Sipsey Street Irregulars: Dedicated to Teresa Ficaretta in her search for the "security leak" who blew the cover off her little celebration of the multiple rifle sales diktat.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Dedicated to Teresa Ficaretta in her search for the "security leak" who blew the cover off her little celebration of the multiple rifle sales diktat.

Undercover operative of C.O.W.L. -- The Coalition of Willing Lilliputians.

The little man who wasn't there.

Y'all may recall Teresa Ficaretta's celebration of the DOJ's end-run around Congress' opposition to the registration scheme known as the multiple-rifle sales diktat. We heard from several sources right after my post -- which, like this one, goes straight into Ms. Ficaretta's in-box -- that Terrible Teresa was pitching a screaming hissy fit, looking for Waldo, or whoever leaked it.

After I had an uncommonly, and I must admit ungentlemanly, good laugh at her expense, I decided it might be the decent thing to do to help her out of her conniption. For reasons I explain in the email, I copied it to Henry Kerner of the Issa committee.

-----Original Message-----
From: georgemason1776@aol.com
To: teresa.ficaretta@atf.gov
Cc: henry.kerner
Sent: Tue, Aug 30, 2011 3:54 pm
Subject: Just a tip about press leaks.

My dear Teresa,

Just trying to help, but you're not looking for one security leak, you're looking for a rusty screen door with holes in it. This happens in failed enterprises when the unloved managers who unintentionally engineered their agency's own collapse and try to blame it on other people find that since there was no top down loyalty, there is no bottom up loyalty either.

Here's another tip. You saw Waldo today and didn't recognize him. It may, in fact, have been when you looked in the mirror this morning.

Have a nice celebration of your diktat.

Mike Vanderboegh
Forwarding address: Living in your head, rent-free.
Gambit, AL

PS: I copy Henry on this so you would be able to contact him if, no, let's say, when, you decide to roll on your DOJ bosses. It is in your own best interests, you know. Last one to rat in a conspiracy gets the cell. Of course I'll be happy to interview you if you like. I'll have my official press credentials by the time of the next hearing, so I can't be tossed out on my ear. ;-)

PPSS: Did you ever figure out Ramsey A. Bear? 8-)

Ain't I a stinker?

Ramsey A. Bear, home from the psy-ops wars.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: "Ain't I a stinker? "

Yes, yes you are. And I, at least, for one, am glad of it.
Thank you, Mr V. You DO have a rapier sharp wit.

B Woodman
III-per; September 4, 2011 at 7:43 PM
Dave said...: Interesting phrase in your e-mail "...since there was no top down loyalty, there is no bottom up loyalty either." Maybe this concept is one reason the would-be tyrants in this country aren't on a faster pace to success. In their arrogance they treat their worker bees (military and LE) like crap yet still expect them to carry out their every oppressive wish unquestioningly.

Some recent examples: ICE employees vote "no confidence" in John Morton and Phyllis Coven due to retaliatory practices against whistle-blowers, among other reasons (http://www.iceunion.org/download/259-259-vote-no-confidence.pdf). BPA Terry killed engaging violent border gangs while armed with a bean bag shotgun (what cold-hearted, self-serving administrator ordered bean bags in this high-risk assignment, and what investigation ever took place regarding this decision???) I could go on all day...; September 5, 2011 at 3:39 AM
PT said...: "Mike Vanderboegh
Forwarding address: Living in your head, rent-free.
Gambit, AL"

LOL; September 5, 2011 at 1:07 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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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Dedicated to Teresa Ficaretta in her search for the "security leak" who blew the cover off her little celebration of the multiple rifle sales diktat.

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