To: CSM
Of course, I know that I will pay the ultimate price, but they must be willing to shoot me dead in order to mandate their health insurance utopia. It is that way with every one of their desires, but this one is my bright line.
Well, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn seems to agree.
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.
16 posted on
05/30/2013 2:07:42 PM PDT by
Nowhere Man
(I miss you Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012). Take care, pretty girl!)
To: Nowhere Man
Thanks. That passage has inspired me and only strengthens my resolve.
20 posted on
05/30/2013 3:26:57 PM PDT by
Prince of Space
(Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
To: Nowhere Man
That is a very chilling quote. Thank you for posting.
33 posted on
05/31/2013 11:35:13 AM PDT by
CSM
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