Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Meet The Camo-Clad, Gonzo Bloggers Behind The Fast And Furious Story."

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

"Meet The Camo-Clad, Gonzo Bloggers Behind The Fast And Furious Story."

"The most high-profile scandal of the Obama presidency has its roots in reporting by two conservative gun rights bloggers."

Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea are rarely mentioned in connection with what is perhaps the highest-profile law-enforcement failure of the Obama Administration. Their central role in unearthing the story, though, offers a glimpse at the new media cycle of news bubbling up from outlets few traditional reporters read, or would even feel comfortable crediting. Before their first report on the story on December 28, 2010, Vanderboegh of “Sipsey Street Irregulars” and Codrea of examiner.com were gun-rights activists who curated small bands of loyal followers with a live-free-or-die ethos. (A few days before publishing the post that set the investigation of Fast and Furious in motion, for example, Vanderboegh wrote about a TSA parody video called “Grandma Got Molested at the Airport”.)

"It has been," said Vanderboegh, "the fight of my life."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Nice article and a really cool picture with excellent background art. Uplifting, a keeper!; July 3, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Transsylvania Phoenix said...: The article is actually not as bad as I was expecting. It takes a couple of cheap shots at you (like the "break the windows" story) but it also tells the story of your "shit for brains Marxist youth" pretty accurately.; July 3, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Anonymous said...: That was nowhere near as hostile and biased as I expected.

I am pleasantly surprised.

Oh and congratulations.; July 3, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...: "It has been," said Vanderboegh, "the fight of my life."

You seem to be winning. Keep up the good work and God speed.

MALTHUS; July 3, 2012 at 12:17 PM
M. Simon said...: What I don't get is why the gun rights folks aren't also inditing the Drug War. I have no such fear.

Gun Values and the Drug War

Or as I like to say: The Drug War – It Is Not Just For Dopers Anymore; July 4, 2012 at 1:22 AM
M. Simon said...: After looking around further I see you have done more than more than most gun blogs to connect gun prohibition and drug prohibition.

Excellent. Hit it harder. You might pick up more than a few lefties.

If we don't all hang together...

I'm a libertarian Republican BTW.; July 4, 2012 at 4:20 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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