Sipsey Street Irregulars: "We’re not done but what we do know is that the decision for this was not made in Tucson or El Paso or anywhere else. It was made in Washington.”

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

"We’re not done but what we do know is that the decision for this was not made in Tucson or El Paso or anywhere else. It was made in Washington.”

Rick Amato over at Breitbart interviews Darrell Issa.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mike,

Here are a list of problems I see with this interview and Issa's general approach.

#1 Early on in the interview he refers to "the good men and women of the ATF".

This is an agency that has a history of bad tactics, wrongful policy and unlawful behavior. There is no police power authorized by the Constitution. They should not even exist!

#2 He questions "what went wrong".

For crying out loud! The entire concept was wrong. Who ever came up with this stupid idea should be chastised for the very thought.

#3 Three times during this interview Issa talks of "Mistakes that were made".

He sounds like Obama! Based on my reading this was no mistake. It was a calculated scheme to usurp the 2nd Amendment by back door wrangling and manipulation of numbers of guns crossing the border. It was a plan to use the anti-gun bias seen in the main-stream media reporting in order to gain public support for greater restrictions on gun owners and FFL's.

The plan backfired and came undone when a couple of Federal agents were killed by the guns allowed to walk. Was further complicated when whistle-blowers started coming forward due to their consciences eating at them.

#4 Issa is quick to show his support for the war on (some) drugs, which is frankly, at the root of the problem of gun smuggling, turf wars, mass murder and all the rest.

#5 He also reveals his support for "e-verify" which, as I understand it, is the National ID card these cretins have been pushing for years. An act that would further enslave us all and doubtful have any effect on the narco-gun-drug-human smuggling enterprise.

#6 He uses terms like "assault weapons" so common in the press but so wrong in the basic definition.

I hope he and Grassley continue to push this issue but I do not trust either of them nor do I have any respect for them.

KPN3%; May 17, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Anonymous said...: Issa and Grassley don't appear to be serious in their mission.

For those that are seeking Impeachment. The House brings the articles of Impeachment. The Senate than has sole power to try the Impeachment. The Senate is controlled by the Dems so the Impeachment would go nowhere. It's sad when the party votes for the party and not the law but the Repubs would do the same thing.

theaton; May 17, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Forget where I saw it, but somewhere in the last 2-3 days a post mentioned how the Indiana Supreme Court (as well as many others) are simply conforming principle to what has been practice for many years. Wish I could give the attribution.; May 17, 2011 at 9:26 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

"We’re not done but what we do know is that the decision for this was not made in Tucson or El Paso or anywhere else. It was made in Washington.”

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