Sipsey Street Irregulars: Voting with their feet.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Voting with their feet.

"Where we goin', Ma?" "Back to Oklahoma, son, to get out from under these infernal taxes. . . You brung the SKS we never declared, didn't ya?" "Yes, ma." "And the two crates of Chinese steel core ammo?" "Yes, ma. . . Got 'em hid under the quilts in back." "Good boy. We're goin' back to someplace free where ya kin shoot all day and not have somebody eyein' yer magazine capacity."

Businesses Exit California and Illinois.

Line of hard-working Korean shopkeepers leaving LA.

Huh. Totalitarian politicians puzzled by free people's rejection of socialism. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to build a wall between Kalifornia and the rest of the continental United States. None for the Mexican border, though.

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Anonymous said...: It's not just businesses. My wife and I left nine years ago, as soon as we could retire. We decided it was time to get out before we had to shoot our way out. Crime, especially gang crime, is totally out of control. It was all foretold in Chittum's book: CIVIL WAR TWO.; December 27, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Anonymous said...: Yup! They'll run the economy over with a truck, back up and run it over again, then get out of the truck and blame anyone they want, for what they just did! Then the media will agree and suddenly find numerous instances of that and other behaviors, with which to beat them in the public eye and mind. NONE of it true but that doesn't matter, it gains them power and money and those things are more important than freedom and liberty and constitutional rights.

If this were simply a matter of understanding and ignorance, it would be an easy fix, but it isn't. These people want to win and will do anything to accomplish their goals and feel justified because it is not freedom and liberty they value. They value power, control and money which they can steal and then blame the theft on others. Since the media is their's to command, you can see just how much truth and facts are likely to be reported to the average person, and so, there you are.; December 27, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Anonymous said...: When Springfield Armory leaves, then I will consider it.; December 27, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Roger said...: Same thing on the east coast. I fled the peoples republik of New Jersistan 11 years ago. Went to Florida, lower taxes, Concealed carry is legal & Castle doctrine, I am now responsible for my own safety and defense - - - and it doesn't snow. (at least where I live.); December 27, 2011 at 3:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Cool, someone mentioning CW II. I wonder whatever happened to Chittum?; December 27, 2011 at 4:42 PM
Frank said...: I'm waiting for both states to implement a 50% "exit tax" on anyone who moves out of state.; December 27, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Anonymous said...: I left the communist mecca of Il repute 15 years ago. Praise the Lord! Home of the obammatards. Don't miss it at all. Moved to God's country (South of the Ohio River) I wasn't born in Dixie, but I got here as soon as I could.
Dixie Dennis; December 27, 2011 at 6:39 PM
RWS III said...: What? How dare these companies defy the "you pay me to protect yourself from me" Chicago style political system.

Next thing ya know one person every ten minutes will start leaving the land of Lincoln....oh wait that's already been happening.

And for the sunshine state, how they gonna pay for all those illegals if all the businesses leave cause the rent is to damn high?

What's this country coming to when people start standing up to the corruption, how are the politicians gonna make ends meat?

Well I don't have the answers...I'm just gonna go clean my guns and take another ammo count........; December 27, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Anonymous said...: I got the hell out of the People's Republik of Kalifornia 5 and a half years ago.I now reside in Nevada,and I sure as hell ain't looking back!The taxes and the bullshit gun laws sent me out.I may be just a working man,but when I left Kali,a law abiding taxpayer who didn't suck up resources was probably replaced by 10 parasitic criminaliens.Suck it Kali Kommies!; December 27, 2011 at 9:17 PM
Anonymous said...: unfortunately we are losing the real vocal people to help lead california out of this mess. I'm not willing to call CA a lost war. We are really starting to turn the tide in the gun rights area towards more freedom. Hopefully the pro-liberty business interests can come back as well. The EPA has all but seized control of the large aftermarket automotive industry and they are now completely in bed with them. We have a long fight for freedom here in CA. If I didn't have such a good job, I would definitely think of leaving too.; December 28, 2011 at 2:48 AM
Pat H. said...: I lived in California for 13 years and watched as the criminal gang in Sacramento voted for bill after bill to reduce access to rights, most of which passed.

I attended a concealed carry hearing held by the California Senate in the 1990's, no less than John Lott and Suzanna Gratia Hupp spoke in support of moving from "may issue" to "shall issue". It quickly became obvious that the decision to ignore the rights of citizens had already been made, and that's precisely what occurred.

My wife and I left in 2005, things have become far worse in the six years since that time. Things will worsen still in my opinion.; December 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Ron R said...: I'm an ole Mississippi boy who has lived in the CA and in FL. While in the Sunshine state I had a Pistol Range on my property and all my buddies would come over and fire-away, even full-autos at times. In CA, that was a no-no unless you wanted jail time. CA in a true welfare state and certainly not a gun-friendly place unless you are a gang member who disregards the laws and preys on law abiding citizens knowing that most can't shoot back.; December 28, 2011 at 2:47 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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