Sipsey Street Irregulars: A Cluster of Threeper Flags in DC

Monday, September 14, 2009

A Cluster of Threeper Flags in DC

12 comments:

Eric said...: Are these available for purchase yet?; September 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Tangalor said...: Where can we obtain these flags?

Also, I believe it would benefit if they were also made in smaller sizes, to accommodate those pet milk people..

Tang.; September 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM
cocked and loaded said...: Awesome!!!; September 14, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Charlie said...: I think the one in the middle is a "Second American Revolution" flag. Those folks were handing out stickers with this web address: http://www.usrevolution2.com

I think the group might be connected to former Ron Paul supporters?; September 14, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Concerned American said...: Center frame is a "II" flag, which was an independent effort at least as populous as our 50 "III" flags.

As I was scrambling to the field after being both the team's medevac and admin puke/gear honcho, I carried a III flag and ran into two gents carrying a "II" flag.

"What's 'II'?", says I.

"What's 'III'?", says they.

Several iterations ensued before either side budged.

Eventually, amidst much chuckling at our banner-version of the old Mexican standoff, the IIs said they were calling for a Second Revolution.

I explained that 3% in arms in the field had been enough to prevail in RevWar I.

We all agreed before proceeding to our respective destinations that our messages, dark as they were, were mutually supporting.

Not coincidentally, II plus III equals V.

Forward.; September 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Travis Lee said...: I started seeing some of those II flags at some TEA Parties on TV.

I wasn't sure what their message was, but I had no doubt that both teams would run into each other!; September 14, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Daniel S said...: Such a wonderful site! Glad I could be there!; September 15, 2009 at 4:22 AM
Happy D said...: Wish I was there.; September 15, 2009 at 6:38 AM
Anonymous said...: Awesome sight! II or III, doesn't matter.

B Woodman
III-per; September 15, 2009 at 8:02 AM
Anonymous said...: Do the II's have a website??????

A. Nonny Mouse; September 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Qi Ji Guang said...: That is a really beautiful picture, all these III flags, especially in this photo. It made me think of blue bottle gentians and larkspurs growing amongst streaks of blossoming purple loosestrife and white asters.; September 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Qi Ji Guang said...: Oh, BTW, I had been wondering what the II flag was the whole time. I vaguely thought it might mean the 2nd revolution or something like that.

Mike, don't forget to check your email, I left you a message :)

BTW, if I had only entered Starbucks!!! I had been standing right outside the place for almost an hour before the march on the capitol began LOL; September 15, 2009 at 2:42 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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A Cluster of Threeper Flags in DC

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