Sipsey Street Irregulars: Famous Last Words, No. 2,374. Falling somewhere between "Don't give up the ship!" & Nixon's "I am not a crook!"

Monday, November 21, 2011

Famous Last Words, No. 2,374. Falling somewhere between "Don't give up the ship!" & Nixon's "I am not a crook!"

"I'm shocked! Shocked! To find gunwalking going on here." "Your e-Trace print out from Mexico, sir." "Oh, thank you very much."

"This case has nothing to do with Fast and Furious," said ATF spokesman Thomas Crowley. "There hasn't been any gun-walking in the Dallas division of ATF."

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Anonymous said...: The UPI article explicitly highlights the ATF mulitiple reporting requirements already in place, foreknowledge of criminal activity and the repeated denials about an already exposed practice...

Why are none of these 'public servants' being held accountable for their negligence, incompetence and perjury?

Oh, I remember now... they're above the law. The law is just for us peons who don't work for an 'elite' agency like ATF.

Ya, "I am not a crook" is certainly appropriate in this case.

Disband ATF. Criminal prosecutions with fines, jail times and pension forfeiture.; November 21, 2011 at 6:00 AM
Anonymous said...: "Disband ATF. Criminal prosecutions with fines, jail times and pension forfeiture."

For TREASON, MULTIPLE MURDERS across international borders, MURDER OF TWO FEDERAL AGENTS, CONSPIRACY to COMMIT the aforementioned crimes? Quite charitable of you considering the damage done but I don't think it's even slightly adequate.

OH, and let's not forget that these operations have been tracked to the white house door, so eliminating the ATF, simply won't do either.

You should read a bit more about this, and perhaps your outrage will be commensurate with the deeds involved. This is a death penalty case that for some reason is being converted to a simple traffic infraction, no doubt by the guilty, since it benefit no one but them.; November 21, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Ashrak said...: Delay.

Deny.

Deny denial.

Deny delaying denial.

Deny denying denial.

Deny denying delaying denial.

Hold elections, pass power to the "other" party and just stop talking about any of it. (rinse)

Repeat endlessly with a squishy "middle" who have been taught in "public" school to waffle back and forth in the voting booth to facilitate the back and forth power trading that accommodates endless denial and delay that removes accountability.

Sickening. Disgusting. Tomfoolery.; November 21, 2011 at 8:53 AM
Anonymous said...: This guy needs to practice "The Jedi Hand Wave" as in:

Obiwan Kenobi to Storm Trooper NCO: "These aren't the 'droids you're looking for"

Storm Trooper NCO to detail: "These aren't the 'droids we're looking for."; November 21, 2011 at 8:40 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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Monday, November 21, 2011

Famous Last Words, No. 2,374. Falling somewhere between "Don't give up the ship!" & Nixon's "I am not a crook!"

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