When They Come for the Smaller Groups. . . .

bojidarmarinov.com ^ | May 23, 2015 | Bojidar Marinov

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"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

[ClearCase_guy]

“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

[Nifster]

IF the thugs who ride motorcycles had been even a bit less 1% I might actually be outraged. These yobs have sold drugs, raped women, beaten people, and murdered those they don’t like. Telling me that this is even remotely like what Niemoller was talking about is the height of insanity.

If you want to make the actual analogy then try looking at what the courts are doing to businesses who do not wish to deal with homosexuals.

Complaining about the civil authorities interaction with criminal ganga and activities is not at all the same thing

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At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

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Were did you expect them to start, with likable people???

[fhayek]

That is the true shame of it. Every day there is a story which demands outrage from freedom loving people. But there is no outrage (outside of narrow forums such as this). I try to explain to my friends and associates the magnitude of the crisis (without trying to sound like a crackpot), and I am met with indifference. The MINUTE government steps over the line is the time for action. NOT when they are hauling you away in cattle cars.

[Nifster]

“The same tactics has been going on for decades with the inner city black kids: another politically powerless, marginalized and demonized group. The cops know these black kids are just as easy prey as the white bikers: the group is just as demonized, and therefore can’t count on any public sympathy. “You know, young black males are the majority of the prison population.” Of course they are, given that the actions of the police almost never undergo any scrutiny, and that planting marijuana on a “suspect” is a regular practice for police. And, not to forget, the prisons are private and the prison-industrial complex makes money on every inmate. Could it be that the majority of young black males in prison are there on trumped-up charges? What resort do they have against police lies? How many people in the general population will take the word of an inner city young black male over the word of a cop?

Come on this is communist propaganda at it’s very worst.

[dp0622]

I’m telling you what happened in Waco to the bikers was a very very bad sign of things to come. I just don’t know what to do about it. I’m not that smart.I don’t believe some massive gun fight broke out among the bikers and the SWAT team was forced to take them out.
as far as the part of the article that says that blacks are targeted group, my experience driving a cab showed me that they make themselves targets and I don’t recall any being shot during major riot

[LucyT]

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Some day, you’ll look around and realize you’re next.

Question is, will it be before you get on the train, or after you get off?

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and the SWAT team was forced to take them out.

We had to kill the bikers to save them?

[sport]

They miss the lesson and they will never learn except by experience.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Well said.

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*sigh* Experience is a harsh teacher. Final exam first. Survivors then have an opportunity to learn. (Which most reject)...

[Dallas59]

Socialists, Unions, and other political parties aren’t races.

[House Atreides]

“...The massacre in Waco of a few days ago bears all the marks of this tactics. A group is picked so small and marginal that most people won’t associate with them. The group is then marginalized and demonized, and all kinds of false accusations are said about them – violence, illegal drugs, illegal weapons, etc. Then, when the group is so marginalized that the majority of the population won’t trust them, and won’t take their word for anything, the government ambushes them and guns them down. The group is scared and subdued. The police are trained and conditioned to not question orders – they will need that conditioning for later, when the “enemy” is moms, or old people, or kids.

And the public? The public is conditioned to disengage. “I didn’t say anything because I was not a biker.”

It was that same Waco that saw an earlier version of the same tactics, with the Branch Davidians. Everyone disengaged, because no one was a Branch Davidian, and the government was able to demonize the small sect enough to cover its own crimes. If the people of Waco were awake to what was happening, and if they had a Solzhenitsyn to tell them what to do, the whole town would be there shooting at those FBI and ATF murderers. But when the government comes for the smaller groups, most people prefer to remain silent....”
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I have been bitterly disappointed that a number of FReepers (of the low-information, low-discernment type) so quickly fell for this tactic. These stupid creatures were quick to join in the vilification of the “bikers” and reveled in the murders carried out in this DOJ/ATF/local police operation.

[sport]

Back when I was going to school the Ag Teacher had a sign thumbtacked to his black board which read: Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

[sport]

Should, for old time’s sake, we ping Alaska Wolf? I am sure he would have some words of wisdom about these nasty old motorcycle gangs getting their comeuppance from the brave police officers.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

First they came for the crack-dealers.

Then they came for the contract killers.

Then they came for MS-13.

Then they came for the coke-dealing biker gangs.

Then they came for the pedophiles.

Then they came for the terrorist imams.

Then they came for the mexican gangs.

Then they came for the Bloods and the Crips.

Then they came for the Hells Angels.

Then they came for the bank tellers Then everyone lived happily ever after.

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Good point.

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