To: tanknetter; RWB Patriot; jimbobfoster; GenXteacher; Malone LaVeigh; chris37; arthurus; ...
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
36 posted on
01/08/2013 6:32:01 PM PST by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.”
-—Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
To: 2ndDivisionVet
49 posted on
01/08/2013 7:57:31 PM PST by
EdReform
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Precisely. If we don't wrap our heads around that, we're done.
Imprisonment will likely lead to an early and/or horrible death. If they even bother with any more than a trench and a bullet.
54 posted on
01/08/2013 8:30:42 PM PST by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thank you for reminding me of that quote.
71 posted on
01/14/2013 1:02:55 PM PST by
Voice of Reason88
( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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