Sipsey Street Irregulars: A strategic truth that also extends to Obama's domestic moves like citizen disarmament: “You can’t take stupid off the table.”

Monday, October 5, 2015

A strategic truth that also extends to Obama's domestic moves like citizen disarmament: “You can’t take stupid off the table.”

The wisdom of the famed Alabama philosopher, Mrs. Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does, Forrest."

A few months ago I attended a two day conference on the subject of the future of U.S.-Russian relations, attended by an impressive array of officials from Administrations past and present and experts on things Russian. One of the subjects discussed was the possibilities for additional, even more dangerous crises between our two countries. There were lots of potential flash points identified, beyond the current crisis in Ukraine, ranging from the Baltics to Kaliningrad, Moldova, Kazakhstan and the Arctic. But for each of these there were also “cooler” heads who argued that it would be stupid for Putin to initiate a new crisis in any of these places. After all, given the declining state of the Russian economy, technology base, demographics and even military capacity, he was playing with a very weak hand. Finally, one former senior Pentagon official interrupted to say “you can’t take stupid off the table.”

Most every war happens because of miscalculation about means and ends. The more the enemies of liberty -- the beasts in human form with their insatiable appetites for collectivist tyranny -- sense weakness, the bolder they become. Thus, tyranny by executive fiat concerning firearms SEEMS to be a non-starter and a political death wish by every modern example (just ask Bill Clinton why his party lost control of the House of Representatives in 1994 or Al Gore why he lost the 2000 election) but then, “you can’t take stupid off the table.” It all depends upon whether Obama is trying to establish a traditional political "legacy" or whether the Kenyan Candidate is out to merely destroy the country. If it is the latter, then his "stupidity" doesn't look so stupid after all.

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Doug said...: There is another aspect of stupid which bears telling. It is the illegitimacy of stupid.
As in, if they collectivists are stupid enough to try and disarm us, just the fact it is such a incredibly stupid thing to try is enough to make a man shoot the stupid sonofabitches.
Anybody who is stupid enough to try that in this country has no legitimacy to be in a position where access to that kind of power that can be corrupted for the purpose of disarming honest law abiding men and needs to be shot dead.; October 5, 2015 at 9:54 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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A strategic truth that also extends to Obama's domestic moves like citizen disarmament: “You can’t take stupid off the table.”

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