Sipsey Street Irregulars: That old skunk-in-church feeling. With an update. (Well, that WAS quick.)

Thursday, April 2, 2015

That old skunk-in-church feeling. With an update. (Well, that WAS quick.)

From: georgemason1776@aol.com

To: media@nrahq.org

Sent: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 6:02 pm

Subject: THIRD REQUEST: need confirmation for press credentials for convention
Anybody home at Fairfax?

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From: georgemason1776@aol.com

To: media@nrahq.org

Cc: dcodrea

Sent: Tue, Mar 31, 2015 6:18 am

Subject: Reminder: need confirmation for press credentials for convention

Haven't heard on my original request, so let me repeat:

This is to request press credentials for the Nashville convention. My name is Mike Vanderboegh. I am a citizen journalist and have been credentialed previously. I operate the blog Sipsey Street Irregulars and was one of two writers (the other was David Codrea) who broke the Fast and Furious scandal story on the Internet in December 2010. (Reference: Chapter Two of Sharyl Attkisson's recent book, Stonewalled.) I was also responsible for linking up whistleblowers like John Dodson with the Senate investigators and with Ms. Attkisson of CBS. The rest, as they say, is history.

My contact information is: PO Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126. My cell phone is REDACTED.

Please confirm as soon as possible.

Mike Vanderboegh

NOT-SO-VERY-MUCH-LATER: Just sent that and got this one immediately back at me:

-----Original Message-----

From: Arulanandam, Andrew AArulanandam@nrahq.org

To: georgemason1776@aol.com

Sent: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 6:05 pm

Subject: Re: THIRD REQUEST: need confirmation for press credentials for convention

Mike,

You and David are confirmed - as you have been for prior years. Sorry for the delayed response.

Andrew

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Glad you and David got them. It will be interesting to read the reporting. Is a tuxedo required to attend the festivities?; April 2, 2015 at 7:27 PM
Anonymous said...: On the seeking credential front -

Gun grabbing Christie just now decided to PARDON that poor black single mother from Pennsylvania who had a carry permit from her state and dared to travel to another state while exercising her right to carry. Sadly, he pardoned her to AVOID seeing his states vicious gun control hampered. And he thinks he gets second amendment credentials for presidential run in return for this waaaaay late pardon? Yeah right.; April 2, 2015 at 9:35 PM
Anonymous said...: The NRA function to which you refer is not called a "convention". It is called "Annual Meetings and Exhibits". That is per The NRA's by-laws. It is never called a "convention" in any NRA publication.; April 3, 2015 at 8:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Some ideas for the liberty movement's eyes at the NRA convention.

An update on the Norquist ethic's investigation (when will it be complete and who's doing it) that the NRA says they are doing would be great.

The NRA screwed up on the WA state 594 election; that's water under the bridge now but are they going to repeat that in the upcoming 594 like Nevada election? Will they "really" be engage in Nevada or will there only be a token effort again (I know 500k sounds like more than a token but a cool million more would have made a big difference in a media buy)?

How committed is the NRA in starting the fight in the states against the anti gun forces who are putting their issues on the ballot, we all know that the NRA likes buying congressman and Senator's which we need but the local grassroots needs help against Bloomberg too.; April 3, 2015 at 10:44 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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That old skunk-in-church feeling. With an update. (Well, that WAS quick.)

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