Sipsey Street Irregulars: Schedules within schedules. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Schedules within schedules. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."

It was my intention to go to Knob Creek this coming weekend, but that was predicated upon my sending off the final of Absolved and having the resources, neither of which seems likely at this moment. On the other hand, I have been invited to speak at the Oath Keepers' rally on Lexington Green on Friday 19 April which, since a ride has been offered, I am inclined to accept. A complicating factor is the doctors' decisions regarding my fistula repair, which is an unknown at the moment. I can certainly put off whatever it is until after the weekend of 19-21 April. I suspect that Lexington (and there is another rally in Connecticut the next day, though I am not on the speaker's roster for that one) will be a necessary trip given current events. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends."

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Anonymous said...: ucediaza 3020You won't see much a Knob Creek this year anyway, With little ammo to buy, and what's out there at 100%++ markups I don't think this years "shoot" will be much. Mostly people looking for ammo bargens that no longer exist; April 7, 2013 at 6:59 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm of the opinion that anywhere in the Northeast is no man's land for free Americans. I would urge all Americans to completely avoid travelling to anywhere in the Northeast, including the state of New York. I don't plan to spend any money in that part of the country or to travel there... at all, the rest of my life. That thinking also includes Colorado and California. Mike, I hope you don't go to any event there. It just ain't worth it. I don't care if all the people who live in those states who voted for the traitors who passed all that anti-second-amendment legislation go broke and starve.
- Old Greybeard; April 7, 2013 at 5:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...

III; April 7, 2013 at 6:20 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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