Sipsey Street Irregulars: About to drop behind enemy lines.

Friday, September 23, 2011

About to drop behind enemy lines.

"All right, all you sonsabitches, get your gear. Vanderboegh's coming to town."

Equipment check: Got my cane, my C-Pap machine, my medications and my laptop in the 101st Airborne pelican case my son gave me. The next reportage you'll get from me will be from Chicago later this afternoon or evening. Say a little prayer that I come through the TSA groping without flashbacks. Hope to see some of you at the Gun Rights Policy Conference.

Bail money can be contributed by clicking on the icon to the right. ;-)

Last minute observation: You know, the threat the Justice Department perceives from me is all out of proportion to the actuality. If I had a tattoo that reflected this truth it would not be "Death From Above." More like "Discomfort From Above."

-- Old fat man with a cane, signing off. See you on Drop Zone Chicago.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Good luck with the CPAP - one of my coworkers got hers on a plane, but it took a lot of demonstrating the purpose and how it works to the airline security folks before she went through. I just said to hell with it, took a box of Breath Right strips and called it good.; September 23, 2011 at 7:38 AM
Anonymous said...: I'll see you there Saturday, probably will not be able to make it tonight.; September 23, 2011 at 7:48 AM
J said...: Remember to leave the ankle holster behind. And remember to eat the extra beans for the delight of any TSA perverts. They LUVS them some gut-bomb gas; September 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM
Ashrak said...: Every Speaker should make a direct call to Sue Myerscough regarding the SAF suit she has in front of her. Constitutional Carry should be hollered load and proud at every turn.

I submit that she is waiting until after this weekend to release her spanking of Lisa and the Chicago Machine and a tremendous opportunity to make direct points about the Second Amendment should not be squandered.

Marking the abuses of the "regulatory" scheme, which are self evident in GunWalker, should be of the highest priority. I believe Sue Myerscough is going to do much the right thing, though may stay things to buy some more time for the ILGA, and I think the best chance to avoid a stay and get her to just do what must be done is right there for the making this weekend.

Good luck to you this weekend, Mike. I would love to be there, but the fact of the matter is I couldn't fill the tank to get there, much less stay there and fill the tank to come home.; September 23, 2011 at 8:46 AM
Eric said...: Good luck Mike, you're deep behind enemy lines.; September 23, 2011 at 12:44 PM
JoeFromSidney said...: Wish I could be there, but I'm part of the Ham Radio support team for a marathon run this weekend.; September 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM
J. Croft said...: I'm sure they'll assign some TSA 'agents' who get turned on by old men... can't imagine WHERE they'd find some cretins but that agency seems to attract the crud even the ATF wouldn't hire.; September 23, 2011 at 3:31 PM
Ed said...: "Discomfort from below" sounds more ominous.; September 23, 2011 at 11:47 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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Friday, September 23, 2011

About to drop behind enemy lines.

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