Sipsey Street Irregulars: File this under: Nothing new under the sun. Subheading: failure to subordinate ego and poor leadership resulting in mission failure leads to another schism in the liberty movement.

Friday, September 4, 2015

File this under: Nothing new under the sun. Subheading: failure to subordinate ego and poor leadership resulting in mission failure leads to another schism in the liberty movement.

I've known about this developing situation for months and tried my best to get the parties to reconcile their differences. I have my own opinions on who and what is responsible for this, but I will keep them to myself for now. As certain folks have seen fit to begin the self-justifying character assassination (waged quite openly on Facebook) that usually comes out with such donnybrooks, the only thing I can do is shake my head at the folly of conduct that I have seen far too many times in the liberty movement since the 90s.

Kit Lange on "The Concept of Innocent Until Proven Guilty in the Patriot Movement."

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: I know all of the parties involved and respect them all.

What everyone needs to know is that there are people like myself whose primary interest is the mission at hand.

It is not about what we say but it is all about what we do.

When tyranny becomes law
Rebellion becomes duty!

Comrade X; September 4, 2015 at 11:28 AM
Anonymous said...: The advantage we have over the 90's is the lessons learned since then and the words of wisdom you continue to share with us. Now its on us when we fail to heed those lessons and choose not to listen to those words. We can do better, and will do better.; September 4, 2015 at 1:06 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey, I'm trying to follow what you're talking about here and think it's too cryptic. What 'ego' situation is happening? I'm aware of a split in Oathkeepers but nothing else.; September 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM
Anonymous said...: If the primary interest is the mission at hand, why all the "friendly" fire?; September 4, 2015 at 3:05 PM
Anonymous said...: There is a fine line between assuming someone is innocent until proven guilty, and just being a sucker.; September 4, 2015 at 3:27 PM
Anonymous said...: "That means NOT engaging in gossip, not participating in the assassination of character, or the spreading of that nasty rumor. It means remembering that innocent until proven guilty isn’t just for the courtroom."

Fine, but... when one then finds out that the truth is guilt, then the guilty should be appropriately punished. As will be the case here.; September 4, 2015 at 3:43 PM
TimeHasCome said...: Sorry Mike for being a mile off topic . But I just had to point out the City of Tacoma Washington have drop boxes for unwanted fireams ...http://joeforamerica.com/2015/09/gun-boxes-coming-to-tacoma/..... When you visited us here last December it was a pleasure to hear and see you in Olympia . Washington State is a nutty trend State so expect other states to follow . At least when I walk my dog I will have a place for the doo-doo.; September 4, 2015 at 5:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Methinks they be a big difference between friendly fire and no fire, don't ya know!; September 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM
Anonymous said...: What a shame. Both sides are good folks who have done good stuff.

Hopefully they will continue to do good stuff, even if it's separately.; September 5, 2015 at 7:23 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Friday, September 4, 2015

File this under: Nothing new under the sun. Subheading: failure to subordinate ego and poor leadership resulting in mission failure leads to another schism in the liberty movement.

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