[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“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 Solzhenitsyn

[Cen-Tejas]

Great post, the Russkies just didn’t have the second Ammendment and unlike the horse lines of the boys in Bunkerville neither did they have the balls to fight for it...

Lets note for this discussion that our g-men with guns aimed at the cowboys said “we’ll shoot” if u advance and then the cowboys said a prayer and advanced anyway and the g-men retreated.

When their knocking at your door, it’s too late, our forefathers understood that...

Let us thank the cowboys for reminding us all of that fact!