To: ClearCase_guy; sickoflibs; Liz
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 Stalins thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didnt love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Might be time for some freepers to write 'fiction'... Books put out by conservatives that double as guide books for when it starts going down.
28 posted on
03/04/2013 8:12:44 AM PST by
GOPJ
(Homeland Security bought: 1.6 BILLION bullets - 2.700 tanks and 35,000 drones ...)
To: GOPJ
Have you read “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross? It’s an interesting piece of fiction.
41 posted on
03/04/2013 8:47:11 AM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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