Sipsey Street Irregulars: In Memorium

Thursday, January 20, 2011

In Memorium

If America remains a free nation, the name of Aaron Zelman will be honored in the highest ranks. For Aaron, a love of G-d and a love of freedom were inextricably blended. Aaron’s fervent embrace of liberty, his deep and introspective nature, his remarkable intelligence, his unyielding conscience, and his compassionate wisdom, made him a man amongst men.

Amen. Hard to believe he is gone.

5 comments:

WarriorClass said...: My brother Aaron, I salute you. Rest in Abraham's arms my friend.

WarriorClass
III; January 20, 2011 at 5:58 AM
Dave said...: Aaron's remarks at the end of "Innocents Betrayed" opened my eyes more than anything else I've ever heard, when he discussed the photographs he saw as a youngster. Aaron used history to prove the Founding Fathers were right and he destroyed all the b.s. the socialist libtards have ever come up with or ever will. May he rest in peace. I can't recall ever feeling such a loss for someone I never met as I do for Aaron Zelman.; January 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM
Sean said...: If G*d blessed us with an Aaron Zelman once, He will bless us with another. But all I know for now is that I miss him. Shalom.; January 20, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Was not familiar with JPFO until recently - now I'm a member!

As a Christian, I count it an honor to stand with His chosen people.

III N TN; January 20, 2011 at 6:47 PM
fireplaceguy said...: My melancholy began when Jeff Cooper passed, and I realized that people like that aren't emerging from the younger generations.

Now, another intellectual titan in the struggle is gone, with no relief in sight.

May we at least be worthy of standing on their shoulders and feebly carrying on...; January 20, 2011 at 10:54 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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