Sipsey Street Irregulars: SPLC collectivist hack uses my words to justify repression.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

SPLC collectivist hack uses my words to justify repression.

As the Southern Poverty Law Center documented in a report published after the standoff, federal inaction allowed the ideas that inspired Cliven Bundy to spread across the West. In the days after the Bundy family protest, in fact, longtime militia leader Mike Vanderboegh said: “Courage is contagious.” Sadly, that courage did turn into a contagion as increasing numbers of antigovernment extremists centered their anger on the federal government’s administration of public lands.

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Chiu ChunLing said...: I think one has to add the premise that courage is a bad thing.

I don't recall exactly where you said that.; January 28, 2016 at 5:40 PM
Fred said...: Can't have those pesky ideas spreading now can they. And it's less the administration of public lands, although it is that too, but more the taking of private lands.; January 28, 2016 at 5:42 PM
Anonymous said...: The tyrant supporters are starting to come to grips with the actuality that their time as absolute controllerism, their collectivism, is coming to an end - and they cannot stop it. They are coming to grips with the fact that their most powerful tools are ow beyond their control and that they are coming back to bite them in spades.

There is the set they dumbed down so they could be controlled that are now too dumb to control breathing down their necks, demanding more free stuff than they can provide - and the anger is growing. They set themselves up as the providers, and now they cannot provide. That leads to zombies breaking down the walls and overrunning them. They are about to be eaten by those who they created - good.

They cannot run, because of us. We stand ready, at the ready, guarding the Gates of Liberty. And they have no means left by which to defeat us. And they know that too.

SO, the question becomes, do they go scorched earth and press the button of destruction, or do they stand down? I guess we are close to finding out.; January 28, 2016 at 7:12 PM
Uncle Elmo said...: "Heidi Beirich leads the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project."

Somehow, seeing SPLC and intelligence in the same sentence strikes me as more than a little oxymoronic.

And help me out here. I might have missed it. Did Heidi happen to write an article titled 'The Government Must Prosecute the Baltimore and Ferguson Protestors'?; January 28, 2016 at 7:26 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.

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