Sipsey Street Irregulars: 19 April: In Memorium

Sunday, April 19, 2009

19 April: In Memorium

And let us take more than one moment today to reflect upon the monstrous crimes in modern memory that this date also marks the anniversary of: Waco and Oklahoma City. Let us swear that neither be repeated as long as we draw breath. As Three Percenters, we cannot do otherwise.

Mike
III

5 comments:

Qi Ji Guang said...: About that firefighter picture: Was that from the Waco atrocity?

That is the most heart-wrenching picture I have ever seen. It is like a picture from Auschwitz, magnified, and reprinted in color. Tears are flowing down my face as I am typing this. I just hope that this poor innocent being survived. Please tell me that the baby survived.

Like our Jewish and Armenian brethren, we shall raise our 13 starred banner of victory and cry "NEVER AGAIN!!!"

III; April 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Anonymous said...: QJG,
That famous pic is from the Oklahoma City bombing.
And, like you, it never fails to bring a tear for the innocents who were harmed.

B Woodman
SSG (Ret), U S Army; April 20, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Flock of One said...: Sorry Qi Ji Guang,

The little girl, Baylee Almon, did not survive the OKC bombing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklaholma_City_bombing; April 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM
straightarrow said...: shit! I hate crying and I'm doing it too. I hope there is a heaven and she is there.; April 21, 2009 at 2:30 AM
Qi Ji Guang said...: Re: Friends:

She is indeed in Heaven, and may God bless her soul. It is just heart-wrenching to hear that sweet, innocent little child lost her life, killed by a remorseless, cold blooded MONSTER.

I dearly pray that the terrible atrocities at both Waco and OKC will never happen again.

RIP all the innocents who lost their lives on these terrible days.; April 21, 2009 at 12:35 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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