Who's the pimp?

Thanks to the Wretched Dog for this --

“We will not be assimilated!”

From Wretched Dog,

Gentlemen:

Check this out! This has potential, particularly with the younger set.

“We will not be assimilated!”

Praxis: Must read at Michael Yon's place.

How it's happening in Afghanistan. Interesting tactical situations. Also much insanity. Go here and read.

"Never mind." -- An Afghanistan Combat Classic.

My thanks to Julian for forwarding this.

"Teabagging," "Paranoid Rightwingers" and poking the wolverine with a sharp stick.

OK, folks, first go here and be sure to read the whole thing, though you may gag.

Then, go here. to see how such language is employed against you.

Finally, here is the link to the piece below, and you will find my response to it after that.

September 13, 2009 at 19:06:16

The Paranoid Rightwing

By James Brett



For all the hoo-rah generated by the back-bencher Joe Wilson of South Kallikacky this past week one might think that there is a vast movement afoot, some kind of new (old) politics spreading around among Americans, unsuspecting and otherwise. In the aftermath of Wilson's "You lie(, ... boy)!" outburst during the speech of President Obama to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Reform, you will have read how utterly wrong about his facts was Rep. Wilson, or, if you were reading closely, you might have read comments on pundits who said that overriding public health concerns will dictate that federal funds will be spent on illegal aliens, if they are posing a health risk to the rest of us, particularly in the food processing industry and in public schools. The real issue about Wilson was the inappropriate anger and consternation that overcame him, although a cursory review of his past suggests that Wilson's best mental efforts were never much to crow about. Wilson does represent a strain of American thinking that is highly concentrated in his home locale and gives rise to authentically bad behaviors from time to time.

But, the movement afoot is nowhere near a mass movement and it is not a new form of politics. It is a retread version of an old politics as journalist Max Blumenthal in his new book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party points out in a quotation from Eric Hoffer's The True Believer ...

"A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises," he wrote, "but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaninglessness of an individual existence." The true believer was at his core an ineffectual man with no capacity for self-fulfillment. Only the drama provided by a mass movement gave him purpose. "Faith in a holy cause," Hoffer wrote, "is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves."

The weakness of the human spirit portrayed by Hoffer was the engine used for the rise of the Brown Shirt Nazis in Germany.

Blumenthal goes on to describe this weakness and willingness to trade the anxieties of freedom for something else less demanding. He quotes Eric Fromm

Ten years before Hoffer published his book, a social psychologist and psychoanalyst named Erich Fromm identified and analyzed the character structure of people "eager to surrender their freedom," who sought personal transcendence through authoritarian causes and figureheads.

In fact people whose routine lives are overturned by their own inattention to the progress of change, who wake up one day and find that a person of mixed black and white blood has become President of the United States and that cotton is no longer king, that "separate facilities insure inequality," and that their own current financial situation is iffy at best, like

"... millions of ordinary Germans "instead of wanting freedom . . . sought for ways of escape from it."

The question arises in the current situation about multiple causes of anxiety and, I believe, any cure for the situation must address the Brown Shirts on multiple fronts. Racism and economic instability count high on the list of issues, but beneath virtually all of the causes there is a fundamental problem with external authority, in most cases (I would be willing to bet), resulting from primordial, that is, "childhood", abuse and unsuccessful attempts to declare and achieve personal freedom from an abusive parent or other adult. Students of the "rape complex" of the American South understand how insidious and pervasive that horror was for the white population that "lost everything" in the Civil War. Nothing could have done more damage than the self-righteous reconstruction imposed on that wasted land, but having said that, the ground was fertile with the guilt of pervasive human slavery, a congenital deformity of the body politic which leaves us with a movement centered on the very region where human values were sold down the river and native Americans forced down a trail of tears that will not dry.

Rep. Wilson is heir to all of this. He may think himself a 21st century politician, but like all people who hold tight to a familiar grief and trauma, he is most clearly a 19th century person, trapped in his paranoia about progress, fundamentally a hollow tree, understanding that the winds of change will soon enough knock it down. But Wilson is different from Jindal in Lousiana, whose tradition is a more cynical use and abuse of the proto-Brown Shirts of the region and elsewhere. Sarah Palin, like Jindal, believes half the stuff she says, and is willing to exaggerate for effect. People like Beck and Limbaugh, on the other hand, are mayflies feasting on a riot of money that comes from the most cynical folk of them all, the wealthy corporatists (yes, Fascists) whose interest in American democracy is to keep it at bay, consuming its own, freeing them up to insulate themselves as completely as possible from the vagaries of normal economic life.

The modern American Brown Shirts are a rabble, in other words, a mixed bag of people with a common belief that history does not favor them, that natural law is writ by tooth and claw, that people who participate in the building of a newer, better future are damned fools. Beck is a Brown Shirt, who will be a Black Shirt in the new order he envisions. Limbaugh already has his Black Shirt and has passed from merely feeding from the situation to an arrogance of pretense. He imagines his role to be righteous now, misunderstanding the hesitancy of the real politicians to disturb his audience of paranoid, mentally crippled, traumatized, and hopeless.

The point of Blumenthal's "Gomorrah" is that the rise of the Brown Shirts is partly the result of a failure on the part of liberal Republicans to deal with their fringe and partly that, now it is a part of the Republican Culture, its virulence could shatter the Party once and for all.

Then there are people like you and me and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC who are uncomfortable with the idea of there being no "loyal opposition." We hope (sort of) that the Republican Party will not be let by its saner members to crumble of its own internal rot. But, like every other person who faces an unknown, we (and millions like us) will choose that familiar "Republican" label for genuine conservatism together with the horrors of the inheritance from the current Party, rather than trusting someone from the real conservative middle to start again. If there is a reason to resurrect real conservatism with appropriate controls over its root metaphor—FEAR—then it will happen, spontaneously and not without trauma, like any birth (or rebirth).

James R. Brett, Ph.D. taught Russian History before becoming an academic administrator in faculty research administration. His academic interests are the modern period of Russian History since Peter the Great and the history of science
history of ideas, particularly Marxism and classical liberalism, but also psychology and consciousness studies. He has just established a new website-Iron Mountain. He is a frequent contributor to other liberal and progressive blogs and is the founder of and contributor to The American Liberalism Project.

The business end of a wolverine.

I posted this at Brett's website.

Let me introduce you to the Three Percent.

Herr Doktor Brett,

“Cherish your enemies. They teach you the best lessons.” — Ho Chi Minh.

I used to have a dog that, when confronted by a mirror, saw an enemy and growled and barked at his own image. It is interesting how the collectivist left looks in a mirror and sees characteristics that it imputes to its opponents.

To me, it is the height of irony that a collectivist should quote Eric Hoffer and Eric Fromm in trying to explain individualists who merely want to be left alone by a predatory government on the make.

It is you who have selected a Fuhrer to follow, not us. We have no cult of personality for a leader, for indeed we have no leader. What GOP "leaders" commanded our lukewarm allegiance at the voting booth have long since discredited themselves. We worship no one but the God Who gave us the Judeo-Christian ethic that the Founders' Republic was based upon.

If we are united by one idea it is the very uncollectivist notiom, LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE. "Eager to surrender their freedom"? Where in the hell do you get the data to deduce that about us? We are now to the point of demanding our freedom ourselves. And we are very cognizant that with liberty comes the responsibilty for, as Jefferson put, "the fatigues of supporting it." We do not seek to tell you what to do. I wish I could say that it wasn't the other way around, though.

Take gun rights for an example. Your side has been pushing us back from the free exercise of our traditional right to bear arms for 75 years now. But let me tell you something. We are through being pushed back.

And when you call us "paranoid" or your intellectual buddies call us "teabaggers," that makes us all the less likely to conform to your next demand upon us.

Insulting us with a name that is a crude sexual innuendo is in itself stupid, for as you must know, our side is the one with the firearms.

My Michigan farmer grandfather once told me, when trying to explain why he did not argue too vociferously with my grandmother:

“Son, let me tell you something. You don’t poke a wolverine with a sharp stick unless you want your balls ripped off.”

This is good advice for anyone, but especially for you, yes, you personally, right now.

This is a conflict of world-views. It will not end until one side or the other prevails in its vision of what we view as our inalienable, God-given rights to liberty, property and the Founders’ republic of the rule of law, not man.

It happens that your side won the last two federal elections and thus you believe you can now dictate to the rest of us what we shall do regardless of the Constitution or the rule of law as hitherto understood. But you mistake, this is not about donkeys versus elephants. We despise the GOP almost as much as you do. What you are seeing in the Tea Parties, the town halls and in the 9-12 march is a true bottom-up mass movement of people who have seen the corrupt failure of the GOP for what it is and are now making their own arrangements to protect their liberty and their lives.

The fact that the GOP is desperately trying to parachute into the locomotive cab of a train which has left them behind at the station should tell you something. If, that is, your world-view allowed you to pay attention to facts that contradict your cognitive dissonance.

The thing is, we’ve been studying your side for years in a futile attempt to get across our POV by arguments concerning fact, history, logic, law, common sense, even appealing to your own self-interest. (That business about having your balls ripped off, don’t you know.)

We understand your side far better than you understand ours, reduced as you seemingly are to juvenile sexual innuendo, ascribing our positions to mental illness, and conflating our positions to suit your world-view.

One other thing Ho Chi Minh could have told you. Don’t expect your enemies to be the stupid cartoon cardboard cut-outs that you create in your own imaginations. And don’t expect them to react as you do.

You believe that just because the government tells you to do something upon pain of arrest, that it will happen. This is because you extrapolate from your own cowardice, knowing that you yourself have no principles that are worth dying for.

You will find with us that this will not work as you expect.

We are the Three Percent.

We will not disarm.

You cannot convince us.

You cannot intimidate us.

We are not going away.

Indeed, we will not be pushed back one more inch.

You may try to kill us, if you think you can.

But remember, we’ll shoot back.

You may think that this is paranoid and crazy.

But if we are crazy, we’re still armed to the teeth so that just complicates your problem.

The next move is yours.

I suggest you back away slowly, unless you want your balls ripped off.

But, if you are not smart enough to ascribe what I have said to a fair statement of an honest difference of opinion, then I suggest you buy a firearm.
You’re gonna need it.

And if you think civil war cannot come to this country again, you are whistling past the graveyard of history.

Mike Vanderboegh
Pinson, AL

For whom the bell tolls: A recent email to "Jack Durer."

Subject: Need help on an LEO question.
Date: 9/16/2009 3:53:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: GeorgeMason1776
To: REDACTED

Got a guy claiming to be "Keith (REDACTED) with DHS" calling around to my friends. Doesn't give an office number, just this cell phone number: 205-602-XXXX. Ever heard of him? Is he legit? If he is, I'll tell my friends to go ahead and talk to him, since Alabama is a one-party state.

"Правда." Pity the Poor Pravda Press -- Nobody Believes Them Anymore.

"What do you think about what happened last week, Comrade?"

"I don't know. I haven't read my Pravda this morning."

-- Popular joke of the Soviet Union.

Comrade Lenin read Pravda.

The Great Leader Stalin read Pravda.

Worker Comrades Distributed Pravda.

Even Peasant Comrades Read Pravda.

But NOBODY believed Pravda.

Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991. The Pravda newspaper was started in 1912 in St. Petersburg. It was converted from a weekly Zvezda. It did not arrive in Moscow until 1918. During the Cold War, Pravda was well known in the West for its pronouncements as the official voice of Soviet Communism. (Similarly Izvestia was the official voice of the Soviet government.) As the names of the main Communist newspaper and the main Soviet newspaper, Pravda and Izvestia, meant "the truth" and "the news" respectively, a popular Russian saying was "v Pravde net izvestiy, v Izvestiyakh net pravdy" (In the Truth there is no news, and in the News there is no truth). -- Wikipedia.

I thought about Pravda when I read this at Politico.com today. It reminded me of another joke from the Stalin era:

Every morning a man would come up to the newspaper stand, and buy a copy of Pravda, look at the front page and then toss it angrily into the near-by bin. The newspaper-seller was intrigued. 'Excuse me,' he said to the man, 'Every morning you buy a copy of Pravda from me and chuck it in the bin without even opening it. What do you buy it for?' 'I'm only interested in the front page,' replied the man. 'I'm looking out for a death notice.' 'But you don't get death notices on the front page,' said the newspaper-seller, taken aback. 'I assure you, the death notice I'm looking for will be on the front page.'

The death notice I'm looking for is that of the state-run media. Go to the Politico link and read the story, I'm not going to waste the time reprinting it here. The editors of the New York Times and the networks are as sensitive to serving Comrade Barack's every propaganda need as their Pravda intellectual brothers of the past were about Stalin.

But the people are not fooled.

The state-run media is mystified why their sales and ratings are tanking.

They shouldn't be.

Another joke from the late Soviet period, during "the confusing time when the western newspapers were claiming thousands of Chernobyl casualties while the Russians were insisting there had only been two deaths, the East Europeans were no more convinced by Pravda than were the people of the west:"

The day after the Chernobyl accident a great crowd suddenly appeared asking Saint Peter for admission to heaven. "Where did you all come from?" he asked. "From Chernobyl," they answered. Saint Peter pulled out his copy of Pravda and said, "I'm sorry, I see I am only authorized to admit two of you."

FOX ratings are soaring, the listenership of talk radio is spiking and the Internet is humming precisely because our side doesn't believe the state-run media anymore. This will continue, and their sales and ratings will continue to plummet, until the collectivists get the nerve to directly attack these avenues of access to the truth.

When that happens, they will only infuriate us more and the proto-tyrants will risk an armed people's wrath.

I can't wait to see them try.

Until then they will continue to get our derision, disrespect and disbelief.

Did I tell you the one about the New York Times, Walter Duranty and Stalin's moustache?

Mike
III

Why the Collectivists are going nuts about "You LIE!"

"Communists are just socialists with guns." -- A favorite saying of "Mad Bob."

Statler & Waldorf -- Hecklers par excellence.

A heckler is a person who shouts a disparaging comment at a performance or event, or interrupting set-piece speeches, for example at a political meeting, with intent to disturb its performers or participants. The term originates from the textile trade, where to heckle was to tease or comb out flax or hemp fibres. The additional meaning, to interrupt speakers with awkward or embarrassing questions, was added in Scotland, and specifically perhaps in early nineteenth century Dundee, a famously radical town where the hecklers who combed the flax had established a reputation as the most radical and belligerent element in the workforce. In the heckling factory, one heckler would read out the day's news while the others worked, to the accompaniment of interruptions and furious debate. Heckling was a major part of the vaudeville theater. Sometimes it was incorporated into the play. . . In the 1970s and 1980s, The Muppet Show, which was also built around a vaudeville theme, featured two hecklers, Statler & Waldorf (two old men named after famous hotels). Heckles are now particularly likely to be heard at stand-up comedy performances, to unsettle or compete with the performer. Politicians speaking before live audiences have less latitude to deal with hecklers. Legally, such conduct may constitute protected free speech. Strategically, coarse or belittling retorts to hecklers entails personal risk disproportionate to any gain. Some politicians, however, have been known to improvise a relevant and witty response despite these pitfalls. One acknowledged expert at this was Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister in the 1960s:

Heckler: (interrupting a passage in a Wilson speech about Labour's spending plans) What about Vietnam?

Wilson: The government has no plans to increase public expenditure in Vietnam.

Heckler: Rubbish!

Wilson: I'll come to your special interest in a minute, sir.

In an era when it was not uncommon for rotten fruit and vegetables to be thrown at speakers, Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley once exhorted his audience to lend him their ears, paraphrasing Mark Antony. Immediately, a large cabbage landed on the stage. Chifley replied "I said your ears, Sir, not your head". -- Wikipedia.

Heckling, even of a president, is as American as apple pie. Indeed, it is a fixture of free societies. Suppression of heckling is a requirement of tyrannical ones. Hitler was so obsessed by personal disrespect that he had a British cartoonist put on a hit list during the war for the sin of his savage caricatures of Der Fuhrer. Germans (and Soviet Russians) who were caught lampooning the Great Leader were routinely arrested and shot. No one dared interrupt their speeches. The Communists call this "bourgeois anti-party sentiment." It is punishable by death. Communists have no sense of humor, except unintended and unconscious irony.

The one thing that sends tyrannical regimes into a tizzy is any challenge to their "dignity" and thus to their legitimacy.

To suggest that the Leader is a liar is particularly heinous to a collectivist, simply because collectivism deals in lies big and small -- it is their main meat -- and they cannot afford to have the truth pointed out without punishing it, swiftly and publicly.

Mindful of "Mad Bob's" favorite dictum that communists are simply socialists with guns, the fact that Joe Wilson is being punished by Orwellian public denunciation is a good thing. Let them knock down the rule of law a bit more, let the commissar's pistol ride more comfortably at their hip and they will simply stand him against a wall for his temerity, and his denunciation will come in 5.56 caliber.

There is no greater sin against the cult of personality that supports the tyrannical regime than to publicly disrespect the Leader. None. Thus, the way they are reacting to Joe Wilson's outburst merely reinforces the notion of their herd mentality -- and their tyrannical ambitions.

Mike
III

Just got back from the Doc.

He trimmed some of the hamburger off both feet. I'm under strict orders now to stay off my feet and keep them elevated. Sorry for lack of posts today, guys. Will try to do better tomorrow. That's it. I'm beat.

Mike
III

A Cluster of Threeper Flags in DC

The ACORN Files, Episode Three. This time it's New York and there's more to come. Oh, yes, indeedy.

"That's O'Keefe, James O'Keefe." James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, Christian video guerrillas, without peer.

A tip of the boonie hat to my old Buckeye buddy Joe for tipping me off that this latest ACORN indiscretion (which I knew was coming) had hit the airwaves.

There are, I am told by a confidential media friend, several more. And, I am also told, the revelations will just keep getting get better. And then, better still. ;-)

'Pimp & hooker' catch B'klyn staff

By JEREMY OLSHAN

Posted: 3:30 AM, September 14, 2009

The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.

Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.

"Honesty is not going to get you the house," a loan counselor at the offices told two activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute.

"You can't say what you do for a living."

ACORN workers in two other cities, Baltimore and Washington, DC, had already fallen hooker, line and sinker for the hidden-camera sting operation by two conservative activists.

Four ACORN employees have been fired as a result of the earlier videos, and last Friday the Census Bureau severed its ties with the group, whose members had been hired to do canvassing during the 2010 census.

In an unrelated outrage, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud during the 2008 presidential election by helping unqualified voters to register.

As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group -- which specializes in housing and voter activism -- were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law.

"You know, what goes on in the house we don't care," one counselor said. "We just help you with the mortgage."

O'Keefe and Giles were garishly dressed as a stereotypical pimp and prostitute. O'Keefe was decked out in excessively snazzy flesh-peddler couture, and Giles, going by the name "Eden," wore almost nothing.

The ACORN workers were not the slightest bit judgmental or put off by the request for help in getting financing for a brothel.

Counselor Volda Albert freely offered financial advice to the young couple, and held back on giving out any life advice.

"I can't tell you don't do it, because you won't listen to me," Albert said.

For tax and banking purposes, and to establish a legitimate income and credit history, Giles was told she needed to start saying she was a "freelancer."

"Don't say that you're a prostitute thing or whatever," she said.

Albert also suggested that Giles open two accounts at separate banks, depositing no more than $500 each a week to ensure few eyebrows are raised.

As for the rest of the money she earned from turning tricks, Albert told her to hide it away.

"When you buy the house with a back yard. You get a tin . . . and bury it down in there, and you put the money right in, and you put grass over it, and you don't tell a single soul but yourself where it is," she said.

Albert even had advice on protecting O'Keefe from getting tied by authorities to Giles' prostitution.

Her illegally obtained revenue could be given to O'Keefe through an intermediary, and then he could use it for a down payment on the house by applying for a "no doc" loan.

In the earlier videos, counselors offered similar suggestions to a "prostitute," telling her to list her occupation as "performance artist," and even offering advice on how to claim as dependants underage girls recruited for the business.

Milagros Rivera, the Brooklyn office administrator advised Giles, "don't get caught -- it's against the law what you are doing, and there's a chance you'll get caught."

Before bidding them good luck, Albert offered two final suggestions.

"Save for a rainy day," she said. "And live well."

O'Keefe, who majored in philosophy at Rutgers University, said he and Giles funded the project themselves. This kind of undercover, guerrilla tactic is the "future of investigative journalism and political activism," he said.

Inspired by "Rules for Radicals," Saul Alinsky's bible for rabble-rousing, more often associated with the left, O'Keefe said he has been targeting and exposing the "absurdities of the enemy by employing their own rules and language."

"If you can make impossible demands on your enemy, you can destroy them," he said.

So he began using a hidden camera "in a location I'd rather not disclose" and started visiting ACORN offices around the Northeast.

As with a series of videos O'Keefe made in 2008, in which Planned Parenthood employees agreed to earmark his donations for the abortions of African-American babies, he said he expected ACORN would yield maybe "a few gotcha moments."

"But we never imagined they would all comply -- it's just disgusting they didn't just throw us out of the office," he said.

In a statement released Saturday, ACORN said that it could not defend the actions of its employees but that what O'Keefe and Giles did was criminal.

"And, in fact, a crime it was -- our lawyers believe a felony -- and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators," the statement said.

Fox News aired the Baltimore and Washington tapes.

O'Keefe said, "ACORN wants it both ways."

"You can't fire the employees and then say I have defamed them," he said.

Praxis: L. Neil Smith's KaBar Carbine Bayonet

L. Neil Smith's KaBar Carbine Bayonet

L. Neil Smith, Libertarian thinker and novelist, wrote this reply to my earlier piece on the obsolescence -- or lack thereof -- of bayonets. Bayonets SHOULD BE good camp knives. Alas, the slender issue blades are not. Neil's modification is a great idea which I intend to do to an M-14 bayonet as soon as possible.

Mike
III

Every generation seems to think the bayonet is obsolete -- until harsh reality teaches them otherwise. I figure, as long as it's a good fighting/camp knife, what does it hurt to make it attachable to the rifle, as well?

I'm not a military guy, and I only have one working bayonet (if you don't count the replica M1907 that goes on my '03 Springfield). It's for my M1 Carbine -- which needs all the helpit can get. See the attached photo. I took an issue bayonet apart, and rebuilt it around the blade of a Camillus copy of the USMC Ka-bar.

Springfield Armory used to offer a bayonet with twice the blade for KAR-15s like mine with the long, stupid flash hider. Wish I'd bought one when they were available.

N.

PS: I might add that, for my hand at least, the bayonet grip is much more comfortable than the original leather washers.

Meanwhile, at a certain D.C. bar frequented by senior executives of the ATF, James P. "Little Jimmy" Vann's girlfriend wants to know . . .

LATER:

Folks,

I sent this post above in an email to Little Jimmy with this comment:

Dear Jimmy,

Although I was in DC this week, I didn't get a chance to stop by your new headquarters and give you one of our Three Percent flags. I just slap ran out of time. I would have liked to have seen the inside of what my buddy "Mad Bob" of the Dogtown Rangers calls, "the concrete asshole of the universe." Perhaps another time. Hope you enjoy the post below.

Have a nice week.

Your special friend,

Mike Vanderboegh.

9-12 Vignette: "SMILE!" -- Your Tax Dollars at Work.

Folks,

Early on the morning of 9-12, we rendezvoused at the Starbucks just down from the Capitol Hilton and sat down at one of the tables outside to assemble the flags. I had notched the quarter-round sticks that Pete had bought the night before by using a hotel steak knife. The zip ties being caught in traffic, we improvised ties with tape and paracord. As we were working, it became obvious that we had acquired a new friend. They were quite shy and didn't want to be seen, but they were VERY interested in our little working party.

As recalled by one of our Marine Threepers:

Several pix were taken from the third floor stairwell window in the building on the corner across the street of the group before and during flag construction. The figure (possibly female?) would take the picture and duck back behind a stairwell. The person definitely did not want to be seen. The movement caught our eye. We then kept looking until they came back out and confirmed we weren't seeing things.

Well, we DID post the rendezvous point on the Net. That was the whole point. But why is it that everytime I throw a picnic I end up with pesky government ants?

Oh, well, like they say:

Your Tax Dollars at Work.

WE WON'T BUY THE LIE NO MORE.

Folks,

We put these lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic ("Blood on the Risers" to you paratroopers) on the back of our 9-12 leaflet.

Mike
III

WE WON'T BUY THE LIE NO MORE.

(Lyrics by Mike Vanderboegh, to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.)

Mine eyes have seen the horror of the coming of Barack
They have trampled on our liberty, the rule of law they mock.
But now an angry people stand, the tyrant's door to block
And we won't buy the lie no more.

Glory, glory, what a bright and shining lie!
Glory, glory, they will tax us till we die!
Glory, glory they'll print money to the sky!
But we won't buy the lie no more.

He got elected President, but he's worshipped like a god.
They say that "he's a Lincoln," but he's just a stinking fraud.
The media protects him like he is their swinging cod.
But we won't buy the lie no more.

Glory, glory, what a bright and shining lie!
Glory, glory, they will tax us till we die!
Glory, glory they'll print money to the sky!
But we won't buy the lie no more.

First he took our money and bailed out his favorite banks.
Now he wants our health care. He'll put it in the tank!
Next he'll want want a carbon tax, but we'll shout back, NO THANKS!"
And we won't buy the lie no more.

Glory, glory, what a bright and shining lie!
Glory, glory, they will tax us till we die!
Glory, glory they'll print money to the sky!
But we won't buy the lie no more.

The trillions just keep piling up without an end in sight.
They're mortgaging our childrens' lives. They think they have the right.
But now that they have riled us up, they're in for one big fight.
And we won't buy the lie no more.

Glory, glory, they thought this would be fun.
Glory, glory, "they had us on the run."
Glory, glory, they forgot about our guns!
And we won't buy the lie no more!

AND WE WON'T BUY THE LIE NO MORE!

Threeper Leaflet Passed Out in DC

Look Around You. This is NOT a Tea Party.

What you see is a Tea & Cakes Party.

THIS is a Tea Party.

The original Boston Tea Party was a calculated act of law-breaking designed to send the British Empire a message it could not fail to comprehend. Making long-winded speeches, thumping impassioned chests and denouncing a government made up of people who have already written you off as unimportant, impotent and no threat to their plans is a waste of time, energy and oxygen. As comfortable and deeply ingrained as these things are in all patriotic Americans, the conventional political tactics of speech-making, letter-writing and electioneering have brought us to this precipice of defeat. The guttering flame of the Founders' Republic is within one stiff breeze of going out forever. Both political parties have conspired through malice or incompetence to bring us to this state, yet still people look in vain to the system of party politics for salvation. The Founders were not so stupid as to place all their hopes on a corrupt system. When the accepted channels of politics and remonstrance failed, they burned the King's tax stamps, dumped his tea, broke the windows of his tax collectors with rocks and bricks, smuggled forbidden goods, defied "his royal majesty" in hundreds of other ways and dared him to do anything about it. Liberty is not free, nor is it without risk.

All these tactics are still available to us today. Any inventive mind could think of many more effective means of getting across the idea that we INSIST UPON OUR LIBERTY in this modern era. It is not necessary to collect a crowd to do them, either. Defiance in action can be expressed individually in many ingenious ways.

But let us not kid ourselves that standing around and listening to speeches that aren't worth the hot air they generate is an effective strategy for dealing with the hard-eyed, hard-nosed collectivist domestic enemies of the Founders' Republic in power today. Let us also not kid ourselves that the ill-named "Republican" Party, which has screwed up or sold out whatever "principles" they may have once had, deserves anything but our scorn. The Tea Party movement organized without them PRECISELY BECAUSE THE GOP FAILED, marched into the fray without their help, and now these same old tired political hacks are trying desperately to get back out in front of this genuine American popular movement and channel it into the same old discredited party politics where they claim to represent us before the election only to sell us out afterward. The Obamanoids, like the Clintonistas before them, are not scared of the GOP. They can handle them. What they ARE scared of is US -- We, the People.

If you want to send a message that you intend to defend your liberty and not talk about defending it, don't mail a tea bag. or get trapped in the same old ineffectual GOP scam. Think like the Founders, and ACT.

The Three Percent, P.O. Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126 sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com

"Baghdad Bob" Gibbs' "9-12 Truth" Commission

"Group? What group? There are no Tea Party infidels in the capitol. Never!"

"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"

"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of ACORN activists."

"No I am not scared and neither should you be!"

"We have them surrounded in their SUVs"

"They are most welcome. We will butcher them."

"We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."

"These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying"

"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Washington]. They are not in any place. They hold no place. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."

"They do not even have control over themselves! Do not believe them!"

"They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnel carriers in across the George Washington Bridge but they were surrounded and most of their infidels had their throats cut."

"On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the infidels who were killed and the number of destroyed vehicles. The operation continues"

"We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted."

"The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds at the gates of the State Department. Be assured, Hillary is safe, protected."

"They will be burnt. We are going to tackle them"

"We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked"

"Desperate conservatives!"

'I beseech my generation not to fall prey to the farce: cannibalism can never be in the name of brotherly love."

Photo of Santa Fe Tea Party.

Folks,

The following brief remarks were given by a young college-age woman at the Santa Fe New Mexico Tea Party on Saturday. My good friend Bob Wright sent me this transcript of her remarks, and I am very grateful that he did. I wish I knew her name.

Perhaps the website of the Sante Fe Tea Party will publish it tomorrow. The little speech is a classic. She says more in a short span than all of Dick Armey's gaggle of GOP windbags took hours to say in DC.

Mike
III

Many of you may remember better days, when nobody got something for nothing, and so if you worked hard and could achieve anything -- when the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was actualized in every day life. But that is not the world I grew up in. I grew up in a world that was constantly trying to take away my liberty. I went to a high school whose motto was “not to be served, but to serve”, and while the goal certainly is not to be served, surely it is not to serve. Shouldn't we rather strive to thrive?

As we all know management is far more efficient at a local level, when the man making decisions understands what he's making decisions about. State government is far more efficient at a local level than federal government, but the most effective level of local management is personal responsibility and individual liberty. So why should I be the steward of my brother's life, and he the steward of mine, rather than each taking responsibility for our own lives? Why should I be my brother's keeper when what that really means is be my brother's slave? I certainly don't want anyone to be my slave. I take responsibility for my own actions, and I wouldn't have it any other way, because if I am not allowed to take responsibility for my life, my failures may be meaningless, but so too will my successes be meaningless. I would rather be guaranteed nothing, and consequently receive all the fruit of my labor, than be guaranteed something, but have that something be all I can ever aspire to.

I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time, but not anymore. Not when a majority of my country thinks healthcare is a right, and therefore doctors must be slaves. Slavery is when someone else tells you what you will be compensated for your labor, regardless of its worth. And it is by virtue of doctors' ability – because they provide such a valuable service, that the true value of their work is being degraded. That doesn't sound very brotherly to me.

I don't want to live in a world where ability is regarded with the negation of its value, and I cannot imagine why anyone else would want to. Because what happens when more professions succumb to the idea of this slavery? What happens when everybody is afraid to aspire to any great heights, because any great achievement immediately makes a man prey to be cannibalized by his “brothers”? What happens when the producers stop producing? The least effective parasites are the ones that end up killing their host, because when all the blood has been sucked, and the host is dead, there is nothing left to sustain the parasites.

So I have to wonder, what are they counting on? The ones who would have me be their keeper so they need not keep themselves. What will they do when the blood runs out?
When no one is willing to create something just to watch it be destroyed?” Maybe we should make them find out. I won't provide healthcare to anyone who thinks I have to. Maybe we should show the parasites exactly what their coercion accomplishes, and remind them that in order for people to achieve they must be free to do so. I beseech my generation not to fall prey to the farce: cannibalism can never be in the name of brotherly love. Don't offer up your blood, it is far far too valuable.

LATER: Bob advises me this young lady's name is Carolyn Luppens.

Community Organizing.

Typeay's Tallahassee, FL (quickie) Gun Show review

Typeay's Tallahassee, FL (quickie) Gun Show review - Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009

I arrived at the Tallahassee fair-rounds at 10:30am. The doors had opened at 9am, and the parking lot was literally overflowing. Cars and trucks were parked on the grass ball field walkways well outside of the designated parking areas. I've never seen such a large crowd at a Tallahassee gun show.

The show now takes up two of the full sized buildings. I did not get a table count, but it was impressive.

Action was fast and furious, and I saw lots of face to face private sales being brokered outside the buildings. (Face to face paperless sales are still 100% legal in Florida. Sorry, Sara Brady.)

The good news: There was ammo, and lots of it. A major Georgia based vendor was doing a brisk business with his own brand new factory ammo either in mint ammo cans of heavy weight plastic bags. The crowd around the table was impressive. Prices were fair. Plenty of 7.62 Nato, 5.56 Nato, .40, .45, .30 carbine, .357 mag., 9mm, and .38 special on hand, and selling like proverbial hotcakes.
More good news, there were two vendors with well stocked tables of reloading supplies. Primers, bullets, brass, and powder all appeared to be well stocked.

Pretty much any long gun or hand gun you might want new was available. There was an amazingly WIDE variation of prices on rifles. I often saw 100 dollar differences on the same piece on opposite sides of the show hall. On one side of the show 50 rounds of .45acp was 18.50, while it might be 30.00 in the next building. It pays to walk around a bit !

Some quick all "over the place" product prices;

500 rounds boxer primed 9mm Nato in ammo can: 125.00
50 rounds, boxer primed .38 special 158 grain semi-wadcutter - 14.50
50 rounds, boxer primed .45 acp ball, 185 grain - 17.50
50 rounds, boxer primed, .45 acp JHP, 185 grain-18.50
Primers - smallbore rifle- 35.00 per 1000
Primers - largebore rifle- 37.00 per 1000

Bushmaster AR / A3 with junky Chinese scope - 865.00 (good price)
Colt AR-15 -1400.00
Mossberg Pistol Grip 500 12 gauge, 299.00
Savage F10 .308 Tactical bolt action rifle - 679.00
Milsurp M-1 Carbines - (good condition) 600.00
S&W model 17 .45 acp revolver (good condition) 500.00
Winchester (like new) bolt action .30-06 with scope - 450.00 (good price)

As I walked out, I noticed one lone woman protesting the show. She was walking the sidewalk outside of the fairground parking lot with a sign that read: "Guns Kill - Just what Tallahassee Needs, More Guns"

I smiled, knowing that Tallahasse was getting more guns. And more ammo, as well.