Sipsey Street Irregulars: Become a smuggler. Funny, isn't it, that the more things change, the more they remain the same? Smuggling as patriotic resistance to tyranny.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Become a smuggler. Funny, isn't it, that the more things change, the more they remain the same? Smuggling as patriotic resistance to tyranny.

Somewhere on the coast of Connecticut, early 1775.

Politico reports that the collectivists in charge of local and state governments are Using sales taxes as a gun control tool.

I am currently reading (in my insomniac hours) Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America.

It is amazing to me how much, given current events, that the more things change, the more they remain the same. I will have a review when I am finished, but for now I would just like to observe that this country was born with the idea of the smuggler as a patriotic resistance fighter against government tyranny and these collectivist pukes are resurrecting that idea for us today. Let us each resolve to smuggle into states like Colorado and Connecticut and jurisdictions like Cook County as many of the forbidden items as possible.

Somewhere on the coast of Connecticut, early 2014.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: How does one start out to become a smuggler? How do you make the necessary connections with private citizens in need -versus- Gubbment thugs, provacateurs and double agents who will get you arrested, even killed??
It would be an interesting second career for a retired person.

B Woodman
III-PER; April 9, 2013 at 7:17 AM
Anonymous said...: It made the Kennedy s rich .; April 9, 2013 at 7:42 AM
Anonymous said...: If memory serves that is how Joe Kennedy got rich.

I do have a terrible suspicion that if people do begin smuggling prohibited items into states like Colorado and Connecticut and jurisdictions like Cook County that the collectivist pukes will respond with checkpoints like the Border Patrol has near the border with Mexico.

Anybody expect SCOTUS - even as currently constituted - to argue? Me neither.; April 9, 2013 at 7:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Yup. Good point. I can see little routes forming as I type... ;-); April 9, 2013 at 9:25 AM
Anonymous said...: A buddy from back home has been bootlegging unpasteurized milk into New York City for years. gets around $15/gallon.; April 9, 2013 at 3:10 PM
Anonymous said...: reminds me of the SSI entry from January of 2009...

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/01/calling-all-arms-smugglers-freedom.html; April 9, 2013 at 3:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Why "smuggle" - with attendant risks - when you can "roll your own" in the basement, or garage ? Seems the "Feddie" has landed its jackbooted heels upon the young Texan offering the means to "printing" magazines and, (perhaps) AR lowers. But that particular genie has long ago escaped the lamp. All this gentleman has done is put the means in more digital terms ! >Jeff; April 9, 2013 at 4:41 PM
Anonymous said...: Can enough 'standard capacity' magazines be smuggled in to barricade the legislators in until they repeal this legislation?

Loaded mags would be harder to remove!

III; April 9, 2013 at 6:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Smuggle, Bury, Relocate, Vote.. all this things are is a distraction from what we all know we should be doing.

Yank lll; April 9, 2013 at 7:57 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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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Become a smuggler. Funny, isn't it, that the more things change, the more they remain the same? Smuggling as patriotic resistance to tyranny.

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