Sipsey Street Irregulars: Enabling Tyranny: New York's Dead Elephant Party -- "Why did NY GOP lawmakers fund the SAFE Act?"

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Enabling Tyranny: New York's Dead Elephant Party -- "Why did NY GOP lawmakers fund the SAFE Act?"

Did they not read what was in the bill? Or is it just an excuse?

7 comments:

FedUp said...: Elected Senators, supposedly the best of the Repugnant Party, engaged in a public protest against their own incompetence...

I swear, the way things are going, I'm beginning to hope that Boner and Friends DO pass an illegal alien incentive package, just so I can use it to finally get rid of the Repugnant Party.; May 10, 2014 at 6:32 AM
Anonymous said...: The yankee and left coast GOP congress critter is greatly different than its counterpart in flyover country. Political survival is based on how extra special nice you can be to the party that wants you annihilated.

Those States get the representation that they deserve for such sniveling.; May 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM
Anonymous said...: Wait, so Republicans are scumbags...too?
Say it ain't so!; May 10, 2014 at 9:01 AM
Anonymous said...: George Washington warned us all about political faction - it's about time we LISTEN.

Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. This has come to pass because campaigns are now about gay marriage and abortion instead of FORM OF GOVERNMENT and it's enumerated powers/ purpose.

Both parties play insulator between us and our government while both claiming to be conduits to it. We can NEVER solve the problem going from one election to another punishing one party by electing the other. We have to oust them BOTH!; May 10, 2014 at 10:25 AM
T. Paine said...: Well, for starters they are lying. How do I know? They're talking.
I wonder if anyone has asked the drones what else is in the bill just to see if they ever read it.; May 10, 2014 at 3:01 PM
Anonymous said...: Read the bill? You're kidding, right?; May 10, 2014 at 7:25 PM
Anonymous said...: WHy did they fund it ? I will posit this might be , because they are clowns .

Debate and voting over making yogurt the state snack .

http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/12/joke-new-york-senate-passes-bill-making-yogurt-state-snack/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social; May 12, 2014 at 9:45 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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