Sipsey Street Irregulars: Snippets from local coverage of the Olympia rally (that didn't turn out the way Gottlieb had hoped). "Milking the elk."

Friday, January 16, 2015

Snippets from local coverage of the Olympia rally (that didn't turn out the way Gottlieb had hoped). "Milking the elk."

"Gun owners, including Garrett Bosworth, 16, center, of Yakima, Wash., pose for a selfie photo as they display their weapons in the upper gallery of the House chambers, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash."

Opponents of new gun law rally in Olympia, trade guns in House gallery

A group of 15 to 18 gun advocates did march into the Capitol. They arrived in the House Gallery just as the state House of Representatives was adjourning. They heckled members on the floor, and made a show of violating I-594 by exchanging weapons in the Gallery. A Washington State Patrol officer instructed one demonstrator on how to more safely hold his gun.

Tense Moments As Gun Rights Rally Spills Into Washington House Gallery

Gun rights activists rally at Capitol in Olympia

Garrett Bosworth, 16, of Yakima clutched a wood-stock hunting rifle as she sat in the House gallery after the outdoor rally ended. “It’s like standing up to bullies,” she said of efforts to fight gun control. “If you don’t say anything, they’re just going to keep doing it.”

(MBV Note: I met Garrett and her sister Aubrie when I went out to Olympia last month. They are two impressive young ladies. Garrett has some experience standing up to bullies in her school -- much to the painful frustration of the bullies.)

Gun activists gather, as control activists plan to grade legislators on which way they vote

Gun-control activists also plan to maintain a presence during the session. A few hours after the rally, a coalition group that supports gun control announced it would grade legislators on efforts to adopt new laws to increase gun safety and oppose repeals of the state’s newly expanded background-check law.

The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility said it will score legislators not just on how they vote on bills the group supports or opposes, but on whether they actively advocate for gun control during debates and deliberations, meet with gun-control supporters or are “engaging the public” on the issue.

Riiiight. Just exactly how do you collectivist pukes "grade" armed civil disobedience?

"I think I'll go out and milk the elk" -- W.C. Fields, "The Fatal Glass of Beer," 1933.

And here's Dave Workman's latest, "milking the elk" for all it's worth: As activists rallied on capitol steps, lawmakers went to work

"Blake, who joked to Thursday’s audience that he got his elk last fall – something of an insider joke among Washington big game hunters, who have found the animals increasingly elusive during shorter, earlier seasons. . ."

Gottlieb's Democrat poster boy, the great elk hunter Brian Blake.

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Anonymous said...: "While all of this was happening in Olympia, the organizer of the Dec. 13 “I Will Not Comply” was in a Douglas County courtroom , where he was arrested, several news agencies are reporting. Gavin Seim, of Ephrata,...."

To the friends of Gavin, it might be helpful if the name and home address of the Judge who is holding Gavin in jail WITHOUT BOND, be made known.

Maybe a rally could be organized at that address, just thinking!; January 16, 2015 at 3:07 PM
Unknown said...: Gavin and his father were released without bail today. Think that no charges were brought?

Freakin' cross dressers in black robes; January 16, 2015 at 5:40 PM
Anonymous said...: From Gavin:

"They have made up violations and charged me with Obstructing a Court, Disorderly Conduct, and Contempt of Court. Which are in fact only some of the crimes that THEY committed. My dad was charged with Obstructing a court, and Contempt of Court. Offenses that could (though rarely) result in over a year of prison."

http://callmegav.com/2015/01/patriots-pack-court-douglas-county-insane/; January 17, 2015 at 8:09 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Friday, January 16, 2015

Snippets from local coverage of the Olympia rally (that didn't turn out the way Gottlieb had hoped). "Milking the elk."

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