Sipsey Street Irregulars: Sorry, guys. I never expected Shotgun News to ditch the Creek.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Sorry, guys. I never expected Shotgun News to ditch the Creek.

Neither did the organizers, who were flat surprised (talked at length to the folks in the office). I circulated as best I could but that was no substitute. Toward the end of the day, I sat at the Libertarian Party table that was set up near the entrance and some of you found me there. I apologize for the misinformation. Right now I'm in the hotel I found but I don't know if I have it in me to do it tomorrow. I still would be happy to meet anyone still in the area for breakfast tomorrow. Drop me an email.

5 comments:

Earl Flanigan said...: Really wanted to make it, but my basement suffered the same fate as yours - sump pump just couldn't keep up, so as I told an onlooker, have made a 'habi-trail for moles" (here's yer sign)to get the water away from the house.

Personally,I think SGN is starting to go downhill. Last issue I snagged, there was an ad for phone porn in the back. If they have to resort to crap like that, well...; April 12, 2014 at 4:42 PM
SWIFT said...: @ Earl Flanigan, Maybe the ad for the phone porn was a COINTELPRO operation to discredit Shotgun News. Still, Shotgun News should never have accepted the ad. Never!; April 12, 2014 at 8:26 PM
Anonymous said...: They chickened out...; April 13, 2014 at 11:02 AM
Anonymous said...: Is that a magazine ? I didnt know they still printed those . Can you get it on an Edison Gold Mould ?; April 13, 2014 at 11:48 AM
Anonymous said...: I hate I missed you there. After seeing you at the AGCA show, I hoped to catch you at Knob Creek as well.; April 14, 2014 at 11:04 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Sorry, guys. I never expected Shotgun News to ditch the Creek.

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