Sipsey Street Irregulars: CT Update

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

CT Update

Don't look for me at a table at the gun show, they were all gone some months ago, apparently. I'll still be there (I've never been to a YANKEE gun show and I'm interested in seeing the cultural differences, if any). This will allow me to set up some lunch meetings with folks.

Rosey will be my chauffeur and bodyguard this trip. ;-) We will leave out of here very early Thursday morning and will be up in CT by Friday midday, Lord willing and the creek don't rise. Still have to solidify arrangements of where we'll have that Friday evening speech/meet-n-greet. Details later.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mike,

Please be mindful of the potential for snow... the weather looks like it needs watching.

The drivers in the North East tend not to fear ice or snow, and will drive with abandon. Not worrying so much for you, but about all the other people out there who you may meet by accident.

"Lord willing and the creek don't rise"... very appropriate for your trip. I never knew what was meant by that phrase until an older guy I worked with explained it to me, as his father served in Korea. Then it made sense.

Good luck on your travels. That is one long haul.; November 12, 2014 at 9:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Please be careful Mike. You're one particular thorn in the side of Malloy and his henchmen that they want to be rid of.

These people are evil and crooked. Nothing is beneath them, and they're "gunning" for you (sorry for the pun).

We live in very interesting, uncertain, scary times. The period from now until January 20, 2017, is going to be one of the most dangerous times since the Civil War.

Good Luck and God Bless!; November 12, 2014 at 10:16 AM
Anonymous said...: I'll bet the door "guards" will do more than just ask if you have a gun and take your word when you answer. I'll bet they either pat you down or use a metal detector when you enter the show.
Let us know how that goes.

- Old Greybeard; November 12, 2014 at 11:05 AM
Anonymous said...: I just read than the count of absentee ballots in Alaska confirmed that the Republican won. So now the R's will have 8 more instead of 7 more. That's gotta help.

- Old Greybeard; November 12, 2014 at 11:10 AM
Anonymous said...: Keep us posted Dutchman. Looking to meet up. Behind Enemy Lines. In Collectivist Ct. We Will Not Stand Down. AAA/O . 11B20.; November 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM
Anonymous said...: God Bless Rosey!

III; November 12, 2014 at 4:34 PM
Anonymous said...: stay away from anyone in masks, robes black or white, and bird costumes.
there's many other precautionary measures
i.e. watch what you eat (bring your own); November 12, 2014 at 5:15 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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