Sipsey Street Irregulars: Another CT story: Voting with your feet.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Another CT story: Voting with your feet.

Gun Control Sent Me Packing

When do you finally say, "Enough," decide to sell your house, pack up your things and move your life to another state that offers more freedom and liberty?

4 comments:

aaronw said...: The SAFE Act was the final straw that pushed three of my friends from my local range to move to freer states.; February 16, 2014 at 6:22 AM
Anonymous said...: I left Maryland back in July. The final straw was their gun "control" laws that went into effect. Yet, there are no new criminal control laws.
I tired of a Dem controlled government grinding my Liberties under their Boot of Righteousness, raising taxes (Rain tax ??? Really ???) while pilfering the State coffers to line the pockets of favored politicians. I'm adult enough to understand that that behavior will happen to some degree no matter which State i reside in, but damn !!
I moved my household, and took my money with me !! Myself and a couple thousand others in the past couple years. How many business' shut down or decided not to open in Maryland due to the business unfriendly environment ?
*PHHT* to Mary-land and the son-in-law to the Kennedy clan, O'Malley!! I now reside and conduct my business, spend my money and pay taxes in a more Libertarian thinking State. Not to mention, warmer weather.; February 16, 2014 at 8:25 AM
Jim Klein said...: A rodent in a maze will scurry around and around, never giving up the quest for egress. Too bad the sicko labworker left no opening for egress.

The rational man will stop the maze from being built or, failing that, overcome his surroundings.

The interesting fact is that the maze never comes to be in the first place, without the labworker. THIS was the distinction Rand wrote about---"the metaphysical versus the man-made." For the rodent, the maze is a metaphysical given. For us...; February 16, 2014 at 9:02 AM
Anonymous said...: A good commentary. The author and her family are descendants of Holocaust survivors. They study history. They have made the right decision. They will live, while others regret inaction.; February 16, 2014 at 1:40 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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Another CT story: Voting with your feet.

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