Sipsey Street Irregulars: Upon the choice of defecation or blindness.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Upon the choice of defecation or blindness.

A bureaucrat contemplates his choices. . .

I just sent this email letter to the head of the Alabama Department of Transportation. I will send him a hard copy by mail today.

From: georgemason1776@aol.com

To: aldotinfo@dot.state.al.us

Sent: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 6:06 am

Subject: re: Your designated "Death Zones" at Alabama Welcome Centers. If you thought all you have to do is weather the switchboard meltdown, ya got another think comin'.

John Cooper, Director

Alabama Department of Transportation

1409 Coliseum Boulevard

Montgomery, AL 36130

re: Your designated "Death Zones" at Alabama Welcome Centers. If you thought all you have to do is weather the switchboard meltdown, ya got another think comin'.

Dear Director Cooper,

I'm sure you're familiar with the current furor over your department's designated "Gun Free Zones" at state welcome centers. In the wake of multiple mass shootings, including the latest in Chattanooga, these are more properly known as "criminal free fire zones," or "victim disarmament zones," or, my personal preference, "Death Zones."

I will not waste your time arguing points of logic or law, however, knowing bureaucracies such as yours are largely impervious to both. Let me explain what comes after you ignore the current switchboard meltdown you have created.

Introductions first, though. My name is Mike Vanderboegh. I am the citizen journalist who, with my friend David Codrea, first broke the story of the Fast and Furious scandal on my blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars, on the Internet in December 2010. We also got the ATF whistleblowers together with the senators and then with Sharyl Attkisson, then of CBS News, and the rest, as they say, is history. (See Sharyl's recent book Stonewalled --we're in Chapter 2.) I have been a Second Amendment activist for the past 20 years and I am founder of the national Three Percent movement. The Three Percenters have been denounced by none other than that paragon of moral virtue Bill Clinton and I have been a perennial favorite on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of dangerous folks. But then as my friend Kurt Hofmann says, "It is better to be despised by the despicable than admired by the admirable."

More to the present point, however, I have been a national leader in the armed civil disobedience "I Will Not Comply" movement that has flouted the post-Sandy Hook anti-firearms laws in the states of CT, NY, MD, CO, WA and OR. I am proud to say that I have broken all those laws publicly over the past two and a half years and each time the state authorities have declined to arrest me and my friends, perhaps because we were armed and in considerable numbers each time we did it. Indeed, the authorities of those states don't seem to know whether to defecate or go blind when confronted with citizens that they have declared to be newly-minted felons. We don't back down, we don't cower when confronted with state threats, and we most assuredly don't act like any class of criminal they have ever seen before.

I tell you this to assure you that the choice of defecation or blindness is currently headed your way. For if you ignore the telephone blitz you are currently experiencing, I will be my honor and my pleasure to lead "I Will Not Comply" armed civil disobedience actions numbering (at least) in the hundreds of participants at every Alabama Welcome Center in the state, as well as in front of your headquarters.

So, I hope you save us the trouble and reverse this dangerous and deadly policy. But if not, you will look back on the switchboard meltdown with fondness for the good old days when bureaucrats thought they could ignore the law and the will of the people.

Sincerely,

Mike Vanderboegh

PO Box 926

Pinson AL 35126

8 comments:

richard1j said...: It's been a little while since I traveled the interstates in AL and required the use of a rest stop. I seem to recall, however, that the rest stops have not allowed guns for some. Perhaps I'm thinking of FL or MS or LA. When I have used them I simply ignored the signs (making myself a criminal, of course). While the staffs were present many times, either they couldn't tell that I was armed or weren't concerned enough to be alarmed.; July 22, 2015 at 10:13 AM
Backwoods Engineer said...: "Indeed, the authorities of those states don't seem to know whether to defecate or go blind when confronted with citizens that they have declared to be newly-minted felons."

You really love that phrase, don't you, Mike? I guess it's an Alabama thing; I never heard it in my childhood in West Virginia. Can you tell us the origin? Is there a story that goes with it?; July 22, 2015 at 1:08 PM
FedUp said...: B.E.:
The expression "don't know whether to shit or go blind" has been around for quite some time. It means you're stuck in an impossible dilemma.; July 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM
Anonymous said...: LMAO, amazing writing, well done sir! Haha!; July 22, 2015 at 5:43 PM
Galaxie_Man said...: @B.E: FedUp told you what the phrase really is. Mike always speaks or writes it "defecate or go blind" to ensure it will be printed or recorded without being "*****" out or bleeped out, and gets the point across to the tyrants and their sycophants.; July 22, 2015 at 6:13 PM
the Plinker said...: I'm an Alabama guy, Mike, and will be happy to join you at any rest stop, any day you decide to call for such a demo. Just post the info here as to time, place, and date. HOO-yah!; July 23, 2015 at 4:38 AM
Anonymous said...: What do you need Mike for? He has brought the matter into the lite, all you need to do is, pick a rest stop and go by yourself or with friends and supporters. Go armed with your usual carry piece and use your cell phone camera, especially if you go alone. I am sure there are gun rights supporters who can advise you. In short, take the responsibility yourself and act!; July 23, 2015 at 1:19 PM
Plinker said...: Gee -- when are you heading out, "Anonymous"?; July 23, 2015 at 6:59 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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