Thursday, June 20, 2013

I AM Expendable. Why Colorado. Why me.

A personal note to the two former residents of Dennis Avenue who I know read this blog. Do us all a favor and don't rat me out on this post. I'm going to be speaking frankly and she doesn't need the worry.
In Colorado, not all the Nazis are in the state legislature and the governor's mansion. Some pick up the trash along the roads (and not in a chain gang, unfortunately).
Along with all the defeatist claptrap troll responses to We Are Expendable, bleating about "every day the bluefor gets stronger and the redfor gets weaker" (sounds a lot like the collectivists' "resistance is futile" meme, doesn't it?) there came a somewhat different response to my latest post on Colorado. Old Greybeard writes:
Since you will be flagrantly violating a Colorado "law", and they will want to make an example of you, what makes you think you will get bail, since surely you would be considered a flight risk?
Also, all those magazines will be totally wasted. You might as well just mail them to the Colorado state police because those guys will wind up using them someday or they will just be destroyed after being used as evidence against you.
That's the biggest reason I haven't sent you any magazines. PLEASE CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT THIS FOLLY. There are other ways to support the Second Amendment. For example, being able to continue updating your blog every day, my friend. - Old Greybeard
Now I smiled when I read this because I know Old Greybeard. I know where his heart is. And though we disagree on some things, I am proud to call him a friend. He is motivated, I am certain, only out of concern for me. But he raises several issues -- some serious -- that I think need to be explained.
First, no, OGB, those magazines won't be wasted. I'll only have one in my hand or in my vehicle if/when I am arrested in Denver. The others, I assure you, will not be wasted. My daughter Zoe will be my driver/videographer for the trip and will not participate in the action. The charge is a misdemeanor. I am not a flight risk. I will have local counsel already arranged and, if the readership comes through when I issue the call, bail money in somebody's pocket.
"When, if not now, shall we resist?" -- Mike Vanderboegh, Hartford, CT, 20 April 2013.
In some measure, this is an undiscovered country I knew I was headed to when I founded the Three Percent movement. When you draw a line that you declare is a last ditch, you either defend it or risk violating your principles and discrediting your entire life.
I never sought to be a leader of anything. The unfortunate thing for me is that other people thought I was a leader. You know, when I was first picked to lead my Alabama militia unit (we didn't even have a name for it back then), I was perplexed. I had been in Alabama since 1985. I knew about the difference between "Yankees" and "Damyankees." I had married a southern girl and stayed. Ten years afterward, whenever I'd go up to Winston County to interview descendants of Alabama Unionists, I'd still get some old lady leaning forward into my face with a piercing gaze and challenging, "Y'all ain't from aroun' heer, air ya?" And I always had to admit that I wasn't.
So finally, one day, I asked the other guys in the militia, "How come you picked me? I mean, I'm a 'Damyankee.' Why are you trusting me?" There was an uncomfortable silence and finally, with a wry grin, one of the boys said, "Well, hell, Mike. You ARE a Yankee. If we put you out front and you get killed, we ain't lost nothin'." The room exploded in laughter. Which, I reflected, sort of told me where I stood. And it WAS funny.
But the thing about being a leader is that you have the responsibility, the DUTY, to LEAD. As one comment to the transcript of my Hartford speech said: "By sticking your neck out and taking action, hopefully the people of CT will have an example to follow and won't feel fear now that someone else has already done it."
And that's one aspect of leadership. A leader doesn't ask his people to do anything that he isn't willing to do himself, and, by his example, he inspires others.
The other thing is that I don't know how long I'm going to be able to keep this -- all this, including the blog -- up and running. True, with my weight loss of 135 pounds since the surgery both my blood pressure and my diabetes are doing much better. My previously infected toe on my right foot is now healed and as of yesterday I am back with shoes on both my feet again for the first time in months. But I still have congestive heart failure (if I ever get tased it will probably kill me right there) and the nagging aftermath of the surgery is that hole in my back that continues to leak. In fact the past three days it has gotten far worse, and now seems to be infected according to the two different doctors (and their co-pays) that I visited yesterday. We're having to change the dressings four to five times a day. Oh, they've prescribed an antibiotic and I'm taking that but this up and down stuff gets to be more than a bit wearing. Then there's Churchill's black dog that seems to make a reappearance every time I turn to Absolved to try to finish it.
On the bright side, the surgeon yesterday came up with yet another idea to plug the hole in my gastric-esophogeal junction by means of a state-of-the-art human epoxy glue. When I get back from Colorado, I will enter the hospital (they have to keep me NPO yet hydrated by means of IVs while the glue is setting up) and we will give it a shot. The funny thing is that this glue is mostly used to repair anal fistulas and when the doc told me THAT I laughed myself half to death. When he asked what was so funny I said, "You know, Doc, there is a considerable body of opinion including my ex-wife and Eric Holder, that I am an asshole. I guess this proves it."
Still, I'm skating on the the thin ice of multiple threats to my health not including my ex-wife's voodoo doll or Eric Holder's collectivist animus. I know that, statistically speaking, after all I've been through I shouldn't be here, leading me to conclude that God is not done with me yet. So I do what I can, while I can. It is after all, what He has commanded all of us stiff-necked Christians to do -- which is to stand in the gap. The thing is, when you get closer to the end than the beginning, you begin to realize your own body's mortality and you want to make whatever time you have left count. The other thing is, if you're a Christian, you understand that they cannot take away or compromise your own inextinguishable soul, only you can do that. So, if you stay true to your faith, the worst thing that happens is that you go to a better place where your side wins in the end.
OGB, God love him (and He does), believes that to be so much fairy dust. Well, maybe it is. We'll all find out sooner than we want to rather than later, given the world we live in. But the fact of the matter is that I DO believe it. It is a part of who I am, and to quote another flawed Christian, Martin Luther, "Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders, Gott helfe mir, Amen." ("Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.")
The thing is, I believe I wouldn't be here without the prayerful support of my readers. This is spiritual warfare we are engaged in people, with the best evidence of that being the absolute, blood-thirsty evil of our collectivist enemies and their appetites for our liberty, our property and our lives. How can you look at Waco and not see the evil hand behind it? How can you consider the vicious, sustained campaign by the federal "law enforcement" bureaucracy to victimize the Reese family without hearing the Devil himself laugh in the background? These people who seek to enslave us are evil. It may be a banal evil, to use Hannah Arendt's phrase, but IT IS EVIL bureaucratized and yet personified all at once and together. So, viewed through the lens of my own principles, I AM expendable. It is what God put me on this earth to do -- fight evil with all my heart and soul until He calls me home.
No one thought that the authorities of your state would pass laws making criminals out of the previously law-abiding -- but they did. If they catch you violating their unconstitutional laws, they will -- when they please -- send armed men to work their will upon you. And people -- innocent of any crime save the one these tyrants created -- will die resisting them. -- Mike Vanderboegh, Hartford CT, 20 April 2013.
Why Colorado? Because that is where the collectivist enemy is. That is one place where he has made gains that need to be confronted. It seems that we have turned back the federal grab that the citizen disarmament blood dancers began after Newtown, much to their frustration. But it is the states where they continue to gain ground. So, we must confront them as they confront us -- state by state, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, using all the tools at hand. As my good friend David Codrea says, "Any chair in a bar fight." Even those who urge me not to go concede the truth that the Colorado tyranny must be resisted. We must confront these collectivist bastards in Colorado and every other state where they've made gains. My friends and supporters, OGB included, just don't want it to be ME. But if not me, who? And if not now, when?
There is one way you might stop me from going. Just don't send me any more subscription donations. Without the money for car rental and gas, without the bail money, I'm dead in the water, so to speak. As generous as y'all have been, if the PO Box remains empty as it was this week, I'll be reduced to hitchhiking. So you can vote with your wallets. Should I stay or should I go? I'm tempted to say it's up to y'all, but that would be a lie. I'm going. Somehow, God will provide. But I'm going. I love OGB like a brother, but I'm going.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

CO, CT, and... NY?!?!?.....

Anonymous said...

At the time I wrote that comment I didn't know it was a misdemeanor. I don't think you can get a shonuff prison sentence for a misdemeanor. I see you have carefully planned your actions so if you're charged the charges should be minimal. So, good luck with your efforts, my friend. I just want you still around for your family and for your efforts to defend our rights.

- Old Greybeard

Anonymous said...

Mike,
I too, wish it wasn't you but as you said - if not you, then who? if not CO, then where?
I wish you godspeed & blessings on your head.
sunny

Anonymous said...

Well Mike here's the part you missed; When you cross the state line, to knowingly commit a crime, that "misdemeanor", it becomes a title 18 federal RICO crime.( your blog made it one because of INTENT you also involved others in your "plot" instant RICO) If Your Kids driving , She go's to federal lock up on the spot. They asset forfeiture you house- guns- cars- along with the property of ANYONE with you. Your wife ends up in a paper jump suit in federal lock up. Did you talk to your ARMY son about this over a phone/fax or internet? AUTOMATIC general court and probable DD. Its not the state you have to fear- its BATFE and the FBI that will get you this time ,are you ready to see your wife and kids crushed by this? How about Everyone that sent you mags? Cause you take ALL of them with you. Ask yourself this
Mike ; HOW BAD dose the USJD want you? Have they had a wire tap for this. What happens WHEN they hit you ( and everyone with you) with a RICO charge.

MamaLiberty said...

God speed, my friend. I suspect the only one who could really talk you out of it is Rosy... and I don't think she will. :)

LFMayor said...

Mike, this isn't a poke in the eye, but before you go give us the names and last know addresses of the communists you knew.

We want the stuff they may have buried.

Jim Klein said...

"At the time I wrote that comment I didn't know it was a misdemeanor. I don't think you can get a shonuff prison sentence for a misdemeanor."

By definition true, but that only matters in a world where definitions count, or Rule of Law exists. I'm happy for you if you find yourself in one of those.

MI-copperhead said...

MVB wrote: "The other thing is, if you're a Christian, you understand that they cannot take away or compromise your own inextinguishable soul, only you can do that. So, if you stay true to your faith, the worst thing that happens is that you go to a better place where your side wins in the end."
Mike that is a good interpratation of Matthew 12:4 & 5 "And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.(5)But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: Fear him, which after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, Fear him." We'd fear these tyrannts less if more of us lived that.

Hefferman said...

Mike, I am not the word smith you are. I guess my Dad's old saying "Plain talk is easy understood." fits me better.

I understand where both you and OGB stand on this issue. Being a Christian and one who worries about you.

However we can not stand back and do nothing. We must push back against the communist collectivist. We must force them to make the next big mistake. That can only be done by standing up.

thedweeze/Peter said...

To thine own self be true, Mike.

You already know that, and I'm not trying to insult your intelligence by citing the above: it's for everyone reading you.

Right now, we all have the luxury of speaking and acting as we choose. This is not a gift to be squandered thoughtlessly.

I'm far more confident than I was before I saw your speech in Temple: you've lost a lot of unneeded weight and you got rid of the cane. No, you're not 25 any more, but then, who of us is?

And you're right about all of this being in God's hands, and that He works in mysterious ways.

markofafreeman said...

Mike, if it were not for schedule conflicts, I would have offered to drive down from NC to AL to help with the drive to CO.

I completely understood the point behind this post before you wrote it. Yes, individually, fighting in the cause of liberty, we are each expendable.

But a long drive can wreak havoc on even a healthy person, even when your not the one driving much more so than if your driving.

I do pray God is not done with you, and that you survive this particular act of defiance, resistance, evasion, and smuggling. But I really don't want to see you go down due to health complications exacerbated by the drive.

After all, 100 heads could hardly be justified if that happened. ;-)

Anonymous said...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/bloomberg-group-named-christopher-dorner-other-murder-suspec


Bloomberg Group Named Christopher Dorner, Other Murder Suspects On List Of Gun Violence “Victims”
Demonstrators trying to bolster support for gun control read aloud from a list of more than 6,000 gun violence “victims” — including at least 10 murder suspects who were killed by police.

TinCan Assassin said...

Make sure you wear a red shirt.

Anonymous said...

Re: Anonymous June 20, 2013 at 8:58 AM.

Mike, if what he says re: a possible RICO violation is true, then you ought to alter your plans. As you've always said, we need to be smart about these things. So, be sure you're lawyered up properly on this matter before you come to Colorado in July.

tom said...

In today's research monkey news for a court martial case, Amish found:

"Violating this is punishable by a dishonorable discharge, confinement for two years, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances, as well as all benefits. Enlisted members also face reduction to the lowest enlisted grade. ALL LAWFUL orders are to be followed regardless of personal opinion or belief."

Oathkeepers, take note, the memorandum said LAWFUL ORDERS.

UNLAWFUL ORDERS ARE NOT TO BE OBEYED. CONSTITUTION IS TO BE OBEYED.

Armed military professionals, I would also add Peacable Texans that Own Arms (as well as those in the lesser states that are also nice but not Texas :-), active duty and retired, need to be a higher caliber of person than average. Same with LEOs, politicos, POTUS people, Judges, and AGs.

If your work and life might involve making important, and potentially deadly or life changing decisions, you should NEVER take that lightly and you should keep a copy of the Constitution in your pocket and read it on breaks. Special EMPHASIS on the BILL OF RIGHTS.

I hope to hell that the people that monitor all our E-Communication, including POTUS, get a copy of what I just typed on their desks in the morning. Was written to be posted on fb and it seemed to fit here, as well.

As to above mentioned LEO:

Christopher Dorner is a victim like JFK was faithful to his wife.

All those in favor of Bloomberg going birding with Dick Cheney say "AYE!"

Myself and Kurt Hofmann have discussed it more than once. None of us are allowed to die, if avoidable, as it would make people happy in the 202 area code AND you can't be a member of the resistance if you are dead, PLUS Lass Ev and Josh would have to edit their insurrectionist web page and none of us would get Huff and Puff articles written about us that claim we ride the NRA weinermobile when we are life members of a LOT of things, but not the NRA. GOA and JPFO, sure. MSSA, GOLDEN.

NRA, we have been taking a pass on them, as they are Quislings and Judenrat. Chris Knox agrees with me and Neal did...so no whining about me throwing cowards under the bus from NRA members. Wouldn't want to make them have to do any useful work, would we?

Stay Well, Amigo!
America needs you.

Anonymous said...

Mike, the common name for that type of glue is "Crazy Glue". Wonder where they ever came up with that name, but it does fit.
Travel SAFE.

Anonymous said...

RICO
Holder

You may not reach Colorado. He hates yours guts and now has what he needs.

militialaw said...

@Anon 8:58:

You are a shining example of why laymen need to stop analyzing the law.

Pray tell how a misdo will act as a predicate offense under RICO?

Also, describe the pattern MV has engaged in to qualify under RICO?

Lastly, describe the criminal organization MV is a part of?

Yeah, RICO is a bit more involved than you make it out to be, counselor.

The only thing facing MV is old fashioned federal black bag work; Look up "Michael Hastings" and "possibility of Mercedes catching on fire from crash" or "Vincent Foster" and "magic bullet"

-ML

Paul X said...

I'm on the fence on this one.

Certainly, at our age, when we approach the stage of having "nothing left to lose", there is the motivation of the "last hurrah". We want to make that last big job despite any risks, to help those left behind when we leave.

On the other hand, I keep getting back to the old thing, "gun prohibitionists need a place to live too". If they want to create a crime-ridden hellhole for themselves, who are we to stop them? It's the only way they will learn. Of course it is easier to let New Jersey go to hell than Colorado, which is smack in the middle of more free country (with respect to guns anyway).

Maybe your last big thing should instead be the release of Absolved even in unfinished form, if the muse is truly gone. I haven't kept up on where you are with that. You might even shut down the blog until you finish it. I know I waste a huge pile of time farting around on the computer every day, getting in the way of real work; maybe that is your problem.

As to federal response, I don't think the law (much less the Constitution) matters any more. It's not a restraint on their action. They may well kill you. But then, you have little left to lose, and the unintended consequences of that action could be strong.

Whatever you choose, good luck...

baldilocks said...

God keep you, sir.

Anonymous said...

Sent donation. Good luck.

Charlie