Sipsey Street Irregulars: From David Codrea - A visit with Mike Vanderboegh, my friend

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

From David Codrea - A visit with Mike Vanderboegh, my friend

A visit with Mike Vanderboegh, my friend

If you have not seen the latest update from David Codrea relating to his short trip, I would invite you to do so. Death is a homecoming, but he has summed up the sentiment of saying goodbye to the Old Man in a way that I could not.

What an incredible life he must have lived to know such a friend as David. If we all had just one like him, this world would be a very different place.

5 comments:

Chiu ChunLing said...: If the principles of liberty and a sovereign people survive in our country (whether or not it remains one nation), it will be significantly due to the tireless efforts of Mike Vanderboegh to hold back the advance of tyranny.

Thus if his contributions are forgotten, it will only be because the tyrants win so completely as to erase the very memory that there ever were free people living in this land.

I have no intention of allowing that outcome.; April 26, 2016 at 4:35 AM
Pericles said...: More importantly, his character shows in the character of his children. We who remain behind have the duty to pick up the guidon and carry on to victory.; April 26, 2016 at 9:12 AM
Oldfart said...: Chiu ChunLing said: "Thus if his contributions are forgotten, it will only be because the tyrants win so completely as to erase the very memory that there ever were free people living in this land."

Mike himself once said: "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."

I had the great good fortune to meet Mike at Salem and shake his hand. At the time, I was impressed by his inner strength that brought him all he way across the continent at a time when he was obviously very ill. While we must lose this great man, let us not lose the resolve he passed on to patriots across the country.

Oldfart; April 26, 2016 at 10:09 AM
Anonymous said...: THREE PERCENT

As freedom fades
to twilight dim
and darkness filters in
Hopes fall
Like withered leaves
On droughted lands
Of deep despair
But we ourselves
Are here
Brought,
Not blown
By fate and resolve
To stand before the storm
uncolored by fear
unshaken by threat
We Stand

For freedom

2010; April 26, 2016 at 12:51 PM
Baja Blitzer said...: David is a fine man. He was always there for my family too.
Please google Reese family Fast and Furious scapegoat

Getting to the end here too
Rick Reese and family; April 28, 2016 at 10:24 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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