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To: Travis McGee

>>>>Oathkeepers sounds like a good place for the Leftists to get a list of the first to eliminate/imprison.

>>Yes, better to keep your head down, say nothing, and “go along to get along.”

>>That’s how the USSR survived for 75 years.

There is a really good quote out there from a former Soviet about hearing the secret police coming for others in the night, and wishing he’d gone after them with farm implements, anything, that it would have come to an end a lot sooner.

From that vague description, can anyone come up with the real quote? I’ve looked and not found it.


156 posted on 01/12/2010 9:09:20 AM PST by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: FreedomPoster

Quick answer - Solzenhitsyn (sp?), Gulag Archipelago.

Full answer to follow.


157 posted on 01/12/2010 9:16:56 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: FreedomPoster
"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."

158 posted on 01/12/2010 9:19:48 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: FreedomPoster; All

Solzhenitsyn said it...

“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? . . .”

We are sufficient for the Day, folks.

Don’t give in to fear; that’s what THEY want, and it’s why stuff like this gets intentionally leaked out. Psyops to the max.

Instead of freaking out and jumping to conclusions, prepare, train, and get your minds right.

This isn’t free; it NEVER was. Every once in a while, the Bill comes due for one generation or another. If this is our turn, so what? Everybody dies, ultimately. It’s what you die FOR that counts. And what you do while you LIVE to ensure that your children DON’T have to pay the butcher’ss bill...which they may have to do anyway, regardless of our actions.

This ideal, this amazing 230-odd year experiment in Human freedom and liberty is worth preserving by any means necessary; there’s nowhere left to go after America.

And yes, I saw the “What are rioters going to do when they’re confronted by tanks, IFVs, and and helicopter gunships manned by folks perfectly willing to kill them?”

Rioters? Nothing.

Prepared, determined folks with well-thought-out tactics, based on a little current historical research; a lot. Those vehicles all have weaknesses. Find the weaknesses NOW, while the “war” is still “cold”.

“I was BORN an AMERICAN, I shall LIVE as an AMERICAN, and I shall DIE as an AMERICAN, and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career.”
-DWebster


160 posted on 01/12/2010 9:25:32 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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