Sipsey Street Irregulars: CT trip. Problems and opportunities. DO NOT USE PAYPAL FOR VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Friday, November 7, 2014

CT trip. Problems and opportunities. DO NOT USE PAYPAL FOR VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Okay, I'm trying to flesh out a trip to CT for the YCGG Windsor Gun Show next weekend. I'll need a venue for a speech/meet-n-greet Thursday or Friday night somewhere in the Hartford area, and then I'll work a table (assuming they'll sell me one) on Saturday and Sunday. I could use some suggestions from local Threepers about how and where. Email me at GeorgeMason1776ATaolDOTcom if you have any ideas.

For those of you who would like to support such a venture, DO NOT USE PAYPAL FOR VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Paypal has frozen my account to donations without giving me any explanation why beyond "suspicious activity detected." I'm darned if I know what that is, because the summary doesn't reflect anything of the sort. If you would like to contribute for the moment you'll have to send it to PO Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...: Never use paypal .. I never have .. its a scam; November 7, 2014 at 8:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Somebody at "PayPal" got a call from the government.; November 7, 2014 at 8:33 AM
Anonymous said...: Don't feel alone, Paypal recently froze my account too. Their excuse was "suspicious activity" also. They refuse to verify my ownership via cell phone and promised to send a letter for verification response, which they never did, this was last month.; November 7, 2014 at 8:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Screw Pay -Pal for the rest of your life.. they are not any American citizens "Pal"

a monopoly in e-bay ( against the law) at least thats my opinion and to me my opinion is the only one that counts ,, when they (pay Pal has F-ed me out of my own money many years ago

both of those on line marketing sites can KMA!

any one that uses them, and hasent yet figured this out.. its just a matter of time until its your turn

sorry to hear about this Mike , once you get it ironed out (if you ever will with that swine) I would find a better way; November 7, 2014 at 8:44 AM
CB said...: I booted PayPal years ago.
It's a fkn gestapo organization.
They don't give you rhyme or reason except "That's the way it is."; November 7, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Joe said...: Paypal and Guns, or Paypal and anything to do with guns....

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=465459; November 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Anonymous said...: One question: WHY in the world are you using PayPal at all? There are much better (and far less irritating) alternatives out there.; November 7, 2014 at 10:57 AM
Paul X said...: Yeah, I would have sent contributions long ago if there was an alternative for paypal. Paypal is just part and parcel of the system as far as I'm concerned.; November 7, 2014 at 11:41 AM
Anonymous said...: I've never had a problem with PayPal in hundreds of transactions.

To each their own.; November 7, 2014 at 1:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Avoid 'electronic' funds and fund transfers. Every cent of 'credit' is controlled by the Fed and recorded by Government Agencies.

In God We Trust - everyone else send CASH!

III; November 7, 2014 at 1:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Wow. A lot of opinions against Pay Pal. I wonder how many voicing them are going to come through with a check instead.; November 7, 2014 at 2:08 PM
FSHB said...: I'm sorry I told you to put a paypal button on your site. They really are rotten bastards. After Thiel sold it to Ebay it lost what 'goodness' it had.

I don't really trust Bitcoin either. Google wallet isn't bad, as far as I can tell.

No major financial instituion is safe really. All it takes is a call from Holder's office saying they are looking into your sources of income. The new domestic terrorist label makes it easy to strongarm financial institutions. I fully expect to be on a list somewhere for having sent money. At this point, being on the list is a badge of honor to me when dealing with such misshapen souls.

And they wonder why we don't trust banks and prefer to deal in cash. This may just be a starting shot, you'd do well to pull any reserve you have out of the bank before they freeze that too.; November 7, 2014 at 2:12 PM
Anonymous said...: What's wrong with just mailing Mike a check or a money order?; November 7, 2014 at 5:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey purists. Should you be using the U.S. dollar at all? After all, the U.S. government is anti-gun & anti-Constitution. I'm looking at a $100 bill right now and it's called a "Federal Reserve Note." Doesn't Visa have anti-gun policies? Google has no respect for privacy. G-mail might as well stand for Government Mail. And so on.

I hate PayPal too, and Ebay, and yet I use both. The alternative for me is very unattractive. In part due to the money I save, I was able to donate over $3,000 this year to good candidates, the Reese Family Defense Fund, and $100 to this site.

I wonder how many folks who made these comments have donated to this site by check, or any other way at all?

Nothing more generous with time and money these days than the dedicated chatroom commando.; November 7, 2014 at 6:57 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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