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To: ThunderSleeps

**That guy in the foreground on the right? Very telling facial expression. That is not angry, that is not happy, that is not cocky. That is the deadpan expression you put on when you know you’re in a bad situation and you don’t want to give anything away. (other than you know you’re in a bad situation)**

Maybe wondering if today is the day he has to decide if he is an American or a mercenary.

Shoot fellow citizens and get paid, or decide it just isn’t worth it.


52 posted on 04/14/2014 6:46:33 AM PDT by wrench
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To: wrench; ThunderSleeps
He's probably read Solzhenitsyn

"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, polkers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur -- what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. 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!

93 posted on 04/15/2014 2:26:46 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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