Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Men Behind the Wire: Olofson Update.

Monday, December 22, 2008

The Men Behind the Wire: Olofson Update.

Armoured cars and tanks and guns
Came to take away our sons
But every man must stand behind
The men behind the wire

"A True Soldier"

Folks,

Everyone knows how tough it is to be away from loved ones at Christmas. How much tougher is it to be forcibly kept away from your family and everything else you hold dear -- imprisoned by a lying, law-breaking tyrannical agency on false charges? That is where David Olofson finds himself this Christmas.

I have this update on David from Larry Pratt:

"David is tough and seems to be holding up well. He is a true soldier, and not one who thinks that all he has to do is 'follow orders.' The Relief Fund is OK, but some have had to drop off. Right now, that has only slowed our ability to prepay on the car loan. The trend will eventually be negative regarding monthly payments. If you were to mention this need in your communications, the place for folks to go is: http://gunowners.org/olofson.htm. It is set up to let folks agree to have their credit card hit once a month at $10, $20 or $25. Whenever they must drop off, a call to GOA takes care of the need."

I know times are tough. They're going to get tougher. How much tougher are they for men behind the wire like David Olofson and Wayne Fincher? How about their families? I'll make it easy, here's the link.

One more thing. If you're not a member of GOA yet for whatever reason, then just send them an anonymous donation. You think the NRA would do what they're doing? In a Fudd's dreams.

Mike
III

5 comments:

Chris K. said...: Mike,
Mr. Codrea gave me a link for Mr. Fincher as well.
It can be found at Arkansasmilitia.com/raid/

Thanks; December 22, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Vanderboegh said...: Thanks. Three Percenters take note.; December 22, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Uncle Lar said...: While listening to the usual media blather the other day it occured to me that David is charged with a Federal offense and so ought to be eligible for a pardon from President Bush. Would seem to be an ideal candidate, no criminal intent, simple mechanical malfunction. On the other hand, we really need to have this miscarriage of justice overturned on appeal, not swept under the rug by fiat.
So I'm torn. I'd do anything to clear David and return him exonerated to his family, but would a pardon just muddy the already opaque waters?
Mike, any others have your own thoughts?; December 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM
David Codrea said...: I'll weigh in on the pardon, since I looked at it in re Wayne Fincher.

There's a process with a form and rules and everything...it's not just a letter asking.

In a nutshell, all judicial means must have been exhausted and the candidate must do a Galileo recantation:

"No petition for commutation of sentence, including remission of fine, should be filed if other forms of judicial or administrative relief are available,"

and the victims also need express what the feds like to call "Acceptance of responsibility, remorse, and atonement."

In other words, you need to confess and admit they broke you.; December 23, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Uncle Lar said...: Thank you David C. I was afraid it was something like that.
So David O. needs to tough it out and count on being vindicated in appeal.
It did inspire me to head over to GOA and send the Olofson family fund a little something extra for the season.; December 24, 2008 at 12:00 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Monday, December 22, 2008

The Men Behind the Wire: Olofson Update.

5 comments:

Blog Archive

Followers