[2ndDivisionVet]

“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

[Bon mots]

The same thing is happening now and nobody is resisiting, nor will they.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Notice that Martial Law does not have to be declared for the police to act illegally. Notice how armed swat teams made unarmed citizens (man, woman and child) get out of their house at gun point in Boston. Nothing apparently is required except the preception of terrorist activity on the part of the “officials”.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I recall that quote very well, and it’s most appropriate.

[Sioux-san]

words to live by

[rlmorel]

Listening to that book now for the third or fourth time. Very sobering.

People who don’t think it can happen here are simply not paying attention.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Wow, thank you for your post #9! One to remember!