Sipsey Street Irregulars: Yeah, lady, I think we noticed. The New York Times' Bloomberg state gun control law commercial.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Yeah, lady, I think we noticed. The New York Times' Bloomberg state gun control law commercial.

Fight on Guns Is Being Taken to State Ballots

I sent this alleged journalist the following email:

What your story completely ignored:

1. The armed civil disobedience that the success of I-594 engendered. There was a rally at the state house in Olympia on 13 December with 2000 armed participants flouting the law and daring the authorities to do anything about it. They did not even get a permit, they just came a la the Bundy Ranch, defied the state, and then left peacefully. They were, however, prepared for any contingency and were risking everything by doing so.

2. The success of I-594 has exposed the fractures between the various "mainstream" gun rights groups such as the NRA and Alan Gottlieb's Second Amendment Foundation as well as between those groups and the "I Will Not Comply" movement gun owners who planned and executed the 13 December event (and plan to once again defy the law in June with a "no-background-checks" gun show in Yakima).

3. The success of state laws in CT, CO and NY have engendered massive non-compliance movements and events there, nullifying those laws and, once again, daring state authorities to do anything about it.

So, by completely ignoring the Law of Unintended Consequences and the indisputable fact of the hollowness of such Bloomberg "victories", your story is barely half of the truth.

Mike Vanderboegh

Again, there is NO unconstitutional firearm law that we cannot nullify by armed civil disobedience, whether the NYT notices or not.

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Anonymous said...: I'm surprised nobody has written about the sea change we are witnessing - at least not in this way.

The NRA abandoned the Second amendment at its core - federal preemption. It embarked upon what is, essentially, an attack upon its power as a enumerated right that is supposed to be observed protected and respected across the land - shall not be infringed. The NRA has been complicit in CONCEDING federal authority of protecting andcdefending this right ESPECIALLY from state transgression.

Now, gun control outfits all of a sudden jump to state by state ground game? They ADOPT the NRA strategy? They will now USE what the NRA actually PROVIDED- state preemption- to impose their gun control will! Just as I've argued all along - state preemption is s FARCE. It IS gun control. It IS the ultimate infringement upon the Second Amendment.

Can we nullify "laws" (statutes) created? Sure, in groups, sometimes. BUT we will be picked off one by one, charged, persecuted and punished. And just who is responsible?

The NRA.

PLEASE WAKE UP AMERICA.; January 3, 2015 at 3:22 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.

-- 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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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Yeah, lady, I think we noticed. The New York Times' Bloomberg state gun control law commercial.

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