Sipsey Street Irregulars: Reports from the Shutdown. Threepers "test the fences" -- and pick up some souvenirs.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Reports from the Shutdown. Threepers "test the fences" -- and pick up some souvenirs.

Received this photo and accompanying report from a Threeper in Virginia:

It was glorious on Sunday as American citizens removed the barricades from the WWII Memorial. (They also removed them from the Lincoln Memorial.)

I removed two “closed” posters and two signs, including this one, which officially, and idiotically, closes the grass on the Mall. I brought two pairs of wire cutters in case the first one was confiscated. One should be prepared. J I was prepared to be arrested, but the police mostly gave the protesters a wide berth. This was wise, because (1) there were a lot of protesters, and (2) the protesters were in no mood to be jerked around.

The barricades and signs are back already. As you have an audience, consider calling for their repeated removal. And removal of all of Obama’s barricades and “closed” signage from all open air monuments and lands around the country. We must defy tyranny or we are lost.

Just some guy.

Also, we have this report from the Palmetto State:

Good idea you have about re-opening our National Parks and Forests.

The Sumter National Forest in Edgefield County South Carolina was opened for business yesterday. Except for momentary efforts on their part, it will remain open.

The signs are pretty cheesy. Basically a printed piece of paper in a document protector stapled to a pole.

The next set I’ll send to you!

I will be proud to frame it. We ARE Everywhere.

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Anonymous said...: I need to get me one of those "Industrial Size" pipe cutters. Just clamp-on and start turning the cutter around the pipe while screwing in the handle. Chop those Barry-Cades in half (or smaller pieces) and they can't be re-used without being repaired.; October 17, 2013 at 12:04 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Reports from the Shutdown. Threepers "test the fences" -- and pick up some souvenirs.

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