Sipsey Street Irregulars: If you read nothing else this week, read this. Print it out so you'll have a copy. Read it again. Reflect and be grateful -- and be ever vigilant.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

If you read nothing else this week, read this. Print it out so you'll have a copy. Read it again. Reflect and be grateful -- and be ever vigilant.

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

-- George Santayana, 1922.

Cpl Claudio Patino IV

Counting the cost -- Broken Understanding: A Marine Scout Sniper Reflects

Part of my righteous anger at the current corrupt regime and its collectivist media and intellectual toadies who seem to be so desperately seeking a civil war is that they have no care for, or consideration of, the inevitable bloody human costs their policies seem designed to wreak upon others. It is true, in the famous quote that is attributed to Plato but certainly was written by George Santayana in 1922, that "only the dead have seen the end of war." But that is because of the uncaring evil in the hearts of some, and their eternal, insatiable appetites for other people's liberty, property and lives. It is to be hoped that they face the righteous and just wrath of the Lord before they can kill too many of the rest of us. But it is our responsibility to be ready, on the part of their intended victims, to make the introduction. What the Lord does from there is His business.

"None of you know Claudio Patino like I did, but you do, or can know Jesus. I struggled for years to earn the grace Christ gave to me, just as I struggled for years asking why my brother died on an unnamed hilltop in Afghanistan while I survived. The answer lies in knowing we can’t earn it. We can be grateful for the sacrifice, accept what it has done for us, and live our lives in honor of it."

4 comments:

garlicguy said...: Wow. Well-crafted message regarding a sentiment we share.; August 9, 2015 at 10:06 AM
the Plinker said...: I have not the words, only the tears.; August 9, 2015 at 2:15 PM
oughtsix said...: Thanks for that link, Mike.

Sent far and wide.; August 9, 2015 at 6:20 PM
Unknown said...: AMEN!; August 9, 2015 at 11:40 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Sunday, August 9, 2015

If you read nothing else this week, read this. Print it out so you'll have a copy. Read it again. Reflect and be grateful -- and be ever vigilant.

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