Sipsey Street Irregulars: "You can't kill ideas. But we can certainly kill you."

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

"You can't kill ideas. But we can certainly kill you."

Ted sends us an interesting quote from science fiction, no less.

"Here's why you can't exterminate us, Aruetii. We're not huddled in one place-we span the galaxy. We need no lords of leaders-so you can't destroy our command. We can live without technology-so we can fight with our bare hands. We have no species or bloodline-so we can rebuild our ranks with others who want to join us. We're more than just a people or an army, aruetii. We're a culture. We're an idea. And you can't kill ideas-but we can certainly kill you." -Ranah The Nasst, Mandalore the Destroyer, daughter of Uvhen Chal, giving the Consul of Luon a final chance to surrender during the siege of the city.

Then he explains,

This is the historic quote to start chapter 11 of the book Star Wars: Imperial Commando: 501st. Mandalorians, Boba Fett's people, are mercenaries and soldiers and assassins and generally kick ass. Aruetii is their word for outsider and, well, not Mandalorian, similar to Japanese gaijin, as best as I can tell. Don't know how much you like sci-fi or Star Wars in particular, but thought you'd like the quote and emotion and meaning behind it.

I like Absolved, It's really gotten me to think more of how the government has gotten pushy and overbearing over the years. Hopefully the people "in charge" read it and start to think some more too.

Good luck, God bless and Happy New Year

Ted

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Did you forget to remove the author's first name which he used as a signature? ;); December 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Sadly, TPTB (The powers That Be)don't get it. They have the power and see no reason to give any of it up; rather the converse, that they must have all the power in order to efficiently regulate the world.

Power is ethereal thing that may be wielded via various means of officialdom, but is never stagnant and is always seeking new outlets unless contained. So those that possess it seek to contain it for their purposes, rather than to let is escape for others benefit.

The people will have to take it back, as they have in all struggles for Liberty throughout time.; December 30, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Ted said...: That's pretty damn cool.; December 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Happy D said...: Thank you I will be modifying this when I try to drive the point home to collectivists why they should back off.; December 30, 2009 at 2:06 PM
parabarbarian said...: Believe it or not there is a whole made up language called Mando'a (why do all made up language have to have glottal stops?) for the fictional Mandalorians.

http://www.karentraviss.com/html/mando.htm

There is a link to a dictionary and a grammar guide for the really interested.; December 30, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Anonymous said...: These aren't the carbons you're looking for.

Eric
III; December 30, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Happy D said...: How about this rewrite?

"Here's why you can't exterminate us, Socialist. We're not huddled in one place-we span the planet. We need no lords of leaders-so you can't destroy our command. We can live without technology-so we can fight with our bare hands. We have no exclusive race, creed, color, religion, nationality, Class, or bloodline-so we can rebuild our ranks with others who want to join us. We're more than just a people or an army, Socialist. We're a culture. We're an idea. And you can't kill ideas-but we can certainly exterminate you."; December 31, 2009 at 1:43 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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"You can't kill ideas. But we can certainly kill you."

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