Sipsey Street Irregulars: Comes the dawn. That old "losing the Mandate of Heaven" thing.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Comes the dawn. That old "losing the Mandate of Heaven" thing.

Record number of Americans view big government as threat, poll finds

A new Gallup poll, the results of which were released on Wednesday, shows that a majority of Americans believe that big government is a threat to the country.

Conducted between Dec. 5-8, participants were asked, “In your opinion, which of the following will be the biggest threat to the country in the future — big business, big labor, or big government?”

An overwhelming 72 percent said big government.

The number of people who said big government is a bigger threat than the other two options is the highest that Gallup has recorded for this question in 50 years, beating the old high from 1999 and 2000 of 65 percent.

And they wonder why folks are buying firearms and ammunition.

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MamaLiberty said...: What still isn't happening is the understanding that no person, or group of people, ever had - and never can have - any legitimate authority over another person without their permission. And one has to own oneself in order to give oneself away anyhow.

Until this is understood people can disapprove all they wish, but their "solution" will eventually be the "election" of more "rulers," more tyrants. The only "better person" who can rule our lives legitimately and successfully is ourselves - personally.; December 21, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Carl Stevenson said...: The correct answer would be "all three working in concert." That is fascism and it's what we have devolved into,
And for those who don't realize it, fascism is a movement of the left, not the right, because it's based on centralized control by an oligarchy of big business, big labor, and big government, working to get her to control the masses for the benefit of the oligarchs.
It's "legalized" theft, and it's been going on at an increasing level ever since the beginning of the "progressive" era, back in 1913 and even before.
Lincoln inadvertently set the stage for this when he raised the federal government and it's power to the level of tyranny during the first civil war. While his intent was to preserve the union, he (perhaps unintentionally) grew the power of the federal government over the states and the oligarchs to follow were given the tools and infrastructure to advance their tyranny on us all.; December 21, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Well, by God. It finally appears that the deniers and fence sitters have pulled their heads out of their asses, opened their eyes and see that the rosy world they insisted was always there is gone. Gone in the dust of two stolen elections in a row. An illegal alien installed as leader of the formally free world. A government that views all outside the beltway as the enemy of the state. NOW the dumbasses are seeing what we in the know have been warning about for more then forty years. We were nuts, paranoid or just plain shithouse crazy. I guess we don't seem so crazy now. Better late then never. Now if we can just educate them in the finer points of restoring Liberty to a land founded on that principle. Shoulder your packs boys. It is a long way to freedom.; December 21, 2013 at 5:12 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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Comes the dawn. That old "losing the Mandate of Heaven" thing.

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