Sipsey Street Irregulars: Once again we see that timing is everything and preparations delayed are preparations denied.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Once again we see that timing is everything and preparations delayed are preparations denied.

“Did you notice the tractor trailer back there to our loading dock?” the man asked the woman, who responded with an affirmative. “All the guns are already packed in, and we’re taking all the pawns out of here too, just to protect our customers’ merchandise.”

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Anonymous said...: Is this a new type of "prepping" that I'm not aware of? Wait 'till that absolute last minute to buy the things you need in an emergency? In neighborhoods like that I would have been born with a firearm. Or maybe she's been anti-2nd amendment all these years and has finally figured out why people own guns.; November 25, 2014 at 1:37 PM
Anonymous said...: This is the bio of the author of the piece:

Author: Valerie Beaumont
Valerie is a lifelong progressive activist, a mother, and a strong supporter of civil rights. She currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her son, her cats, and three well-fed goldfish.

So concerned about the trouble the customer had obtaining her pistol and possible racist breach of civil liberty ... opposite day!; November 25, 2014 at 3:39 PM
TRex said...: The point, if it isn't already obvious enough, is that she should have already bought the gun and ammo, taken it to the range to test it and learn how to use it.
All of this should have been done at least last month.; November 25, 2014 at 6:25 PM
Anonymous said...: It all seems like perfectly logical preparations to me. You can "bet the ranch" these businesses' insurers will
deny any claims under a host of AOG/CD "exemptions hidden deep in the fine print. All they're doing is taking, (at the last minute, it seems) steps to reduce their risk.

As regards an active "armed defense" of hour business premises, I'd opine you might be on very soft tundra. We're going to see a lot of quasi-legal "precedents" arising out of Ferguson, IMNSHO.
Foremost is going to be the "right" of underclass blacks, (or minority of your choice), to wreak havoc without penalty. >Jeff; November 25, 2014 at 8:05 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.

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"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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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Once again we see that timing is everything and preparations delayed are preparations denied.

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