Sipsey Street Irregulars: "We are building peace from within, and for that, you need disarmament."

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

"We are building peace from within, and for that, you need disarmament."

Venezuela's Maduro launches civilian disarmament plan

Opposition activists have accused the Venezuelan government of hypocrisy. They allege that officials have armed "colectivos", pro-government groups which have clashed with anti-government protesters during demonstrations, while paying lip service to the disarmament plan. On Sunday Mr Maduro said his government "continued to pursue the dream, the utopia of a Venezuela in peace", and promised to build "peace with love, justice and a will to work".

4 comments:

Carl Stevenson said...: Tyrants always get around to disarming everyone except their loyal forces. Shortly before the large scale democide begins. Disarmed victims are SO much easier to murder ... Most common street criminals instinctively know that. Government criminals are ALWAYS aware of that fact and act on it as soon as they believe they can get away with it without overwhelming resistance. (It follows that the only way to prevent getting disarmed and murdered is to resist.); September 24, 2014 at 5:59 AM
Anonymous said...: Yeah, unhuh.

Heard these words before haven't we?

Same words, different bag of shit using them, same purposes and objectives!; September 24, 2014 at 8:50 AM
Anonymous said...: We should find a way to parachute in millions of liberty pistols, hand grenades and billions of rounds of ammo.; September 24, 2014 at 5:07 PM
Anonymous said...: Parachuting weapons and ammo to Venezuelans would be the same as throwing them down a rat hole. Let them stew a few years under Maduro's rule. Maybe they will find some motivation to throw off the yoke, like we need to change our government here in the U.S. We have bigger fish to fry now in the Middle East.

- Old Greybeard; September 25, 2014 at 8:50 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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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

"We are building peace from within, and for that, you need disarmament."

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