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“Today is the 18th of April. On this date in 1775, a Tuesday, Paul Revere was getting his riding orders from Dr. Joseph Warren to rouse the countryside that the “lobsters” were coming out.
On this date in 1943, a Sunday, Nazi police and SS auxiliaries were getting ready for the final solution to the Warsaw Ghetto problem, which had been resisting Nazi deportations to Auschwitz since 18 January.
On this date in 1993, another quiet Sunday, the FBI was planning their final solution to the Davidian problem which had begun with the ATF raid on 28 February — and which not coincidentally failed to include fire trucks.
On this date in 1995, another Tuesday, Chase and Colton Smith, ages 3 and 2, were spending the last complete day of their lives at the day care in the Oklahoma City Federal Building.
And on this date in 1903, a Saturday, a Norwegian immigrant housewife in Chicago named Emma Ness was in the beginning stages of labor caused by her soon-to-be youngest son, Eliot Ness, who was born the next day.”
Mike Vanderboegh doesn’t know it and he’d probably hate hearing it cause that’s the kind of guy he is, but he’s one of my heroes. There’s never been a time I’ve gone over to Sipsey Street when I wasn’t reassured — and relieved — that there are men like him who stand rough and ready. Who see how stupid and craven our leadership is. Who count themselves among the three percent who will do whatever’s necessary to save our country or die trying. Understand this man:
Three years ago, pre-Sipsey Street, I wrote an essay entitled “Untouchable,” which was published on Chris Horton’s now-unavailable blog, Mindful Musings. I reproduce it below as the centerpiece of this first part of a three part “The Secret Anniversaries of the Heart” essay.
Read it. It’s an education. And a reason to thank God there are men like Paul Revere and Mike Vanderboegh.
Waco — and more importantly the obvious imposition on all of us of “Waco Rules” by the failure of the political system to call anyone to account for it — convinced us that, like the Founders at Lexington and Concord, if we intended to remain alive and free we had better see to making arrangements for the protection of own liberties. And if those should fail, we determined to sell our liberty and our lives, like the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, as dearly as possible in the attempt.
I have lived with that determination — and its consequences — for almost two decades now. Nothing I have seen since then has changed my analysis. The federal government, as demonstrated by the Gunwalker Scandal, is even more of a bloody-minded, scheming conspiracy against the lives, liberty and property of the people as it was in 1993, thanks to the corrupt political system of both parties.
Today is the 18th of April, tomorrow the 19th. These are, for so many reasons, some of the secret anniversaries of my heart.
Mike Vanderboegh.
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