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Monday, February 9, 2009

My Next Paper Target at the Range: "We're All Socialists Now."

This is the logo on the current Newsweek cover. The title? "We're ALL Socialists Now."

This is the story that accompanies it.

I think I'm going to make this my next target at the range. Thus will I refute their premise.

The Flag of INGSOC, the totalitarian party in 1984.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Well, when it comes to the mainstream so-called left and right, they have a point:

"it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly. People on the right and the left want government to invest in alternative energies in order to break our addiction to foreign oil. And it is unlikely that even the reddest of states will decline federal money for infrastructural improvements."

Yep, sad but true. Only a financial collapse will break those chains of bipartisanship voluntary serfdom.; February 9, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Qi Ji Guang said...: Is it me, or is that logo FRIGHTENINGLY SIMILAR to the INGSOC logo in "1984" the movie?; February 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Vanderboegh said...: You're quite right, QJG, although it didn't hit me until you mentioned it. I went ahead and posted it at the bottom.; February 9, 2009 at 7:18 PM
drjim said...: Now THAT'S scary!; February 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM
jon said...: with the collapse of the state comes the collapse of its mark-of-the-beast paper bill of credit, the federal reserve note -- hilariously referred to as a "dollar," a phonetic slip from the original joachimsthaler ("yawk-hymns-thaw-lur"), a true blue coin.

be prepared.; February 9, 2009 at 8:16 PM
MPA-III said...: "We're All Socialists Now" - I think I'm going to f*&^(ng PUKE!

These SOB's can't help but GLOAT in what they have wrought! God help them as they bring about the unintended consequences of their actions.

As the increasingly louder pleas of "LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE!!" fall upon deaf ears, the vortex continues to move...ever faster...the country is past the outer edges and is being sucked even more quickly into the abyss.

One only needs to review the highlights of last nights, "Presidential News Conference" and the details of the move to print yet ANOTHER trillion worthless FRN's in order to nationalize even more of the economy and then look at the runnning total:

The TARP initiative will reach 2 TRILLION "dollars"; the nationalization and control of industry; the abrogation of more of the BOR, and so on, is speeding things up.

Futile gestures, such as the "Million Gun Owner March" set for Spring 2010, won't do much, if anything to reverse the country's course or keep "the line in the sand" where it currently resides...

Better to spend what funds are available on ammo, equipment, and training.

At least, that's my take.; February 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Qi Ji Guang said...: Re: Mike

I saw the same Newsweek cover when I was at the doctor's office. 1984 was the first thing that came onto my mind.

When I first saw the film, I thought THAT was more scarier than all the Jason, Freddy, etc... films out there. Because THAT shit CAN happen in real life; February 13, 2009 at 2:15 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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