Sipsey Street Irregulars: Well, it seems as if I'm going to speak in Oregon after all.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Well, it seems as if I'm going to speak in Oregon after all.

Just got off the phone with Reuben, the organizer of the the rally on the 30th in Salem. It will be quite a haul (5,000 miles round trip) for a ten-minute speech, but I'll try to combine it with other sedition to the Empire on the way out and on the way back. (Although it will be imperative to have a co-driver.) I can only say that what we had here, to quote the warden in Cool Hand Luke, was a failure to communicate. Don't get me wrong, what I heard about me being "too radical" for the venue was true, but it did not, apparently represent the entire spectrum of opinion of the rally organizers. Okay, no harm no foul and besides, I AM a radical if viewed from a certain point of view and I am certainly TOO radical from the point of view of some. That being straightened out, I'll be there and I encourage every one else to be there as well.

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Galaxie_Man said...: That's funny Mike, I have not read or heard you ever utter one word that any normal patriotic American should ever find "radical". Your thoughts and speeches are like throwing acid in the face of those that would undermine our liberty and freedom....it certainly gets their attention, and they don't like it.

On the other hand, a certain former law professor and constitutional scholar claiming "to want to fundamentally change America" or telling entrepreneurs, "you didn't build that!" while campaigning for the office of POTUS is an example of what I might determine to be "radical speech".; May 13, 2015 at 3:51 PM
Anonymous said...: "... give me liberty or give me death!... --Patrick Henry

Now, that's radical right there! I don't care who ya are!

Dutchman6, to paraphrase another radical, John Paul Jones, you have not yet begun to get radical.

;-); May 13, 2015 at 6:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Galaxie_Man,

Obozo was never professor , the first lie from Zero's phony repertoire, Barry Soetoro was a lecturer.; May 13, 2015 at 8:17 PM
Anonymous said...: "Radical" is in the eyes of the beholder...and I think we've tried that "moderate"; "go along to get along" song and dance routine - and look where that has gotten us..; May 14, 2015 at 5:17 AM
Barrett said...: Mike, someone in one of the 3% Oregon FB Pages noticed your post, and we all raised enough of a ruckus about finding out why you weren't coming to speak. I don't know if I'll be able to come watch, but if I can, I'll hopefully be there. We'll be glad to have you!; May 14, 2015 at 12:58 PM
mjw-1982 said...: It's a long shot, but any chance you could make it down to Coos Bay (3 hours southwest of Salem) for a rally the next day (Sunday)? I'm in the middle of organizing but we hadn't set a date yet. I'm sure we can get some donations to cover the gas/food/lodging. If you think it's possible I will run it past the members of our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1671364873093712/; May 14, 2015 at 5:42 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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Well, it seems as if I'm going to speak in Oregon after all.

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