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Post by Michael Downing on Apr 30, 2014 20:57:23 GMT -5
"You know the rules: 1. Keep your rifle pointed in a safe direction. 2. Keep your rifle unloaded. 3. Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire. These rules made sense when the enemy was in a far off land and not kicking in your front door." – WRSA Reader
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Post by Michael Downing on May 3, 2014 10:20:32 GMT -5
People are so enamoured with equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
90 Miles From Tyranny
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Post by avordvet on May 3, 2014 10:59:47 GMT -5
People are so enamoured with equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. 90 Miles From Tyranny One of the great truths
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Post by Michael Downing on May 13, 2014 6:27:30 GMT -5
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/as-requested/As Requested Warning: This is a Pro-Militia post! “My friends and countrymen… the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress have no right to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American…. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tench Coxe, delegate to the Continental Congress in the Pennsylvania Gazette, February 20, 1788
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Post by avordvet on May 16, 2014 6:33:47 GMT -5
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ~Marilyn vos Savant
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Post by Michael Downing on May 23, 2014 20:57:37 GMT -5
h/t WRSA faithandheritage.com/2012/07/h-l-mencken-on-abraham-lincoln-and-the-gettysburg-address/H.L. Mencken on Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost child-like perfection—the highest emotion reduced to one graceful and irresistible gesture. Nothing else precisely like it is to be found in the whole range of oratory. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is oratory, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it! Put it into the cold words of everyday! The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination — “that government of the people, by the people, for the people,” should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i. e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle an absolutely free people; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and vote of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that vote was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely any freedom at all. Am I the first American to note the fundamental nonsensicality of the Gettysburg address? If so, I plead my aesthetic joy in it in amelioration of the sacrilege.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jun 3, 2014 20:27:43 GMT -5
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/quote-of-the-week-93/“Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.” – Charley Reese (1937-2013)
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Post by Michael Downing on Jun 11, 2014 10:46:49 GMT -5
"The path we’re embarked upon, in the name of good, is a familiar one. The unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism did not begin in the ‘30s and ‘40s with the men usually associated with those names. Those horrors were simply the end result of a long evolution of ideas leading to the consolidation of power in central government in the name of “social justice.” It was decent but misguided Germans, who would have cringed at the thought of extermination and genocide, who built the Trojan Horse for Hitler to take over. We Americans promote disrespect for our Constitution, rule of law and private property in our pursuit of “social justice.” But the scum that rises to the top has an agenda of command and control that’s leading toward totalitarianism. And, incidentally, it’s no coincidence that most of those at the top are lawyers -- people with a special, seemingly tutored, contempt for our Constitution and rule of law." -- Walter E. Williams (1936- ) Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
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Post by Michael Downing on Jun 11, 2014 10:47:09 GMT -5
"I tell you true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter." -- William Wallace Scottish patriot,
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Post by Michael Downing on Jun 16, 2014 20:41:44 GMT -5
h/t WRSA Yup... www.woodpilereport.com/html/index-374.htmIt comes down to this: we know what we are to them, enemies to be punished. Their words. They say they don't want to quell anger. They say they're itching for a fight. They say they'll hit back twice as hard. These are their terms. They believe, actually believe, their insults and libel and threats should go unanswered. If treating the people as enemies is proper then punishing the people is proper. And so they do. They believe these things because resistance is what they fear, so resistance is what they see. But something far tougher than resistance is emerging. It's everywhere and nowhere, it's self-assembling, it's committed to restoring a legitimate Constitutional republic and therefore every bit the enemy they imagine it to be. They're looking for noise and drama. They're fools. They merely need to look around. It's already upon them.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jun 17, 2014 21:50:47 GMT -5
Read it all. Agree or disagree but one thing for sure once you have woken up to "reality", once you have gone down the rabbit hole there just ain't no going back. Welcome to the Matrix my friends... iiipercent.blogspot.com/2014/06/stasi-kgb-ss-dhs-same-same.html"Fundamental transformation of America" may mean many things - but one thing it most assuredly does not mean is Liberty.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jun 30, 2014 12:28:27 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
"It is both illogical and inconsistent for a government to say people have a right to life and a right to self-defense but no right to own the tools necessary to defend their lives. It is illogical for a government that says its police have no obligation to provide individual protection to deny people the means to protect themselves. It is immoral for a government that repeatedly releases predators to prey on people to tell those victims they cannot have a weapon for self-defense. It’s stupid for a government that can’t control criminals, drugs or illegal immigrants to claim it can take guns away from criminals only if honest folks will give up theirs. Gun-control proposals are also an insult. Gun control by definition affects only honest people. When a politician tells you he wants to forbid you from owning a firearm or force you to get a license, he is telling you he doesn’t trust you. That’s an insult. The government trusted me with a M-48 tank and assorted small arms when it claimed to have need of my services. It trusts common Americans with all kinds of arms when it wants them to go kill foreigners somewhere—usually for the financial benefit of some corporations. But when the men and women take off their uniforms and return to their homes and assume responsibility for their own and their families’ safety, suddenly the politicians don’t trust them to own a gun. This is pure elitism. ... Gun control is not about guns or crime. It is about an elite that fears and despises the common people."
-- Charley Reese (1937-2013) American syndicated columnist Source: Orlando Sentinel, March 31, 1994</strong>
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Post by Michael Downing on Jul 21, 2014 18:03:37 GMT -5
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself…Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.” -H.L. Mencken, American journalist
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Post by Michael Downing on Jul 21, 2014 18:03:40 GMT -5
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself…Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.” -H.L. Mencken, American journalist
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Post by Michael Downing on Aug 4, 2014 22:06:11 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
"...Rebuilding the republic has to begin at lower levels, down where we actually live. It has to be an economic and political insurgency. Discount anybody in national politics. Anybody. They can't possibly help. The better ones are merely imperfectly dissolved bits of the toxic broth. Some are admirable, sure, but that's all they are, those few that don't roll over get used in other ways. Forget them. Resistance is the way and non-participation in their elections is resistance. Non-participation withholds even a suggestion of endorsement. It denies them the appearance of legitimacy, the one thing they can't do without. The patriot's hand should shake with shame when signing the voting register. It's a stain on our honor that turnout for national elections isn't where it rightfully belongs—zero...."
-- Ol' Remus
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 12, 2014 15:11:12 GMT -5
h/t WRSA for the link bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-rough-beast-has-arrived.htmlThe Rough Beast Has Arrived A number of commentators have attempted to console us by chattering about current polling figures and the GOP’s prospects in the upcoming midterm elections. That might have been a shred of hope to cling to, if the numbers were outside the “margin of lawyer” (Mark Steyn), if the Democrats weren’t so adept at vote fraud, if Congress hadn’t already proved itself unwilling to rein in the Administration...and if we didn’t already have good evidence that the Republicans are “in on the scam.” The political elite has striven, with considerable success, to insulate itself against the electorate, regardless of which party is nominally in control in Washington. The alphabet agencies are a great part of the protective mechanism – consider how federal legislators ingratiate themselves with their constituencies through “constituent services” that nearly always involve the legislator extracting favorable treatment from an executive-branch bureaucracy – but beyond that we must consider the unwillingness of any element of our political system to enforce Constitutional limits on any other. It’s not just Congress that has proved itself inert. The courts won’t rule against any but the most egregious violations of Americans’ rights, and their few pro-freedom rulings are seldom enforced. The states, with the possible exception of Texas, are too avid for dollops from the federal treasury to mount significant opposition to anything Washington does. The rough beast has reached Bethlehem. You have no allies in any element of the State. It’s come down to individuals and awakened communities. Nothing will substitute for individual and local preparedness. If you cherish freedom, make ready to defend it personally. Each free American must stand his own ground. Good luck.
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 21, 2014 18:09:17 GMT -5
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
― Edmund Burke
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 11, 2014 21:25:33 GMT -5
Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter, Jan. 15, 1783
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Post by brocktownsend on Nov 11, 2014 22:36:26 GMT -5
You must study to be frank with the world. Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do, on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right. If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it, if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot; you would wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at the sacrifice. Deal kindly but firmly with all your classmates; you will find it the policy which wears best. Above all, do not appear to others what you are not. If you have any fault to find with any one, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back. www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=1482&highlight=lee+letterWe should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of any one. It is not only for the best as a matter of principle, but it is the path of peace and honor.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 8, 2014 20:38:03 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 21, 2014 9:34:31 GMT -5
h/t Hans
"Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor" - a pirate to Alexander the Great, from St. Augustine's 'City of God.'
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 12, 2015 22:40:52 GMT -5
Blow up your TV throw away your paper Go to the country, build you a home Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches Try an find Jesus on your own
John Prine
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 14, 2015 10:39:38 GMT -5
Two from N C Renegade...
Frédéric Bastiat
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
And I add another...
"If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right - its reason for existing, its lawfulness - is based on individual rights. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups."
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Post by Michael Downing on Mar 26, 2015 10:06:07 GMT -5
"What is the preeminent goal of U.S. foreign policy? Is it to protect the vital interests and national security of the Republic? Or do we believe with George W. Bush that, 'The survival of liberty' in America 'depends on the success of liberty in other lands.' If it is the latter, then our mission is utopian—and unending. For if we believe our liberty is insecure until the whole world is democratic, then we cannot rest until we witness the overthrow of the existing regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Belarus, most of the Arab and African nations, as well as Venezuela and Cuba. And if that is our goal, our Republic will die trying to achieve it." - Pat Buchanan
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Post by Michael Downing on Apr 6, 2015 21:48:18 GMT -5
h/t WRSA... Them days are coming.
“When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. ”
― Dave Barry
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Post by Michael Downing on Apr 8, 2015 20:27:04 GMT -5
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Interesting concept. Remember when confronting Darkness you must always walk in the Light.
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Post by watchful on Apr 9, 2015 7:54:40 GMT -5
Support your local Militia! If none in town start one!
Conspiracy is nothing more than an inconvenient Truth arising at an inopportune moment while you are trying to tell another important lie.
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Post by Michael Downing on May 31, 2015 20:21:12 GMT -5
Josey Wales: Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jun 27, 2015 16:08:26 GMT -5
In light of the legalization of same-sex marriage across America today, Franklin Graham announced on his Facebook:
"The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled today that same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. With all due respect to the court, it did not define marriage, and therefore is not entitled to re-define it.
"Long before our government came into existence, marriage was created by the One who created man and woman—Almighty God—and His decisions are not subject to review or revision by any manmade court. God is clear about the definition of marriage in His Holy Word: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).
"I pray God will spare America from His judgment, though, by our actions as a nation, we give Him less and less reason to do so."
Franklin Graham
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 23, 2015 20:09:48 GMT -5
A passion for carnage, is the tyranny of savages. Ambition and avarice are the passions which produce civilized tyranny. A policy for encouraging the latter passions, is like one for training savage nations to become bloodhounds. If ambition is cultivated by feeding it with excessive power, it extorts from industry the fruits of its labour; its avarice is cultivated by feeding it with excessive wealth, it acquires political power to pillage industry also. Enormous political power invariably accumulates enormous wealth, and enormous wealth invariably accumulates enormous political power. Either constitutes a tyranny, because the acquisitions of both are losses of liberty and property.
John Taylor of Caroline
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