Sipsey Street Irregulars: Interesting letter I found poking around CT newspapers this morning. "What reasonable people should not do is engage in loose talk about armed resistance against a duly elected government."

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Interesting letter I found poking around CT newspapers this morning. "What reasonable people should not do is engage in loose talk about armed resistance against a duly elected government."

Protesters hold signs portraying Gov. Cuomo as Adolf Hitler during a pro-gun rally at the State Capitol in Albany, New York, Feb. 28, 2013.

NY’s Cuomo is the real ‘extremist’

Last week in New York State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave one of the most frightening and perhaps prophetic political speeches since the days of the beer hall speeches in pre-Nazi Germany. He launched into a political tirade that persons of any ideological persuasion would have to conclude was not only totalitarian in tone, but also almost genocidal in its implications.

    Cuomo stated that Republican “extremists” were not welcome in his state, and should leave. And just exactly who are these “extremists”? They are those who adamantly oppose abortion, federal and state infringements upon the Second Amendment, gay marriage -- and just about anyone else who disagrees with the good governor about anything.

    This is the rhetoric of a lunatic leftist born of the 1960’s campus radicalism who for all his talk about diversity cannot tolerate a single opposing view. But it is also the mark of a morally suspect, seriously imbalanced politician -- a ferociously demagogic breed for which New York in recent days has become all too well-known.

    But the most ominous thing about Cuomo’s demented rant is that underneath its Nuremburg-style political passion one can almost hear the trains pulling into the camouflaged camps somewhere just north of Albany.

    PETER WILSON

    Groton

By the way, the photo above was found at this NY Post panty-waist reporter's column with the comment:

Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of Gov. Cuomo’s gun control law and the rushed way he pushed it through the Legislature.

What reasonable people should not do is engage in loose talk about armed resistance against a duly elected government....

What makes you think it is "LOOSE" talk?

13 comments:

WarriorClass said...: The problem is that "duly elected" part of the statement.

The Diebold voting machines not withstanding, What if you were allowed to vote for one of two candidates, but they both supported the same government policies? Would you consider that a real choice? Certainly you have a choice between two people, but you have no choice in policy since they are both the same. Is that a representative government?

More here:

http://americandictators.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-soap-box-ballot-box-and-ammo-box.html; January 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM
indyjonesouthere said...: Peter King is of the opposing party but there is no real difference between the two fascists. New England Yankees love their gubmint.; January 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM
John DeWitt said...: I have responded to Hammond here:

http://revoltheartland.squarespace.com/blog/2014/1/28/revolt-from-the-heartland-upstate-new-york.html; January 28, 2014 at 11:31 AM
Anonymous said...: It was also up-Chuck Schumer who doubled-down on Cuomo's rhetoric by declaring that the IRS needs to target TEA Party groups to "stop" them.

Congratulations, Chuckie.....you dems are now officially National Socialists.; January 28, 2014 at 12:44 PM
WarriorClass said...: Great response, Mr. DeWitt!; January 28, 2014 at 1:07 PM
ExNuke said...: New York and Connecticut's immoral Pre-Confiscation Laws can only be enforced by calling out the National Guard and going door to door killing people, for their own good and Safety of course. After that starts and a noticeable number of people have been murdered by their regimes it should be interesting to see how many petty tyrants survive.

Mod, if this comes through twice please delete the duplicate.; January 28, 2014 at 2:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Duly elected governments can and do consist of law breakers. When in the course of human events they do so - the people have an obligation beside their right to throw off such unjust government.

Throwing off can and has taken armed resistances in order to accomplish it.

That author might educate himself by reading something called the Declaration of Independence.; January 28, 2014 at 5:32 PM
Anonymous said...: Those who ignore history are doomed to have it repeated upon them!

III; January 28, 2014 at 7:48 PM
Homefront Defense said...: Good post, Mike.; January 28, 2014 at 10:40 PM
MissAnthropy said...: Might as well go ahead and invoke Godwin's Law, but Hitler was "duly elected" too.

The government is obliged to respect the Natural Rights of men. It is not the prerogative of some bare majority of voters to decide that these Rights are suddenly null and void. 51% or 99% matters not.; January 28, 2014 at 10:57 PM
badanov said...: Dealing with Gospodin Hammond here.; January 28, 2014 at 11:24 PM
Anonymous said...: And when the 'duly elected government' official,riles against the Constitution both state and Republic....then it is very reasonable and required of citizens to correct the assault against their guaranteed rights and liberty...no politician spin nor newsprint opinions can override GOD given rights....imho; January 29, 2014 at 4:08 PM
Anonymous said...: The reporter is reight. Why give a heads up to the government. Know who you are speaking to. Tell lies to those that deserve lies. Resist.; January 29, 2014 at 10:17 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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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Interesting letter I found poking around CT newspapers this morning. "What reasonable people should not do is engage in loose talk about armed resistance against a duly elected government."

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