Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Why should the advocates of militarized police object if we respond with a 'militia-ized' citizenry? Don't they get the basic concept of cause and effect?"

Thursday, June 26, 2014

"Why should the advocates of militarized police object if we respond with a 'militia-ized' citizenry? Don't they get the basic concept of cause and effect?"

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

I was speaking to a reporter yesterday and he asked me about how the militias were viewed by the police. I responded, "Why should the advocates of militarized police object if we respond with a 'militia-ized' citizenry? Don't they get the basic concept of cause and effect?" Besides, I pointed out, while there was nothing in the Constitution and the discussions which led up to it about "police," there was plenty about the militia as the guarantor of the people's liberty.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: One of the best arguments I've ever heard. So true!; June 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM
Anonymous said...: If this daddy were to round up a few friends and swat this entire SWAT team, it would be the short story of the "cause and effect" you mention.
Like it or not, every action invites a reaction. The apes on this SWAT team deserve a lesson.; June 26, 2014 at 10:35 AM
Will Flatt said...: I am wondering at what point Americans will respond with force against these abuses? They happen with such regularity that Solzhenitsyn's Lament comes to mind:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! ...We didn't love freedom enough... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

And so with America. The organs of state terror are arming, and getting armored, and setting their sights on YOU. Sooner or later YOU WILL have to FIGHT! Fight, die or be enslaved!

When the jackboots assault YOUR house, will you be prepared or will you let them make a victim of you & yours? I'm waiting for the news that someone stood up to them by force of arms and gave them a good shellacking! When that happens, the dam of restraint will burst!; June 26, 2014 at 1:59 PM
Anonymous said...: The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, during WWII, were utterly helpless and defenseless, rounded up by the Nazis and forced to live in a place where they could be controlled.

Eventually a small number of them obtained ancient weapons and began hunting down German soldiers where they found them, killed them and took their weapons to use on others when found.

All these cops have to go home someplace, and are useless unless in a group like a SWAT team where the "mob mentality" rules.

I predict, at some not too distant point in the future, open season will be declared.

Recent SCOTUS decisions have indemnified LEO agencies against law suits for their actions.

Only "We the People" are left to hold them "personally responsible".; June 27, 2014 at 8:06 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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Thursday, June 26, 2014

"Why should the advocates of militarized police object if we respond with a 'militia-ized' citizenry? Don't they get the basic concept of cause and effect?"

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