Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Son, you don't poke a wolverine with a sharp stick unless you want your balls ripped off."

Saturday, August 22, 2009

"Son, you don't poke a wolverine with a sharp stick unless you want your balls ripped off."

The business end of a wolverine.

Folks,

Per Pete's request as reported here, I have emailed Declan McCullagh with my response to his column, "Sorry, Mandatory Gun Registration Is Constitutional." You may judge whether my "Vanderboeghian knifework," as Pete called it, is still up to snuff.

Subject: "You don't poke a wolverine with a stick unless you want your balls ripped off."
Date: 8/22/2009 2:27:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: GeorgeMason1776
To: declan@cbsnews.com

re: Your column "Sorry, Mandatory Gun Registration Is Constitutional"

Dear Declan,

There are things in life that you can do.

There are things in life that you shouldn't do.

For example, you CAN urinate on an electric fence, but it will undoubtedly be a far more religious experience than you had bargained for. Likewise it is with mandatory gun registration.

All this pointy-hatted constitutional "scholar" stuff is good for the sort of parlor chat that some folks favor, I suppose, but in the real world there is for the academician kibitzer and citizen disarmament advocate legal beagle this unfortunate (depending upon how you look at it) set of historical and political truths:

One, universal gun registration is the precursor to gun confiscation, always has been, always will be.

Two, gun confiscation is the absolute precursor to tyranny and genocide.

Three, there are enough armed citizenry in this country who have internalized these lessons to make it suicidal for any would-be tyrant to try, "constitutional" or not. (The Founders would say "not," but why waste time debating the point?)

Ergo, as my Michigan farmer grandfather once told me about arguing with Grandma: "Son, you don't poke a wolverine with a sharp stick unless you want your balls ripped off."

Oh, by the way, WE are the wolverine.

Are we done here? I think we are.

Mike Vanderboegh
Pinson, AL
The alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters
sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com

"WOLVERINES!"

6 comments:

^Hawk^ said...: Well said Mike.....
I loved that movie. Not for the acting, but for the underlying message that resonates through it.

I really wish I could make the trip to DC to meet many of you. I'm sure there will be other opportunities with the clown we have in the Oval Office.

^Hawk^
III; August 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM
0321 said...: Let's let these clowns know that we also can keep lists of "enemies of the people" for later when TSHTF. They really believe they can push their bullshit ideas on the public and we will do nothing? He can believe in registering guns and I can believe in bumping off traitors. Fair trade of ideas?; August 22, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Robert L Stevenson said...: I wonder how well it would be recieved if journalists had to be licensed and officially registered with the Federal government and employed by certain approved media providers before they could do their journalism gig?

And how about:

One Op/Ed piece a month!

Let's have reasonable restrictions on the First Amendment!

What this country needs is some real effective word control like they have in China and Great Britain.

We need to close the Writing Contest loophole, where anyone without a background check can write whatever they want.

I call for the repeal of concealed carry of PDA's in National Parks. Afterall, why would anyone ever need a PDA in a National Park?

We should strengthen the current laws against bandying, a dangerous and often fatal act of repeatedly throwing words around. In some states there are no restrictions on bandying at all.; August 23, 2009 at 7:00 AM
Conservative Scalawag said...: Yet the Feds keep poking and keep poking. Like I sas - the Brits didn't listen either, so keep it up.

Wolverines!!!!!; August 23, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Anonymous said...: I think it worth mentioning here that at 2:53 PM EDT I heard the the cavalcade of Ol' Bummah's choppers coming and I knew that they were going to fly right over my house on their way to the Vineyard. We went out in the yard and gave them our best double finger wave. King Hussein was definitely in Garand range and the thought did cross my mind!
NoName, Falmouth, The People's Republic of Massholes.; August 24, 2009 at 5:39 AM
Anonymous said...: oddly enough i jut finished dowloading "red dawn", still an "oldie but goody" and yes, as a poster above said, the message is still clear, as is mike's warning. as well, i see teddy kennedy has finally left the building, i can find nothing good to say about him so i will say nothing at all.; August 26, 2009 at 1:33 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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