Sipsey Street Irregulars: Regarding Rumors, "Alarums and Excursions." Sit tight and we'll see what actually happens before reacting seriously.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Regarding Rumors, "Alarums and Excursions." Sit tight and we'll see what actually happens before reacting seriously.

'Alarums and excursions' is an Elizabethan stage direction; Shakespeare and others used it. 'Alarum' is an old form of 'alarm', which derives from the Italian phrase "all'arme!" meaning "To arms!" 'Excursion' is here used in an old sense 'sally, sortie, raid'. The whole phrase used as a stage direction meant that all the extras dressed as soldiers were to dash about the stage shouting "To arms!" and generally giving the impression of exciting military action. -- The Phrase Finder.

The National Review reports "White House Does Damage Control on NYT Gun-Control Report," which refers to this article: "Tough Path Seen by Obama on Ban of Assault Weapons."

There are many rumors floating around about what's coming from the administration and its Nazgul, within and without Mordor on the Potomac. Executive orders of bans on importation of "assault weapons," parts and ammunition are rumored. So, too, says one unconfirmed source, is a temporary suspension of NICS checks, thus freezing the system. The administration, it is said, is panicked by the rush to buy arms and ammunition. (See Chuck the Schmuck's letter to the CEOs of Wal-Mart, Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shops, Gander Mountain, Sports Authority, Academy Sports and Outdoors and Big Five Sports.)

See also: "Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies."

While I have no doubt that the Schumers of the world are panicked, it behooves us to await more details and further events before WE panic into "alarums and excursions." This doesn't mean that we should quit making preparations, on the contrary. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't engage in political struggle against the tide. But the wise man waits and watches without panic until action is required.

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SWIFT said...: In the last month or more, I've seen rage, disbelief, determined prepping, and a sea change in attitudes against President Zero. I have not seen panic. Perhaps the hustle to acquire arms and ammunition, seen at gun shows and shops, has been labeled as panic by the media, but I see it as prudent purchasing. The advice to wait and see whats coming is based on good, legal, moral, clear headed thinking. There is no doubt in my mind that the praetorian guard is chomping at the bit to start hostilities. That is when our guns should go hot. Not before. It may well be that history will repeat itself. No one knows which side fired, "the shot heard around the world" in the first revolution. Let there be no doubt this time, that the neo-nazi's squeezed off the first round.; January 15, 2013 at 7:21 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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Monday, January 14, 2013

Regarding Rumors, "Alarums and Excursions." Sit tight and we'll see what actually happens before reacting seriously.

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