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Sunday, October 25, 2009

“Malignant Nature” Deconstructed by a Current Serving West Pointer Who Served With the 82nd Airborne.

From the intro, here:

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/10/22/malignant-nature-deconstructed-by-a-current-serving-west-pointer-who-served-with-the-82nd-airborne/#comments

As many Oath Keepers are aware, “Streiff” over at Red State has written a criticism of us entitled “The Malignant Nature of the Oath Keeper Movement.” The author, a retired LTC, makes many “arguments by authority.” This attack on Oath Keepers comes from an odd quarter in that Streiff has written eloquently in the past about supporting our troops and other issues that most Oath Keepers would agree with. He is nominally, one would think, someone who should agree with us.

A current serving LTC and West Point graduate (and an admirer of Streiff’s previous work), who served with the 82nd Airborne Division, has deconstructed Streiff’s arguments below ad seriatim. His comments are in red.

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3 comments:

milkorder said...: The arguments he uses against the Oath Keepers are the arguments I use to defend them.

It all comes down to which world view you have. Is it the individual or the collective? Are we created or are we an accident? I am sorry to bring up God, there is a reason the individual has value and rights. It is also important to note where the rights come from and who is responsible for defending them.

We on the side of the Oath keepers are fanatical because a deeply held TRUTH will motivate you in ways the "anti crowd" can't match or understand. Any cause worth dying for is also worth killing over.

God bless the Oath Keepers and my fellow III-pers.; October 25, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Uncle Lar said...: LTC Streiff is an idiot. This was all settled over sixty years ago at Nuremburg where a good many German soldiers were sentenced by international tribunal to prison or death for failing to disobey their chain of command when issued unlawful orders.
As for that remark about the beginnings of the revolution not being about arms confiscation, where did this fool go to school and how did he manage to graduate having obviously slept through American history class.; October 25, 2009 at 2:31 PM
BlackFlag14 said...: "Streiff" is a neocon who is coming out of the closet as just another de facto imperialist, whose political beliefs align far more closely with those of Saddam Hussein, (or King Hussein of Barakastan, for that matter), than with Jefferson or Washington. The differences between liberals and a neocons are getting smaller and more blurry in detail all the time.; October 25, 2009 at 3:15 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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