Sipsey Street Irregulars: Gun shows as the last bastion of a free people.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Gun shows as the last bastion of a free people.

Hope to see you at the AGCA show today. Raised about thirty bucks yesterday. Pretty pitiful really. Hope to do better today. In any case I enjoy being at one of the last gatherings of free Americans you can still find in this country.

You know, the other day MSNBC collectivist harridan Mika Brzezinski caused a stir by declaring that Ted Cruz "doesn't love the country." This is both false and true. Ted Cruz, I am certain, loves HIS country. The thing is, he doesn't love Mika's country. We are in fact two countries now, divided along the irreconcilable fault line of who serves whom. Do the people serve the government? Or should the government serve the people? In Mika's country the individual serves the collective. Not in Ted Cruz's country, not in my country and not in the country of the folks at the gun show. One day we will decide which country we are to be, and it won't be decided by argument, or an election, or by anything else other than a resort to arms. Our determination to remain free is at least as great as -- and I believe greater than -- their desire to subordinate our individuality to their collectivist appetites. Until that time of bloody decision, in the last interval of peacetime, I revel in the fact that gun shows are one of the last bastions of a free people.

Hope to see you there.

6 comments:

Frederick H Watkins said...: Eventually they will be underground events.; October 13, 2013 at 5:44 PM
Anonymous said...: You make a good point about there being two countries, or rather two peoples. Even people with wildly different beliefs and ways of life can get along if they agree to live by a very few fundamental precepts:

1) Don't initiate or threaten to initiate force or fraud against another person or their property. Use force only in self defense.

2) Make good on your promises.

3) If you accidentally physically injure someone or damage their property, do what you can to make them whole again.

On the other hand, if some people follow these rules and others consider them "anachronistic," "inflexible," "racist," etc., and refuse to abide by them, civil war is inevitable.; October 13, 2013 at 9:10 PM
countenance said...: You know, the other day MSNBC collectivist harridan Mika Brzezinski caused a stir by declaring that Ted Cruz "doesn't love the country."

She "caused a stir," i.e. she said something insane and provocative just to draw ratings and draw attention to herself. Don't reward pure shock value nut talk by paying it attention.; October 13, 2013 at 9:41 PM
Anonymous said...: Countenance:

Ignoring what Team Blue is saying is willful ignorance. They telegraph everything they do. It would be foolish to ignore people who beg, politic and campaign to devest you of your rights, money and way of life.; October 14, 2013 at 7:12 AM
Anonymous said...: I must have missed a post; what are you raising money for?

GL; October 14, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Dutchman6 said...: For the trip to San Antonio later this week.; October 14, 2013 at 12:22 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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