Sipsey Street Irregulars: "After all, this country was founded by lawyers, and it is saved by lawyers." Tell it to David Olofson

Saturday, May 4, 2013

"After all, this country was founded by lawyers, and it is saved by lawyers." Tell it to David Olofson

"Hey, why am I out here getting shot at by the redcoats when this schmuck says the the lawyers get all the credit?"

"Arm yourself with lawyers in fight against government -- In battles over rights, a cadre of attorneys always defeats guns."

11 comments:

Anonymous said...: "This idea is not based in real life. When in modern U.S. history has anyone used guns to successfully defend themselves from government tyranny? The correct answer, of course, is, never."

Guess nobody told this fella about Athens Tennessee, circa 1946.; May 4, 2013 at 2:04 PM
Anonymous said...: OK, I read the whole article... and it sounds reasonable, if we assume that the "justice system" still carried some modicum of justice for the common man.

It doesn't.

The writers and signers of the Constitution knew that at some point we would no longer have a court system that protects the people against an over-reaching and tyrannical government. At such a place in time, therefore, men who might have the courage and strength to abolish such a government would need readily-available tools to make that effort successful. THIS is the ultimate purpose of the 2nd Amendment.

I've no doubt that this right to arms will be *forcefully* exercised in the near future. And the wisdom of the Founding Fathers will be conclusively demonstrated.

The traitorous bastards, I'll bet, will crawl away under the cover of darkness, when their efforts ultimately fail. When caught, may I suggest a "Kodak moment," a pic with each traitor wearing the TRUE weapon of justice, a noose around each of their scrawny necks? Such pics especially if they're arranged in a literal portfolio, would send a powerful message to the rest... and to the world, of what REAL Americans do with enemies.; May 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM
Anonymous said...: I think someone forgot about the Battle of Athens and how the Jews held off the Nazis even poorly armed, they lost in the end but think what they could have done if armed properly.

chevy; May 4, 2013 at 6:03 PM
Anonymous said...: "This idea is not based in real life. When in modern U.S. history has anyone used guns to successfully defend themselves from government tyranny? The correct answer, of course, is, never."

I guess the Battle of Athens would never come to mind .

Honestly , we need to remove lawyers and politicians from the equation . It is to simple to read the law of the land and know what it says and means . Lawyers and politicians don't have any say in how or if our rights are utilized .; May 4, 2013 at 6:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Over half a century later this short conversation is still in my ringing in my ear. " Son do you know what the word 'lawyer ' mean's ? " ..no what ? ..." Professional liar for money " .; May 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Funny....I was thinking of Olofson the other day.

Under the new movement towards "smuggling and defiance" and away from being "law abiding".....it seems we should have stormed the Bastille to demand Olofson's release.

With the "newer" understanding (by the mainstream gun owner) that ANY infringement of the 2A, including NFA of 34 or GCA of 86, is/was and always has been UNCONSTITUTIONAL.....we owe Olofson a massive apology for letting him be cornholed by our out of control, tyrannical government.

Let's make sure that NEVER happens again....b/c the time is fast approaching where our government will be round up fellow gun owners.; May 4, 2013 at 7:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Anonymous @2:11 - you raise some good points but the biggest flaw in the line of reasoning that was used in the article is the assertion that we have a 'justice system' - we DO NOT - we have a legal system, and one that can be deeply flawed and manipulated, particularly so by 'lawyers' who are, shall we say 'ethically challenged'.; May 4, 2013 at 10:54 PM
Anonymous said...: There is so much to fisk in this article, from top to bottom, but space (and an Android tablet) does not permit.
In theory, he may be at least partly correct. But reality is far removed from his fantasy writings.
All lies, delusions and obfuscstions. He's whistling past the graveyard.

B Woodman
III-PER; May 4, 2013 at 10:58 PM
Anonymous said...: One of our biggest failings was not forming a ring of patriots around the ring of Govt. thugs who surrounded the Davidians at Waco.

WE allowed the murder of women and children by our inaction!

"Never again!" must be our oath from this day forward.

Not on our watch ...

III
III; May 5, 2013 at 1:02 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm going to have to go back and recheck "William Diamond's Drum" and see how many lawyers were in the Lexington Militia.; May 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM
MI copperhead said...: You know what they call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start ;-); May 5, 2013 at 9:24 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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