Sipsey Street Irregulars: Don't forget if you're local to the Birmingham area, tonight is Greg Hopkin's presentation on "A Time To Kill" at Hoover Tactical Firearms.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Don't forget if you're local to the Birmingham area, tonight is Greg Hopkin's presentation on "A Time To Kill" at Hoover Tactical Firearms.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I don't think the 10 Commandments says "Do not kill". I think it says "Do not murder". A notable Jew (Russ Fine) once told me that. He said it is not wrong or a sin to kill in self defense. God expects us to defend our own lives and the lives of innocents nearby.

- Old Greybeard; November 12, 2015 at 9:08 AM
Chiu ChunLing said...: It would be a pretty hypocritical commandment if it did forbid all killing, since the commandment itself (along with several others) enjoins killing the violator. However, the explications of the law in Leviticus and Deuteronomy do much to specify the criteria which separates violation of the commandment from enforcement of it.

Much, but not all. Ultimately, the distinction between murder and lawful killing is not a matter of pure theory so much as dealing with the messy reality that some people need to be killed so they won't cause the deaths of innocent victims...along with the even messier reality that you don't always know when someone isn't really a threat to anyone, and often, neither do they.

Getting people to think before doing anything that might pose a threat to the lives of others is no small part of the entire purpose of injunctions against senseless killing. It is not the whole purpose, because some people will--after thinking it over--decide to sacrifice the lives of others for trivial or evil causes. But most killers don't really think it over before acting in a way that treats another person as an obstacle to be removed without consideration of the consequences. Even more so when you don't encourage people to ever think about consequences at all.; November 13, 2015 at 9:04 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

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Don't forget if you're local to the Birmingham area, tonight is Greg Hopkin's presentation on "A Time To Kill" at Hoover Tactical Firearms.

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