Sipsey Street Irregulars: I wonder what this was really about?

Friday, June 19, 2015

I wonder what this was really about?

The one-star general in charge of Special Operations Command South was removed from command last year and retired at the rank of colonel, the Army said in a statement Thursday. Brig. Gen. Sean Mulholland was removed from command by Adm. William McRaven; Mulholland retired May 1 in the lower grade of colonel after an Army Grade Determination Review Board, according to the Army statement.

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FedUp said...: Either he had sex with enlisted personnel or he stuck up for the Constitution, take your pick.; June 19, 2015 at 6:15 AM
Uncle Elmo said...: My guess would be that the Obama military has purged another warrior from their ranks. The same thing happened to an acquaintance of mine who was a Marine Corps officer. He's now retired, too.

This will free up space for a kindler, gentler LGBTQI military. Obama's fundamental transformation of America is unfolding before our very eyes.; June 19, 2015 at 8:26 AM
Robert Fowler said...: Anonymous Uncle Elmo said...This will free up space for a kinder, gentler LGBTQI military.

Fundamentally transforming the country. He said back in 08 he was going to do it and the idiots that voted for him heard what he said, they just didn't understand. This country doesn't need to be transformed, It just needs to get people in office that believe that the oath means what it says. It may be too late. Sometimes I weep for what our country and military have become. It's not the same military I served in back in the 70's.; June 19, 2015 at 10:24 AM
Anonymous said...: Dude couldn't hold his liquor that's what happened to him. They gave him every chance but he just couldn't get with the program.; June 19, 2015 at 2:30 PM
Jedburgh92 said...: Quite the contrary, "Dude" could hold his liquor, In 2002 I worked for him in Bosnia. He was probable showing some slack-jawed, golf-shirt wearing metro-sexual Communist the moves he used that helped him hunt narco-terrorists in south america in the 80s. COL Mulholland is a red-blooded American and despite having a touch of PTSD and enjoying his libations, he did not in fact deserve this. Mulholland is a Patton of our age, someone we actually need more of in our military today.; June 23, 2015 at 10:41 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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