Sipsey Street Irregulars: We got the bulge on 'em.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

We got the bulge on 'em.

Successful rally and march. Police presence minimal and respectful. No arrests that I saw. To paraphrase Nathan Bedford Forrest, we slapped their jaws and forced them to resent it. To do this in Temple was one thing. To do it in a major Dem stronghold city like San Antonio is just huge. You may judge the quality of my speech from the transcript below. Got a great deal of applause and shouts at the right places. I'll have a more complete report tonight. Right now I've got two meetings and a nap to work in before my report tonight and then (and only then) can I finally turn in tonight.

11 comments:

Paul X said...: Good job Mike. Yet more evidence that the regime can be faced up to, and they will blink.; October 19, 2013 at 7:02 PM
WarriorClass said...: I would add that the rally was VERY successful; at least 1,000 armed patriots in attendance, perhaps more. Mike's speech was EXCELLENT and got many ovations. Both police and tourists were friendly and waved to the crowed. San Antonio may well be a liberal city, but it is also a gun rights city and the people were supportive of our efforts to correct the thinking of their police chief.

Rate this one A+.

WarriorClass III; October 19, 2013 at 7:30 PM
armedlaughing said...: Terrific to hear!

Thanks for your ongoing efforts, Mike!

gfa; October 19, 2013 at 7:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Great speech. Thanks for your work.; October 19, 2013 at 8:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Look like Alex Jones was there trying to shit on everyone's cheerios by trying to get the cops stirred up. Pathetic. This is the second time in as many weeks his blathering has been connected with souring an event. Makes you wonder if he's on "his own side" rather than on the side of Liberty.

http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/Armed-protest-at-Alamo-ends-quietly-4909381.php; October 19, 2013 at 9:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Glad to hear that it went well and there were no untoward incidents. Ya'll were in my prayers as I was off doing some of my volunteer civic duty so could not attend..........
WCIII - I'll take minor exception to your classification of SA as a 'liberal city' - I classify it as a relatively conservative city saddled with a liberal government, led by one of the least competent mayors around. I was appalled at the voter turnout at the first city wide election after I moved here - spending bills passed 'overwhelmingly' according to the expressly bad news, with a whopping NINE percent voter turnout. That is the problem and why the libs control things.; October 19, 2013 at 9:19 PM
Tom said...: Little birdy in points a bit north says that his amigos in Bexar WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY to not arrest anybody. BTW, as a multiple time resident, the lockblade thing is to have an excuse to pop gang members, not normal people with a nice knife they like.

I still don't see the point. It's preaching to the choir and making people take notice of things that are hoplos. Constitutional carry would be nice, but it isn't going to happen in Alamo Plaza unless you are in uniform with a bunch of your friends.

I'd like to see one human go to Alamo Plaza on Wed. with a slung AR and tactical gear and, hell...toss in a chamber flag. They WILL get arrested, even if they didn't do anything illegal. Back to that "disorder and affray" thing. I don't think this particularly helps the idea of open carrying pistols in Texas, which is what's at the root of this. Maybe I'm not as smart as the people who planned it, but I could have marched around SA with a rifle, and didn't. Didn't make sense. Still doesn't make sense.

Glad you had a good time. Shame you missed La Calesa when they were alive. But I still think it's a wrong angle.

TOM
III; October 19, 2013 at 10:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Great speech. Good to hear that the rally was successful in liberal San Antonio.; October 19, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Anonymous said...: You are like mighty belligerent Vikings, you are! With your rights and your guns out for all to see!
Advancing the cause of freedom.
Some of it seems a bit silly, especially the verbal threats and the made-impotent guns, but the principal of free speech and assembly trumps that.

It is your freedom to speak and assemble, which I and many liberals and conservatives, will fight for. You were right to give credit to the SA leaders, who appreciate that. The guns, while your right, are insignificant in comparison (one reason you were no threat to the folks in SA). -- AE; October 20, 2013 at 12:01 AM
FedUp said...: Anon 9:19 says that SA is a conservative city infested with a progressive government and a socialist mayor.

The part about the socialist mayor is verifiably true:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/brenner-brief/2013/sep/19/grassroots-efforts-recall-san-antonio-mayor-julian/

It's been said that police chiefs get their political views issued to them by the mayors who hire them. Maybe that is why the chief found it so easy to back down from his earlier threats towards yesterday's rally.; October 20, 2013 at 8:02 AM
Allen said...: anon 9:04

Alex Jones is a product of the same PATCON government program that produced Hal Turner. stirring up the cops is what he gets paid to do.; October 20, 2013 at 10:41 AM

"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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We got the bulge on 'em.

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