Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Vigilantes, weary of crime gangs, seize control of towns in Mexico's Michoacan."

Friday, November 15, 2013

"Vigilantes, weary of crime gangs, seize control of towns in Mexico's Michoacan."

"Weary of criminal gangs, vigilantes arm and organize themselves."

You know, a buddy of mine once said back in the 90s that the solution to illegal immigration was to take every illegal rounded up, give 'em an unloaded MAK-90 with sling and cleaning kit, six 30-round magazines, a Chinese five-mag carrier with shoulder strap and a small backpack with MREs in it. Then, he said, "Take 'em by landing craft to Vera Cruz, hand 'em each a spam can of 7.62x39 and a cheap compass, and helpfully point out that their corrupt government in Mexico City is in that direction."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Pretty much the same sentiment that the writer Edward Abbey is credited for saying as well. A lot of truth to it.; November 15, 2013 at 7:37 AM
AJ said...: Anybody ever notice that every problem the US declares "war" upon, gets exponentially worse?; November 15, 2013 at 9:06 AM
Anonymous said...: People, if left to their own devices, will often find a useful solution. Hopefully, more Mexicans will decide to reclaim their communities. Terrorism of any kind is a scourge. Narcoterrorism may soon have run its course. Too bad the firearms we sent to Britain during WW2 are not available to help the Mexican citizenry. We have certainly sent enough to the wrong side in this conflict.; November 15, 2013 at 5:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Say what you will about bad breath, it is still preferable to no breath at all.

A similar argument can be made on the subject of Vigilante Justice.; November 16, 2013 at 9:40 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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Friday, November 15, 2013

"Vigilantes, weary of crime gangs, seize control of towns in Mexico's Michoacan."

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