Sipsey Street Irregulars: As they say in Winston County: "Y'all ain't from around here, air yeh?"

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

As they say in Winston County: "Y'all ain't from around here, air yeh?"

Armed groups protest federal government in Oregon.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: sugar pine mine, bundy ranch or ferguson and baltimore. whose really the problem?; April 28, 2015 at 2:27 PM
Anonymous said...: "I’m a big supporter of the Second Amendment in addition to the rest of the Bill of Rights..."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

Honestly, that phrase alone was almost worth giving that Wisconsin-Communist-Central outlet a click-through.

This however - "This news would remain a nonissue if the owners complied and took normal channels to protest the decision. Instead, they have elected to call in a mob of goons with long guns, body armor and an unfounded resentment towards the federal government."
-was the icing on the cake after the revelations of Wisconsin's odious John Doe persecutions came to light.; April 28, 2015 at 2:59 PM
Capitalist Eric said...: The author is some young kid that simply doesn't know how much he doesn't know.

He should spend more time on his studies, and less on voicing his opinions on things he knows NOTHING about.

Feh.; April 28, 2015 at 3:11 PM
PO'd American said...: The obvious product of another "World Class College Education."

Hey kiddo, try to actually learn the art of critical thinking and stop spouting the dribble from your third rate leftist PolySci and/or Sociology professors at that 2nd rate campus.; April 28, 2015 at 4:03 PM
alanstorm said...: "Sergey is a freshman majoring in economics and international studies."

Yes, and it shows. Question for student Sergey: Why do you think the mine owners don't use the traditional channels of protest? Could that indicate that there has been an erosion in the faith of the people that those are still effective methods of resolution? Discuss.; April 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Tis good Sergey is enrolled in a university...his education is lacking at this point and he'll be more "progressive" after he completes his liberal collegiate education.; April 28, 2015 at 6:51 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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As they say in Winston County: "Y'all ain't from around here, air yeh?"

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