Sipsey Street Irregulars: Well, if you think another revolution is coming in this country, you aren't alone.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Well, if you think another revolution is coming in this country, you aren't alone.

"Beliefs About Sandy Hook Cover-Up, Coming Revolution Underlie Divide on Gun Control."

Partisan divisions on gun control go deeper than the legislation being fought over in Congress. Supporters and opponents of gun control have very different fundamental beliefs about the role of guns in American society. Overall, the poll finds that 29 percent of Americans think that an armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years, with another five percent unsure. However, these beliefs are conditional on party. Just 18 percent of Democrats think an armed revolution may be necessary, as opposed to 44 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of independents.

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Anonymous said...: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2013/05/armed_revolution_might_be_comi.html; May 2, 2013 at 8:33 AM
Anonymous said...: Wow - a 'valid' poll - based on 834 whole respondents. That would NOT be a statistically valid poll in my HOA (about 17000 residents) And yet people continue to 'believe' in such polls. Makes me think that the count of low info voters is drastically underestimated ;-(; May 2, 2013 at 10:51 AM
Anonymous said...: The collectivists in this nation seem intent on treading upon the rattlesnake -- An animal that if you just leave it alone, it will leave you alone.

I don't want a revolution to come, I don't want people to experience the hardship of a revolution (look closely at Syria too see what to expect).

But maybe on the other hand it'll do the people of this nation some good if it does come.

Maybe a generation or three of harsh fighting will break an entire generation out of their suburban lifestyle, with the hazed induced by television, that will make them come to the realization that the world is a cold, harsh place, filled with people (usually employed by a government) who can, and will do you harm if you don't fight back.

I don't want a revolution, but if it comes, then let the statists of this land fire the first shot.; May 2, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Anonymous said...: I'd be interested in making contact with "anonymous" who posed the link to lehighvalleylive.com
I'm in the Lehigh Valley, too and would like to make contact with people of like mind.
You can reach me through my blog at:
http://carlwk3c.wordpress.com; May 2, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Anonymous said...: Never heard of that university, or it's poll. The numbers are fairly meaningless to me for that reason. Interesting for coffee room discussion, but useless otherwise.

I'd need to see a sample of 3,000
A history of accurate polling from them
And some idea of how they go about reducnf the bias inherent in every poll; May 2, 2013 at 6:30 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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