Sipsey Street Irregulars: Of Tyrants And Dangerous Old Men

Monday, October 13, 2014

Of Tyrants And Dangerous Old Men

Originally posted January 2013: Any attempt to take the contemporary arms of military utility our Founders wanted us to have, which includes the standard magazines and clips used in these firearms, is an act of tyranny that the Founders would recognize as an event justifying the use of force to retain our freedoms.

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Anonymous said...: As one of those "too old or infirm for front-line service" (dying, actually; Doctors don't give me 10 more years), it is heartening to see that I can still be useful. My FNAR is definitely not a proper infantry weapon. But it could still be useful to defend hearth and home; kith and kin. Being a .30 cal (and with a larger cartridge casing than the .30 cal in the M1 carbine) it can reach out and stop my enemies at a good range and do much more damage than 5.56. Semi-auto is more useful for defense than in attack so my rifle not being select fire is no handicap.

I don't expect I would survive the sort of injuries the redoubtable Mr. Whittemore received. But I could certainly go down fighting. Being already under a death sentence (and considering that the death I am looking at is a particularly unpleasant way to go) I have nothing to lose. As the poet put it "A man with nothing more to lose becomes a most unassailable weapon."; October 13, 2014 at 10:22 PM
Anonymous said...: You got to love the way guys like Nadler use that "legitimate violence" term. He better pray that we don't get forced into that legitimate violence position ourselves because a legitimate length of rope would make a legitimate neck-tie for this would-be dictator. And if he's such a legitimate tough-guy, then let him come grab the People's weapons himself.; October 14, 2014 at 5:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Hope you have something with penetrating power...have you seen the size of that walrus?; October 14, 2014 at 7:26 AM
Infored42 said...: Interesting to note that assholes like Nadler consider it to be 'legitimate violence' when it's done by government thugs and
wannabes, but it's 'domestic terrorism' when it's done by citizens and patriots.

BadCyborg- Yes. Great quote from a poet alright. Absolutely true; October 14, 2014 at 11:21 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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