitted a personal comment at the end of this eventful day:

I have been tilting at federal windmills for almost twenty years now, but this is the first time one actually seems like it might fall over.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: I ponder the implication of that thought.; April 8, 2011 at 10:18 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: From your mouth to G*d's ears, Brother!

You deserve a bit of gloating!

My cynical-side is wondering just what sort of "deal" he's cut - and with who...

"I won't throw THE BIG GUYS under the bus if y'all will promise to let me live and give me just enough cash to be able to survive and take care of my family..."

I pray he's the stinkin'-@$$ rat he seems to be - and that he rolls over on every last one of them.

I agree with the guys over at CUATF though - what a POS...; April 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Brock Townsend said...: Good job, Don! :); April 8, 2011 at 10:27 PM
tom said...: If they fall over it'll just be taken over by other parts of DOJ I have problems with because of their regular misdeeds. Be nice to see some get their just desserts, but it'd be nicer to see NFA, GCA, et al go away.; April 9, 2011 at 2:17 AM
Bill Mullins said...: Looks good, Dutchman. I just hope that your elation is not dashed. There is still time for someone to get to Gillett. He could still "commit suicide" a la Vince Foster or have an accident a la Bill Colby. Or just be bought off. Or get a photoshopped photo of his wife or one of his children in a place they frequent but looking very, VERY dead.

As the ancient (dating back AT LEAST to the Greeks) proverb says:
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
Even when the outcome of an event seems certain, things can still go south.; April 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Scott J said...: Tom, one battle at a time. Let's take this hill before we start wishing on the next.; April 9, 2011 at 7:37 PM
Anonymous said...: If nothing else, you have created an historical record for the education of others, who will be asking rather tough questions in the future.

The delete button no longer functions adequately enough to protect the guilty. They can and will eventually be found out and found. In other counties, no doubt.; April 11, 2011 at 9:52 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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