Sipsey Street Irregulars: Legitimacy & Gunwalker. "If the system cannot investigate this & correct it, this may be the last time you get a chance to do so without violence."

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Legitimacy & Gunwalker. "If the system cannot investigate this & correct it, this may be the last time you get a chance to do so without violence."

Rasmussen says "New Low: 17% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed." Democrat pollster Pat Caddell calls this "pre-revolutionary."

In the conversations I had with various congressional staffers when I was in DC, I stressed this question of legitimacy. "If the system cannot investigate this scandal and correct it," I said, "this may the last time you get a chance to do so without violence."

The most recent polls seem to back me up.

LATER: More on legitimacy from Victor Davis Hanson: A Tottering Technocracy. Here and in Europe, the financial meltdown exposes the hollowness of our elites.

The technocratic pronouncements from on high — that Barack Obama was “sort of GOD,” or at least “the smartest president in history”; that a Harvard-trained public-policy wonk alone knew how to save us from a roasting planet — are now seen by most as laughable. An education-age Reformation is brewing every bit as earth-shattering as its 16th-century religious counterpart.

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pdxr13 said...: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-drug-enforcement-agency-admits-involvement/?singlepage=true

DEA: "Not me, man. I was there, but I wasn't in charge and no one told me the reason why we were doing what we did or what was going on." Bart Simpson defense will not hold up when charged with *Accessory To Murder* in US or Mexican criminal court.

Control and coordination on this scale comes only from The Executive, who was executing a PLAN. Somewhere, someone has a memo, voice recording, or minutes of a meeting which will connect Agents on the ground doing what they are told to a chain of command and supervisors routing all the way to the Chief Of Staff and the POTUS via State and Justice.

What effect would mass-pardons have on the legitimacy of the Obama Administration? Would such a pardon be recognized by Mexico? (F---No.) How long would it take before the first US official associated with F&F "appears" in a Mexico City high-level holding cell awaiting trial? How far have we fallen when Mexican justice is a reasonable option for prosecuting bad Americans?

We have just over a year to make it happen.

Cheers.; August 9, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Anonymous said...: "How far have we fallen when Mexican justice is a reasonable option for prosecuting bad Americans?"

Now there's a truly depressing thought. Could our own government be even more disfunctional than Mexico's?; August 9, 2011 at 12:25 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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Legitimacy & Gunwalker. "If the system cannot investigate this & correct it, this may be the last time you get a chance to do so without violence."

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