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Thursday, June 13, 2013

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Rick Perry's War On The Blue States

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Anonymous said...: Ya, problem is Rick Perry is just as much a statist as Obama. He's a collectivist wrapped in an American flag pretending to be "conservative" (or maybe he's not pretending...."conservatives" nowadays are all about more and bigger government while infringing on the rights enshrined in the constitution).

Texas gun laws are anything but respectful of the 2A and much of their policy with regards to the 4A is atrocious. It's not nearly as "free" as Texans would have us believe....and their "everything is bigger in Texas" egos won't allow any real self-examination of the system they support without understanding...apparently.; June 13, 2013 at 9:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Recently I attended the NRA's Annual Meetings, which were held in the largest auditorium/convention center in Texas, the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. There were over 86,000 in attendance. If you were from a state whose carry permit was honored by Texas, you were allowed to carry your concealed firearm inside the convention center legally. There were no metal detectors and no patdowns. We in Alabama think our gun laws are good - and they're pretty good. But, even Alabamians with carry permits are not allowed to carry concealed guns legally inside our convention center in Birmingham. So, I think Texas's gun laws might actually be pretty good. But, they do have some ridiculous concealed knife carry laws. I will say that Rick Perry seems to have a bigger pair of spheres than Alabama's Governor Robert Bentley, though. I still wish we had elected Tim James.

- Old Greybeard; June 13, 2013 at 5:24 PM
Son of Sam Adams said...: It's cute seeing the National Propaganda Radio slant on this. "War?" You ain't seen war, honey. But I have to point out that, unavoidably, importing even freedom-loving businesses to TX involves importing a certain number of Blue Staters. Colorado can tell you how well that works.; June 14, 2013 at 7:02 AM

"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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