Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Grandiose fantasy?" Keep it up Mikey and you'll find out it is neither.

Friday, March 22, 2013

"Grandiose fantasy?" Keep it up Mikey and you'll find out it is neither.

Baby Steps on Gun Control

"Rep. Mike Thompson, Democrat of California, who is a Vietnam veteran and dedicated deer hunter, told us this morning in a meeting at the Times that he was shocked at how much the gun lobby is now dominated by people who think they need to own the same gun the police or the army has so they can protect themselves against tyranny — a grandiose fantasy."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Each person rises to their own level of incompetence!!; March 22, 2013 at 9:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Yup; Stupid is as stupid does.

To the reporter, "vietnam veteran" somehow rarifies his air. Do I hear McCain's name?

This vet sides with the opinion of the founding fathers. So, there; we've nulled things out.; March 22, 2013 at 9:22 PM
Anonymous said...: A Viet Nam vet in the tradition of Quisling Kerry and the the other marxists..
I dont understand the concept of being a Nam vet having anything to do with the concept of Liberty.. thats like using vet status to approve of John Kerry and to say that John McCain is a hero for failing his mission and getting captured and both failures somehow qualify him for this false concept that he is some military mastermind and we are all his fools.. the military has had its share of treason..

Yank lll; March 23, 2013 at 7:51 AM
Trinity said...: I wonder if our "esteemed" California state legislator is a Nam combat vet,or a REMF...he has the attitude of an obedient little REMF; perhaps in charge of keeping the political brass' heads stock with fresh TP.; March 23, 2013 at 12:09 PM
-flylow said...: I thought the same as Trinity and found this from his House webpage on the wayback machine: "He served in combat with the U.S. Army as a staff sergeant/platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade where he was wounded and received a Purple Heart. He was also an instructor at the Army's Airborne School."
Also turned up this bit that the author neglected to mention: current Chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
And then there's this in the Washington Post: ...a public discussion with three Democrats who have played leading roles in the gun debate: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, ... Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), ... and Rep. Mike Thompson (Calif.)...
Gosh, I wonder what your stance has to be to get on stage with those other two ninnies. Hmmmm...; March 23, 2013 at 8:06 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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