Sipsey Street Irregulars: Mileposts, of a sort.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mileposts, of a sort.

My 20 April Hartford speech is now up to 22,000 plus hits on YouTube (that doesn't count all the embeds that are floating around out there) but most amazingly my impromptu talk the next day to the Oath Keepers' meeting on the "Intentions of the Enemy" is now up to 10,500 plus! (Links are above and to the right, if you missed them.) If you haven't circulated them to your friends, please do.

6 comments:

John Otis Comeau said...: first time I've heard you speak. you are one powerful orator. thank you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkjLlZu9uno; May 12, 2013 at 4:38 PM
eddy III said...: Seems to be blocked..............; May 12, 2013 at 9:39 PM
Anonymous said...: Excellent, Mike - speaches which will go down in 2nd Amendment defence history.

III; May 12, 2013 at 10:37 PM
Anonymous said...: I think this works for the Latin "Defy. Resist. Evade. Smuggle."

Exprobrandum. Resistet. Fugitis. Obscura.

Maybe for the next version of a Threeper patch?

:-); May 13, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Roger said...: Hi Mike, Also, really enjoyed Bill Stevens. He nailed it by coming right out and calling Dick(stolen valor) Blumenthal a liar. After all, Jane Fonda spent more time in Viet Nam than Dick Blumenthal.; May 14, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Charles N. Steele said...: Excellent, and now reposted on my blog.; May 14, 2013 at 12:10 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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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mileposts, of a sort.

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