Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Preserving the spirit of resistance." God bless the truck drivers.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

"Preserving the spirit of resistance." God bless the truck drivers.

"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson.

From Threeper Stan in the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of Kalifornia we have this image from Calguns.net, where rgs1975 posted:

Saw something cool on my drive home today . . .

I'm in Marin County. On my daily drive to work and back I see dozens of Obama, Kerry, Free Tibet, No War For Oil, etc... type bumber stickers daily. Today, this truck passed me by and I thought it was just about the neatest thing I've seen in a very long time. Had to snap a shot of it.

6 comments:

Taylor H said...: Nice; May 22, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Ensquared said...: I was at one of the tax-day Tea Party demonstrations on April 15, 2008 in southern Kalifornia and that was what surprised me the most... Gadsden flags were flying everywhere from a large numbers of demonstrators. It was refreshing!

I'm sure the collectivists in the state think they have things already in the "bag" with their audacity to boycott Arizona for for its immigration law. Little do they realize that the only people they'll be hurting are themselves if Arizona decides to cut the power. The state is already in trouble and they're trying to kill whatever commerce is left. Idiots!

That's alright. The way I figure it, it's the people who are prepared that will survive this calamity when TSHTF. Until then we'll watch, wait and prepare.

Nguyen
III; May 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Dennis308 said...: Nice picture only one thing missing ¨We Are Everywhere¨; May 22, 2010 at 1:05 PM
Anonymous said...: good photo, though the U.S. flag should be flying upside down.; May 22, 2010 at 4:41 PM
III more than them said...: About the only thing I can add to that truck would be some silhouettes painted on the side... you know, like "rising suns" and swastikas in the sides of our planes?

A few leftist symbols would be great...; May 22, 2010 at 6:55 PM
Anonymous said...: @ Anon 2:41

Why on earth SHOULD the flag be flown upside down?; May 23, 2010 at 3:57 AM

"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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Saturday, May 22, 2010

"Preserving the spirit of resistance." God bless the truck drivers.

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