Sipsey Street Irregulars: Obama’s Treachery and Republican Silence

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Obama’s Treachery and Republican Silence

"When will they stop pretending this is a normal presidency?"

When Horowitz was doing his book tour for Radical Son, I was on a local radio show as a guest and Horowitz did a phoner. As a fellow ex-communist, we compared notes for a bit on what we had done in the 60s and 70s and then I asked him, "David, do you ever feel Benedict Arnold looking over your shoulder, as I do?" He was quiet and then said, "Yes, I do." I then followed up, "But you're never going to get caught on the wrong side of your faith and the Founders again, are you?" "No," he said, in a much more emphatic voice. "No." "Me neither," I told him.

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Anonymous said...: hmm.. I used to smoke. I always thought the craziest most obnoxious anti-smokers were the ex-smokers.
A.; August 9, 2014 at 2:39 AM
Pilgrims Pride said...: I once knew Horowitz well enough to be on a first name basis. He made a great impression on me and his gift copy of Radical Son was a true eye opener.

Thank you both for following the dictates of your conscience into the Light of Truth.; August 9, 2014 at 9:32 AM
Dakota said...: Excellent article from one of my heroes. David is to me as "Herr Doctor" is to you. David's book "Radical Son" was the book that made me understand the lie I had been living. I will be forever in his debt for turning me away from liberalism/communism and putting me on the path of Conservatism and truth.

I hope I get to meet him someday.; August 9, 2014 at 11:34 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm an x-smoker but I believe in freedom.

Communists and other Marxists believe in freedom too. Right up to the point where they start winning elections.; August 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM
Paul X said...: "Barack Obama deliberately set out to lose the war in Iraq, and he did. He defied the advice of his joint chiefs of staff to secure America’s formidable military presence and keep 20,000 troops in country, and left Iraq to its own devices and the tender mercies of Iran. In doing so, he betrayed every American and Iraqi who gave his life to create a free Iraq and keep it out of the clutches of the terrorists."

I should have guessed. Another load of crap from chicken-hawk Horowitz.

Oh, and it is a normal presidency. Every one of the bastards are power-hungry tyrants.; August 9, 2014 at 2:10 PM
Anonymous said...: So I guess we'll let it go and not flog your asses....; August 9, 2014 at 7:21 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm a bit confused by his assertion that Obama's secretaries of state contributed to the mess in Iraq by their support of Bashar Assad.

I didn't think they had supported Assad (remember the whole Red Line thing?) but even if they did, it is not Assad who made the mess of Iraq. It was the Syrian "rebels" that this government aided materially, and they were on the opposite side of Assad.

Remember when these "rebels" posted videos of all the beheadings, eating hearts, pushing people off rooftops, and so on? Those Syrian rebels are the same group, they were and are ISIS. They were given American weapons by the Obama government. They were also funneled Qadaffi's stash of weapons through Benghazi.; August 9, 2014 at 8:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Reasons why? NSA, CIA FBI and the skeletons in their closets?; August 10, 2014 at 5:40 AM
rkshanny said...: "normal presidency" . . . there's a bit of Orwellian gibberish!!; August 10, 2014 at 9:15 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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