Sipsey Street Irregulars: Ranks right up there with one of the worst days ever on one of these trips.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Ranks right up there with one of the worst days ever on one of these trips.

After 16 hours we made it to Salem, dodging deer and antelope, wayward construction barrels rolling into traffic, road rage drivers and collecting a speeding ticket in Oregon for an excessive speed by my co-driver that I am certain was deliberately exaggerated by Officer Friendly. Saw some stunningly beautiful country, though. Oregon would be a nice place to locate a free state if you could just de-Kalifornicate the place and persuade all of the nanny state fascists to beat feet somewhere. Nonetheless , I will be delivering the speech fairly early in the batting order tomorrow and please note that it will be at the state capitol. I will try to be there early, so if there are any Threepers or Oath Keepers who can help with distributing literature or half-a-dozen other odd jobs please find me and we'll find something for you do if you are willing. The plan is currently to go to lunch after my speech somewhere close (I will be needing to sit down somewhere at that point) and then we'll probably also go to dinner afterward. If anyone wants to participate in any of that, please drop me an email with your cell phone number or look me up at the rally. This trip is costing much in terms of resources (gas is incredibly high out here) and my personal stamina (the last three days have been extremely taxing and I've thousands of miles yet to go), so I'd like to make it count as much as possible. (I'll have to fly out to the Yakima Arms Expo on the 20th, there's just no way I can do this back-to-back again.) My speech is already loaded on the blog, ready to release the moment I finish so you'll be able to read it tomorrow. They wanted me to limit it to ten minutes, but I can cull it down to no less than 12, not counting the applause, so I trust they won't shut off the mic on me. Hope springs eternal.

3 comments:

Brian said...: Oregon is notorious for their application of speed limit laws particularly out of staters. The speed limits are ridiculously low- and the fines are ridiculously high.

Oregon is infested with the nanny state mentality. At least they don't have sales tax. Yet.; May 30, 2015 at 10:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Oregon IS beautiful country..
but Californicated??
Please.. on average, Oregonians are more liberal to begin with.
You'll not make much inroads there, excepting locally.; May 30, 2015 at 10:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Here is a rough cut of a portion of the speech from the rally: http://bambuser.com/v/5554742?v=m; May 30, 2015 at 6:11 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Ranks right up there with one of the worst days ever on one of these trips.

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