Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Americans Don’t Deserve to Celebrate July 4th This Year."

Friday, July 3, 2015

"Americans Don’t Deserve to Celebrate July 4th This Year."

Being an American demands certain things. It requires things. It demands vigilance and courage. It demands that we never forget, certainly—but even more, it demands that we do what it takes to keep it. We have failed, and our children and grandchildren will pay the ultimate price for our complacence if we do not change our course. It may even be too late already. This 4th of July, instead of cheering about the independence our countrymen once had the intestinal fortitude to actually fight for, think about what you’re going to do this year to get yours back.

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Anonymous said...: Hear! Hear! For some unknown reason, this year feels drastically different for the 4th. It's almost like the level of the hypocrisy of what it means to celebrate "independence" and liberty under the yoke of police state tyranny has reached a crescendo that will not abate.; July 3, 2015 at 7:28 PM
Sedition said...: I left this comment on another news story out there and a fair number of people seemed to agree:

I no longer celebrate the 4th of July. We have let our founders down by allowing the Federal government to become corrupt and illegitimate. We now live as serfs under control of the Imperial Federal government as surely as our founders lived under control of king george.
We should all be ashamed. July the 4th should be a day of mourning or a day of anger.; July 3, 2015 at 9:08 PM
Musashi said...: Yeah...we've reached a tipping point. Perhaps there's more tipping points ahead?; July 3, 2015 at 9:30 PM
Anonymous said...: The Truth Hurts!!!; July 3, 2015 at 10:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Judging from Mark Dice videos, most young folks don't even know what date we declared independence. First thing I did this morning (7/4/15) was re-read the Dec. of Ind. just to reaffirm how similar our present condition is to the writers. At what point do we "declare" this tyranny no longer tolerable? .. I find the ignorant masses to be the bigger problem. They'll read the word "tyranny" and think it reads "tranny" and then argue that we should have more of it and declare it looks like a "goddess"..; July 4, 2015 at 5:02 AM
Sedition said...: Anonymous said...
I find the ignorant masses to be the bigger problem. They'll read the word "tyranny" and think it reads "tranny" and then argue that we should have more of it and declare it looks like a "goddess"..

You owe me a cup of coffee for that one.
Anyone know first aid for launching hot coffee from one's nostrils?; July 4, 2015 at 7:31 AM
Anonymous said...: Sedition is right on!!! cattle biggest problem......maybe its good theyre all gonna die.......still not very nice of Guvscum.......; July 5, 2015 at 5:10 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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