Sipsey Street Irregulars: Is Bob Owens channeling the ghost of Grandpa Vanderboegh these days?

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Is Bob Owens channeling the ghost of Grandpa Vanderboegh these days?

"Son, you don't poke a wolverine with a sharp stick unless you want your balls ripped off." -- From Grandpa Vanderboegh's Rules of Life as expressed in family oral tradition, circa 1962.

Mike Vanderboegh's Derivation of Grandpa's Rules of Life, circa 1995: "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

Bob Owens discovers something: Supreme Court’s Decision Could Lead To Second Civil War

If the Supreme Court fails to take up the case, or takes up the case and decides against Freidman, then they will have set the stage for an inevitable civil war, pitting the nation’s radical anti-gun Democrats who desire to destroy the Second Amendment against the 100-140 million American gun owners who will not comply with laws and court decisions that clearly fly in the face of original intent.

6 comments:

PO'd American said...: I noticed that too....this must be the Constitutional Bob, not Liberal Bob.; November 3, 2015 at 11:33 AM
Anonymous said...: The 7th Circuit did a very interesting thing with that Friedman case. Mind you, this is the same court that forced IL to become a shall-issue state, and IL didn't even appeal the decision. The language is so egregious and is so counter to the language of Heller and McDonald, it appears to have been done purposefully to force the hand of the Supreme Court. Essentially, the court ruled that Highland Park had no evidence that these rifles were more dangerous than others, but "feelings" were an appropriate legislative reason. It was a brazen attempt to either ignore the Heller and McDonald ruling, or it was a softball setup so that the SC would take the case.; November 3, 2015 at 12:03 PM
Anonymous said...: That is the game played now but it goes beyond idiocy based decision. Laws are being passed with the intent to play the system - to get courts to issue decisions they want.

For example - California has state preemption, but its narrow (supposedly). A township or city decided to go off the reservation to pass its own gun control. Now, its players know full well it will see legal challenge. And it has.

But get this - the premise of challenge is NOT Heller and McDonald! THe Second Amendment ITSELF is NOT being used to strike this local law! Instead, the corrupt NRA and its Democrat partners are having state preemption be used to toss it out. Well why do that? Of course, it is to AVOID courts racking up Heller McDonald decisions that build the undeniable case law that destroys gun control at the baseline. Instead, the corrupticrats are working together to STRENGTHEN state POWER over the Second Amendment.

Many poke fun at the Fudds but you know what? They are a clear and present danger - themselves becoming anti Second Amendment. Using preemption as a means of slamming local infringement is a WICKED abuse.

Please see the game folks - they are conning gun owners into cheering the augmentation of state power OVER the enumerated right to keep and bear arms. Wake UP!; November 3, 2015 at 5:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Sick of Bob. A semiauto is not a Brown Bess equivalent. The equivalent to a Brown Bess would be a full-auto M4, just like the military issues. M249s, MANPADs, grenades...they are all arms capable of being borne by a man and thus protected under the 2A.

With friends like these...; November 3, 2015 at 7:29 PM
DAN III said...: Eff Bob Owens ! He is NOT a friend of Freedom & Liberty.; November 4, 2015 at 4:06 AM
Anonymous said...: Frankly, I would prefer a civil war at this time to fix ALL of Americas problems (the corruption, the crooked law enforcement, the transgression on Liberty band Freedom, and destruction of the cancer called Political Correctness, the welfare state and the masses of useless eaters breederd and breathers, especially the corrupt self appointed Elite like Al Gore and his types), not just addressing this issue, so I hope they push it. Its time to purge us some traitors communists and socialists...We cannot hope to survive as a Sovereign nation with the course our "leaders"(sic) have plotted... Its time to get this underway before im too old...

Sign Me, Neal Jensen; November 4, 2015 at 7:20 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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Is Bob Owens channeling the ghost of Grandpa Vanderboegh these days?

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