Sipsey Street Irregulars: Only rebellion can save America.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Only rebellion can save America.

"The US federal government has strayed so far from the Constitution and the rule of law that it can now be considered rogue and illegitimate."

Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of “Afghanistan and the Culture of Military Leadership“.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Second American Revolution???
IT'S COMING!

...And sooner than you think!!; January 27, 2013 at 6:21 PM
Anonymous said...: I do not dispute what the Colonel says, but it is critically important to take the high ground when it comes to tossing the term "rebellion" around.

Certain people make the federal government rogue and illegitimate. No matter the authority of the offices they hold--whether appointed or elected--these people are the ones in active rebellion against the United State.

And, having read your site for a long time, I know you will have a problem with what follows: Anybody who so much as lifts a finger to defend these rebels against the United States is also in rebellion against the United States.; January 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM
TimeHasCome said...: Please remember it was the women of France that started the French Revolution . I have full confidence that this next revolution will start by Americas women. Why so few attacks by Feinstien on handguns ? Because women own a great share of them .
Went to my local Cabellas today just to watch the ammo show (Or lack thereof) . Lots of ladies looking for purse heaters.. Stay tuned the show is about to begin...; January 27, 2013 at 8:10 PM
kadar said...: http://youtu.be/ri9ioCbqJCU; January 27, 2013 at 9:26 PM
Anonymous said...: We know that Obama is the first black president.

Q: What other historical first has he achieved?

A: Obama is the first failed black president.; January 27, 2013 at 10:46 PM
AJ said...: Rebellion is what we need, and what many of us may want. But I'm afraid that what we're going to get is civil war and balkanization.; January 28, 2013 at 10:27 AM
Paul X said...: Nothing wrong with balkanization. Don't forget that this country started out essentially balkanized, and the more we went in the opposite direction (centralized), the worse it got. I don't know why people fear "balkanization", unless they are being snookered by the Ministry of Propaganda to fear it. What we really need is a 50-state secession from Washington DC. See http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle485-20080921-03.html

About a year ago I asked the question in a poll on a gun forum, whether the federal government was legitimate. A great majority responded that it was not. It operates mostly outside its charter; that ain't legitimate.; January 28, 2013 at 8:35 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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