Sipsey Street Irregulars: Running a little behind the times, aren't we Barone?

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Running a little behind the times, aren't we Barone?

"Is it Time for Civil Disobedience of Kludgeocratic Bureaucracy?"

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Anonymous said...: yeah, this guy is a real trail blazer; June 2, 2015 at 8:36 AM
the Plinker said...: I read Barone's piece this morning, and immediately thought of the Threepers, oath Keepers, Cliven Bundy, LFA, etc., etc. Barone can be slow on the uptake, but he's beginning to "get it" and that speaks well for the movement's rising impact. He seems to have tripped over this important point: "...regulators are actually thin on the ground, unequipped to deal with mass — and subsidized — civil disobedience."; June 2, 2015 at 2:06 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: Actually, Barone didn't even come up with the notion on his own. Barone's article is based upon Charles Murray's book "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission." I don't think civil disobedience is going to work, myself. I applaud Mike's and others' efforts to get the plutocrats' attention but I believe it is a wasted effort. The collectivists will not pay attention to anything we the peons do. At least anything short of armed rebellion, that is. They control both the media and the machinery of government - including the election process and the judiciary - to a sufficient degree that they DO NOT HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE LIKES OF US!!! They control the information flow. They control the vote counts. They have sufficient numbers of low information, entirely dependent voters that with minor tweaking of the vote counts they "win" any election they choose. With both the law enforcement mechanism and judiciary firmly in their grasp they can do pretty much as they please....; June 2, 2015 at 4:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Time for a few scenes out of John Ross' book, if you ask me.
-MM; June 3, 2015 at 1:19 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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Running a little behind the times, aren't we Barone?

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