Sipsey Street Irregulars: If this gets rid of Boehner as Speaker before the fight over firearm rights, it will have been worth it.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

If this gets rid of Boehner as Speaker before the fight over firearm rights, it will have been worth it.

Obama, Boehner move closer to ‘cliff’ deal. Good, if this gets rid of Boehner as Speaker before the fight over firearm rights, it will have been worth it. Heck, there's no way to save the whole, tottering structure anyway and if it collapses the whole gun control impetus goes down with it, since the only thing protecting the citizenry will be firearms in their own (or their neighbors') hands. Do I like that? Heck, no. I grieve for any innocents killed, especially in wars created by the grasping, selfish tyrannical bastards who almost always start them. The corrupt politicians and crony capitalists who milk the taxpayers with money printing, debt growth and other schemes ought to be hung. It's a choice, if there is a choice, between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. But consider that a 4th Generation civil war over firearms liberty will fall mostly on us, the ants, but an utter collapse of the economy and government -- especially federal government -- will fall heaviest on the grasshoppers in the cities. When the latter happens the best place to be is in a resilient community away from the cannibal zombie apocalypse. Is that selfish? You bet. It is nonetheless true. Both prospects are possible, if not probable, at this point. The only question is which happens first.

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jon said...: i don't think it's selfish at all, but i don't fully accept it. i chose one of several ground zeroes to be there to get ahead now and to rebuild afterward. at best (worst?) i will only move to its edge. in free markets and liberated societies, cities are wonderful things. i can't leave good people hanging because the proper time and place dropped out from under them -- but i can potentially find them and organize them.; December 18, 2012 at 7:45 AM
Ed said...: George Mason University Distinguished Professor of Economics Professor Walter E. Williams recently wrote a column outlaying the problem with the current spending rate compared to the U.S. ability to tax, or at least how some would like the U.S. government to tax:

http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/12/05/future_generations/page/full/

As usual, government policy is so divorced from reality that a radical reduction in government and a corresponding radical reduction in government spending is the only "common sense" solution.

Revocation of the NFA and GCA along with several other unnecessary regulatory laws would be a start as they may not stand up to challenge to their constitutionality if recent Supreme Court decisions are fully applied:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/11/illinois-concealed-carry-_n_2278114.html

The U.S. government needs to reexamine what functions the U.S. Constitution requires, and trim the excess that is not required. The question must be "What must be regulated?" for our country to function instead of "What may be regulated?" to effect political goals.

Even Pooh Bear recognizes that sometimes the honeypot is empty. Oh bother!; December 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM
Anonymous said...: Frankly, I'm surprised that Obama is moving as much as he reportedly is. The latest counteroffer from the White House is for taxes to only go up on those making 400k plus according to MSNBC last night.

I didn't expect any such move from Obama--figured he'd hold firm at the 250k level. This, therefore, raises the question of what Yellowstain has given him in return--I wouldn't be surprised if he gave him a promise to allow AWB or something similar to come to the floor for a vote.; December 18, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Anonymous said...: I could not agree more, Mike.

Let it fall! That would be in the best interest of freefor.

I cannot even engage on the usual gun forums now. With the number of Fudds calling for gun control; "why does anyone need an "assault weapon" to hunt deer?", type of brainless arguments being raised, it is clear the majority are so lacking in historical perspective and understanding that it is frightening.

KPN3%; December 18, 2012 at 9:20 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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If this gets rid of Boehner as Speaker before the fight over firearm rights, it will have been worth it.

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