Sipsey Street Irregulars: 'Harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon'? Maybe if you ignore economics

Friday, August 30, 2013

'Harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon'? Maybe if you ignore economics

Besides, is anyone seriously trying to argue that the right to effective fighting arms is less fundamental than the right to vote? What would you rather say to the government hired gun coming to haul you off to the gulag--"Stop, or I won't vote for your boss," or "Stop, or I'll blow your balls off'?" Is Clinton also unaware that, "When democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote"? That's a dangerous lapse.

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Jay in Florida said...: Say it enough times and the ignorant uniformed will believe it.
True as usual. If I have to show a picture ID prove who I am to buy a rifle.
That's the least I can do to vote as often and repeatedly as possible. Just kidding.......; August 30, 2013 at 9:03 AM
Paul X said...: The proper response to Clinton's claim is a guffaw.

As to Kurt's protest that this country is not a democracy but a republic, his connection to reality seems a bit tenuous. Fundamental rights are routinely voted away in Congress. In fact both rights and representation are very questionable notions, that look more like propaganda than reality.; August 30, 2013 at 9:43 AM
William Flatt said...: Voting with lead is the only recourse left to us at this point; the only question is.. when?

The answer to that lies somewhere in the locus between getting ourselves properly organized, getting the pro-freedom public fully on our side, and the other side making that one fateful move that gives us the moral high ground (as in.. no Fort Sumpters).

I don't vote anymore. I'm a material witness to the repeated rigging of our elections by the Diebold man, and history informs us that it's either the ballot or the bullet.

I only wish that our grandparents had caught the tyranny when they had a chance to fix it with a minimum of disorder. Because our elders didn't, it falls to us. Let us not make the unpardonable sin of allowing the fight to be passed on to our kids & their children. LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIME!!; August 30, 2013 at 12:16 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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