Sipsey Street Irregulars: No apologies necessary.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

No apologies necessary.

Received this email today:

Mike Vanderboegh,
You are owed an apology, from the heart, and I am determined you should see it with your own eyes.
You and your blog, Sipsey Street, were my first introduction to the 3%. While no stranger to the concepts I was ignorant of the efforts of a tireless minority. Being exposed thusly has led me to other writers and a much fuller knowledge of the issues.
I admit to disagreeing with you on almost every point. Events, now history, has shown you to be correct from the beginning about a great many things, big and small. Even some of the fallout surrounding Christian (Kerodin) affected me directly.
You sir, are owed an apology and I am sorry, you saw far clearer the issues and the cures this country faces.
I was wrong and I'm sorry.
I have nothing of substance to offer, I'd be homeless if it weren't for living on another man's couch, 1000 miles of travel is beyond what I can stand. May the folks who can show up set you and your lady's world in order.
Godspeed to you, I suspect we'll see each other soon enough-humbly,
A.

I replied:

No apologies necessary. You're not the first man to be wrong about something. Heck, neither am I. We live and learn. God bless you, sir.

Mike

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Would that more in the freedom community see fit to swallow a bit of pride and do as this gentleman has.
You were right about that asshole Kerodin and you were correct about the poor planning (or lack thereof) related to the mess in Burns, Oregon. Honest people will accept that and you are a bigger man for your graceful reply to this man's letter. Good on you, Mike.

Slightly off topic, but I have made this request before and did not receive a reply. Perhaps it was lost in the mail: I could never be the level of writer you are, but I wish to interview you (for a post on my blog) if you would be willing. I live in PA and would be pleased to welcome you into my home during your upcoming travels to the collectivist hell-holes of NY and CN. Please send a message if you are so inclined.

KPN3%; January 31, 2016 at 2:51 PM
skybill said...: Hi Mike,
Many Blue Skies to the man who finally "Saw The Light!" The light is always there but it is up to us to pull the switch to turn it on!!
Fortunately I was following your writings from "Way Back." I too "Remember when" Kerodin stated his rant......there is only one problem!! He claimed to be "The First with the 3% concept!!!" .... yeahright! Well we all know how that turned out..... 'only took a while!! Still I knew and kept my space.......because....I had "Proof" he was wrong and still do to this day!!!!! There's this "Patch" that I have that I got from you, a long long time ago now in a Galaxy far, far away..... The Patch shows a large Roman Numeral 3 and the words "Audentes Fortuna Juvat" Latin for "Fortune Favors the Bold!! Funny how that goes but that was "Before" Kerodin jumped in with his claim...... HMMMMMMM??? Did I say I still have the envelope from when the patches I bought from you were mailed to me???? Funny how that goes there is this thing called a "Postmark!!" Further more there is the cancelled check that I paid for them with!!! (And how many other Patriots with same!!!!!) Jeeeeezzzlouise!! Maybe Obummer can erase my bank account but I doubt that kerodin can!! I have worn my patch Proudly since I first got it and turned on a few Patriots to a few of my "spares" that I also bought!! In spite of the negativity that has transpired to you and yours of late I might relate to you a very astute saying which shows what has came to pass. "Truth crushed to the earth is still truth still and like a seed will rise again."
-Jefferson B. Davis- (1808-1889) President of the Confederacy!!
Got Truth......OUTLAW!!!!!!,
III%,
skybill-out; February 1, 2016 at 3:20 AM
Chiu ChunLing said...: I have to say, one of the characteristics that has made this blog (and your other efforts) the most valuable is the focus on what we need to do moving forward rather than dwelling on past mistakes or successes. Of course, a focus on 'the future' is mere fantasy if you never actually predict anything correctly, so it's certainly not irrelevant that you've seen more clearly than others...but perhaps part of why some don't see ahead is because they're too busy checking their own backside to ensure it "looks good" to potential followers (or straight-out playing CYA).

One thing I always keep in mind is that tyrants eventually stumble and fall into the pit they dug for others. It's the inevitable outcome of failing to understand that what goes around comes around, the first law of the universe (there are actually two prior laws, "it is what it is" and "the more things change the more they stay the same", but these don't require time and thus are foundational rather than first).

I guess some tyrants are thinking that time will just stop when they die, so they just have to dodge the consequences of their actions for a few decades to get away with it...this strikes me as genuinely stupid at too many levels to explain in detail at the present moment. But it doesn't change the fact that justice will be done in the end.

Whatever else the future holds, I know that with grim certainty. And there's hope in that, for the just.; February 1, 2016 at 3:32 AM
Anonymous said...: See Luke 15:7
_revjen45; February 1, 2016 at 11:17 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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