Sipsey Street Irregulars: D Minus One -- Horse Pens 40 RTC Update.

Friday, October 29, 2010

D Minus One -- Horse Pens 40 RTC Update.

As has been pointed out by several Threepers who will be attending, we have been having trouble getting the word out through state and local media who have ignored the press releases largely because of the demands of the larger story of the election. They view us, perhaps rightly, as a campfire set up in the middle of a forest fire that is the fight for the Alabama state house and governor's mansion.

Others who know about it and would otherwise participate, including the Libertarians, are fighting the various electoral campaigns on this last "surge" weekend before Tuesday and will not be there. This has also has had an effect on the speaker's list, which at the moment is short.

One more press effort goes out this morning, but I rather think that absent heroic individual efforts, our turnout will be small (less than a hundred). That is not to say that the press won't cover it, but any publicity would be after the fact.

Rest assured, we WILL have the rally. The day will be crisp but beautiful, especially up on Chandler Mountain. We will have speeches, and even if we have no media coverage whatsoever, we'll just cut the "public" part a little short and adjourn to an improvised but private liberty workshop. Among the topics I would like to discuss is what we are going to demand of the new Alabama legislature and senate when both houses change (as seems likely) to GOP control for the first time since Reconstruction -- Vermont carry, an Alabama Firearms Freedom Act, reform and re-invigoration of the Alabama State Defense Force, etc.

And of course I will be available for any and all questions afterward. We may in fact get more accomplished with a smaller crowd than a larger one.

This will also give those of you who bring family members a chance to explore the natural wonders of Horse Pens 40 and Chandler Mountain. We will make the day worth your time and money in any case.

I apologize (in advance of knowing just how inadequate they will prove to be) for my own failures to successfully get the word out. If you can, please take today and get the word out on the 'Net out in any gun forums (ARFcom, etc.) or local political discussion venues (AL.com) you can.

This may be on private property -- because of an onerous Alabama law that should be overturned next year -- but it will be the first armed political rally in Alabama in modern memory. It will not be the last.

Thanks in advance for your efforts. I look forward to seeing y'all there.

Mike
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"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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