To: holden
Hey, if 0 can dictate what you eat, what you drive, where you live, what you can earn, what you pay for energy,where and when you get health care and a thousand other things, why can't he dictate what sort of things you can have in your possession?
It's for the children after all.
3 posted on
07/12/2013 7:33:29 PM PDT by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: elkfersupper; holden; Semper911; Pining_4_TX; meyer; 21st Century Crusader; Maceman; ...
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
34 posted on
07/12/2013 7:58:55 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
To: elkfersupper
158 posted on
07/14/2013 9:33:21 PM PDT by
CPT Clay
(Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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