Sipsey Street Irregulars: This Is the App That’s Fueling the Uprising in Venezuela

Monday, February 24, 2014

This Is the App That’s Fueling the Uprising in Venezuela

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Paul X said...: Hard to keep people down when they get the bit in their teeth.

I may have to get a smart phone after all.

Here is a funny for you Mike. The Cali gun banners are urged to support open carry on the theory that no one will do it because it is unpleasant (or cops can make it so) even if it is legalized. This would allow them to ban concealed carry and pass muster with the courts.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-winkler-gun-control-open-carry-20140223,0,1849922.story; February 24, 2014 at 7:41 PM
Anonymous said...: It appears that Moore is a fine example of; "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women....

God Bless him!; February 24, 2014 at 8:12 PM
John DeWitt said...: Three books:

-- An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (Glenn Reynolds)

-- Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (John Robb)

-- The Rise and Decline of the State (Martin van Creveld); February 24, 2014 at 11:45 PM
CzarChasm said...: This technology needs to be incorporated into every III-per's toolbox. It would take a smarter man than I to figure out how to screen people to be allowed into networks, but I looked at Zello's website and it's not just for phones. It works on PC's too, so it could be running in background on Patriot 'puters as a way to send alerts to log onto a phone-based network for mass communications - or vice versa, phone>PC, whichever is more secure or delivers more bandwidth to more people simultaneously, what have you.

Not sure how much more (if any) secure basically a VOIP network would be than phones, email, cyber-meeting places like here or other forum-type venues, but it strikes me as useful to put in the toolbox in any case. Anyone else see a Patriot/III'per use for this?; February 27, 2014 at 12:56 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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This Is the App That’s Fueling the Uprising in Venezuela

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