Sipsey Street Irregulars: Herschel Smith on "Lone Wolf Terrorism."

Monday, August 17, 2015

Herschel Smith on "Lone Wolf Terrorism."

You learn one thing, and you can suspect another. As for what you can suspect (with a fairly high chance of being right) is that if you are a gun owner or believe in the constitution, you fall into that category they call the “far right.”

Here's the original report he refers to.

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Millwright said...: Since all of the "threats" we've perceived or encountered come from the decidedly 'left leaning' segments of society, the DHS position seems about right for their bias. Makes one wonder, however, if a populist president with an anti-government bias is elected how many of these folks will continue to have a place at the government tit.; August 18, 2015 at 2:43 AM
Anonymous said...: As long as the communist are in control patriots will be their enemies, don't ya know!; August 18, 2015 at 11:07 AM
Anonymous said...: I would rather be deemed far right than far wrong.
Whenever they call us right wing, we should respond by calling them wrong wing. Disregard the left versus right paradigm, instead adopting the wrong versus right paradigm. We are right, they are wrong. We support rights, they support wrongs. We champion rights, they champion wrongs.

They are not left. They are just wrong.; August 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM
Anonymous said...: I would rather be despised by the despicable, than admired by the admirable.

B Woodman
III-per; August 19, 2015 at 12:22 PM
Mark Pugner said...: I've parsed (.) the report's definition of terrorist in comparison to a current, ongoing scandal.

Terrorists generally share a similar radicalization process: each starts with a personal, social, or political grievance that creates a receptive point. (Tea Party snub) However, terrorists often experience a crisis event that exacerbates these grievances and leads them to adopt a radical ideology. (2010 elections) After the radical ideology resonates, they go through anger projection and moral outrage simultaneously with escalating irritation by the initial grievance. (IRS targets Tea Party non-profits) As this cycle of anger continues, the terrorist eventually reaches a trigger point where they determine it is time to act. (Imprison Tea Party Patriots) This point is when they decide to act alone or with a group, and this decision is significantly influenced by social competence and ideological autonomy... (Chicago Boys Club); August 19, 2015 at 4:50 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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