Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Empire Strikes Back at 3-D printed guns

Friday, May 10, 2013

The Empire Strikes Back at 3-D printed guns

The governments of China, Iran, and other tyrannies use internet censorship to maintain their grip on power. Now, the Obama administration appears to want to do the same. Whether it succeeds or fails in that effort, it has certainly succeeded in starkly illustrating what kind of regime has taken power in this country.

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Anonymous said...: Defense distributed needs to offer all their downloads on the "tor" network. Designed by anonymous, it would not be able to be controlled by any government or it entity. No advertised website is used and access is limited to tor users, but like "Silk Road" on tor , it will do great as a word of mouth and through private e-mail solicitation. But, most important the government CAN'T shut it down.

Paul Paver Jr.
III; May 10, 2013 at 9:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Please tell us how to get on the "tor" network.; May 10, 2013 at 10:11 AM
Anonymous said...: I just love it when the "Little Guy" can flip off the Big Bad Gubmint. Telling Uncle Sam to go "F" himself is a real hoot for me. I for one am tired of this Big Brother attitude. I think the name LIBERATOR is quite appropriate.; May 10, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Anonymous said...: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/irs-apologizes-targeting-conservative-groups-19151151

And now we have this.

IRS:

"We illegally targeted you for harassment because of your politics. Sorry 'bout that. Can't we all just get along now?"

We The People:

"I don't think so."

The deterioration rate has just been accelerated significantly folks.; May 10, 2013 at 1:03 PM
Anonymous said...: These files are already available via bit torrents, file sharing sites, and good old direct file transfer. There is no stopping the data from circulating.; May 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM
Anonymous said...: "Tired and despondent after failing in its attacks on the Second Amendment the US Government now begins to target the First."

III; May 10, 2013 at 5:04 PM
Anonymous said...: [Video] BREAKING: NJ State Senators Caught on Open Mic Saying They Need a Bill to CONFISCATE Guns

http://gunssavelives.net/blog/video-breaking-nj-state-senators-caught-on-open-mic-saying-they-need-a-bill-to-confiscate-guns/#

“We needed a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.”

“They [gun owners] want to keep the guns out of the hands of the bad guys, but they don’t have any regulations to do it.”

“They don’t care about the bad guys. All they want to do is have their little guns and do whatever they want with them.”

“That’s the line they’ve developed.”; May 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM
William Flatt said...: The Liberator design is out for good; once a thing is on the internet, it can never be censored! Today it's Pirate Bay and the Internet Archive. Tomorrow it will be Vertor, ISOhunt, Mininova, Monova, KAT and Extratorrent!

Here's the latest news on this:
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-takes-over-distribution-of-censored-3d-printable-gun-130510/; May 10, 2013 at 6:37 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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