To: cunning_fish
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 I. Solzhenitsyn
2 posted on
01/24/2013 2:11:03 AM PST by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: cunning_fish
I would suggest the vast majority of Democrats are more like Mensheviks. That is, “weakling” socialists who live more in a fantasyland, while the radical Democrats (Bolsheviks) are much more like an Americanized Red Khmer, willing to hurt and kill tens of millions of people to get what they want.
To: cunning_fish
Maybe.. just maybe.. non-braindead Americans might want to pay some sharp attention to the words of those who`ve lived in the darkness of totalitarianism.
5 posted on
01/24/2013 2:56:21 AM PST by
ScottinVA
(More dizzying than a Tilt-a-Whirl is an around-a-circle argument with a liberal about gun control.)
To: cunning_fish
I would not doubt for a minute Obama has looked upon Cory Booker`s “report your gun-owning neighbor for $1,000” with great favor.
6 posted on
01/24/2013 3:06:07 AM PST by
ScottinVA
(More dizzying than a Tilt-a-Whirl is an around-a-circle argument with a liberal about gun control.)
To: cunning_fish
If Pravda can clearly see what’s going on here, this just indicts the MSM as fellow travelers in the machinations of those who seek to bind us ever tighter to the government.
8 posted on
01/24/2013 3:49:29 AM PST by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: cunning_fish
Unfortunately, declaring us ‘enemy of the State’ won’t be too far off.
And snitching is patriotic.
9 posted on
01/24/2013 4:26:59 AM PST by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: cunning_fish
Imperor orders operation rat out.
11 posted on
01/24/2013 10:07:35 AM PST by
Vaduz
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