Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Imagine a Future Free from Gun Violence"

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

"Imagine a Future Free from Gun Violence"

"Yet the poor fellows think they are safe! They think that the war is over! Only the dead have seen the end of war." -- Santayana's "Soliloquies in England," Soliloquy #25, "Tipperary" (Scribners, 1924, p. 102)

These innocents no longer have to worry about anything. They have inherited "a future free from gun violence."

David Codrea links to this piece of CSGV bilge: “I know I for one will never touch a firearm again.” Readers will recall that CSGV is the premier open advocacy group for a government monopoly of violence in this country. When I went to the link I was struck once more by the banner sentiment at the top of their site: "Imagine a Future Free from Gun Violence." Of course the sick truth behind this lie is that the only thing CSGV objects to is the people having the means and the right to resist their "government monopoly of violence." Santayana was right. Only the dead have seen the end of war -- or of tyranny, for that matter. So, until the Second Coming, you'd better be prepared to meet these practitioners of a "government monopoly of violence" with the only thing they understand and will respond to -- countervailing force. Got militia?

5 comments:

SWIFT said...: There exists an element, in every society, that yearns for a cradle to grave dictatorship. They need to be told what to do and when to do it. They remind me of the "Deltas" in Brave New World. The only difference I can see is,many contemporary drones have the advantage of a worthless, state sponsored, left-wing education. The majority however, find total happiness in possessing of that holy grail, the EBT card. A total state monopoly of violence is perfectly acceptable. That spineless mind set is so alien to me, I'm bewildered when I meet their kind in daily life. They are among us and they're numbers are legion.; June 25, 2013 at 6:54 AM
Anonymous said...: To SWIFT,

"their" not "they're" numbers are legion.

Their means the numbers belong to them. They're means they are.

It would have been correct to say "they're legion". But "their numbers are legion" is correct because "their" refers to or modifies "numbers" and defines whose numbers.; June 25, 2013 at 9:39 AM
Anonymous said...: Thanks Grammar Nazi....I'm sure SWIFT knows the difference. It was probably just a slip up. Let it go....like you never made a typo or had a slip up. Sheesh.; June 25, 2013 at 10:33 AM
catfish said...: Mike for those that wish to read "Soliloquies in England" for free, they may find it here in many e-flavors.
http://archive.org/details/soliloquicopytwo00santrich
Catfish; June 25, 2013 at 11:36 AM
William Flatt said...: [ ...be prepared to meet these practitioners of a "government monopoly of violence" with the only thing they understand and will respond to -- countervailing force.]
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I've been prepared for years... just waiting on others to get onto the same page and commit to seeing this through to the very end. But remember, you can strike at the branches or you can follow the counsel of Henry David Thoreau who said; "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root..."

Those who have masterminded this evil we now face, and those who have led in carrying out this dark agenda are the ones who rightly should face our rifles in the field... and they are the ones who are, rightly so, the most fearful. They are the root.

Each and every one of you who are fellow 3%ers need to be the one who strikes the root.

Restoring the Republic will necessarily entail removing the cancer in a top-down fashion. Cut the head off the snake and the 'drones' who are 'legion' suddenly become a lot less formidable.; June 26, 2013 at 4:39 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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