Sipsey Street Irregulars: A VERY busy yesterday.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

A VERY busy yesterday.

In between getting around to various places and folks as part of what is becoming the Hickenlooper Harassment Tour I made a number of stops yesterday. Among them were several interesting firearms emporiums: Specialty Sports and Supply is a very large independent full service gun shop in Colorado springs. In chatting with the sales folks there, I discovered that one of the adaptations forced upon them by the new law is that all semi-auto rifles are sold without magazines, buyers bearing the responsibility of finding their own -- of whatever size. I've heard rumors previously of cross-border shopping trips for magazines to other states. I'll try to confirm that later. Another shop we visited was Paradise Firearms also in Colorado springs. The owner, Paul Paradis, was a leading figure in the recall elections last year. The folks at Paradise were unfailingly helpful and knowledgeable. A great little gun store.

We also visited The National Museum of World War II Aviation at the Colorado Springs Airport. Not only is it a remarkable static display museum, they have an educational mission that is second-to-none with hands-on exhibits to teach the fundamentals of aviation, with a WWII specialty -- to visiting groups of school students. Even more impressive are the restored air-worthy and flying aircraft such as a B-25 and a P-47 as well as, a short walk across the tarmac, a working relationship with one of the premier aircraft restoration companies in the world, Westpac Restorations. If you're in the area and want to schedule a visit, I told that the best time and date might be to coordinate it with the Pike's Peak Regional Airshow on August 9th & 10th. And then right nearby is the The Airplane Restaurant adjacent to the Radisson Hotel. The food was great and the company distinguished as we sat and "talked a little treason" to the Empire.

We ended the long day in a Wendy's, talking with another Colorado patriot. Went back to sleep the sleep of the exhausted, but with a feeling of having accomplished a very great deal. Plans are being made to come back here in October to finish what we started. Hope to see more of you folks at the speech tonight in Colorado Springs.

2 comments:

Dakota said...: Sounds like a good trip Mike. If you enjoyed the aircraft museum in Colorado, Omaha, NE has a good one too. They have an SR71 on display and some very nice planes too. Unfortunately there's isn't at the airport, it is West of Omaha a few miles, but worth the trip.

Hope your travel is safe.; July 3, 2014 at 6:50 AM
Author of, Sovereign Soil... said...: I attended Mike's speaking event for the Colorado Springs Preppers last night. He covered a lot of topics that should greatly interest all American Patriots. He's a great speaker and advocate for our Constitution and 2nd Amendment---Thank you sir. Author of, SOVEREIGN SOIL, civil war is forced again. "De Oppresso Liber"; July 3, 2014 at 10:01 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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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

A VERY busy yesterday.

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