Sipsey Street Irregulars: Am taking the rest of the day to deal with more family issues.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Am taking the rest of the day to deal with more family issues.

Sorry, but family matters intrude, demanding my attention. I'm going to be out of pocket the rest of today (although I'll enable comments and answer emails as I can later this afternoon/evening). If it's not one thing, it's another, it seems. Keep me in your prayers.

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Anonymous said...: Done!

gfa; March 12, 2014 at 9:59 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike, I wish you well with your family matters.

I would like you to take a look at this quote I pulled made by the official NRA Lobbyist here in Illinois.

http://illinoiscarry.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=46696&st=0

"I note your “superior” position by calling the posters who took time to at least comment on your article as trolls. I guess since I am commenting, I must fit that bill as well. Despite having served our country for 18 years and simply believing that the Constitution and its amendments mean something. It’s easy for you to dismiss people who have simple beliefs – We have a RIGHT to own, possess and carry a firearm. It’s not really that complicated. We think that the right to keep AND bear arms means something – something different than a lot of left leaning types do. So the issue is how come it’s so hard for anti-gun types, liberals or others to see this simple idea – it’s a right. Not a privilege. Not a who “needs” one. An enumerated fundamental right, protected for all of us."

So umm Mr. Vandermyde, NRA Lobbyist, what does the 14th Amendment mean? Umm specifically - No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

States can't make or enforce laws abridging the permissions that they are empowered to allow or disallow ( because they are " privileges", huh Todd? ) Makes a lot OF SENSE, huh. SHEESH ! Privileges in the constitutional context cannot possibly mean what the NRA presents it to mean here through its lobbyist. The plain reading of the Amendment FAILS the common sense test when Todd's definition - use- is tested. Period.

What we have here is a PERFECT example of the NRAs BULLSHIT.

If privileges and immunities is not synonymous with "rights" then the 14th CAN ONLY mean that while the 13th abolished slavery in terms of one man owning another, the 14th made us ALL slaves to the government master - the master who doles out permissions, allowances.

History TEACHES that the 14th CAME TO BE because STATES were "preempting" the RIGHTS of FREED SLAVES and DISALLOWING (punishing) exercise by Freedmen. The 14th MEANT AND MEANS the OPPOSITE of what this NRA LOBBYIST write here. As he chides another about actually believing in the constitution "AND amendments". Now the NRA wants to succeed in getting ALL states to preempt. Uh huh. USURP!!!

(Hint for ya Todd, there is JUST our Constitution- the Amendments become PART OF IT. Oh yeah and it's the LAW of Rights..... The BILL PASSED!

Rights ARE privileges. Rights ARE immunities. Rights are what a person can do and what government cannot do to a person because they do so.

The NRA BELIEVES OTHERWISE!! The NRA IGNORES privileges and immunities because it LOVES government control over rights. It stands to make money forever so long as people cheer the stupidity in that paragraph quoted above.

So there it is. Proof that the NRA acts nefariously and IS the biggest and best disguised GUN CONTROL group in this country. PROOF POSITIVE, right from the mouth of its state level agent.; March 12, 2014 at 12:25 PM
Anonymous said...: Prayers for you and your family
Selene; March 12, 2014 at 3:37 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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