Sipsey Street Irregulars: Thomas Sowell on "Supreme Court Disasters."

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Thomas Sowell on "Supreme Court Disasters."

When any branch of government can exercise powers not authorized by either statutes or the Constitution, "we the people" are no longer free citizens but subjects, and our "public servants" are really our public masters. And America is no longer America. The freedom for which whole generations of Americans have fought and died is gradually but increasingly being taken away from us with smooth and slippery words.

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Anonymous said...: The comment by Sowell is INCORRECT. they can't TAKE it from you, but you can damn sure GIVE IT AWAY by inaction....No government can TAKE YOUR FREEDOM or LIBERTY away, only cowards can give it away, when they REFUSE to show some spine and stand up to them and tell them NO FREAKING WAY, and do so with serious threaty of gunpoint..It is at the point you willingly surrender your guns that the government then dictates ALL to you. If you make them and their foolhard agents DIE trying to take them, they will back down and await a more safe time to sneakily try again. Its why you MUST have a FREE VIGILANT citizenry, or you will have Kings and serfs. those are the ONLY to realities.

Sign me, Neal Jensen; June 30, 2015 at 6:51 AM
Sgt Stryker said...: It's time to take THEIR freedom and liberty.
Find their offices, photograph them, follow them home and post their info on the interwebs.
Remove their anonymity, for that anonymity gives them great power over you.
Government must fear the wrath of the People.
When they start screaming for "laws" to protect themselves, you will know that you have put fear back into them.
The time for action grows short.
III/0317; June 30, 2015 at 11:10 AM
Anonymous said...: You have only one option left by the founding fathers for such emergencies.

The question you are being asked by the Marxists and their very willing helpers is, will you step up?

They believe you won't but hope that you will because they are dying to let their forces loose. Especially before the coming election. In fact, they will probably do so anyway, under circumstances of their own creation.

This IS the beginning, and you have millions of friends on your side. They don't want you to know that, because it's a complication that could speed up their rapid egress to Europe, or some extradition free jurisdictions.

That's what special operators are for.

At present, there are no friendlies in government, including local government, or the media, including local media.; June 30, 2015 at 3:40 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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