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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Torches? Latest collectivist insanity as Long Island town goes medieval. Be interesting to see what the crime rate does.

Nearly 400-Year-Old Long Island Town Passes Controversial ‘Dark Skies’ Law -- No Outdoor Lighting Allowed In Shelter Island, N.Y. From Sunset To Sunrise

Citizens are asking about lighting up backyards with barbeques and torches. According to new town code such “temporary” lighting is excluded from the dark skies law.

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William Flatt said...: Sounds like gas lights are exempt, so I wonder if I can get a job as lamp-lighter in a town that was founded when streetlamps were lit by hand.

...On second thought, f#ck it. Long Island is still part of NY and I'll be damned if I'll leave gun-freedom Indiana for a collectivist sh!thole like NY.

[Sarc] Maybe I should get a job with Monsanto, which just acquired the infamous BLACKWATER mercenary company, so I can pull double duty lighting gaslights and shooting stray dogs with my company-issue M4. After all, when you're a JBT your duty is to kill all dogs first! [/Sarc]; July 25, 2013 at 6:31 AM
Anonymous said...: Oh, but think of the fossil fuel that won't be burned to supply power! Think of the reduction in global warming! They might be able to live on Long Island a few more years before the rising sea covers it. How wonderful. Think green, people.

- Old Greybeard; July 25, 2013 at 8:47 AM
Anonymous said...: This is the DUMBEST law I think I have seen in a while. This quote from the article by their supervisor...

“We came up with a very reasonable and calm law that will preserve our dark skies while we still have them,” Supervisor James Dougherty said.

Clearly this guy is dumber than a bag of hammers. In what world is this law "reasonable" and what exactly are you "preserving" in case he wasn't aware the second a light is turned off a magical thing happens... it gets dark...again.; July 25, 2013 at 8:56 AM
AJ said...: Monsanto, along with Disney and quite a few other multinationals, hires Academi for various nefarious purposes, but they don't actually own them. They were, however, bought up by a shady consortium of 'investors'. Which doesn't really make me feel much better.; July 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM
FedUp said...: So that's what it was like to live in London in 1943.
We're getting more and more opportunities to find out what living under siege feel like...; July 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Sean said...: With what's coming, they're going to get their wish sooner than they think.; July 25, 2013 at 10:40 AM
Tony said...: Normally not happy about stuff like this but we do have way to much outdoor lighting. Not sure I like the government getting involved though.; July 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM
RL said...: The Endarkenment proceeds apace...; July 25, 2013 at 4:35 PM
Paul X said...: I'm with Tony. Dark skies don't make a heck of a lot of sense in a place like Long Island, where you can't really see stars well in any case, but I sure hate the occasional boob out in the Wyoming boonies with a mercury vapor light. People scared of the dark I guess. Govco should keep out of this though.

Well, when SHTF and electricy goes away or prices skyrocket, I guess this problem will pass all by itself.; July 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Having come from LI I can tell you that shelter island has been populated by strange creatures suffering from the same diseases of the mind commonly found in NJ and California.. they think they are saving the earth and getting in touch with nature.. Good fishing and scenery but not much else.

Yank lll; July 25, 2013 at 6:16 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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